Apr 2022 – Sep 2025 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

• Head of AI Engineering & Solutions at Tata Digital, responsible for AI initiatives across Commerce and Fintech (Insurance, Lending, Cards) verticals under Tata Neu. Leading a cross-functional team of AI/ML engineers, platform engineers, and GenAI experts focused on:
• AI Engineering: Core AI/ML infrastructure, in-house ML platforms, multimodal agent frameworks with integrated cross-domain RAG systems, model serving, and tooling infrastructure
• Data Platforms: Customer Data Platform, Risk Investigation systems, and Experimentation Platform
• GenAI Solutions: Building enterprise-grade multi-agent generative AI systems to drive growth, operational efficiency, and productivity across business functions
• AI Labs: Incubating next-gen AI applications, exploring new frameworks and models to ensure future readiness
• Work spans strategy, platform build-out, and scalable execution across the Tata Digital ecosystem and multi-channel customer touchpoints.

Aug 2020 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• I had dual responsibilities of Site Lead for Hotwire India and Director of Engineering.
• In my capacity as Site Lead, I played a pivotal role in Hotwire India's growth. I drove multiple site- level initiatives with global and local leaders to foster a positive and collaborative culture, represented Hotwire in the India leadership team, facilitated the establishment of new teams such as Mobile CoE and SiteOps through a strong pipeline of talent in the region.
• As the Director of Engineering, I led the data charter and tech roadmap for Data Engineering, Data Infrastructure, BI & Data Platform teams at EG & Hotwire. I collaborated closely with global Product, Engineering, and Business teams, contributing to the development of technical architecture, practices, and release plans. I established operational teams to support data and analytics products, ensuring high availability and instilling a culture of continuous innovation.

Jul 2018 – Aug 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

• Responsible for overall Data Business and Charter in Thoughtworks India that includes Org Design, Budgets, Capabilities and GTM.
• Incubated and scaled a world-class Data Science and Engineering team across multiple offices of ThoughtWorks India and also served as a Data Mesh evangelist.
• Successfully led AI-driven transformations and data strategy for renowned global enterprises, where I designed differentiated solutions, established operating models and tangible AI capabilities.
• Incubated an AI research pod, contributing to the open source Automatic Speech Recognition.
• Spearheaded the creation of a scalable MLOps solution for a large biometrics project, reducing time to market and maximizing impact.
• Conceptualised and build a Computer Vision platform for retailers to analyze traffic and customer demographics in retail stores.

Jan 2015 – Jun 2018 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

• Setup Big Data and ML CoE from ground-up that includes establishing a high performing global team of engineers, data scientist, architects, and functional experts distributed across India, Europe, and the US
• Consulted Fortune 500 companies on building enterprise data products and operational expertise in managing large scale data and analytics platforms in production
• Led data science initiatives in the areas of customer, marketing and operational analytics by leveraging machine and deep learning techniques leading to significant gains in business revenue and optimize operations
• Participated as subject matter speaker in various forums along with publishing articles, point of views on multiple online platforms

Mar 2011 – Jan 2015 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Noida Area, India

• Joined Markit (now S&P Global) as part of the initial core team and part of the core leadership group responsible to scale it in India.
• Lead the technology strategy for multi-million Equities and Indices lines of business. This involved streamlining legacy database-driven applications and transitioning them to a modern event-driven enterprise data platform
• Built and managed globally distributed teams of highly talented platform & data engineers, business/data analysts and data scientists based out of London, Frankfurt, New York, and India

Mar 2009 – Mar 2011 · 2 yrs

Jan 2008 – Feb 2009 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Developed Risk Forecasting solution for ING life to forecast premium for ING”s Insurance products in Japan. It includes-
• DB Development and Modelling, ETL pipelines using Java and storage of transformation of transactional data to star schema for analytical use cases

Dec 2006 – Dec 2007 · 1 yr

• Developed CIBIL scoring and validation framework for realtime validation of loan applications

Apr 2004 – Nov 2006 · 2 yrs 7 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Independent consultant on distributed systems with a focus on middle-tier and server-side component development