Ashutosh Kumar — Product Manager
Ash is a seasoned data-driven AI Product Strategy Leader with deep expertise in Modern Cloud, Data, and AI product and architecture, driving large-scale digital transformation across industries. With a career rooted in solving complex business challenges through technology and governance, he blends strategic vision with hands-on execution to deliver measurable business value. Over the last few years, Ash has been working closely with the leadership at the Deloitte AI Institute, including the CAIO, CTO, and Partners—positioning himself as a go-to expert in Generative and Agentic AI product strategy and delivery in alignment with AI Governance at its core. Ensuring AI governance by design, Ash has managed to successfully architected and delivered end-to-end Generative AI (Smart Conversational AI) and Data platform modernisation (Data Mesh) programs for business consumption-led products rolled out across geographies by leveraging AI design strategies, scalable data product strategy, Modern AI platforms, and next-gen architectures. His work spans Deloitte’s proprietary AI Core platform, Conversational AI product, Databricks Generative AI, Azure AI, Fast API, Dockerisation, LangChain, Llama Index, and LangGraph—bringing together structured and unstructured data to power enterprise-grade generative AI workflows solutions. He is also authoring the Gen-AI Playbook as an IP to strengthen internal capability and to help drive client innovation at scale. Functional Expertise - Business Optimization, Platform Modernization, Architecture Design, Product Engineering, Build, Release Management, Program, Bid Resource Management, Operational Enablement, Delivery Excellence Technical Expertise - Generative & Agentic AI: DialogFlow CX, Vertex conversation AI , Deloitte AI Core, RAG Systems, Embedding Models, Context Engineering, Foundation Models, Prompt Engineering, In-Context Learning, Vector Databases, Tool Use, MCP, Databricks, Azure AI, Vertex AI, AWS Sagemaker, LangChain, Llama Index, Neo4j Data Engineering & Architecture: Databricks, Lakehouse, Snowflake, Data Mesh, DataOps, Real-time Analytics, Workflow Orchestration, BI/MI & reporting, MongoDB, Oracle DB Cloud Platforms & DevOps Technologies: AWS, GCP, AZURE, Kafka, Airflow, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Fast APIs, Microservices Architecture Ash’s leadership philosophy is rooted in innovation, collaboration, and client-centric delivery, empowering organizations to evolve from data-rich to AI-powered and governed enterprises.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert specializing in AI-driven product strategy and architecture.
Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Experience: 17 yrs 5 mos
Skills
- Ai And Data Product Design
- Cloud, Data And Ai Architecture Strategy
- Generative Ai
- Ai Governance
- Data Platform Modernization
Career Highlights
- Expert in Generative and Agentic AI product strategy.
- Led large-scale AI transformations at Deloitte.
- Authored Gen-AI Playbook for client innovation.
Work Experience
Deloitte
Sr. Manager - AI & Data Product (3 yrs 10 mos)
HSBC
Senior Assistant Vice President - Product Lead Data Science (1 yr 3 mos)
Assistant Vice President - Cloud & Data Engineering (3 yrs 1 mo)
Wipro Limited
Technical Lead - Cloud & DevOps (1 yr 7 mos)
IBM
Technical Service Specialist - Data Engineering (2 yrs 4 mos)
Tata Consultancy Services
IT Analyst (11 mos)
Volvo Group
Engineer (2 yrs 4 mos)
Gemini Communication Ltd
Presales Storage Engineer (10 mos)
MN World Enterprise Private Limited
IT Account Manager -Server/Storage (1 yr 3 mos)
Education
Executive Programme at University of Oxford
Master of Business Administration - MBA at SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Bangalore
BE at Visvesvaraya Technological University