Pendo Appoints Saurabh Sodani as First Chief Development Officer to Accelerate AI Innovation

RALEIGH, N.C., Aug. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Pendo, the world's first software experience management platform, today announced that Saurabh Sodani has joined the company as its first chief development officer. Sodani will lead global engineering, IT, technical support, and platform innovation as Pendo expands its investment in AI and prepares for its next phase of product growth.

Sodani brings more than 20 years of experience scaling high-performing engineering organizations and leading technology transformation at enterprise scale. He most recently served as chief technology officer at Salesloft, where he led the company's AI strategy and delivered improvements in development velocity, code quality, and architectural rigor. Earlier in his career, he held senior roles at Oracle, Yahoo, and Datalogix.

"Saurabh is an exceptional product and engineering leader," said Todd Olson, CEO and co-founder of Pendo. "His background in distributed systems, AI, and organizational scale will help accelerate how we deliver innovation to our customers."

As chief development officer, Sodani will build on Pendo's strong engineering foundation to further accelerate its AI strategy and continue to scale innovation. He will champion a mission-driven team structure and promote flexible, pluggable architectures that make it easy to adopt emerging AI protocols without disrupting core systems.

"Pendo has built a uniquely strong foundation for AI," said Sodani. "The instrumentation is already in place to measure software usage across any application—SaaS, AI or agentic. Now it's about turning data into action through agents, automation, and software experiences that drive business impact for our customers."

Sodani will oversee global engineering teams across Raleigh, the U.K., and Israel, and collaborate with teams across Pendo's broader global footprint.

About Pendo
At Pendo, we're on a mission to improve the world's experience with software. Thousands of global companies use Pendo to provide better software experiences for 900 million people every month. Pendo improves business outcomes by enabling non-engineers to analyze, assess, and act on software issues. Our integrated Software Experience Management (SXM) platform manages the entire enterprise software asset: Customer- and employee-facing applications; desktop and mobile platforms; and SaaS, AI and Agentic software. Find out more at pendo.com 

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