Mar 2024 – Feb 2025 · 11 mos · San Jose, California, United States · Hybrid

• In my role as Chief Product Officer and Global Head of Cloud/AI Engineering and Customer Success at Tag-N-Trac, I spearhead the development and implementation of the company's Flagship AI-driven RELATIVITY SaaS platform. This platform revolutionizes supply chain visibility and traceability, offering solutions such as cold-chain monitoring, real-time in-transit visibility, and warehouse inventory management. I lead Product management, Engineering, and Customer success teams, contributing to significant growth of the company in all facets.

Oct 2023 – Jan 2024 · 3 mos

• Advisor to CDIO on Gen AI and other technology topics

Aug 2023 – Mar 2024 · 7 mos

• Advising multiple early stage start-ups in the AI space

Jan 2022 – Jul 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• FogHorn Systems acquired by JCI.
• Headed the AI and Edge Engineering teams, including Tempered cyber secure connectivity team.
• Integrated FogHorn Edge and AI technology into JCI's Open Blue Platform and AI enabled applications, as part of the company's digital transformation initiative, in a short span of less than 12 months.
• Defined and led AI, Edge, and zero trust secure connectivity strategy and the long-term product vision, incorporating the beginnings of generative AI. Solutions improved worker safety, reduced carbon emissions, drove net-zero sustainability goals, reduced energy consumption, and provided proactive predictive maintenance of equipment to customers.
• Strategized augmenting Generative AI with traditional AI to improve productivity, prediction efficiency, and to help create customer success technician tools.
• Part of the executive leadership at JCI

Jan 2016 – Jan 2022 · 6 yrs · Sunnyvale, California, United States · On-site

• Co-founded the company and built team and developed product and go-to-market (GTM) strategy from scratch and had a successful exit.
• Led the Technology / Product strategy and vision, Engineering, Data Science and product development and delivery.
• Fostered strategic customer, partner, and investor relationships as well as driving overall company growth to double digit $Ms of revenue. Successfully adapted to changing market needs based on customer feedback.
• Recognized as an organization, as a Leader in Edge AI space, winning several awards from the industry and analyst community: 2017 Gartner cool vendor, World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneer award in 2020, several leadership awards from Frost and Sullivan, CRN, ZDNet, and IoT Evolution to name a few.
• Helped customers to reduce scrap, increase production, detect issues early, and reduce energy consumption with FogHorn AI solutions.
• Steered global expansion; created a fully owned subsidiary in India and built a strong growth mindset engineering team and culture. The company was acquired by Johnson Controls in December 2021.

Jun 2012 – Jan 2016 · 3 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

• Directed technology architecture and strategy. Spearheaded Big Data Platform initiative and a data-driven decision culture.
• Propelled the re-platforming effort, enabling business agility, innovation, and operational excellence.
• Created the Big Data Strategy platform and led the migration to "data democratization" within the company.
• Led a team of architects and engineers, collaborating with product management, engineering, and business leaders; successfully delivered an agile, micro services oriented and API-driven platform that fueled business growth by 100% over four years

Aug 2006 – Jun 2012 · 5 yrs 10 mos · San Jose, California, United States · On-site

• Owned enterprise-wide end to end Middleware infrastructure strategy and architecture for the eCommerce platform, a new service oriented and API driven platform, fueling agility and growth of the eBay eCommerce platform, including SOA platform, infrastructure services, and messaging platform.
• Drove the design for scalability, performance, and future adaptability.
• Spearheaded the Open Source initiative and launched the first ever open source site at eBay, http://ebayopensource.org and led the open sourcing of the SOA platform, code named Turmeric.
• Set the technology platform architecture strategy and vision and constantly looked out for new innovative technologies to solve the ever-changing difficult business problems.

Dec 2005 – Aug 2006 · 8 mos · Fremont, California, United States · On-site

• Launched start-up and worked out a complete business plan, navigating from concept to prototypes, closely engaging potential customers and partners.
• Leveraged and entrepreneurial spirit and passion about grid/cloud computing to solve the problem of application-level SLA management for hosted applications in data centers via elastic computing.
• Pioneered the idea for corporations to trust hosting data and applications outside of enterprise premises.
• Generated customer interest in “grid computing” before the term "cloud computing" came into being.

Aug 2004 – Dec 2005 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Joined as a founding member and Architect at SpikeSource, a Kleiner Perkins funded/backed company.
• Championed the use of Open Source stacks and led the systems engineering team, spread across the globe. This eliminated the commercial license fees resulting in significant savings.
• Drove the architecture of the core systems product to create and automate the integration of different Open Source stacks a la cart, and built a mechanism for subscribing to automated updates to the constituent components. This resulted in flexibility for customers to get exactly the needed software and without paying any license fees, but backed by experts for support.

Feb 1996 – Jul 2004 · 8 yrs 5 mos · Redwood City, California, United States · On-site

• Led and worked on a number of products: RPC layers in the SQLNet, various incarnations of the J2EE Application Server products.
• Was lead developer and architect for the CORBA and EJB containers and represented Oracle at OMG and JCP standardization groups.
• Spearheaded the Grid architecture, including standards at GGF

Nov 1992 – Feb 1996 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• Worked as Consultant at IBM, Kingston, NY - on DCE (Distributed Computing Environment)
• Worked as Consultant at Kmart IT dept, designed the 3-tier architecture for their store commerce platform.

Apr 1990 – Nov 1992 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Worked on Unix OS, OSF OS and "Warm restarts from OS backups" initiatives

Jan 1989 – Mar 1990 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Worked on graphics card adaptors software

May 1988 – Dec 1988 · 7 mos

• Developed a control system for Insat-II satellite