Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo · Hybrid

• Master Spellers is a Spelling-Bee competition and a e-learning platform for language and communication. I am helping scale and modernize their current online platform.

Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo · Hybrid

• Coyolia is a social enterprise dedicated to empowering college and university graduates in securing meaningful employment opportunities. We create courses and run Incubation Centers to align Industry requirements to the skills needed.
• I help Coyolia with strategy and course content design (AI/ML and Cloud Technologies).

Mar 2025 – Jul 2025 · 4 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · Remote

• As the Head of Product at BondingAI, I am responsible for defining and executing the product vision, ensuring alignment between business objectives and technology. I work closely with core product engineers, application engineers, and infrastructure teams to develop a scalable, high-performance, and user-centric product.

Jun 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

• I work with the KAMPL leadership and the tech team to build business automation solutions like systems for Service Management, Product Release Mamagement, Product Installation and building the base for a custom CRM.

May 2024 – Present · 2 yrs · Pune, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

• I founded MavenShift Technology Consulting with and aim to help small and medium sized businesses and early-stage startups. I augment their leadership teams as a Chief Technology Officer/Chief Architect and help them realize their Digital Transformation mission or build a Product. I help with the following:
• 1. Build technology strategy
• 2. Architect solutions (Bottoms-up, Top-down or Middle-out depending on the situation)
• 3. Hire/Build/Train a team. It can be existing employees willing to make a lateral move or hire fresh talent.
• 4. Hand-hold the technology team to build the solution/product.
• http://www.mavenshift.com

Aug 2020 – Apr 2024 · 3 yrs 8 mos

• Working with multiple teams from Large Global Customers spread across the world to help them digitally transform their entities to ensure agility at individual group level and simultaneously build a common platform for enterprise-wide innovation and avoid silos.
• I work with IT Teams and hand-hold them to build/migrate to next-gen technologies and work with Leadership teams to align to an Enterprise-wide strategy.
• I am a member of the Data Mesh SMEs in West Europe. I also mentor and onboard Junior Architects.

Jul 2019 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Work with top customers and Microsoft Product teams to build Market-Making AI Solutions
• Accelerate large AI projects by implementing efficient CI/CD pipelines
• Building AI-Driven products and mainstreaming AI into the organization

Jul 2018 – Jul 2019 · 1 yr

• Drive long-term adoption through specialized Data & AI workloads
• Cultivate long-term relationship focused on understanding customer needs and business priorities
• Mentor deep technical expertise through directional learning guidance and formulating career paths
• Ensure right resource orchestration beyond my team to ensure right level of support for customers

Dec 2010 – Jul 2018 · 7 yrs 7 mos

• 1. Managing Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) as a business entity with a small team of highly experienced Architects. Conducting Strategy Briefings, Architecture Design Sessions and Proof of Concepts for customers and helping them be successful on the Microsoft Cloud.
• 2. Application Design, Architecture, Brainstorming with customers on innovative solutions to business challenges.
• 3. Conducting Performance Labs for improving system performance. Helping customers understand Performance monitoring process, helping them recognize bottlenecks and unplug them to help them achieve the performance requirements.
• 3. Helping customers move on-premise systems to the cloud with minimal impact on business
• 4. Being a trusted technology advisor to our customers and partners

Jan 2006 – Dec 2010 · 4 yrs 11 mos

• As member of the MTC team, conduct Strategy Briefings, Architecture Design Sessions (ADS) and Proof of Concepts for Customers. Build innovative architecture solutions and mitigate any risks for customers so that can confidently invest and build on the Microsoft Platform. Become a trusted advisor to our customers.

Sep 2004 – Dec 2005 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Developed and maintained several systems to support Netflix's massive Internet-scale backend operations like a home-grown CRM system, A complex Receiving and Stocking system, Embedded systems for the Postal Sorters. Re-wrote some old systems with newer Architecture and UX to bring more efficiency.

Jul 1999 – Sep 2004 · 5 yrs 2 mos

• Led a team of 5 Developers in the development of the Knowmadic Studio, Client-Side development module for the Knowmadic Platform. Developed several innovative tools like an external Script debugger and Sockets based technique of invoking Java UIs from a .Net application
• (PATENT (USPTO#: 20100275210): “Execution engine for business processes”) and an XML Mapping tool.

May 1997 – Jul 1999 · 2 yrs 2 mos · New Jersey, USA

• Comosoft was a consulting company based out of New Jersey, US. As a consultant I worked with Prudential Financial on their 401K management system. Developed a Data Transfer system for companies to directly send data over an Internet connection. This replaced the previous method where customers were sending DVDs to Prudential. I also lead teams of consultants on various Mainframe integration projects.

Sep 1993 – Apr 1995 · 1 yr 7 mos · Pune Area, India

• Cruxtech made purpose-built software to solve industry challenges. As a developer I worked on a building a Project Management software for large Elevator Manufacturer and worked as a part of a team to build PC based command and control software for wire-cut EDM machines.

Apr 1993 – Apr 1997 · 4 yrs · Pune Area, India

• Unnit solutions was an offshore development a Swiss Development house focused on Medical Information and monitoring systems. I worked on multiple projects including Water Quality monitoring system for Hospitals and was part of the team for other projects like Anesthesia monitoring system.

Aug 1992 – Jun 1993 · 10 mos · Pune Area, India

• Electronica Machine Tools was a precision machine tooling company. As a Research Engineer I worked on coding embedded programs for automatic and semi-automatic machines in respective Assembly Language based on the microprocessor the system uses.