Navi Sohi

Navi Sohi

Sr. Staff Technical Program Manager

12+ years driving global enterprise IT transformations across Alphabet (Google, Verily), Apple, and Palo Alto Networks.

Google Tech Award recipient specializing in scaling IT infrastructure, accelerating delivery velocity, and championing Lean Six Sigma and Agile methodologies. A strategic leader who translates complex technology roadmaps into optimized corporate systems, unlocking $7.4M+ in enterprise efficiencies.

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About Me

I'm a Senior Staff Technical Program Manager with 12+ years of experience leading SRE-partnered programs, enterprise platform modernization, and cross-organizational technical initiatives at Google, Apple, and Alphabet companies.

I was honored to receive the Google Tech Award for orchestrating Project Flywheel—a complex Alphabet divestiture that reduced architectural complexity by 81% while leading global SRE collaboration. Recognized as a top-tier performer (Top 5% for two quarters, Top 10% for two quarters), I've been called an "Operational Anchor" for driving program velocity through influence without authority.

My expertise spans Site Reliability Engineering practices, microservices architecture, cloud infrastructure, and data-driven operational excellence. I've delivered over $7.4M+ in measurable optimizations across 40K+ global users through strategic process improvement and governance frameworks.

Beyond the technical realm, I believe in leading with empathy, establishing clarity in complex environments, and maintaining momentum even through uncertainty. Whether it's implementing GDPR/SOC 2 compliance frameworks, architecting data warehousing ecosystems, or serving as an interim leader during organizational transitions, I thrive on solving hard problems at scale.

I'm an AI-native Technical Program Manager — I use Claude daily to synthesize cross-team updates into executive-ready briefings, Jira Rovo for cross-epic dependency mapping and sprint health diagnostics, Gemini to turn meetings into tracked action items, and Codex to review API schemas and technical specs. Beyond daily practice, I build my own multi-agent systems (see Projects below) to explore where AI can restructure how programs actually run, not just speed up the parts that already work.

Recognition & Awards

  • Google Tech Award - Project Flywheel (Alphabet Divestiture)
  • Top-Tier Performer - Top 5% (two quarters), Top 10% (two quarters)
  • "Operational Anchor" - High-Stakes Program Leadership

Core Technical Skills

Site Reliability Engineering
Cloud Infrastructure (GCP, AWS)
Microservices Architecture
SQL (10M+ records)
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript & React
Claude / Anthropic API
Multi-Agent AI Orchestration
LLM Evals & Guardrails
Jira Rovo
Gemini
Codex
Rust & Tauri (Desktop Apps)
Docker
GitHub Actions CI/CD
Slack & Jira API Integration
SQLite
BigQuery
Snowflake
Tableau
REST/GraphQL APIs
CI/CD & DevOps
SAFe & Agile
Workday
SAP
Salesforce
GDPR/SOC 2 Compliance

Professional Experience

Verily Health (Formerly Google Life Sciences)

Staff Technical Program Manager, Planning & Compliance

May 2024 – Present
  • GenAI Enterprise Adoption (SETI AI): Leading Verily's Gemini Enterprise AI rollout end-to-end — use-case finalization, auth setup, deployment, testing/validation, and org-wide user-adoption enablement
  • Sales & Marketing Systems of Record: Led Salesforce/Agentforce ecosystem implementation across commercial teams — Slack, Gmail, Jira, and Revenue Cloud/CPQ integrations — plus an Agentforce knowledge-assistant chatbot reducing dependency on product specialists
  • FedRAMP Identity & Device Migration: Directing an Okta Commercial → Gov migration across 202 applications in six waves, and a JAMF-to-IRU device management migration across the employee device fleet
  • Tier 0 Data Governance: Established GDPR/SOC 2 compliance framework across 4 enterprise systems (SAP, BlackLine, Coupa, BigQuery) achieving near-zero error rate
  • Dual-Bank Migration: Led Tier 0 SAP Multi-Bank Connectivity migration with zero security incidents, deploying multi-year roadmap within 3 weeks
  • AFIT Demand Management Playbook: Authored and drove adoption of a new time-based estimating standard to 100% adoption across targeted IT Engineering teams with 95% compliance
  • Operational Anchor: Maintained 100% operational continuity as Interim Head of IT HRIS through 50%+ turnover
  • Cost Optimization: Delivered $750K+ in realized vendor savings eliminating 4 underperforming contracts (Cognizant, Accenture, IMIH, Docebo)
  • Project Flywheel (Google Tech Award): Led Workday enterprise transformation reducing risk 40%, consolidating 172 legacy integrations → 32 APIs
Gemini Enterprise Salesforce/Agentforce Okta Workday SAP BigQuery GDPR/SOC 2 SAFe

