Aug 2023 – Aug 2024 · 1 yr · Hyderabad · On-site

• Google Cloud, Storage Insights - GenAI initiatives. Launched Gen AI LLM based technology for Google Cloud Storage, integrating Gemini and Vertex AI, delivering conversational capabilities that enable customers to interact in natural language and obtain Insights about managing cost, compliance, security and take storage related decisions. Enhanced accuracy, developed feedback based improvements.

Sep 2021 – Aug 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos · Hybrid

• AMAZON MUSIC (April 2022):
• Amazon Music is re-imagining the experience for next-gen listeners with enhanced lyrics and immersive discovery through engaging facts, insights.
• X-Ray system auto-generates descriptive text facts using music tags, metadata, popularity, top-hits, awards & trivia published by music aggregators. These are tailored to regional context and local languages.
• Ramped up and lead the team to revamp X-Ray for Music to drive user interaction by suggesting interesting facts that lead to discovery of contextually related new music and ways to engage with artists.
• Lyrics platform is also owned by this team. The platform enables seamless integration to ingest lyrics content and rights from multiple vendors. It enables in-house teams to author, quality check and curate content. The full stack team supports web, mobile/tablet apps, TV, Echo, Alexa and scales to handle millions of daily users.
• We focus on higher coverage and on-time availability while supporting finance teams for accurate royalty payouts. We innovate on quality checks to automate and scale in-house editor team's efforts with customer feedback.
• AMAZON EXPANSIONS AND EXPORTS (Sept 2021 - Mar 2022):
• Built a team for integrating software components and services responsible to expand Amazon footprint to new countries & regions via Global Store product. Executed the roadmap, lead the technical vision and delivery for enhancing international shopping & delivery experience to seamlessly launch new territories of Saudi Arabia and Egypt as first time brand new marketplaces. The integration allowed to import products from UK, USA and Australia to bootstrap catalog on sale (since there are very few local vendors/sellers onboarded on Day 1).
• Amazon Global Store integration spans the end to end Amazon marketplace lifecycle from search of international products offering seamless customs, faster delivery, simplified returns, local language and payments, finance integration & customer support ,etc.

Apr 2021 – Sep 2021 · 5 mos

• Leading the "Egencia (Expedia Business Travel) - API Team" - External API and Data Integrations for Egencia's client companies and partners.
• Clients can integrate with Egencia by connecting to externally available connectors for Travel and Expense management. Egencia clients (companies) can programatically integrate with their HR systems (profile creation, update, SSO, bulk upload, user provisioning), Partner Expense Management System and get push update notifications/pull data or perform actions through APIs integrations.
• Creating the new "Egencia Open Connect Platform: API and Data Feeds Integration" - Envisioning, Architecture, Roadmap and managing execution of the vision to migrate existing Clients and Partner away from legacy web services and various adhoc existing data feed generators.

Feb 2021 – Jul 2021 · 5 mos

• Business Resource Group - for making Expedia Group Carbon neutral and sign UNESCO Environment pledge. Generate ideas and promote prioritization, implimentation to enable Expedia's global travel platforms in providing sustainable choices, offset impact, support and reward environmental friendly alternatives for both partners, supply and end customers.

