Our Team

Leadership

Rupak Desai

Rupak Desai, Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Samtek Inc. is a result-oriented and accomplished executive with decades of experience in the healthcare information technology arena. He is passionate about applying his skills and expertise for serving the greater good. He has proudly spearheaded and led large projects of national importance that continue to improve the lives of millions of Americans. He believes in empowering people to build trust and relationships by demonstrating excellent work and he finds success in identifying and solving problems for his clients with a “get stuff done” attitude.

Outside of work he enjoys traveling, reading, playing (more so getting it right) golf, and watching football.

Rupak
Desai
Founder & CEO

Faraaz Khan

Faraaz Khan, President and Co-Founder at Samtek. has over 15 years of experience helping government, public and private sector enterprises build and reliably operate Cloud Platforms in highly regulated and innovative environments. A software engineer by trade, Faraaz straddles the world of application development and modern infrastructure management, he is passionate about distributed systems, open source technologies, container platforms, and the cloud. Faraaz lives in suburban Dallas, TX with his wife and two kids.

In his free time he likes to take rides on his Harley Davidson Night Rod, play cricket and chess, read books and travel.

Faraaz
Khan
President &
Co-Founder

Mayank Goswami

Mayank Goswami, Vice President (VP) of Consulting at Samtek Inc. has an outstanding ability to identify, address, and process system gaps, thus ensuring seamless workflow and overall operations. By leading high-caliber teams and collaborating with key stakeholders, he has accomplished complex projects and launched successful programs with proven optimal results. He has managed multiple programs and portfolios with business revenue north of $300M over his 25 years career. He has a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master's degree in Computer Science from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is also a veteran and served in the U.S. Army National Guard.

He is an avid sports and movie fan and enjoys music from the 1980s era.

Mayank Goswami
Vice President
Consulting Services

Swetha Nandyala

Swetha Nandyala, Vice President of Engineering at Samtek has over 18 years of technical experience in architecture, design, and development in Healthcare and Federal Government consulting. Swetha joined Samtek in 2020 and played an active role in strengthening Samtek’s growth and strategic needs. In her role as the Chief Cloud Architect for Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), her primary focus is on establishing best practices and leading cross-functional, distributed & diverse teams of technologies for CMS’s cloud contract .Prior to joining Samtek, Swetha served CGI Federal over a decade and played a key role in developing and delivering critical solutions across various CMS business units. She is a natural leader and mentors with a proven record of recruiting, training, motivating, and coaching technical teams. She holds a Masters’s in Computer Science from Temple University, Philadelphia.

Swetha Nandyala
Vice President
Engineering

Colleen Line

Colleen Line, Vice President of Strategy and Growth at Samtek, is a senior leader passionate about delivering excellence and making an impact. She brings over 25 years of experience in ensuring the successful delivery of innovative technology solutions to public sector clients whose mission it is to improve the lives of our country’s most vulnerable populations. With a strong background in strategic planning and growth, program management, and human-centered solutions, Colleen is dedicated to building strong partnerships that drive innovation to solve hard problems.  

Outside of work, Colleen enjoys traveling, cycling, running, and most of all, playing pickleball. 

Colleen
Line
Vice President
Strategy & Growth

 

Pinal Jariwala

Pinal Jariwala, Senior Director of Delivery at Samtek is a seasoned leader with a proven track record of delivering impactful business solutions. She is adept at building high-performance and agile teams that seamlessly collaborate with the customer to deliver tangible business value with speed and quality. She brings over 18 years of experience developing strong Agile frameworks, implementing continuous improvement methodologies, driving key initiatives, and delivering innovative solutions in the healthcare, telecommunications, and financial industries. She has a strong business acumen to understand customer needs and translate them into digital solutions that enable rapid business outcomes. Pinal holds a Masters in Information Systems from Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ, and an MBA from Gujarat University, India. She is also a Certified Scrum Master and Certified SAFe Agilist.

