Aug 2025 – Oct 2025 · 2 mos · Bangalore · Hybrid

• Exploring ideas around Cloud and AI startup adventure to help small and medium sized organizations embrace and make the best of public cloud and Generative AI.

Aug 2022 – Jul 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• As Field CTO, strategic Customer Engineering and Solution Architecture leader, advisor, and partner to CXOs, Sr Tech Leaders, and decision makers for the Enterprises (IT Services, Global System Integrators) and Digital Natives. These together form one of the largest segments in APJ/India (multi-million $$ business), with large presence in US and EMEA too. I lead Technology & Product Engineering strategy, Migration & Modernization (M & M), Data & AI/ML solutions across key pathways viz., cloud native, open source, managed DBs, data & analytics, and DevOps to help our customers maximize ROI from cloud investments. I am a specialist in M & M, Data & AI, DevOps, and Security; collaborate with partners and internal groups to enable our customers, built a Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy and execution plan to win big with them.
• I have built an agile, high-performing global team that had a multiplier effect to drive the segment to greater heights. My profound advocacy and push for programmatic and outcome-driven initiatives for our customers led to consistent scaling of modernization.
• As a specialist leader, I have been spearheading my team hands-on through key strategic imperatives around Migration & Modernization, Data & Analytics, and Gen AI services like SageMaker, Bedrock, and Amazon Q suite, while focusing on security and responsible AI too, thereby delivering a significant growth for the segment by 2.5x since FY23.
• I helped our customers achieve their speed to market goals at scale and they have been great references to other segments and customers as playbooks, creating a ripple effect.
• I have built an all-specialist team that helped in scaling adoption of AWS cloud-native/managed services including AI/ML 3x in 2 yrs (FY23/24).
• I'm an Exec sponsor & Lead for Engineering excellence, Developer Productivity & Experience for multiple business segments, and Keynote speaker at community engagements at CNBC, CII, NASSCOM, key partner conferences, and AWS events.

Jan 2020 – Jul 2022 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• As a Chapter Area Leader for 120-member strong Platform Engineering, Cloud, and DevOps with oversight for API Mgmt, Security, and IT infra teams, I played a pivotal role in successful completion of a multi-year, transformational "Migrate to Cloud" initiative. I collaborated with Business & Tech leaders and built relevant capabilities and tools for accelerating migration. As the Site Leader for the group, I helped in scaling Cloud Migration & Modernization (M&M) of scores apps & platforms in Fidelity's Enterprise portfolio. I led migration of Application Lifecycle Mgmt/DevOps portfolio and containerized CI/CD apps like Jenkins to improve productivity and experience for the 20k+ strong Developer community across Fidelity leading to significant cost and time savings. I contributed to building a 150+ member strong team across multiple locations including US. I delivered many of our global initiatives from the India GCC, including building a CoE for Cloud, Data & AI, and DevOps.
• I led my team in building relevant target state architectures for various use cases, and shared best practices in the set up and usage of cloud services. I led FinOps from India and collaborated globally that led to significant savings in cloud costs. As part of ECC Leadership team, I sponsored various other programs including Training & Certifications for our group in partnership with AWS and Azure that helped in building advanced cloud and AI skills in-house and reduced dependency on vendors in our migration/modernization initiative. I implemented an automation-first strategy, and built a strong DevOps culture across the org, apart from implementing Cloud Data & Security services based industry standards.
• I collaborated with organizations across the industry and was a key note speaker at many major events including DevOpsCon Singapore, India Cloud Summit, CII Cloud Summit, DevOps World Summit by CloudBees, etc that created a great visibility for Fidelity to attract top talent from the market.

Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• In my role as a General Manager, I established global team of Directors, Program Managers, Principal Architects and Engineers from 30 to 150+ in Platform Engineering, Cloud and DevOps, executing projects for Fortune 500 customers as well as internally for LTIMindtree. Through strategic planning and structured execution of programs, I had set new benchmarks in software development, operational excellence, and project delivery by supporting major IGs(Industry Groups)/BUs.
• I spearheaded establishment of Global Practices for 1/ Platform Engineering and 2/ Cloud, AI/ML & DevOps, contributed ~$40M in direct revenue while influenced another $120M+ through large deals and enablement of GTM and Pre-Sales teams. Played a significant role in LTIMindtree achieving its first $1B revenue back in 2019.
• I successfully led innovative, automation platforms like CAPE (for DevOps pipelines), created AI Chatbots, led Data & Analytics platforms, and more. These engineering efforts created a long-term impact and enabled Mindtree's esteemed customers succeed in their Digital transformation initiatives.
• I also played a key role in driving my team's career growth and expertise while contributing to hiring and retaining top talent.
• Maintained P&L appropriately and delivered great ROI throughout both from business and people investments
• Contributed to LTIMindtree to become a premier partner AWS, Azure, and GCP while also strengthening its relations with others.
• Collaborating with x-functional teams and leaders, I have set up CoEs for Cloud and DevOps. Provided leadership to the Enterprise AMS and SRE teams too.
• Implemented product-based operating model through modern software engineering principles including 12-Factor App, Cloud, Microservices, Containers, DevOps, and SRE.
• As a representative of LTIMindtree and a member of NASSCOM GIC, I regularly contributed to the technical community through Keynotes and technical workshops.