Oct 2016 – Mar 2021 · 4 yrs 5 mos

• April 2020 - March 2021:
• API and Integrations Management:
• Leading the product and technology development at Egencia (Expedia's Business Travel platform) for the new age API-First initiative and direction of Expedia Group for enabling travel domain integrations with client and partner systems.
• Envisioned the "Open Connect API Platform" that enables Egencia core capabilities to be accessible to external clients. The platform enables Authorization, connecting to internal services, audit & usage tracking and exposed over common API gateway.
• Building API Management B2B Hub for clients to self service account management, enable API offerings and access API docs, usage & billing. Simplified how internal services expose API over gateway by building common modules for Open Connect platform.
• Sept 2017 - Sept 2020:
• Car Rental and Ground Transport:
• Executed Single Global Platform roadmap by building new systems for Car Rentals and Ground Transportation in Egencia.
• Led the team from product inception to building MVP and launch first customer traffic, ramped up features to migrate 100% traffic from legacy to new system. Built long pending desired features. Integration with internal systems - home, search, mobile, user, checkout, payments & fees, reporting, invoicing and Expedia Car supply, risk, finance, accounts, etc. Led external dependencies GDS - Amadeus and Car vendors/suppliers like AVIS, Hertz, Enterprise.
• Reporting to senior leadership team regarding project health, milestone status & dependencies.
• Oct 2016 - Sept 2017:
• Bulk User Data Management:
• Led and managed remote team for building system to upload and update user profiles, company data, role relationships etc in bulk. This platform replaced two existing separate regional legacy systems that were highly incident prone and caused frequent database bottlenecks.
• Building integrations with client company’s HR systems and migrated all customers to the new platform with incremental migration of traffic.

Mar 2016 – Oct 2016 · 7 mos · Gurgaon, Delhi NCR, India

• Finance system automation of e commerce business for end of day ledgers, seller payments, returns / refunds, reconciliations.
• AskMe Loans for sellers and merchants by connecting them to lending partners and banks. Facilitate loan offers, processing and special types of loans on transaction history and bill discounting.

Jul 2014 – Feb 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · Gurgaon, Delhi NCR, India

• Enhancing data quality controls and meeting regulatory requirements for Basel Committee on Banking Supervision BCBS-239 program.
• Design, Architecture, Product development and implementation of a platform capable of data sourcing / ingestion, reconciliation, data testing & providing data hub, analytic workbench to Business Analysts. Scheduled reports, monitored checks & automatically feeding data to bank wide quality management dashboards and forums.
• The platform is used widely in various Risk departments, including, Wholesale & Retail credit; and also across other verticals in Finance & Treasury.
• Enabled by big data technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Hive etc.
• Managed the Compliance Risk team and Personal Account Dealing application implementing workflows responsible for approval of trade requests, reconciliation with broker confirmations and exception handling.

Aug 2005 – Jul 2014 · 8 yrs 11 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Morgan Stanley, Research Division specialises in equity, fixed income and global economic research.
• The research team offers in-depth analysis of companies, industries, world economies and market trends and investment strategies.
• A 9 year journey with multi disciplinary roles from owning delivery of tactical to mid term business priorities, started as a junior developer and grew to managing the team. Acquired skills of planning, project management, mentoring, people management, leadership and team building.
• Built expertise to contribute to multi year effort "Research 2.0" and brought it to reality, to replace 10-15 years old IT systems aimed towards new business directions including becoming leader on Wall Street to deliver institutional financial research on HTML5 portal (replacing legacy print PDFs)
• Engaged with business to define the next generation of products and platform, built roadmap and project plans. Executed delivery of approval workflows and distribution of research and investment ideas, recommended readings, client portals and mobile application.
• The platform supports over 5,000 equity, fixed income researchers, global economists - sector, geography, time frame based focused teams. Enabling research ideas creation, authoring, data indexing, approval, transformation, distribution to Bloomberg, Reuters, SnP Global Market Intelligence, Capital IQ, MarkIT Hub and more than 20 such financial research data and news aggregation firms. Morgan Stanley institutional clients have access to this wealth of analysts views, research data, analytic and interactive models, personalized for every client through proprietary suggestive models based on portfolios, interactions, activities of the client.
• Managed the end to end technology for Content workflows, Web portals, mobile application, emails and data distribution integration with internal systems and external companies.
• Serving 80K+ clients, 9 million+ hits

May 2004 – Jul 2004 · 2 mos · Barcelona, Spain

• Implemented the use of Genetic Algorithms for discovering Inductive Rules i.e. regularities and performance principles in Saxophone recordings of Jazz Music to help a computer compose expressive (more human like) music.