Google LLC

Sr Staff Technical Program Manager, AR/XR (Samsung Galaxy XR)

Oct 2023 – Apr 2024
  • Program Coordination: Coordinated cross-functional teams across Google, Samsung, and Qualcomm for Project Moohan (Samsung Galaxy XR), a flagship $1,799 spatial computing platform; established comprehensive program governance ensuring complete accountability across deliverables; delivered 100% P0 Day-1 milestones for global launch
  • Quality Assurance: Directed end-to-end testing processes, facilitated postmortems, and reduced stale bugs 40% through automated Python/JavaScript dashboards; maintained strict 3-day SLA for P0/P1 defect resolution
  • Leadership Reporting: Developed KPI dashboards and provided weekly reports to Leadership; spearheaded 'shiproom' initiatives for streamlined release processes and cross-team collaboration
  • Technical Governance: Established joint governance model reducing technical blockers 40% across Google/Samsung/Qualcomm through transparent dependency tracking
SAFe Python JavaScript JIRA Dashboards

Apple Inc

Staff Program Manager, Retail Operations & Analytics

Sep 2022 – Sep 2023
  • Global Scale: Orchestrated programs for 40K+ staff across 500+ stores, 26 countries
  • Data Infrastructure: Architected Snowflake warehousing + Tableau BI consolidating 12+ sources, driving $2M+ revenue optimization
  • API Automation: Implemented REST/GraphQL APIs reducing customer wait times 22%
  • SQL Optimization: Optimized queries on 10M+ transaction records; scaled feedback 10K→100K+ monthly
Snowflake Tableau REST/GraphQL SQL Salesforce

Palo Alto Networks

Staff Technical Program Manager, Security Engineering

Mar 2021 – Jul 2022
  • Security Automation: Developed REST/GraphQL APIs automating workflows across 8+ security systems; reduced incident response 25%
  • CI/CD Pipeline: Implemented automation reducing manual overhead 30%
  • Analytics Platform: Designed Tableau BI dashboards + Enterprise Risk Dashboard for C-suite
  • Performance Improvement: Analyzed 500+ incidents improving MTTD 25%, resolution time 15%
Python REST/GraphQL Tableau ISO/SOC 2 SIEM

Sutter Health (Palo Alto Medical Foundation)

Sr. HRIS Manager | Sr. Financial Analyst

Jul 2013 – Oct 2020
  • $4M+ Savings: Delivered annual savings using Lean Six Sigma across 58 practices, 15 specialties
  • Enterprise HRIS: Managed Workday HCM for 10,000+ employees across 20+ facilities
  • P360 Launch: Led centralized physician data engine for $500M+ annual compensation spend
  • Automation: Achieved 12% efficiency increase through compensation reconciliation automation
Workday HCM Lean Six Sigma SQL Financial Analysis

Projects

Personal builds exploring multi-agent AI orchestration and governance

Switchboard

A git-native ticket router for a fleet of specialist AI agents. Deterministic tag-match routing with a Claude-assisted fallback for genuinely ambiguous cases, risk-tiered dispatch, and an append-only audit ledger — and it remembers every human correction so the next ambiguous ticket benefits from it.

Python Claude / Anthropic API Multi-Agent Orchestration Deterministic Routing

Taskloom

A local-first visual control plane for teams of AI agents. Assemble reusable Planner/Builder/Reviewer agent teams, wire them into dependency-aware workflows, and choose exactly where humans stay in the approval loop — with a governed task lifecycle, GitHub Issues sync, and hash-verified snapshot recovery, backed by 114 automated tests.

Python React + TypeScript Tauri / Rust Agent Governance

Explore all project pages → See more on GitHub →

Education & Certifications

Education

UC Berkeley Extension

Certificate, Data Analytics & Computer Science — Python, JavaScript, SQL, API Interactions, Tableau, Machine Learning (TensorFlow, scikit-learn)

2020-2021

California State University, East Bay

Bachelor of Science: Industrial & Organizational Psychology

2012

Certifications

✓ Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
✓ Certified Scrum Master® (CSM®)
✓ PMI-ACP®
✓ Generative AI for PM
⏳ Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (In Progress)

References

What colleagues say about working with me

Let's Connect

I'm always interested in hearing about new opportunities and collaborations. Feel free to reach out!