AnthropicMember of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed Engineering
Jun 2026 — Present
Amandeep Khurana leads forward deployed engineering at Anthropic, the team that works with enterprise customers to take Claude into production. Before that he spent several years at AWS, where he was founding product manager for Kiro, the AI-first IDE, and built agent optimization in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. He co-founded Okera, a data governance company, and led it as CEO from 2016, raising $14.6M from Bessemer, Felicis and Capital One before it was acquired by Databricks in 2023. Earlier he was a solutions architect at Cloudera and co-authored HBase in Action. He advises leaders on bringing AI into their organizations, invests selectively in startups, and writes about metabolic health and longevity.
Amandeep Khurana leads forward deployed engineering at Anthropic, the team that works with enterprise customers to take Claude into production. Before that he spent several years at AWS, where he was founding product manager for Kiro, the AI-first IDE, and built agent optimization in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. He co-founded Okera, a data governance company, and led it as CEO from 2016, raising $14.6M from Bessemer, Felicis and Capital One before it was acquired by Databricks in 2023. Earlier he was a solutions architect at Cloudera and co-authored HBase in Action. He advises leaders on bringing AI into their organizations, invests selectively in startups, and writes about metabolic health and longevity.
Jun 2026 — Present
Apr 2026 — Present
Sep 2025 — May 2026
2016 — 2023
Data governance and access control company; acquired by Databricks in 2023.
Until Apr 2016
Dec 2008 — Jun 2010
Jul 2007 — Apr 2008
Jul 2006 — Jul 2007
Amandeep Khurana on leading Anthropic's forward-deployed engineers, turning down 2x pay, and why leaders are becoming ICs again.
Lessons from building Okera: the deals almost lost, the systems that broke, and the customers who bet on the company anyway.