Jun 2022 – Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States

• Provided guidance to strategic customers on Generative AI and broadly on AI/ML based solutions development. This involved assessing business requirements, developing proof-of-concept implementations leveraging appropriate AWS AI services including Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker, and ensuring robust security, and performance standards are met. Strategic guidance focused on enabling customers to innovate responsibly, optimize AI deployment costs, and create transformative AI applications that drive tangible business value across various industries.
• Generative AI solutions spanned a breadth of business areas. Technologies such as AI Agents, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), LLM Fine-Tuning, Responsible AI, multi-modal generation, leveraged for marketing analytics, network diagnostics, security analytics, virtual knowledge assistants, customer support.

Jan 2018 – Jun 2022 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Santa Calra, CA

• Head of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Practice at Tavant.
• Hands-on technical, leader. Built high performance, scalable platforms for AI/ML applications with latest ML techniques including Reinforcement Learning, Deep Learning. Platform supports autonomous capabilities to reduce time-to-implementation, of solutions and to scale the business – Continual Learning to adapt to changing environment; Hyper-parameter Search;
• Extensive knowledge of Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning and software technologies, and applying them to business. Passion for developing expertise in and applying new technology areas.
• Have delivered solutions with impressive results in business areas such as personalized advertising, marketing spend optimization, e-Commerce, IoT, Aftermarket, Finance -- example applications:
• Multi-channel marketing spend optimization; double digits percentage point cost reduction, double digits percentage points profit uplift;
• Real-time context-aware targeted ads presentation based on video feed of the shoppers in public areas, increased users engagement by 67%;
• Continually learning contextual and personalized, game applications recommendation.
• Manufacturing optimization - IoT use cases – failure predictions, remaining useful life
• Warranty fraud and reserve management
• Mortgage affordability advisor
• Underwriter Assistant (loan application reviewer)
• Have built high-performing R&D teams from scratch with outstanding industry and academic backgrounds. Have fostered collaboration with the academia resulting in publishing research papers and patents. Have leveraged prominent professors, such as, at UC Berkley and University of Alberta to work on the latest research in Machine Learning.

Jun 2014 – Jan 2018 · 3 yrs 7 mos · San Jose, CA

• Head of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning R&D labs in Samsung SDS Research America.
• Developed AI technology platform for enterprise applications. Platform for Reinforcement Learning, Deep Reinforcement Learning, AI based Decision Making.
• Built and led a highly talented team. Started this lab and grew the team from 2 to 35 in 1.5 years; 70% with Masters/Ph.D. degrees.

Oct 2007 – May 2014 · 6 yrs 7 mos · Fremont, CA

• Healthcare contextual communication, scalable, low-latency, HIPAA compliant, platform. From 0 to flourishing market traction in 2 years.

Jul 2000 – Mar 2007 · 6 yrs 8 mos

• Development of the highly successful Communication Applications Platform technology which was at the foundation of various application solutions deployed in the core networks of telecom carriers such as AT&T, US, SoftBank Telecom, Japan, Deutsche Telekom, Germany, Alestra, Mexico, etc.

Jan 1999 – Jan 2000 · 1 yr

• Reference Software Architecture for the subscriber products platform in the Cellular Subscriber Sector of the Communication Enterprise.

Jan 1995 – Jan 1999 · 4 yrs

• Mobile networking protocols development, and mobile applications on handheld devices

Jan 1985 – Jan 1991 · 6 yrs

• Development of indigenous Digital Exchange technology in India from scratch. Architect of the fault-tolerance software subsystem