 
 

Pinal
Jariwala
Senior Director
Delivery

Arian Jurkofsky

Arian Jurkofsky, Senior Director of Security and Cloud Operations at Samtek Inc. has over 21 years of technical and security experience within the federal and healthcare space. He is currently the Security Operations Center (SOC) Manager for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), focusing on proactive security monitoring and alerting to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of CMS's systems and their data. Arian holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and uses this background to look for opportunities for automation, self-service, and overall process improvements. Prior to joining Samtek, he was integral in CMS's initial move to the cloud, ensuring a safe and secure environment for their public-facing websites that are used by millions of beneficiaries.

Arian
Jurkofsky
Senior Director
Security

Yonas Robi

Yonas Robi, Senior Director of Cloud Architecture at Samtek Inc. is a hands-on technical architect and technologist with over 16 years of experience in implementing business-critical and large scale applications. His background includes managing federal and commercial projects that range from strategic planning, requirements gathering, implementation, testing to post-deployment operations.

Yonas
Robi
Senior Director
Cloud Architecture

Daniel Kingshott

Daniel Kingshott, Director of Cloud Engineering at Samtek has worked in the technology space since the dot com bubble began in the late 90’s in Europe. Having spent most of his career working in ecommerce he joined SAMTEK in February 2023 and currently supports the Solutions Engineering team on the COMET contract with CMS.  Dan is based out in rural western Washington state, he is an active HAM Radio operator and an active volunteer for local cat resuce charities.

Daniel
Kingshott
Director
Cloud Engineering

Gregory Patton

Greg, Director of Cloud Architecture & Solutions at Samtek Inc. has worked extensively in the technology field over the past 37 years, holding engineering and leadership roles at Cable & Wireless Communications; Talk America; The Signature Group, and for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. His areas of expertise include corporate & telecommunications data networking; large-scale application integration and delivery; data center and cloud infrastructure management. Greg has led efforts at Cable & Wireless Communications in creating a global data management solution for the handling of domestic and international managed data service customers. At Talk America, Greg built the Network Operations Center supporting managed data services, Voice over IP services, and telephone switching networks. Working with The Signature Group Greg set up and ran the Operations Center in support of managed consulting services focused on Voice over IP systems, corporate systems, and networking support. More recently for the past 17 years, Greg has been working in support of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Service providing data center and cloud infrastructure services for the QualityNet program. This support includes engineering and delivering networking, facilities, and Cloud solutions allowing the Healthcare community to access systems for providing quality healthcare to our nation.

Gregory
Patton
Director
Cloud Architecture & Solutions

Swati Albal

Swati Albal, Director of Delivery at Samtek Inc. has over 30 years of experience leading government, public, and private sector enterprises to build and deliver value-added, highly functioning, and reliable applications, and innovative technology solutions to solve business needs and objectives in hybrid and cloud platforms. With strong technical and management expertise and experience in a variety of Healthcare, Financial services, Higher Education, and Web site building, she has successfully led teams to build and implement systems and solutions, such as CRM, Content Management, ERP, call center analytics, cloud cost tools that enable rapid business outcomes. Swati has an MS degree in software engineering and another MS degree in physics-electronics. She also is a Certified Project Manager, Certified Scrum Master, and Certified SAFe Agilist and holds ITIL and CMMI certifications.

She also enjoys dancing, painting and going on long nature walks.

Swati
Albal
Director
Delivery

Ram Jagini

Ram Jagini, Director of Cloud Services at Samtek, brings over 14 years of extensive experience in the IT industry, with a strong background in both software development and cloud infrastructure management. His career has evolved from hands-on development, where he played a key role in creating and managing complex applications, to driving digital transformation through DevOps and cloud strategies. His comprehensive experience in development, combined with a deep understanding of cloud environments and agile methodologies, enables him to contribute to the creation of robust, adaptable solutions that align with the organization's strategic goals.

Ram
Jagini
Director
Cloud Services

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