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 Delivery 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
Delivery

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
Delivery

Arian Jurkofsky

Arian
Jurkofsky
Senior Director
Security

Yonas Robi

Yonas
Robi
Senior Director
Cloud Architecture

Daniel Kingshott

Daniel
Kingshott
Director
Cloud Engineering

Gregory Patton

Gregory
Patton
Director
Cloud Architecture & Solutions

Swati Albal

Swati
Albal
Director
Delivery

Ram Jagini

Ram
Jagini
Director
Cloud Services

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