City tech boss out amid Wi-Fi woe and costs

The leadership of the city’s IT agency has been rebooted after a screwup with the city’s wireless system and questions over costly procurement system.

Samir Saini powered down Friday from the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunication after just a year and a half, handing in his resignation and walking out the same day.

“It’s been an honor to serve as DoITT’s commissioner and chief information officer and lead an incredible team tasked with delivering services critical to the core functioning of New York City government,” said Saini (photo) in a canned comment handed out by the mayor’s office. “I’m proud of the work we’ve accomplished together to enhance services to over 100 city agencies, and I thank Mayor de Blasio for the opportunity to work on behalf of the millions of New Yorkers who benefit from DoITT’s work every day.”

But his tenure has been marred by an outage of the NYCWiN, the city’s wireless network, which monitors 13,000 traffic lights, water meter readers and NYPD plate readers.

The Daily News exclusively reported that the scandalscarred agency was overcharged by millions of dollars for an electronic procurement system.

A testy de Blasio bristled when asked about pulling the plug on the city’s tech chief.

“Look, I always tell you guys, on personnel matters, it’s something I want to be always measured about. The bottom line here is he made a decision to resign, he made a decision to go back to the private sector,” de Blasio said.