Jan 2025 – Jul 2025 · 6 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Remote

• Led strategic advisory for a Bay Area AI startup expanding into India, through high-impact client engagements, successful pilot conversions, and innovative go-to-market execution. Collaborated closely with founders on compelling pitches and strategic presentations, demonstrating strong leadership and market expertise.

Jul 2022 – Dec 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Intel® Tiber™ Edge Platform is Intel’s first Edge platform to build, run, manage, secure, connect, and onboard heterogenous edge infrastructure with cloud-like simplicity. As Senior Director in Network and Edge BU, from concept to launch, I have played a key leadership role to define Intel's Edge software strategy, built the program and execution functions from scratch, drove the definition and delivery of MVP and beyond, built the go-to-market strategy, up until the launch in MWC Barcelona(2024) link: https://lnkd.in/ eKNdaUrX. It continues to be a one-of-a-kind journey, where I get to seamlessly integrate my expertise across strategy, execution, and business development to drive results, improved operational efficiencies and business growth. I have overseen and implemented end-to-end engineering solutions for the ITEP platform. This included establishing advanced CI/CD processes with automated build pipelines, continuous testing, and infrastructure as code (IaC), ensuring rapid and reliable deployments with monitoring and rollback. Implemented system automation and AI-based validation with real-time updates. Additionally, I enabled the hosting of the ITEP Platform as a Service (PaaS), supporting AI suites for retail and industrial applications, including vision and data analytics using Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes etc.

Apr 2022 – Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Aug 2019 – Jul 2022 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• As an executive leader, I defined and drove organizational and business strategies, spearheading broad transformations across key strategic vectors that were aligned with Intel’s strategy for IoT products. I directed the comprehensive integration and transformation of a 22-site global organization spanning the USA, EU, and APAC across Technology, SDLC, People, and Cost, which yielded double-digit percentage benefits, bringing the overall strategy to fruition to deliver a 4B USD global business.

Jan 2017 – Aug 2019 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• As the owner responsible for the architecture, design, implementation, maintenance, and support of the entire workflow framework for Intel’s modem software development, I demonstrated leadership leading cross-functional teams spanning five geographies, driving the delivery of multiple large-scale automation solutions to Apple as a customer. My leadership extended to providing, system and platform integration and verification, software build solutions, memory consumption tracking, and customized delivery setups 24/7 support, SRE, for a diverse user base of 7,000 registered and 3,000 active users.

Mar 2014 – Dec 2016 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• As a Business Change Manager, I played a crucial role in translating strategic vision into actionable steps that could be effectively executed by the engineering teams. This involved close collaboration with various stakeholders to align objectives, identify potential obstacles, and develop solutions that drove process improvements and efficiency. By implementing more efficient and relevant logging and tracking practices, I was able to contribute to significant cost savings of over $3 million USD yoy in operational costs. This achievement underscores my ability to drive financial efficiency while maintaining a high standard of process integrity and accuracy.

Mar 2011 – Mar 2014 · 3 yrs

• Responsible for delivering scalable wireless build automation solution, infrastructure support and application life cycle management tools for Wireless connectivity Solutions.
• Implemented scalable & cost effective hardware solution supporting over 20k builds while maintaining quality and timeliness of builds, expanding the scalability by 10X, with no increase in spending.

Oct 2007 – May 2011 · 3 yrs 7 mos

• Responsible for coordinating build, delivery and release requirements across SW Product Development, Customer enabling and facing teams in US, India and Israel and architected all Wireless S/W builds for Intel Wireless group, improving build times by 45%.

Nov 2002 – Sep 2007 · 4 yrs 10 mos

• Cluster lead for custom suite of applications, Responsibilities included Client side Co-ordination Project Planning and delivery scheduling, was also required to Co-ordinate and manage resources from India, Gather requirements, work on the product design and define Configuration Management Plans.