Feb 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 1 mo · Hybrid

• At TheAlpha, we are building the definitive Enterprise Private LLM Platform, enabling organizations to:
• ✅ Achieve Complete Data Sovereignty: By deploying a self-hosted AI infrastructure.
• ✅ Enhance Security & Compliance: With a military-grade secure platform that meets SOC 2, GDPR, and HIPAA standards.
• ✅ Reduce Costs & Eliminate Vendor Lock-in: By owning their AI stack and leveraging open-source models.
• ✅ Accelerate Innovation: By safely and securely deploying custom LLMs for a competitive advantage.

Jan 2017 – Mar 2022 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• As Head of Innovation at Qentelli, I work with Solution Engineering and Delivery teams to identify problem statements for Prospects and Customers and create solutions that fill the gaps and enable them to perform better. Innovation team creates solutions to problems across industry and technology stacks to generate greater value.
• Also responsible for creating quick MVPs (Minimum Viable Products) as part of the journey, and turn it over to Products Team after a product-market fit is established. Currently researching Process Mining techniques to enable businesses identify critical business process in their current (real) state and ways to improve them through Digital Transformation and Hyper Automation.

Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr · Ellicott City, Maryland

• A technology enthusiast with love for building solutions to solve complex IT problems for Enterprises.
• As Chief Information Officer at Valsatech responsible for providing strategic IT direction for the organization and driving innovation by creating products and solutions, leveraging the in-house R&D team. Also responsible for organization level IT initiatives and investments including but not limited to applications for internal and external collaboration, Cloud Infrastructure, IT Asset Management, Sales and Lead Management and DevOps.
• As Chief Information Officer at Valsatech, also responsible for defining strategies to nurture partnerships with Vendors having complementing IT skills and with Technology companies providing solutions in the DevOps space to help solve complex modern technology problems in Software Development for Federal Agencies.

Oct 2014 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Test and Process Automation Expert
• Specialties: Selenium, WebDriver, TestDrive, QTP, TestPartner, WebDriver, Python, Vbscript, Java, Ruby, Cucumber, TestComplete, VSTS, C#, Robotium, Custom Tool Development, Framework development
• Helping organizations implement complex test automation strategies using any Commercial or Open source automation tool in the market
• Help build Cross platform, Cross OS and Cross device test automation solutions to drive end to end test automation
• Helping organizations taking DevOps, Continuous Integration/Delivery approach accelerate their testing cycles by implementing test automation at Unit, API, Web Service, Ops and UI Automation layers utilizing BDD frameworks such as Cucumber
• Creating bridges between various test automation and test management tools to Migrate and Integrate assets between different tools

Sep 2013 – Mar 2016 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Jan 2011 – Sep 2013 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• As a Test Automation Lead at TenXLabs, mentored a team of 16 to achieve higher automation excellence. Defined various standards and guidelines for Test Automation.
• Handling and delivering quality in more than one projects in the organization.
• Worked on defining various standard frameworks for the tools QTP, Selenium, and various other Mobile Test automation tools across the organization.
• Currently working on driving automation of Acceptance tests using BDD with the toolset Cucumber, Ruby, WebDriver
• Worked on creating various solutions in the organization which drive test automation without requiring commercial off the shelf tools.
• Working on creating next generation test automation solutions.
• Working on various Pre Sales activities

Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr

• Handled multiple projects and have driven quality and delivery excellence, helped created various custom solutions and tools for various customer requirements with focus on Open source technologies

Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 · 1 yr

• Have driven various pre sales initiatives related to test automation using various tools such as Selenium, QTP, TestPartner, TestComplete, Original Software TestDrive, Squish for iPhone.
• Also played the role of a team lead to handle a team of 4 on Selenium automation.
• Participated in various organization level training initiatives on Selenium, Test Harness etc.
• Created and improvised various frameworks used at the organization level

Aug 2007 – Jan 2011 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• Have driven various pre sales initiatives related to test automation using various tools such as Selenium, QTP, TestPartner, TestComplete, Original Software TestDrive, Squish for iPhone.
• Also played the role of a team lead to handle a team of 4 on Selenium automation.
• Participated in various organization level training initiatives on Selenium, Test Harness etc.
• Created and improvised various frameworks used at the organization level

Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 · 2 yrs

• Worked in multiple test automation projects and involved in various Pre Sales activities creating solutions, frameworks and demos