Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs

• The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), was founded in 1992 in Silicon Valley by a group of successful entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and senior professionals with roots in the Indus region.
• A not-for-profit global network of entrepreneurs, established to support entrepreneurship. With a global reach and a local focus, the heart of TiE efforts lies in its five foundational programs, – Mentoring, Networking, Education, Funding, and Incubation.

May 2023 – Aug 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Industry connects, thought leadership presentations, and various contributions to cutting edge AI and Data ecosystem.

Dec 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 3 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Global delivery leadership for Data Management Business
• Change management for Data and AI pivot
• Capability and Innovation
• 2022 to 2024:
• Integration of Clairvoyant and EXL for various organizational functions
• Responsible for India Geography for Data Management
• Leading PnL of Diversified Industries' Data Management Practice including Retail, Media, CPG, Sports, and Education industries across the globe
• Leading Product, and Platform Engineering Practice
• Looking at improving Cloud Partnerships
• Partnering with Generative AI COE to build solutions and pipeline.
• EXL (NASDAQ: EXLS) is a leading data analytics and digital operations and solutions company that partners with clients to improve business outcomes and unlock growth. By bringing together deep domain expertise with robust data, powerful analytics, cloud, AI and ML, we create agile, scalable solutions and execute complex operations for the world’s leading corporations in industries including insurance, healthcare, banking and financial services, media, and retail, among others.
• In December 2021, Clairvoyant became part of EXL Analytics team, a fast growing, 8000+ person strong Data & Analytics business spread across US, UK, Europe, Australia and Asia Pacific. EXL Analytics has grown 25x since 2010 and is now one of the largest analytics service providers in the world. EXL Analytics leverages its advanced analytics and AI expertise, proprietary data assets, and enterprise data management capability to design and deliver solutions that deliver business outcomes for Fortune 500 clients.
• For more information, visit www.exlservice.com

May 2014 – Present · 11 yrs 10 mos · Pune Area, India

• Clairvoyant is a leading technology consulting & services company with presence in North America, Canada, and Asia. We help organizations build innovative products and platforms using data, analytics and the cloud.
• At Clairvoyant, we believe data has a major impact on decision making. Our mission is to provide best in class services that help leverage data and drive measurable outcomes.
• We are proud to host annual Data Conferences in Phoenix and Pune to give back to local community and learn from industry leaders on areas of Big Data, Analytics, IoT, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Services, and so on.
• At Clairvoyant India, we are currently growing the innovative team for various experience levels in areas of GCP, Azure, AWS, Data Engineering, Data Science, Java Enterprise stack, and Front-end stack. Candidates with relevant experience can apply careersindia@clairvoyantsoft.com.

Apr 2013 – May 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Apollo Group is a fortune 500 leader in higher education industry. As part of IT leadership team, I worked on Student Services Platform that aimed to provide best in class end-to-end student experience through dynamic, flexible, and multi-tenant capable technology platform leveraging self service capabilities, CRM implementations using Salesforce, and Unified Communications Platform.
• Managed development/delivery efforts and building cross functional team to implement a series of student facing self-service solutions for University of Phoenix. The goal of self service solutions was to provide cutting edge re-imagined user experience built using latest and greatest web application technologies such as rich UI (HTML5, CSS3, JQuery, AngularJS) backed by REST services exposed by application layer built using Spring MVC, Spring WS, and Memcached.
• Partnered with product managers and project managers for requirements grooming, contexual inquiries, research design, roadmap formation, milestone identification, risk management, resource allocation, and project planning.
• Worked with vendor partners for building rightshore staffing solution to meet business roadmap and budget.
• #Education #EdTech #HigherEducation

Sep 2010 – Mar 2013 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• As engineering manager for Apollo Innovation Group, I managed multiple geographically distributed scrum teams to deliver education platform serving students at various stages of academic life cycle. Managed software development for projects addressing compliance as well as strategic initiatives for the University of Phoenix. Trained in and practiced the DACI decision making framework to bring clarity and focus to decision making process to make quality decisions at the speed of business insuring that the decisions are then well executed. Hired, managed, and grew the development teams over the years through reorgs and rapid expansions. Pioneered staff augmentation model as well as pay-per-view model for successful offshore delivery. Prepared organized sprint calendar that clearly documents roles and responsibilities of onsite and offshore scrum team members. Defined role and responsibilities for onsite/ offshore key roles in collaboration with other managers, directors, and offshore delivery management team.
• Managed applications developed in Java/ J2EE, .NET, and Salesforce.
• Acted as development manager for CRM implementation using Salesforce (including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Force.com) with vision to build "360 degree" visibility of each student across all divisions, sales, and service channels. Worked with peers, Salesforce experts, and cross-functional team to form center of excellence (COE) to deliver case management and opportunity management solutions.

Mar 2007 – Nov 2010 · 3 yrs 8 mos

• Worked as J2EE developer and team lead for student scheduling system serving various subsidiaries of Apollo Group.
• Designed and developed complex solutions for application hosted on JBoss and built using technologies such as Spring core, Spring Web-services, Spring integration (JMS), Hibernate, QuickRules Rules engine, Struts, JSP, Tiles, AJAX, JavaScript, JUnit, Mockito, and others.
• Contributed to whole SDLC as key subject matter expert (SME) for the domain/ application.
• Trained support staff and supported production as well as other environments using integrated tools such as Jconsole, New Relic (application monitoring), and Splunk (log management).
• Contributed to open-cource project http://sourceforge.net/projects/duml/.

Jul 2005 – Feb 2007 · 1 yr 7 mos · Pune Area, India

• Founded in April 1999, QuinStreet is one of the world's largest online marketing and media companies.
• Worked as development lead for the Distributor Website (DWS) used by direct selling companies such as Phoenix Trading and The Body Shop. DWS was a dynamically content-managed web-application along with management portal involving Product Catalogue, Shopping Cart, Promotions, Lead Capture, Recurring billing, and Distributor Locator.
• Designed multi-layered application architecture involving layers like presentation, application, service, domain, and persistence using technologies such as Struts MVC framework, JSP, Tiles, Spring, and Hibernate. Used Cyber-source Java API to implement tax processor. Implemented internationalization (I18n) and Localization (L10n) for various modules.
• Involved in deploying the application on stage, test and production environment. Used SSH tunneling with Putty to connect to remote servers and Unix shell scripts to resolve deployment issues.
• Played an significant role in UAT support, which involved user training and defect fixes with minimum time-frame.

Jul 2003 – Jun 2005 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Worked as Selectica technical consultant for various clients such as IBM, MCI, NEC, and Reliance Infocomm.
• Involved in SDLC for application as well as UI development. Developed the Business Object Handler plug-in for IBM Websphere Business Integration using Selectica ADK. Used Cross Worlds Java API, XSLT for integration.
• Developed the KBS (Knowledgebase), Gen2 pages (with Selectica Tags, JavaScript, and HTML). Designed and developed Model 1 JSP pages for an easy-maintenance generic UI. Developed plug-ins in Java for extending functionality of Selectica application.

Apr 2002 – Jul 2003 · 1 yr 3 mos

• The Collaborative Sessions Director was a research project, which enabled multiple users come in one web-session. The Servlet was integrated with Selectica Configurator so that complex configurations can be done by a group of people.
• Involved in various phases of the project (SDLC) - design, development, deployment, documentation and testing. Developed Java Servlet to achieve business functionality of maintaining multiple user sessions in one virtual-collaborative-session. Involved in load testing of the project using Load-Runner. Developed using HTML, JavaScript, Selectica Gen2 Tags, and RMI.