Jul 2024 – Nov 2024 · 4 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States · Hybrid

Dec 2022 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos · Redwood City, California, United States

• Leading engineering teams in developing enterprise AI-driven applications for reliability, process optimization, and energy management. Enabled enterprises to leverage AI for predictive maintenance, root cause analysis, and operational improvements across large-scale industrial environments.
• Scaled and mentored a team of engineers, fostering collaboration, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Managed a team responsible for building a wizard-based workflow for asset onboarding, sensor mapping, model training, and deployment. Simplified AI/ML integration into business processes, enabling scalable adoption and large distributed deployments at scale.
• Enhanced the scalability of AI deployments and optimized data workflows for high-volume data ingestion and real-time inference.
• Implemented AI/ML solutions to optimize processes, improve reliability, and reduce costs, focusing on predictive insights and performance improvements.
• Partnered with Product, Data Science, Platform, and Sales teams to align AI initiatives with business goals, ensuring smooth delivery of impactful projects.
• Took ownership of end-to-end delivery, ensuring alignment with business needs, and provided leadership on technical roadmaps and strategy.
• Drove initiatives that introduced cutting-edge AI solutions, positioning the company as a leader in enterprise AI.

Sep 2019 – Dec 2022 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site

• Led revamp of Ariba Procurement: Improved the buyer experience for millions of global users by redesigning procurement processes using SAP UI5 and integrating with SAP’s large-scale distributed systems, resulting in streamlined workflows and higher user satisfaction.
• Transformed Concur Expense: Spearheaded the shift to a micro front-end architecture for Concur Expense, utilizing React, Kafka, and GraphQL to enhance deployment speed, scalability, and data retrieval efficiency for a 50+ million global user base. This transformation reduced technical debt and improved system flexibility.
• End-to-end product ownership: Managed the entire development lifecycle for front-end expense systems and product infrastructure, ensuring high availability and scalability for large enterprise environments.
• Strategic roadmap leadership: Collaborated with product management and senior engineers to craft long-term roadmaps, aligning business objectives with technical strategies, and driving the release of key project milestones.
• Team scaling & mentorship: Grew and led a high-performing team of full-stack engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and professional development.
• CI/CD automation: Transitioned to a fully automated CI/CD pipeline, leveraging Kafka, GraphQL, and feature flags, enabling continuous, zero-downtime feature releases and driving operational efficiency.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Built strong partnerships with program management, product, and design teams, ensuring seamless execution of complex projects across multiple functions.

Sep 2016 – Sep 2018 · 2 yrs

• Architected enhancements to SAP Build, improving collaborative functionality, shareability, and exportability, making the platform more versatile for large-scale enterprise customers.
• Designed and implemented key collaborative features, ensuring seamless user experiences and significantly improving enterprise customer productivity by making SAP Build more intuitive and efficient.
• Transitioned to architecting and integrating conversational AI into SAP web products as part of the Copilot backend team, delivering intelligent, context-aware workflows to enhance customer interactions.
• Led the integration of Google Conversational AI into SAP Copilot, enabling smarter, AI-driven interactions that improved user engagement and facilitated more natural customer interactions with SAP systems.
• Architected scalable backend solutions for AI-driven workflows, focusing on multitenant, highly available systems capable of supporting enterprise-scale conversational capabilities.
• Drove innovation in conversational AI by enabling contextual data and smart actions, allowing customers to accomplish more with fewer steps through an AI-driven interface.
• Provided strong leadership in cross-functional collaboration, aligning technical architecture with business goals by working closely with design, product, and development teams to ensure seamless integration and optimal system performance.
• Mentored teams on AI integration, microservices architecture, and scalable system design, reinforcing SAP’s commitment to innovation and cutting-edge solutions.

Sep 2014 – Sep 2016 · 2 yrs

• Led the development of the backend architecture for Build.me, a large-scale distributed system supporting multi-tenancy and high scalability, serving as a collaborative design tool for SAP customers and streamlining FIORI integration.
• Led the development of UIComposer, a backend platform enabling real-time collaborative editing and metadata-driven UI creation, supporting enterprise-scale usage with seamless multi-user interaction.
• Built SharedWorkspace, a multitenant storage layer ensuring isolated storage for each customer while enhancing collaboration through metadata merging.
• Developed an advanced Asset Manager for blob storage, ensuring efficient saving and retrieval of design assets crucial to collaborative projects.
• Designed and implemented the Business Configuration Manager (BCM), enabling multitenant feature toggles and giving customers granular control over configurations at the company, user, and admin levels.
• Developed a secure Authentication Layer integrated with BCM, ensuring seamless and secure user experiences across system layers.
• Leveraged RabbitMQ for efficient message queuing and developed a distributed cache layer using RabbitMQ to ensure high availability and scalability across the platform.
• Demonstrated strong ownership in building scalable microservices, mentoring teams, and driving best practices in architecture and security.

