Engineers’ Day in India is being commemorated in India on 15 September to honour the contribution of engineers to the nation’s progress. This year’s theme is “Deep Tech & Engineering Excellence: Driving India’s Techade.” As India moves deeper into its “Techade,” powered by artificial intelligence, automation, and deep tech capabilities, Salesforce leaders and engineers are reflecting on how the role of engineering is rapidly evolving to shape industries, solve complex challenges, and drive global innovation.
Arundhati Bhattacharya, President and CEO, Salesforce South Asia, emphasized the pivotal contribution of engineers in India’s growth story: “Engineers have always been at the heart of India’s progress – building the infrastructure, industries, and innovations that define our nation. Every day, I am inspired by the engineers I meet – their curiosity, their resilience, and their determination to create solutions that serve not just businesses, but society at large. As technology evolves, their role will only grow more critical.
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As we enter India’s Techade, powered by deep tech and engineering excellence, defined by AI and automation, this is our moment to invest boldly – equipping young talent at the grassroots, reskilling mid-career professionals, and fostering a culture of lifelong learning. At the same time, as India navigates a complex socio-economic landscape, agentic AI emerges as a transformative force, not leveraging just technology, but reimagining the future.
By harnessing the power of agentic AI, engineers aren’t only solving India’s most pressing complexities but are also driving a new wave of global innovation, setting a precedent for the world to follow. I am confident that India’s engineers will continue to chart the course for innovation, turning ideas into solutions that elevate our industries, empower our people, and cement India’s leadership on the global stage.”
Salesforce engineers echoed this sentiment, highlighting how AI is reshaping their daily work, their approaches to problem-solving, and the skills needed for the future.
Mitali Tiwari, Software Engineering LMTS, Salesforce India, said: “With engineering evolving at an unprecedented pace, upskilling is no longer optional, it’s key to staying relevant. The default starting point for any new function, test, or script is no longer a blank file. It is a prompt. The engineer’s inner monologue has shifted from “How do I write this?” to “How do I ask the AI to write this, and then how do I refine it? The real value lies in skills that deepen technical fundamentals while solving mission critical problems. That’s why we’re seeing strong momentum in areas like agent orchestration and AI ethicist, which sit at the intersection of engineering depth and applied AI.”
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For Rita Agarwala, Software Engineering PMTS at Salesforce India, structured learning opportunities have become integral to engineering advancement: “With engineering advancing every day, learning something new has become part of the journey, making upskilling a major focus. At Salesforce, initiatives such as Agentforce Learning Days and free AI training enable us to keep pace, experiment with confidence, and strike the right balance between building responsibly and moving fast with emerging tech.”
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The pace of innovation has also lowered the barriers for engineers to transform ideas into working solutions, according to Midhun R Nair, Software Engineering MTS at Salesforce India.
“The initial effort required to start a new project, service, or experiment has been drastically lowered. The engineers who can generate valuable ideas are now more empowered than ever to act on them independently. For instance, An engineer can have an idea for a new microservice in the morning and, by the afternoon, have a working prototype. They can ask an AI to ‘scaffold a new Python FastAPI service with a PostgreSQL backend, Dockerfile, and a basic CI/CD pipeline for GitHub Actions.’”
Shishir Arora, Software Engineering PMTS at Salesforce India, described the paradigm shift in the engineer’s role in the age of agentic AI: “The engineer of today is already operating in a new paradigm. They are a human-in-the-loop, but the loop is getting faster and higher-level. Their daily work is less about the friction of typing and syntax and more about the intellectual rigor of directing, validating, and strategizing. The full “Day in the Life” of the agentic future is not here yet, but the daily habits and value propositions of the engineering role have already been irrevocably changed.”
