This is true, strictly speaking. But (also strictly speaking) he was an engineer

> Nadella attended the Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet[7] before receiving a bachelor's in electrical engineering[8] from the Manipal Institute of Technology (then part of Mangalore University) in Karnataka in 1988.[9][10] Nadella subsequently traveled to the U.S. to study for an M.S. in computer science at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee,[11][12] receiving his degree in 1990.[13] Later, he received an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.[14]

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satya_Nadella)

And that's all GP said.

> Good to see an engineer taking helm of the company from the previous CEOs which were from sales.