Pawan Choudhary — CTO

Pawan Choudhary is the Chief Technology Officer at Zinnia, India where he leads hi-performing teams dedicated to revolutionize the insurance industry. His team is developing leading-edge, scalable technology solutions empowering insurance carriers, advisors, and consumers. Through innovative digital ledger technology and advanced AI capabilities, he enables clients in the life and annuity sector to achieve faster growth and efficiency. He is committed to fostering a culture of integrity, accountability, and continuous improvement, pushing the team to deliver next-generation InsurTech capabilities that set new standards in the industry. With over 20 years of experience in building large-scale distributed systems, Pawan brings a wealth of knowledge across various regions and technologies. Prior to joining Zinnia, he worked at LinkedIn as a site head for content moderation, leading high-performing engineering teams that built solutions for billions of members. As one of the early leaders at Twilio India, he played a pivotal role in shaping the India Innovation Center. Before that, Pawan served as CTO for Regulatory Compliance at IHS Markit (now S&P Global), where he spent over a decade. Throughout his career, he has successfully built and managed engineering teams, mentored talented engineers, and collaborated with industry leaders. His passion lies in leveraging technology to transform complex processes into seamless, user-centric experiences, making them accessible, efficient, and transparent for everyone involved

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and InsurTech technology leader with expertise in AI/ML and distributed systems.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 21 yrs 1 mo

Skills

Ai/ml Leader
P&l Management
Leadership
Machine Learning
Saas Development
Microservices

Career Highlights

Over 20 years of experience in technology leadership.
Expert in building scalable distributed systems.
Pioneered innovative solutions in the InsurTech sector.

Work Experience

Zinnia

Chief Technology Officer (CTO), India (2 yrs 3 mos)

Site head, Content Moderation, Trust Engineering (2 yrs 2 mos)

Twilio

Engineering (1 yr 5 mos)

IHS Markit

Diversity & Inclusion Lead (1 yr 2 mos)

CTO- Regulatory Compliance (1 yr 8 mos)

Director (7 yrs)

Grandview II at Riverwalk

Board of Trustees - Treasurer (11 mos)

Barclays Capital (Formerly Lehman Brothers)

Senior Software Engineer (3 yrs 5 mos)

Siemens Corporate Research

Associate Member of Technical Staff (1 yr 6 mos)

Education

MS at Duke University

Bachelor of Technology(BTech) at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

High School at Delhi Public School - R. K. Puram

Pawan Choudhary

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India21 yrs 1 mo experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Over 20 years of experience in technology leadership.
Expert in building scalable distributed systems.
Pioneered innovative solutions in the InsurTech sector.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and InsurTech technology leader with expertise in AI/ML and distributed systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ai/ml LeaderP&l ManagementLeadershipMachine LearningSaas DevelopmentMicroservices

Other Skills

Distributed SystemsManagementStrategySite ManagementCross-cultural TeamsTechnical DesignComputer EngineeringLarge Scale SystemsProduct ManagementExecutive ManagementTechnology ManagementEngineering ManagementOrganizational CapabilityBudgetingCloud (AWS)

About

Experience

21 yrs 1 mo

Total Experience

2 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Zinnia

Chief Technology Officer (CTO), India

Feb 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · On-site

India AI & Engineering site head
Technology P&L management (100mil+ tech budget)
Global technology leader influencing 1000+ technologists

AI/ML LeaderDistributed SystemsManagementP&L ManagementStrategySite Management

Site head, Content Moderation, Trust Engineering

Dec 2021 – Feb 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · On-site

Building best in-class team of SWEs, EMs & TSEs to provide defenses for all type of contents (~25 mil +/day) generated at Linkedin.com. Responsible for platforms which provides foundational lego blocks to run 50+ ML classifiers and other high QPS backend systems. Shaping direction and strategy for Linkedin content moderation using machines & human. Having fun building & supporting LI Generative AI foundational stack using (GPT, Langchain, Embedding based retrieval, Natural Language to anything(NALA))

Cross-cultural TeamsTechnical DesignLeadershipManagementSaaS DevelopmentStrategy+10

Twilio

Engineering

Jul 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

Building a high performance engineering and science team for Consumer trust and safety. In past one year have hired 40+ individuals for my team(EM, SWE, Data engineers, MLE, Data scientists, Data analysts). Focused on creating multiple engineering pods(6 so far) to build cutting edge products our of Bangalore.
We are building 'several first' solutions in space of KYC, trusted communication, data science models for reducing spam, Phish, abuse, political interference and fraud. Collaborating with some leading minds and vendors in this space.

Cross-cultural TeamsTechnical DesignLeadershipManagementSaaS DevelopmentStrategy+2

Ihs markit

4 roles

Diversity & Inclusion Lead

Feb 2019 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos

CTO- Regulatory Compliance

Promoted

Sep 2018 – May 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos

Relocated from New York to Gurgaon office to lead Reg compliance technology globally. Passionate about low level and high level design of distributed systems. Build highly scalable systems in cloud(AWS) and resilient miscroservices. Hired motivated engineers in application delivery teams (Architecture, Technology & Support) for Regulatory compliance division. Managed 75+ IT Staff globally across 5 locations(NY, London, Kiev, Noida and Gurgaon).
Built:
Markit Counterparty Manager (http://www.markit.com/Product/Counterparty-Manager)
KYC-Know Your client (www.kyc.com)
Know Your 3rd party(http://www.markit.com/product/ky3p)

Cross-cultural TeamsTechnical DesignLeadershipManagementSaaS DevelopmentBudgeting+5

CTO- Regulatory Compliance

Jan 2017 – Sep 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos

Heading application delivery teams (Architecture, Development & Support) for Operational Risk and Regulatory compliance division. Managing 75+ IT Staff globally across 5 locations.

Leadership

Director

Dec 2009 – Dec 2016 · 7 yrs

Senior Development Manager at Markit.
Global head of Indices development team. Running Fixed income, credit, structured and strategy indices for the firm.
Global head of Markit Economics (PMI) development.
2013-2015
Development manager for Markit Corporate Actions, Markit Counterparty Manager, Know your Third Party
2009-2013
Development manager for Reference Data and several credit & pricing products

Grandview ii at riverwalk

Board of Trustees - Treasurer

Jan 2018 – Dec 2018 · 11 mos · West New York, New Jersey

General powers related to financial management and oversight of Grandview II. Overseeing the management of the financial affairs of the organization, including advising on investment and managing cash flow and optimizing overall cost for running the building.

Barclays capital (formerly lehman brothers)

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2006 – Dec 2009 · 3 yrs 5 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

Worked in Fixed income research in Portfolio and Index Analysis Tool (Point) with Lehman Brothers till its bankruptcy and then became part of Barclays capital NY.