Dec 2014 – Dec 2017 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Hands-on leader in a multifaceted role for Intuit's enterprise Finance, Integration, and Compliance Technology platform and Infrastructure. Established a highly talented and engaged technical, geo-diverse CoE (Center of Excellence) for Development + DevOps + Cloud + AI/ML ground up, including Staff engineers and Manager level employees. Responsible for development and high availability of business-critical applications/APIs/services (RESTful) and infrastructure. Established Cloud+DevOps/SRE practice deep into our Intuit-wide platform group. Also owned L2 level Support for my portfolio. Key tracks:
• 1. Pricing, Subscription, Billing, and Revenue Management (Oracle BRM and non-BRM Java systems based on Web Services) including setting up a Unified Billing Platform in AWS through highly x-functional collaboration efforts. Implemented AWS native/managed cloud-native and AI/ML services including SageMaker, Textract, Comprehend, etc.
• 2. Cloud migration programs (AWS, and Oracle): Deploying new apps/services and migration and support for existing apps through various migration strategies (aka 6 Rs)
• 2. Enterprise Systems like Oracle ERP Financials system (eBiz R12) and SaaS- QuickBooks (Quickbooks.com), Payments and Payroll systems
• 3. HR Systems like Workday, BetterWorks, Salesforce CRM(SFDC) platform and Siebel, and other integrated Java/J2EE-based applications
• 3. Inventory, Payment, and Tax systems built primarily on Java/J2EE platform and COTS+SaaS products too
• 4. Product Integration systems like Oracle SOA, AIA/OFM, Mule, Tibco based systems
• 5. Regulatory and Compliance systems associated with SoX, PCI, PII, etc
• 6. EIAM/IDM (Identity and Access Management) systems/tools like OIM, LDAP, OSSO, OAM, etc
• 7. Infrastructure ownership for all these tracks
• 8. Set up of greenfield projects and migration of brownfield workloads to AWS by following a lean Agile process and cloud best practices. Successfully contributed to large scale migration of workloads from on-premises to AWS

Mar 2012 – Nov 2014 · 2 yrs 8 mos · On-site

• Manager for a 20+ member strong Cisco Global IT integrated team for Applications Development and Operations. Brought a rigor to the central team.
• Migration of multiple Dev/Test workloads to public cloud including CI/CD and PoCs for Prod
• Established an Offshore-centric Global Center of Excellence for development, enhancements (Quickwins), and Operations for some of the critical tracks within Finance and Sales IT in FY14 that resulted in cost savings of $1M/yr and significantly reduced major incidents by 24% in FY15 against a target of 15%
• Designed and project managed delivery of innovative tools for Testing, Incident & Problem management using Java/J2EE and Oracle technologies
• Search solution for Cisco TAC by using GSA (Google Search Appliance)
• Communication platform for IT Support team and Ops Command Center for executive communications on major incidents
• Enhancements to scores of existing Finance and Sales IT applications
• Achieved 20% Y/Y reduction in Operations cost in FY 2013 and FY 2014
• Standardized Service delivery model through adoption of ITIL best practices for Incident & Problem Mgmt, Change, Release, and Change management
• Member of IT Speakers’ Bureau and Executive Briefing Center for customer presentations
• Quarterly Business Reviews with Business and IT leaders

Apr 2011 – Jun 2012 · 1 yr 2 mos · On-site

• Delivered several enterprise level applications involving Java/J2EE, Oracle, Informatica, Teradata, SFDC, BI, Hudson/Jenkins, Apache, WebSphere etc
• Project-managed end-to-end service delivery for multiple portfolios within time and budget
• Led the delivery of numerous medium to large scale projects ($1M - $5M) across verticals from initiation through implementation and production support
• Reduced "Run the Business" costs by $3.6M and 60,000 man hours by simplifying claims and commissions process
• Successful delivery of many customer service applications for Cisco TAC (Technical Assistance Center)
• Progressively enhanced enterprise level Quoting & Ordering, Channels, Reporting, and Deal Management tools
• Member of PMO and initiated PM best practices and quality methodologies like DMAIC
• First to become PMP certified in Globalization IT team, set the stage rolling for fellow PMs
• Founder member of PMP forum, conducted regular training sessions for PMP aspirants

Feb 2006 – Feb 2009 · 3 yrs · San Jose, California, US & Bangalore, India

• Extensive experience in implementing enterprise applications using Java/J2EE and Oracle. Hands-on with WebSphere, Business Objects (BO XI), JSP, Servlets, HTML, CSS, XML, AJAX, TonicSystems APIs, SFDC etc.
• Good exposure to Spring MVC, Hibernate, and SOA. Implemented scores of services RESTful and SOAP based.
• Timely delivery of Go-To-Market solutions in Quoting, Config, Deal Management, and Ordering space
• Simplified processing tools for Cisco promotions, deals/discounts, trade-ins, etc.
• Designed and developed Next-Gen version of Channels apps/partner and distributor centric applications with seamless transition to Operations
• Enhanced scores of applications in Reporting space including the high visibility MBR(My Business Reports) used by Cisco senior executives.
• Delivered Salesforce.com integrated applications in the CRM space like Data generator, Deal Manager, Services search and ordering.
• Gave a complete facelift to claiming and commissioning tools in the complex Goal-to-Commission area
• SME (Subject Matter Expert) in Quoting & Ordering, Go-To-Market, NPI (New Product Introduction), Goal-to-Commission, Channels, and Reporting areas

Mar 2000 – Dec 2005 · 5 yrs 9 mos · Bangalore · On-site

• Developed HR/Payroll applications based in Java and Oracle related technologies
• Technical Lead for about 1 year during which I have built a confident and performing team out of a group of college interns
• Created new tools for proper tracking of work sheets, performance, and training related data
• Delivered reporting tools based on Business Reports platform
• Was part of PMO team for coordinating with PMs on progress of ongoing projects, status reporting, mitigating any risks etc.
• Improved on communications and leadership during the overall tenure of 3 yrs