Ravi Pandikunta — VP of Engineering

With over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, I specialize in AI, Generative AI, Data Analytics, Automation, and Digital Transformation, driving large-scale global delivery and cutting-edge innovations for enterprises worldwide. As Vice President & Global Delivery Head at Tech Mahindra, I lead a $XXXM+ portfolio, ensuring AI-driven solutions, advanced analytics, business insights, cloud transformation, and intelligent automation that drive efficiency, scalability, and business impact across industries. I take pride in delivering XX% YoY growth in delivery and competency capabilities, optimizing costs, and orchestrating digital strategies to accelerate enterprise transformation. By fostering high-impact partnerships with technology providers, craft and execute data-driven strategies for AI, cloud, automation, and analytics-led transformation. My passion lies in leveraging AI, data, and automation to build future-ready enterprises that embrace agility, innovation, and operational excellence. Eager to collaborate with like-minded professionals and organizations to shape the future of AI-led transformation. Expertise & Leadership: ✅ Global P&L & Business Growth – Managing large-scale operations with XX%+ margins and a focus on profitability & efficiency. ✅ Digital Strategy & Enterprise Architecture – Designing scalable, future-ready AI & cloud solutions to accelerate enterprise digital transformation. ✅ AI & Generative AI Innovation – Driving next-gen AI automation, predictive analytics, and intelligent decision-making frameworks. ✅ Industry Thought Leadership – A recognized speaker, mentor, and advisor in AI, Data Analytics, Automation & Digital Transformation, with 350+ industry talks, workshops, and presentations delivered globally. ✅ High-Performance Team Building – Leading XXXX+ professionals, fostering collaboration, innovation, and technical excellence across AI & data domains. ✅ Extensive Industry Experience – Expertise across Banking & Financial Services, Insurance, Manufacturing, Retail & CPG, Travel, Logistics, Hospitality, Oil & Gas, Utilities, and Public Services. ✅ Global Capability Expansion – Proven track record in establishing and scaling Global Capability Centers (GCCs) for sustained enterprise growth. Committed to driving AI-led enterprise transformation, shaping future-ready digital ecosystems, and mentoring the next generation of AI leaders. #AI #GenerativeAI #DataAnalytics #Automation #GlobalDelivery #DigitalTransformation #Leadership #TechMahindra #Innovation #BusinessGrowth #CloudTransformation #GCC #P&L #BusinessInsights

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in AI-driven enterprise transformation and digital solutions across multiple industries.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 28 yrs 11 mos

Skills

Ai & Generative Ai Innovation
Global P&l & Business Growth
Digital Strategy & Enterprise Architecture
Enterprise Architecture
Business Transformation
Program Management
Enterprise Content Management
Business Process Management
Digital Strategy
Project Management
Enterprise Software
Application Architecture
Team Leadership
Software Development
Database Management

Career Highlights

Over 25 years of IT industry experience.
Expert in AI, Data Analytics, and Digital Transformation.
Proven track record of driving significant revenue growth.

Work Experience

Tech Mahindra

Delivery Head and Enterprise Architect - Digital (2 yrs 10 mos)

Enterprise Technical Architect (5 yrs)

Sr. Technical Architect (3 yrs 4 mos)

Ness Technologies

Sr. Program Manager - Enterprise Architecture (1 yr 8 mos)

Hewlett-Packard

Program Head (1 yr 8 mos)

S&P Capital IQ

Project Manager (8 mos)

Franklin Templeton Investments

Technical Architect (2 yrs 2 mos)

HCL Technologies

Team Lead (1 yr 11 mos)

Pace-Swing Technologies

Programmer Analyst (3 yrs 4 mos)

Education

Postgraduate Degree at Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

Ravi Pandikunta

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India28 yrs 11 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 25 years of IT industry experience.
Expert in AI, Data Analytics, and Digital Transformation.
Proven track record of driving significant revenue growth.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in AI-driven enterprise transformation and digital solutions across multiple industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ai & Generative Ai InnovationGlobal P&l & Business GrowthDigital Strategy & Enterprise ArchitectureEnterprise ArchitectureBusiness TransformationProgram ManagementEnterprise Content ManagementBusiness Process ManagementDigital StrategyProject ManagementEnterprise SoftwareApplication ArchitectureTeam LeadershipSoftware DevelopmentDatabase Management

