Sagnik Nandy

Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President, Engineering Docusign

Last Reviewed: September 19, 2026

Executive Summary

Sagnik Nandy is Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Engineering at Docusign, the agreement software company listed on NASDAQ as DOCU, where he is responsible for engineering, cloud operations and the technology strategy underpinning the company’s Intelligent Agreement Management platform. He arrived in August 2024 as one half of a deliberate pair of senior hires — the other being president and chief revenue officer Paula Hansen — made to execute Docusign’s attempt to turn itself from an electronic signature business into a broader category of software that extracts and acts on the data locked inside contracts. His background is in infrastructure at very large scale: fifteen years at Google, much of it inside the core advertising systems and the measurement and analytics products built on top of them, followed by identity infrastructure at Okta, first as chief technology officer and then as president and chief development officer for the Workforce Identity business.

Career Highlights

• Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Engineering at Docusign, responsible for engineering, cloud operations and technology strategy (Docusign leadership page).
• Announced as Docusign’s incoming CTO on 25 June 2024 and joined on 5 August 2024, reporting to chief executive Allan Thygesen and succeeding Kamal Hathi (Docusign Form 8-K exhibit).
• Hired alongside Paula Hansen as president and chief revenue officer in a move Thygesen described as completing the senior leadership team for Docusign’s expansion into Intelligent Agreement Management (Docusign Form 8-K exhibit).
• President and Chief Development Officer for Workforce Identity at Okta, leading engineering development and operations, product management, design and user research for the Workforce Identity Cloud (Docusign leadership page).
• Joined Okta as its Chief Technology Officer, overseeing the engineering and business technology arms of the company (Docusign leadership page).
• Vice President of Engineering at Google, overseeing several critical components of its core advertising business, across a fifteen-year tenure in which he also helped build Google’s measurement and analytics offerings and took several products from inception to market leadership (Docusign leadership page).
• Appointed to the board of directors of SEON, a fraud-prevention company, in May 2026; also a director of Smarsh and an operating advisor at Bessemer Venture Partners (GlobeNewswire, 11 May 2026).

Professional Journey

Nandy’s career was made at Google, where he spent fifteen years. His work sat at the revenue centre of the company: he rose to Vice President of Engineering with oversight of several critical components of Google’s core advertising business, and in parallel helped build the measurement and analytics product line — the tooling advertisers use to understand whether any of it works. Docusign’s account of this period notes that he took several products from inception to becoming market leaders, which is the kind of claim an employer makes but is consistent with the scope of the role.

He left Google for Okta, the identity and access management company, joining as Chief Technology Officer with responsibility for both the engineering organisation and Okta’s own business technology function. He was subsequently promoted to President and Chief Development Officer for Workforce Identity, running product, engineering, design and user research for the Workforce Identity Cloud — Okta’s core enterprise identity platform. The move from a single functional CTO role to a business-unit presidency is the pattern that made him a credible candidate for a combined CTO and EVP of Engineering seat.

Docusign announced his hire on 25 June 2024, effective 5 August. The context was a strategic pivot: Docusign had unveiled its Intelligent Agreement Management platform earlier that year and was recruiting to execute against it, replacing both its chief technology officer and its head of worldwide field operations at the same time. Nandy’s stated interest was in what he called a compelling path for innovation that could “materially reinvent how business runs”. Since joining he has accumulated outside technology-governance roles, taking a seat on Smarsh’s board, acting as an operating advisor at Bessemer Venture Partners, and in May 2026 joining the board of the fraud-prevention company SEON — appointments that draw on the identity and anti-fraud infrastructure experience from his Okta years rather than on the agreements business.

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Bachelor’s degree. Docusign’s own biography does not name the field.

University of California, San Diego

Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering