Feb 2022 – Jun 2025 · 3 yrs 4 mos

• Serve as Chief Technologist and advisor to the SVP of Data & AI (Chief Data Officer), leading Nike’s data strategy, platform modernization, engineering standards, and GenAI adoption across a 60PB+ ecosystem and 850+ globally distributed engineers. Drive automation, governance, and vendor evaluation to align architecture with long-term business goals. Lead Nike’s GenAI transformation by deploying AI-powered personalization, copilots, and automation across consumer, merchandising, finance, and legal functions to reduce cost and improve speed to market. Launched natural language BI with Databricks Genie and deployed AI assistants across teams, boosting productivity by 30%+ and accelerating decision-making.
• Key Accomplishments:
• Unified AWS, Teradata, and Snowflake platforms into a single Databricks Lakehouse, generating $50M+ in business value through a unified consumer data product
• Led board-level GenAI automation for data modeling, Spark plan lineage, and Tableau report migration to DBSQL
• Delivered 80% data quality improvement and reduced reporting latency from hours to seconds by modernizing dimensional and clickstream pipelines
• Saved $20M+ annually by optimizing ML/ETL clusters, storage, and CPU utilization
• Built AI-driven search and real-time personalization for Consumer & Product, increasing engagement and conversion
• Automated merchandising workflows including product copy, tagging, and catalog ingestion to cut time-to-market
• Developed GenAI copilots for AP/AR and anomaly detection in Finance to streamline operations and reduce costs
• Automated contract generation and regulatory documentation in Legal & Compliance, improving cycle time and efficiency
• Reduced dependency on traditional BI by 10% in the first quarter via Genie-powered conversational AI/BI, enhancing business productivity

Jan 2018 – Feb 2022 · 4 yrs 1 mo

• Provide hands-on technology leadership reporting to the Chief Architect, with a focus on building well-modeled data architecture, advancing governance, and enabling next-generation analytics through scalable platform design. Lead efforts to standardize data products, evolve enterprise platforms, and implement policy-driven compliance—ensuring enterprise-wide consistency, reusability, and performance.
• Key Accomplishments:
• Standardized Nike’s core dimensional data models across product, customer, and supplier domains.
• Defined and coded reference implementations for enterprise data governance, embedding automated enforcement of GDPR, access control, and brand risk policies.
• Designed and launched Nike’s first Purpose-Based Access Control (PBAC) system using a custom Spark SQL analyzer.
• Established Airflow as the orchestration standard and built a Streaming-as-a-Service platform.
• Simplified enterprise governance and compliance through scalable frameworks.

Apr 2014 – Jan 2018 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Multiple · On-site

• Lead solution architecture and field engineering engagements across data, cloud, and AI domains—collaborating with sales teams and clients during pre-sales, and providing hands-on leadership for early-stage delivery. Write code, define engineering patterns, and guide implementation to ensure scalable, production-ready solutions. Champion open-source innovation and accelerate delivery through reusable platforms and internal developer enablement.
• Key Accomplishments:
• Drove field engineering efforts that contributed to major wins at Capital One, Nike, Apple, Shell, Dun & Bradstreet, and Credit Suisse.
• Founded Wipro’s first open-source platform, BigData Ready Enterprise (BDRE).
• Featured speaker at the 2016 Hadoop Summit (San Jose); BDRE was the top-voted project.
• Boosted billing rates by 8% through field engineering talent development.

Apr 2013 – Mar 2014 · 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Led solution architecture and field engineering for strategic CPG clients, shaping large-scale big data solutions during pre-sales and ensuring successful implementation for high-value wins.
• Key Accomplishments:
• Architected Apple’s iTunes analytics migration from Teradata to Hortonworks, securing a $5M contract.
• Wrote production-grade Hadoop code for high-value iTunes analytics workloads.

Nov 2012 – Apr 2013 · 5 mos · Providence, Rhode Island Area

• Application developments architect Java/J2EE/WebSphere platform.
• Design web services interface for data transfer
• Lead multiple transformation engagements covering infrastructure re-designing, specification, customer relationship management and analytics.
• Build end to end web based HR chat system enabling employees to discuss HR policies with HR agents.
• Third party vendor evaluation and develop solution for unified corporate login and Single Sign on
• Analytics using Hadoop/Hive.

Jun 2011 – Jan 2012 · 7 mos

• Architect and application design lead for IBM Mobile HR Portal Suit.
• Directly worked with IBM HR Outsoucing CTO.
• Implementing platform
• Job includes iPhone and Android application software framework architectural designing, prototype development, user experience assessment etc.
• Designed and lead development team for mobile apps

Feb 2004 – Sep 2012 · 8 yrs 7 mos

• Web Based Architecture, IT Consultancy, Web Development, Project management , Proposal Development, HR Solutioning.
• Architect and application design lead for IBM Mobile HR Portal Suit.
• Backend was designed with J2EE web application running on WebSphere application server.
• Designed the application architecture in Visio. Class and sequence diagram designing , usecases identification using UML.
• Was written in pure HTML5, CSS and JavaScripts which are open standards and hence compatible with all modern Smartphones/tablets.
• Native UI was designed using CSS3 based style sheets.
• Entire application was then wrapped using a native container (PhoneGap)
• UI is completely theme based - there would be zero or minimal changes in the main code when the portal is ported to a new platform.
• Application code would be common for all devices. Platform specific look and feel will be achieved using style sheets.
• Browser access: Since the application was designed on open web standards, it’s possible to access the application through a standard WebKit based browser for platforms for which a native application wrapper is not yet available.
• Identified standard platform common mobile hardware features( camera, phone , accelerometer)
• Designed low power and battery life in mind. All complex logic, calculations , algorithms , authentication , web service , database calls,API etc resided on server where plenty of resources are available. Mobile devices were responsible for capturing user input and render the data received from the server.
• Store and retrieve JSON objects directly (RestFul way) from a NoSQL DB (MongoDB) and parse in the phone.

Feb 2004 – Apr 2007 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Jan 2012 – Nov 2012 · 10 mos · Montreal, Canada Area

• As a subject matter expert Arijit played the crucial role team in winning the HR IT outsourcing deal.
• Solution designing, staffing and cost estimation.
• Transitioned, implemented and managed Human Resources portal Implementation project for Canada’s largest airline.
• Translating business requirements to technical requirements
• Integrating Peoplesoft HRMS for self service access.
• Lead multiple transformation engagements covering infrastructure re-designing, specification, customer relationship management and analytics.
• Third party vendor evaluation and Single Sign on
• Managed large talented development teams based on India, US and Canada.
• Played lead role in implementing end to end chat system allowing employees to reach HR directly from their desktop, tablets and mobiles while on the go.
• Implemented self service online HR policies knowledge base.
• End to end integration consisting of knowledge base, call center CRM