Mar 2024 – Feb 2026 · 1 yr 11 mos · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · On-site

• ○ Enterprise Narrative: Spearheading the foundational digital architecture for Saudi Arabia’s inaugural EV brand, a cornerstone giga project of Vision 2030. Tasked with leading a cross-functional organization to deliver a clean-sheet Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) ecosystem, integrating highly complex, multi-vendor technologies—including Rimac drive systems and BMW foundational architectures—into a unified, scalable digital platform.
• ○ Architectural Genesis: Architected and successfully deployed a greenfield Service Oriented Vehicle Diagnostics (SOVD) framework across BEV and REEV platforms. Engineered the seamless integration of 5 High-Performance Computers (HPCs) and 68 Electronic Control Units (ECUs) over an advanced Ethernet backbone, fundamentally enabling centralized system visibility and drastically reducing cross-ECU fault isolation times. Innovation in HPC MPU Diagnostics and Android Diagnostics to align legacy automotive fault diagnostics practices.
• ○ Enterprise Governance & DevSecOps: Established rigorous software release governance and automated CI/CD pipelines. This strategic implementation drastically shortened integration-to-release cycles for AUTOSAR Adaptive Base Software and flash bootloaders, ensuring agile iteration cadences across FZCU, RZCU, IVI, and ADAS domains.
• ○ Cybersecurity & OTA Leadership: Directed the implementation of uncompromising vehicle-level cybersecurity frameworks, including Secure Diagnostics, SecOC, MACSec, JWT-based token authentication, IDPS, IDSM. This infrastructure guarantees impenetrable Over-The-Air (OTA) diagnostics and secure flashing strategies across the entire CEER vehicle lifecycle.
• ○ Vision 2030 Capability Building: Actively championing the national Saudization mandate by directly mentoring Saudi graduate engineers. Established local technical competency in SDV architecture and institutionalized knowledge transfer protocols, ensuring the long-term sustainability of the Kingdom's domestic automotive workforce.

Jun 2017 – Mar 2024 · 6 yrs 9 mos · Pune District · On-site

• ○ Enterprise Narrative: Functioned as the executive technical leader and P&L owner for FEV’s Smart Mobility and Powertrain centres. Scaled the organization from a localized engineering team into a multi-vertical, globally integrated delivery powerhouse, servicing tier-one clients including VinFast, Tata Motors, Mahindra, and ZF Autonomous Vehicles.
• ○ Commercial Scaling & P&L Leadership: Built and scaled five strategic automotive engineering verticals from the ground up, establishing full P&L accountability and operational governance. Driven by aggressive market expansion, delivered over €147M in cumulative global revenue between 2017 and 2023.
• ○ Global Organizational Leadership: Directed a multi-disciplinary organization of over 110 engineers. Standardized SDV, EV, and legacy powertrain workflows, vastly improving cross-program integration efficiency and first-pass acceptance rates for production readiness.
• ○ Crisis Management & Regulatory Authority (Diesel gate): Served as the definitive technical authority during the European Diesel gate crisis containment. Orchestrated a rapid software gap analysis and remediation strategy across 82 distinct engine variants for VW, Audi, Skoda, BMW, and Mercedes platforms, accelerating regulatory recertification timelines across EU and North American frameworks.
• ○ Technological Innovation: Engineered a proprietary desktop software and calibration transfer framework that compressed ECU hardware generation transition times down to an unprecedented four months, minimizing costly downtime and preserving critical OEM production continuity.
• ○ Innovational Product Global Patent: Designed, Developed & produced FEV HEV Battery Discharger to enable OEMs / Test Agencies to discharge High Voltage Battery of BEV/REEV vehicle through the Charge port without need of Vehicle mileage accumulation or parts removal. product support V2V,V2G,V2L,V2WH,V2PTU energy/Charge Transfers use cases.

Aug 2015 – May 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos · Pune Area, India · On-site

• ○ Enterprise Narrative: Directed global engineering strategies for Generation III and Generation IV SCR Urea Dosing Systems across light and heavy-duty commercial applications, driving multi-market regulatory compliance and modular software standardization for Continental AG.
• ○ Platform Consolidation: Engineered a modular software architecture that successfully consolidated 39 distinct software variants into a singular, highly scalable platform. This architectural streamlining significantly reduced global deployment complexity and operational overhead.
• ○ Standardization Compliance: Ensured stringent adherence to SAE J1939, ISO 15031, and IS 27145 protocols, leading bench-level validation methodologies and representing Continental AG in global ECMR, ARAI, and SAE standardization forums.
• ○ Standardized Diesel After-treatment Function & OBD Software and calibration delivery for Indian, Asian, European OEMs with Supply of Gen-III & Gen-IV SCR Dosing Systems.

Mar 2007 – Aug 2015 · 8 yrs 5 mos · ERC PUNE CVBU · On-site

• ○ Enterprise Narrative: Governed the end-to-end PLM-controlled diagnostics lifecycle for India's largest automotive manufacturer, ensuring regulatory compliance and intelligent system deployment across the entire passenger and commercial vehicle portfolio.
• ○ Scale of Delivery: Directed diagnostics development and regulatory homologation across a massive portfolio of 278 SOP programs in all Vehicle Platform Programs from TATA Nano to 48 Tonner Trucks & Buses.
• ○ Intelligent Systems Architecture: Architected enterprise-wide Diagnostic Expert Hybrid Systems (DEHS) and Guided Diagnostics (GD) frameworks. This strategic initiative shifted the organization toward highly intelligent, symptom-based ecosystem management, drastically reducing warranty claim resolution times.
• ○ TATA Platform OBD Compliance: Design and Development of OBD-1, OBD-II compliance strategy for all TATA Motors Product rages including JLR Indian OBD Compliances for BS-IV and BS-VI norms
• ○ Industry Representation: Served as the definitive OBD-II Implementation Expert, representing Tata Motors in ARAI and European Union legislative forums to shape emerging compliance strategies.

Aug 2005 – Mar 2007 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bhubaneshwar Area, India · On-site

• ○ Authored symptom-driven diagnostics content using SPA, GRADEX and Odyssey tools to deliver Symptom Driven guided diagnostic solutions used by Ford, Jaguar, Land Rover and Aston Martin Vehicle Platform.
• ○ Authored symptom-driven diagnostics content and guided diagnostic logic for 98 Model Year platforms/programs for all vehicle sub-systems across Ford Family vehicle Models.

May 2000 – Dec 2004 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Greater Chennai Area · On-site

• ○ Authored symptom-driven diagnostics content using SPA, GRADEX and Odyssey tools to deliver Symptom Driven guided diagnostic solutions used by Ford, Jaguar, Land Rover and Aston Martin Vehicle Platform.
• ○ Authored symptom-driven diagnostics content and guided diagnostic logic for 98 MY programs across Ford Family vehicle Models.
• ○ Represented Ford NA and Ford EU in SAE J1979 and J2012 standards development and built Ethernet backbone–based SOVD architecture with AUTOSAR Adaptive and ECU diagnostics integration to advance OBD-II and EV diagnostics.
• ○ Built guided diagnostics workflows and integrated prognostics data flows into SOVD architecture to support predictive diagnostics.
• ○ Earned "FORD Master Technician - Badge" within a short span of joining the job.