Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos · Basel, Switzerland

• Leading the Syngenta Group IT and Digital strategy to continue the transformation in agriculture. After 3 years building digital platform that put Syngenta Group as one of the most digitally connected AgTech companies in the world, I'm honoured and humbled at the opportunity to lead Syngenta Group's IT and digital journey.

Oct 2018 – Jan 2022 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Basel, Switzerland

• A fundamental transformation in Agriculture is coming, with science and technology at its heart. By 2050, the world must produce 70% more food, using fewer inputs while lowering GHGs and coping with climate change. I am fortunate to be part of this transformation, leading digital innovation at Syngenta, in our mission to help farmers globally make better agronomic decisions and grow more sustainability. Today, Syngenta's digital solutions are used by farmers across more than 150M acres globally. I proudly lead some of the world's most brilliant engineers, computer scientists, and data scientists in building these digital platforms and products and taking the innovation into the hands of the farmers.

Sep 2016 – Oct 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• The second fork of Ilimi IP was used by NIIT Ltd. to create a disruptive learning solution for enterprise wide digital transformation as part of its global education business. NIIT is a market-leading, pure-play Managed Training Services company with over 36 years of experience in learning outsourcing. With a global footprint that spans over 40 countries, NIIT helps the world’s leading companies dramatically improve L&D effectiveness and efficiency. I established StackRoute Labs with the core engineering team of Ilimi. StackRoute Labs is the product engineering, technology innovation and incubation heart of StackRoute. New programs, technology product lines are incubated at StackRoute Labs and rolled out in StackRoute. Current work in the labs includes large-scale deep assessment and AI based automated remediation platforms.

Jan 2015 – Sep 2018 · 3 yrs 8 mos

• Mission 200 Million - The lack of access to learning opportunities is a complex and multidimensional problem. It impacts the lives of millions of children on a daily basis. EkStep Foundation was formed to address this challenge at scale - leading to Mission EkStep and the creation of Sunbird as open digital infrastructure, and the curation of Societal Platform thinking. I was fortunate to be part of this journey, working with an extended team of highly motivated engineers to create the Sunbird Learning Platform. The IP created at Ilimi was forked to become a kernel of the Sunbird Platform that was open sourced under MIT License. Recently, Sunbird was recognized as a Digital Public Good (DPG) by the Digital Public Goods Alliance under the aegis of UNICEF.

Jan 2015 – Sep 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bangalore

• The early MOOC platforms like CourseEra and EdX gave birth to the new paradigm of "Inverted Classroom" to facilitate self-paced learning. But these platforms suffered from poor engagement and completion rates. The Ilimi platform created a path-breaking innovation of adaptive learning using Micro-Concepts for personalized learning journeys. We used AI/ML to track learner progress and allowed the facilitators to focus on the gaps. The platform was successfully used for a range of learning scenarios ranging from teaching programming to early professionals to teaching math and language skills to children at primary school level and was successfully rolled out in partnership with leading education service providers in India. In 2016, NIIT Ltd. the largest education service provider in India acquired the business of Ilimi.

Dec 2009 – Sep 2016 · 6 yrs 9 mos · Bangalore

• We started Canopus Consulting with a mission to make deep technology expertise available to other companies. The problem we saw was that - very few organizations had access to deep technology expertise. Those that didn't usually rely on outsourcing partners or consultants to architect their solutions. While the vendors built the systems, companies, for the most part, could not carry on the journey independently on their own. So we created a consulting service model to solve deep technical problems for our partners and mentor their engineering teams to realize the vision. This ensured the long-term success of our partners. We solved complex problems ranging from real-time embedded systems to ultra-large-scale systems in the defense, supply chain, and banking sectors for the Indian Navy and several startups and enterprise customers.

Oct 2004 – Dec 2009 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore, Mountain View

• The space of business intelligence was going through a massive transformation in early 2000s. Static dashboards and reports, and the ability to drill-down into data was good at creating post-facto visibility into the state of the enterprise, but it lacked the ability to allow executives to intervene and take corrective actions BEFORE the KPIs went red. At Veloz, we invented a new innovative platform - MCUBE-RT - Measure, Monitor and Manage in Real-time. The heart of the MCUBE-RT platform was a patented semantic network that modelled the performance of an enterprise. This was one of the earliest applications of Semantic Web technologies to create an expert system. I established the Veloz engineering team in India and led the development of the patented IP. I established key multi-million dollar partnerships with leading players like Infosys and IBM to license Veloz technology platform to their customers. I worked closely with our CEO to raise VC funding and took the company through an M&A.

Aug 2000 – Sep 2004 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore, New Jersey, Los Angeles, Hong Kong

• Planetasia was a niche software services business, part of the Microland Group. It was acquired by GCI Solutions, now called Collabera. I was part of the R&D team at Planetasia - Planetasia Research Cell (PaRC). As a member and lead of a very capable team, I was pushing frontiers in EAI, transformation systems and workflow engines, working with large enterprise clients in US and APAC.