Apr 2012 – Aug 2014 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Led the design and development of a three-level Condor framework, delivering scalable application services and common APIs for managing and storing assets across various applications. This architecture enabled flexible storage of diverse application data, simplifying data management for consumer apps.
• Spearheaded key projects such as SAP Fiori development using SAP UI5, SAP ABAP Gateway, and SAP HANA, improving both product efficiency and user experience.
• Owned end-to-end development of critical services, including security, background jobs, third-party integrations with platforms like Facebook and LinkedIn, and asset management via cloud-based blob storage.
• Delivered scalable OAuth/OpenID-based authentication and robust data management using SAP HANA, enabling seamless scalability for thousands of users.
• Mentored and led development teams, driving engineering best practices and ensuring high-quality code delivery for scalable, secure applications.
• The Condor framework was successfully deployed in applications like MyRunway, PhotoTribe, and careCircle, demonstrating significant impact across diverse application deployments for SAP.

Oct 2011 – Apr 2012 · 6 mos · Bangalore

• Led the development and maintenance of robust interfaces for key third-party products like Signum and Concur, ensuring seamless integration with SAP systems. Improved data flow and streamlined business operations for global clients.
• Owned the design and implementation of HCM Processes and Forms across multiple countries, customizing solutions to fit complex approval structures and compliance requirements for global enterprises.
• Worked closely with clients to understand business needs, delivering custom solutions that enhanced HR efficiency and improved user satisfaction across various regulatory environments.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure the successful deployment and support of HCM solutions, addressing technical challenges and improving process flow.
• Optimized the performance of SAP HCM modules, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and alignment with the needs of large enterprise clients.
• Provided ongoing support and maintenance for HCM interfaces, implementing enhancements and updates to adapt to evolving business requirements.
• Contributed to improving project delivery by identifying opportunities to enhance efficiency and reduce complexity, ensuring faster go-lives and smoother customer transitions.

May 2008 – Sep 2011 · 3 yrs 4 mos · SAP Labs,Bangalore

• Led the design, development, and maintenance of SAP HCM modules, ensuring smooth operations for over 1000+ SAP customers globally. Gained deep expertise in HCM Processes & Forms, enabling efficient talent management.
• Owned end-to-end product ownership of key modules, including e-Recruiting, Training and Event Management, and Learning Solution (LSO). Delivered mission-critical updates for HR Processes & Forms using Adobe and FPM.
• Collaborated with customers throughout various implementation cycles, providing customized solutions and resolving complex technical issues, driving successful go-lives and long-term customer satisfaction.
• Spearheaded the redesign of multiple applications within e-Recruiting, LSO, and HCM, improving usability, performance, and scalability, resulting in higher product adoption.
• Enhanced customization by implementing implicit enhancements and creating custom configurations within WebDynpro ABAP components.
• Delivered multiple design changes and released over 300 SAP standard notes, driving product evolution across PA-ER (e-Recruiting) and PE-LSO (Learning Solutions).
• Took ownership of complex technical challenges, led cross-functional collaboration, and mentored junior engineers in best practices.
• Led design and code reviews for new features, ensuring performance optimization, code quality, and customer-centric development.
• Worked with global teams to deliver high-impact features on time and under budget, aligning technical execution with company goals.

Jun 2006 – May 2008 · 1 yr 11 mos · Greater Chennai Area · On-site

• Collaborated with key clients such as Rockwell Automation, Numerics Power System Ltd, and Mattson Technology Inc., delivering impactful solutions across multiple SAP modules (HCM, SD, FI, MM).
• Acted as an ABAP Consultant, leading the development and troubleshooting of advanced solutions in ABAP for business-critical areas like BDC, ALV, Interactive Reports, SAP Scripts, Smart Forms, and IDOCs.
• Spearheaded the development of high-value reports, including the Standard Margin Report, PO Commitment Report, ZFIOS Revenue Report, FIFO Stock Report, and Missing Parts Report, significantly improving operational efficiency.
• Resolved complex technical issues across various SAP modules, ensuring seamless integration and operational consistency for customers, and optimizing business processes through effective SAP performance tuning.
• Strengthened customer satisfaction by implementing strategic enhancements in SAP and continuously improving system performance for long-term scalability.