Other Skills

Machine LearningGenerative AIManagement ConsultingCompetency ManagementBig Data AnalyticsGlobal DeliveryData AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Applied Machine LearningAWS DataGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Microsoft Azure Machine LearningMicrosoftLarge Language Models (LLM)Large Language Model Operations (LLMOps)

About

Experience

28 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

17 yrs 6 mos

Current Experience

Tech mahindra

4 roles

VP, Delivery Head & Enterprise Architect | AI | Data Analytics | Automation | Mentor | Generative AI

Promoted

Feb 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 4 mos

Working as Global Delivery Head, driving over $XXX million in revenue in Data Analytics, AI & Automation, Agentic AI with end-to-end accountability for P&L management, margin enhancement, revenue growth initiatives, cost savings, development of delivery teams, accelerators, and innovation. Experience in the data and analytics space focusing on building capabilities that meet the needs and complexities of large-scale data platforms at enterprises.
Responsibilities encompass various facets, including Global Delivery, Business Expansion, Solutions Development, Consultation, Pre-Sales Activities, Horizontal Service Delivery, Competency Enhancement, Technical Leadership, Client Relationship Management, and the Creation of distinctive accelerators within the realms of AI, Automation, and Data & Analytics.
Overseeing Global Delivery and Enterprise Architecture
Orchestrating Go-to-Market Strategies & Initiatives with Partners
Spearheading AI Solution Design and Implementation
Driving Data Management & Modernization on Cloud Platforms
Crafting Horizontal and Vertical Solutions on Data & AI
Providing Expertise in Data Strategy and Consultation
Formulating Business Proposals and Strategic Plans
Identifying and Nurturing Technology Partnerships
Cultivating High-Performance Teams
Efficiently Managing Programs and Projects
Competency development and talented team building
Recognized industry speaker on AI, Automation, Digital, Data Analytics, and Digital Transformation topics, contributing insights and thought leadership in various external and internal forums.
Focused on leading the effort in bringing the right people, creation of accelerators, solutions within the realms of AI, Automation, and Data & Analytics

Machine LearningGenerative AIManagement ConsultingCompetency ManagementBig Data AnalyticsGlobal Delivery+20

Delivery Head and Enterprise Architect - Digital

Promoted

Apr 2017 – Feb 2020 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Ravi believes the philosophy of "Digital is the Future and Future is Now". A dynamic, innovative, outcome oriented leader with demonstrated success in increasing revenues, improving market / wallet share, achieving cost reductions, managing risk and building customer value through unconventional methods.
Proven track record in digital consulting, digital Transformation, digital Solutions, Presales, Digital Architecture, Program Management and Development of large scale distributed systems. Experience of solutioning large deals ( XXX+ m$).
Ravi is focused on Digital, Cloud, Mobility, Big Data, Machine Learning, IoT, Wearables, Web, Cognitive Computing, NLP and Microsoft Technologies. Leading the team focused on solutions and services on Cognitive Computing and NLP (Chatbots, IVA/Digital Agents, Robots, Process Agents).
Experience in Data Science, Big data, Visual Analytics, Predictive analytics, Business Intelligence, Dimension modeling, Artificial Intelligence, Software Development, Rule-based Systems, Algorithms, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing , Machine Vision (Object/Image/Video Recognition), Neural Networks , RPA, Virtual Assistant & Bot Development, (Hadoop), Solution Engineering and SaaS Platform Development, Image recognition, OCR/ICR, Java, Python, R, SQL, SAS
Developed relations with external alliances for non-linear growth, created accelerators, worked with internal delivery teams strengthening, worked on Digital pursuits for strong pipeline
Competency development and delivering advanced solutions in AI, Cloud, IoT, Automation, and Advanced Analytics

