Kanad Dixit

CTO

Pune, Maharashtra, India21 yrs 3 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • 20+ years of experience in engineering leadership.
  • Expertise in AI and data-driven decision making.
  • Proven track record in startup growth and product development.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in AI-driven SaaS solutions with a strong focus on data analytics and product development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)LeadershipBusiness StrategyStart-upsProduct DevelopmentGo-to-market StrategyData AnalyticsConversational AiData ScienceData EngineeringBusiness Relationship ManagementRelationship Development

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesCCreative Problem SolvingDatabasesEJBEnterprise JavaBeans (EJB)HibernateJ2EEJSPJavaJava Enterprise EditionJavaServer Pages (JSP)Niche Talent AcquisitionObject Oriented DesignPerformance Improvement

About

20+ years experience building engineering teams across startups, consulting firms, and global financial institutions - from early NLP and analytics systems to large-scale distributed platforms.

Experience

Skitre.ai

Chief Technology & Growth Officer

Aug 2025Present · 7 mos

Artificial Intelligence (AI)LeadershipSalesBusiness Strategy

Tafgai

Chief Technology & Growth Officer

Aug 2025Present · 7 mos

Business StrategyArtificial Intelligence (AI)

Sales enablement collective

Member

Feb 2024Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • The Sales Enablement Collective exists to create a space to help individuals and organisations drive company-wide alignment around sales enablement as the scalable, sustainable source of business growth.
Start-upsLeadership

Teemgenie

Chief Technology Officer

May 2022Aug 2025 · 3 yrs 3 mos · India · Hybrid

  • EOR++ partner for early stage deep tech startups to expand in India.
  • Developing a first of its kind platform exclusively for early stage tech startups
Start-upsProduct DevelopmentGo-to-Market StrategyStrategic InitiativesProduct DesignRelationship Development+2

Fps innovation labs

Sr. Director Of Software Development

Feb 2021May 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • Full Potential Solutions Inc. (FPS) is a fast growing company with offices in the US, India and Philippines. FPS helps Businesses Reach Its Full Potential with Hi-tech, Cloud Scalable and AI driven Analytics Solutions.
  • Setup strong Pan-India delivery team for Conversational AI, Data & Analytics, Salesforce, Quality
  • Ensured successful deliveries under high pressure situations and secured key business
  • Introduced key processes to enable organisation: Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development, Structured Delivery, Performance Evaluation to name a few
Strategic InitiativesSalesforce.comData AnalyticsRelationship DevelopmentQuality AssuranceLeadership+1

Redmango (incubated within mindstix)

Co-Founder

Jan 2020Dec 2020 · 11 mos · United States

  • AI-powered Cloud Platform to Accelerate Frontline Sales Performance in Luxury Retail
Go-to-Market StrategyStrategic InitiativesRelationship DevelopmentBusiness Relationship Management

Mindstix software labs

Head of Data Science Practice

Nov 2016Feb 2021 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Pune

  • Empowered CXOs of fortune 500 retailers to take Data Led decisions by developing a scalable Data Pipeline for Data Ingestion, Storage, Visualization and Analytics
  • Participated with global stakeholders for defining project budgets, scope, milestones, success criteria, deliverables, risks and contingencies
  • Built and maintained strong working relationships with key stakeholders ensuring customer satisfaction through successful on target deliveries
  • Led Enterprise Digital Transformation initiatives for Customer Master Data Management and New Product Launches for billion dollar global retailers.
  • Led the implementation of a novel Machine Learning based approach in determining skin tone using selfies and recommending appropriate foundation products for a multi ethnicity global user base
  • Developed a scalable multi-brand and multi-region Learning Management solution for Beauty Advisors
  • Created Intelligent Chatbot Platform to enable a conversational interface for B2B, B2C and B2E applications
  • Implemented an Open Stack based Data Lake to manage Global Data Center activity and analytics
  • Developed chat-based Product Advisor that automatically learns using company product FAQs
  • Created Google Home and Alexa based solutions for Voice Assisted Shopping experience
  • Developed Smart Workplace Solution with custom proprietary indoor navigation algorithm enabling users to work efficiently in an open office
Go-to-Market StrategyStrategic InitiativesData AnalyticsRelationship DevelopmentLeadershipBusiness Relationship Management+2

