Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• SproutsAi is an all-in-one AI teammate for recruiting that reduces the time and cost of hiring by 90%. The solution has been deployed across 150+ early enterprise customers. Key features include an AI teammate for sourcing, outreach, scheduling, and AI interviews. The team collaborates with top AI engineers and GTM leaders to drive product adoption within startups and enterprises.
• Join the revolution, www.sproutsai.com

Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• As CTO of GreyscaleAI, I led the development and deployment of a vertically integrated solution combining hardware, software, and advanced AI for automated quality control in manufacturing. Oversaw end-to-end product strategy, cross-functional teams, and implementation, delivering significant improvements in inspection accuracy, operational efficiency, and scalability for industrial clients.

Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr

• Leading architecture and execution for the geo-distributed engineering team

Jan 2015 – Present · 11 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Advising startups in the following areas:
• a. Platform Architecture: Selection of the key platform components, scaling of the platform
• b. AIML Platform: MLOps architecture, AIML frameworks for building models, performance improvements
• c. Data Platform and Data strategy: SQL, NoSQL, Streaming, Object Store, Distributed File Systems, Data Pipeline, Data monetization strategy, data privacy and security, data lineage and provisioning
• d. Short, medium and long term technology strategy. This includes build vs buy, cloud vs on-premise, onshore vs offshore.
• e. Identifying the key technology differentiator and generating patents for the company

Apr 2013 – Nov 2019 · 6 yrs 7 mos · Santa Clara, CA

• Projects:
• 1. Led the Technology and Platform for Autonomous Vehicles: MLOps, Annotation Infrastructure, AIML Workflow, AIML model training validation and deployment, Microservices based App, Cloud infrastructure
• 2. Led the Data Pipeline and Analytics platform for Wearable devices on AWS and EMR
• 3. Lead for the Intel Hadoop Distribution (IDH), SAP HANA Integration Architecture and transitioning IDH features to Cloudera Distribution of Hadoop, Benchmarking Hadoop for analytics workloads, Partnering with customers to build Analytics apps on Hadoop.
• 4. Contribution features to Apache Hadoop in HDFS, Hive, Pig, Flink

May 2011 – Mar 2013 · 1 yr 10 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

• Platform as a Service for SMB
• Platform components included Unified data Platform, SSO, Publishing, Centralized CRM and Marketing, eCommerce, CMS, Connectors, App Builders, Developer API for building apps and Online Reputation Management API
• 30+ team and 300+ customers
• Stack: Casandra, Spark, Postgres, Solr, Java

Sep 2007 – Jan 2011 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

• As a part of Hadoop team I built features for Apache Hadoop to scale it to petabytes of data and get adopted to thousands of developers and deployed by companies like facebook, linkedin, netflix. Also designed and developed Distributed Query Engine which scales to petabytes of data

Feb 2007 – Jul 2007 · 5 mos

• Developed centralized application logs collection platform for all the apps running across eBay and storing them in distributed storage system. Also, built framework on how to consume the data for the analytics use case.

Jan 2000 – Jan 2006 · 6 yrs

• Kerberos implementation for the Deutsche Bank
• Data Warehousing for Actian
• OSS|BSS solution for British Telecom and other telcos in North America