Applied Machine LearningAWS DataGoogle BigQueryMicrosoft Azure Machine LearningAzure SynapseAWS Glue+12

Enterprise Technical Architect

Promoted

Apr 2012 – Apr 2017 · 5 yrs

Ravi Pandikunta is a hands-on principal solution architect who managed many enterprise implementations using the IBM FileNet P8 platform and digital transformations. He managed a couple of large migration projects from the legacy platforms to the modern platform. Ravi has many years of hands-on experience on the various versions of Microsoft and is a keen SharePoint enthusiast. Besides, Ravi architected and built a couple of document capture products, and worked with various digitization technologies such as Kofax, Captiva, IBM FileNet Capture, RightFax and IBM DataCap
Provide engineering technical leadership in planning sessions with business partners and Application design teams in requirements gathering and solution design
Design Physical Architecture, Solution Framework, support EDMS Environment
Requirement analysis, interact with customer for requirements analysis and prepare Engineering requirements specification document
Design EDMS Solution to integrate with other systems in Client environment and interface with legacy systems for customer data look up and duplication data elimination
Coordinate onsite and offshore team activities and move the application to production
Lead the EDMS Project team and provide directions to cross-functional teams responsible for resolution of complex technical challenges

Enterprise ArchitectureBusiness AnalysisEnterprise Content ManagementBusiness Process ManagementData ArchitectureIBM BPM+3

Sr. Technical Architect

Nov 2008 – Mar 2012 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Design solutions at enterprise level, global transformation, green/brown field implementations and reuse the components across Projects
Providing engineering technical leadership in planning sessions with business partners and Application Development teams.
Involved in requirement analysis, interacted with customer for requirements analysis and made requirement specification document.
Integrate IBM FileNet OOTB components with LDAP, Single Sign On and other services
Evaluate different approaches for Image migration and performance testing
Coordinated with IBM and setup the environment and move application and settings to DR
Prepared the DR Test plan and coordinated with different team and business user community to perform the DR Drill
Involved in requirement analysis, interacted with vendor as a part of the DR Design and made requirement specification document.
Involved in the architecture, environment setup and pre DR drill test
Mapping out SOA strategies and governance blueprints, defining and assessing enterprise architectures

Business Process ManagementEnterprise ArchitectureProgram ManagementService DeliveryEmployee TrainingIBM FileNet P8+9

Ness technologies

Sr. Program Manager - Enterprise Architecture

Mar 2007 – Nov 2008 · 1 yr 8 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

Evaluation of different Products and Architecting enterprise Solution Framework
Managing multiple projects with large teams and tracking status along with delivery management
Selecting, hiring / sourcing and training the right people and troubleshooting of the issues faced by team members
Mapping out SOA strategies and governance blueprints, defining and assessing enterprise architectures and developing RoI (Return on Investment) scenarios
Identifying, assessing and solving complex business problems for area of responsibility, where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors
Demonstrate Leadership skills and the ability to providing directions to cross-functional teams responsible for resolution of complex technical challenges
Assisting customer in the prioritization of projects, ensuring that projects align with the technology that best provides maximum return on investment.

Program ManagementEnterprise ArchitectureEnterprise Content ManagementAgile MethodologiesAgile & Waterfall MethodologiesService Delivery+9

Hewlett-packard

Program Head

Jul 2005 – Mar 2007 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Prepared Products capabilities document (FileNet, Documentum, Interwoven and IBM) and helped to evaluate ECM product for their business as a part of WWW team.
Strategy Consultation as a Documentum and FileNet Expert to other projects.
Creation and maintenance of the Team site and contributing for knowledge based development.
Participating in Pre-sales activities & offshore support for bidding process
Exploring Different Products and Architecting ECM Solutions Framework
Involved in Technical Architecture & Solution Design at enterprise level
Providing design and technical solution planning for Application Development team
Strong leadership skills, excelling at team building and coaching. History of establishing high-performance teams, improving profitability, reducing operational costs, enhancing customer satisfaction, and promoting startup initiatives and fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence.
Helping clients to solve key business problems and challenges by enabling an architecture & digital transformation, painting a picture of, and charting a journey.
Research and development that will lead to business solutions, improving revenues and increase efficiencies in a variety of functions across domains