Deutsche bank

Assistant Vice President

Jul 2015Nov 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area · On-site

  • Responsible for global trade finance application used by Deutsche Bank external customers and internal operations
  • Coordinating with global stakeholders for requirements, budgeting, estimation and delivery
  • Setting up best practices for efficient execution and guiding the technology team
  • Create a short term, intermediate and long term roadmap by discussing with multiple stakeholders
  • Recruitment and grooming team-members
Relationship Development

Citibank india

Assistant Vice President

Nov 2012Jul 2015 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

  • Translated complex and unstructured requirements of legacy mainframe based exposure processing
  • application developed over 30 years, into design for scalable Service Oriented Architecture based application.
  • Successfully led a team of ten developers for building consolidated exposure processing applications in Java: An effort that had failed 3 times in history. This hugely reduced resource and recurring maintenance cost for Citi.
  • Set priorities, schedules and assigned tasks for the development team; effectively used best practices to coordinate project life cycle: planning, requirement gathering, design, development and testing.
  • Established good rapport between US and India teams which helped streamline large and unstructured project.
  • Improved performance of trade processing which helped sending critical exposure reports to risk managers early.
  • Awarded Global Dazzle award for excellent and consistent deliveries and consistently rated in top 20% employees
  • Built a high performing team, active in campus recruitment, mentoring and training new joiners
Relationship Development

Morgan stanley smith barney

Manager

Sep 2010Nov 2012 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Saved hundreds of hours of manual work by automating the process of client suitability and eligibility.
  • Effectively coordinated with risk managers in EMEA to implement requirements mandated by Financial Services Authority (FSA) for UK retail clients.
  • Followed and setup good practices like JIRA, SVN, HP-QC, Peer Reviews and rigorous performance testing.
  • Member of core team responsible for end to end delivery of application from scratch. Interacted regularly with Risk Managers for requirements and on boarding new solution.
Relationship Development

Persistent systems

Module Lead

Feb 2009Sep 2010 · 1 yr 7 mos · Greater Nagpur Area

  • Setup a well-structured testing framework that helped identify key performance bottlenecks and improve product performance by more than 100%.
  • Implemented Agile, provided accurate estimates and ensured on time delivery
  • Established good rapport with clients and received excellent customer satisfaction (CSAT) rating
Relationship Development

Blackrock

2 roles

Analyst

Feb 2008Dec 2008 · 10 mos · New York City

  • Principal programmer in developing Operations Green Package framework for generating nightly operations and admin reports using Object Oriented Perl and Sybase
  • Completely revamped Perl unit testing framework used by hundreds of developers to increase speed and efficiency. Work involved introducing Object Oriented design and upgrading to latest CPAN libraries while maintaining backward compatibility and existing Embedded Perl user interface
  • Parallelly handled enhancement responsibilities for existing infrastructure, trained new hires and was point of contact to resolve developer issues

Intern

May 2007Aug 2007 · 3 mos · New York City

  • Independently designed and developed modular, flexible and expandable Quality Control Commander to validate database content based on user defined rules using C++ and Sybase

Columbia university

Teaching Assistant

Sep 2006Dec 2006 · 3 mos · New York City Area

  • Created and managed frameworks for game playing as teaching assistant for 24 students. The course was designed to develop problem solving skills using computer science techniques. Framework was designed in Core Java

Persistent systems

Member of Technical Staff

Jul 2003Jul 2006 · 3 yrs · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

  • Team lead responsible for sub-module within CRM application developed on Teradata Application Platform. Design was based on the model view controller (MVC) pattern using JSP, Struts, EJB and Hibernate and Rational Rose
  • Involved in complete software development lifecycle of SQL to XQuery translator for BEA-Aqualogic. Played key role in the writing of EBNF grammar for SQL -92 involving in-depth understanding of SQL, XQuery and parser theory. Co-authored paper published at ICDE 2006 for translating SQL to XQuery. ANTLR was used to write grammar for parsing SQL-92 and Core Java was used for morphing generated tree and producing final XQuery
  • Independently worked on internationalization of Admin console module and managed interaction with client for BEA Aqualogic. This involved working with JSP and Core Java
  • Took initiative for writing PHP syntax analyzer in a team of two using ANTLR and C++. Was involved in writing of grammar and test cases for a subset of SQL and PHP

Education

Columbia Engineering

M.S. — Computer Science

Jan 2006Jan 2007

Savitribai Phule Pune University

B.E. — Computer Engineering

Jan 1999Jan 2003

Sardar Patel Vidyalaya

Jan 1993Jan 1999

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