Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Led the establishment and strategic growth of a global AI Engineering and Modernization practice, driving enterprise-wide transformation. Orchestrated comprehensive AI initiatives across multiple departments and geographical locations.
• Enterprise-wide AI Engineering strategy, aligning initiatives across departments affecting 30,000+ roles
• AI offerings and go-to-market strategies to drive adoption and business value
• Cross-department orchestration with key stakeholders to drive AI integration into their respective core functions
• Ideation to launch of an enterprise-wide AI Development Portal, creating a unified platform for learning, experimentation, and knowledge sharing
• Implementation of various AI applications and a comprehensive library of tools, evolving into an Agentic AI Platform to accelerate end-to-end software development lifecycle and workflows automation for legacy application modernization and technical debt reduction
• Evaluation and benchmarking of LLMs for engineering scenarios, focusing on enterprise-scale applications' real-world complexity
• Lead AI Delivery group covering from deal structuring and presales to managing execution and delivery for variety of projects ranging from individual productivity solutions to modernization initiatives
• Established Center of Excellence for AI engineering practice and methodologies standardization

Oct 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 6 mos

• Led end-to-end technology strategy and delivery across Financial Services North America portfolio, managing large-scale distributed engineering teams and complex technical implementations.
• Scaled and drove organization of 4,500+ professionals across North America, LATAM, Europe, and India
• Built from ground up senior Delivery and Architecture leadership team covering domain expertise across Financial Services verticals
• Established Enterprise and Solution Architecture practice for complex technical implementations
• Created delivery governance framework ensuring targets and profitability for high-stakes engagements
• Implemented engineering excellence practices and quality standards across distributed teams
• Led technical presales and complex deal structuring across client portfolio
• Maintained high client satisfaction (NPS) through engineering quality and delivery excellence

Apr 2014 – Sep 2018 · 4 yrs 5 mos

• My group is primarily focused on several EPAM's biggest clients. Responsibilities:
• in charge for delivery of the organization with total headcount 1440+ engineers across 7 countries and 10 cities that work on 80+ products
• business development and presales activities, respond to RFPs, define/validate/deploy delivery model for new engagements
• support consulting services provided by EPAM such as products quality and processes assessments, architecture reviews and feasibility studies. Supervise a team of experts from local CoEs to ensure delivery on time, validate, uplift and present produced output artifacts
• delivery supervision across the projects portfolio to ensure services quality, proper software development processes and internal governance
• establish cross locations collaboration and consistent work across delivery management team that includes close collaboration with the company internal groups such as Global Delivery Organization, Competency Centers, Talent Acquisition and HR teams
• define location strategy, agree on internal strategy to bring the right talent to support major projects ramp ups and re-organizations, ensure staffing execution on time
• escalation point of contact on all delivery issues across the account
• represent delivery in major demand planning workshops and regular governance meetings with senior and executives management teams
• drive gradual transformation of specific assets to output based delivery, collaboration on associated working streams with client's senior leaders
• drive and promote adding value initiatives such as Innovation Program, Employee Recognition Program, HR Brand to promote the client’s image within the company, inner account CoEs for business domain knowledge such as Market Data and Legal, inner account Competency Centers for client’s proprietary platforms

Sep 2012 – Mar 2014 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Have been acting as a Delivery Manager for several clients from Financial Services group portfolio. Primary responsibilities:
• projects delivery across the accounts portfolio using different delivery models and engagement types
• building efficient teams to support projects needs
• delivery governance and supervision
• participated in SWAT type of activities to address delivery and staffing challenges

Aug 2009 – Aug 2012 · 3 yrs

Aug 2005 – Jul 2009 · 3 yrs 11 mos