Enterprise Content ManagementBusiness Process ManagementEMC DocumentumIBM FileNet P8Java Enterprise EditionProgram Management+5

S&p capital iq

Project Manager

Nov 2004 – Jul 2005 · 8 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

Involved in the Project Charter, Project Initiation, Project Estimation and architecture evaluation of the project
Created solution Architecture that is aligned with business and IT strategy and which are in compliance with the organization's architectural standards.
Providing design and engineering technical leadership in planning sessions with business partners and Application Development teams.
Involved in requirement analysis, interacted with customer for requirements gathering and made requirement specification document.
Involved in Project Plan Preparation and execution of the project
Involved in the Design of the workflow for automatic routing of the documents.
Involved in review of program specifications, requirements, design and test cases
Involved in the Project Charter, Project Initiation, Project Estimation and architecture evaluation of the project
Created solution Architecture that is aligned with business and IT strategy and which are in compliance with the organization's architectural standards.
Providing design and engineering technical leadership in planning sessions with business partners and Application Development teams.
Involved in requirement analysis, interacted with customer for requirements gathering and made requirement specification document.
Involved in Project Plan Preparation and execution of the project
Involved in the Design of the workflow for automatic routing of the documents.
Involved in review of program specifications, requirements, design and test cases

Digital StrategyDatabasesBusiness Process ManagementAgile MethodologiesData AnalysisStatistical Data Analysis+6

Franklin templeton investments

Technical Architect

Sep 2002 – Nov 2004 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

As part of design involved in preparing data flow diagrams (DFD’s), UML diagrams, Documents classification (Taxonomy), Attributes identification for each type of user defined FileNet work objects and detailed design document.
Prepared and Presented the proposed architecture to ARB, APR and other groups for review and approval
Requirements gathering & analysis, interacted with customer and Prepared requirements specification document (SRS)
Involved in designing and development of FileNet Background processes to extract data from AS/400 and transferring of this extracted information to FileNet Document as index values
Trained team of 15 members on FileNet products latest versions at offshore development center
As a Lead in Architect group, analyze the enterprise design needs and benefits and review other application/Systems design and provide necessary inputs

Enterprise SoftwareSoftware DevelopmentApplication ArchitectureDocument ManagementEnterprise Content ManagementDocument Storage+5

Hcl technologies

Team Lead

Oct 2000 – Sep 2002 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Requirements gathering & analysis, interacted with customer and Prepared requirements specification document (SRS)
Responsible for assigning tasks to team members and tracking the progress of the project activities like design, development and testing
Participating in Pre-sales activities & offshore support for bidding process
Involved in review and guidance of program specifications, requirements, design and test cases
Involved in the Design of the workflow for automatic routing of the documents
Prepared ECM Products capabilities document (FileNet, Documentum, Interwoven and IBM) and helped to evaluate ECM product for their business.
Coordinating and communicating the work between offshore and onsite.
Involved in Architecture Design, Preparation of Technical and Functional Specification Documents.

Team LeadershipC (Programming Language)Visual StudioVisual Basic .NET (VB.NET)ASP.NETIBM FileNet P8+6

Pace-swing technologies

Programmer Analyst

Jun 1997 – Oct 2000 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Requirements gathering & analysis, interacted with customer and Prepared requirements specification document (SRS)
Involved in review and guidance of program specifications, requirements, design and test cases
Design of the GUI for user entry
Design and Programming Reports
Involved in the Preparation of DDD , Test Cases and Integration testing
Database Designing using SQL Server 7.0
Involved in coding of the project development using Java, JSP and Oracle

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)Visual BasicJavaSQL Server Management StudioMicrosoft SQL ServerArchitectural Design+3