Sep 2023 – Jun 2024 · 9 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• > Heading innovation across the enterprise with a focus on addressing challenging and tough problems for business and technology.
• > Heading the Generative AI Center of Excellence to drive innovative research. Directing the development of impactful Generative AI applications that utilize retrieval-augmented generation and advanced summarization tasks with Open AI API and Open-source Large Language Models (LLMs)
• > Leading team of researchers and vendors to stand up an Azure cloud-based enterprise platform for Gen AI applications, covering tasks from insurance underwriting contracts to business operations.
• > Establishing the governance framework for implementing Gen AI applications in the enterprise.
• > Leading AI research on video-based analytics and Automated Underwriting to significantly reduce the process time and costs

Sep 2022 – Aug 2023 · 11 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• > Led the design and architecture of enterprise-wide data lake, with real time data ingestion from 20+ data sources catering to BI platform, data analytics, and API based consumption patterns.
• > Led a high-performing team of 40+ data engineers/scientists, overseeing end-to-end data architecture, engineering, and governance.
• > Initiated R&D on Gen AI based systems to establish a roadmap for adoption of this emerging tech.
• > Set up the Innovation Charter aligned with strategic initiatives fostering a culture of creativity and deliver transformative solutions to propel the organization forward

Jun 2021 – Aug 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

• > Research & Development: Directed R&D team in identifying emerging trends and technologies to drive innovation and maintain a competitive edge.
• > Intellectual Property Program: Developed and executed strategies aligned with business objectives, resulting in 100% increase in patent filings (from 4 to 42) over a 3-year time frame.
• > Digital Ops: As Technology Lead, nurtured collaboration across Tech, Ops and Analytics to accelerate innovation. Defined a digital strategy, created Unified Desktop Platform and created the roadmap for implementation cognitive technologies like OCR and Voice.

Jun 2019 – May 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

• In my role as Distinguished Engineer and Sr. Director at UHG, I wear multiple hats. As research lead, my responsibilities take me into the land of the unknown: research and evaluate new and emerging tech and make it work for the healthcare domain. I also lead the Architecture Portfolio for the Automation group specifically focusing on RPA and related technologies in the cognitive automation space. Last but not the least, as part of my Innovation portfolio, I manage the patents program for our India offices.

Mar 2016 – May 2019 · 3 yrs 2 mos

• Heading Research and Development, Architecture & Security for India Office.
• The R&D team has been involved in investigating cutting edge technologies that are shaping the future of the computing space including Virtual Assistants, Machine Learning/Deep Learning, Virtual Reality, Blockchain, RPA to name a few.Leading a high caliber R&D team of extremely talented techies who work on cutting edge/bleeding edge technologies to provide value to the business.
• Promoting & evangelizing an environment and culture of research and innovation across the organization.

Oct 2013 – Feb 2016 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Researching on speeding up stuff!
• + Inverted indexes (Apache Solr, Elasticsearch)
• + Graph data bases (Neo4j)
• + In-memory data stores (Couchbase, Gigaspaces, IBM Websphere eXtreme Scale)
• + Big Data ecosystem - Hadoop, HDFS, Hawq, Hive
• + NoSQL Enterprise DB - Marklogic

Jun 2011 – Sep 2013 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore, India

• Part of the team implementing a complete e-commerce platform from scratch for Walmart. As part of this effort I have been involved in:
• + Lead Architect on CACHEaaS implementation designed around ehCache and Couchbase
• + Architect on an end to end solution for IaaS and PaaS provisioning.
• Researched on setting up a Cloud from scratch. Looked into various solutions including Xen, Nimbula, Open Nebula, Cloudstack, OpenStack.
• Also researched on viability of NoSQL based DBs like Cassandra, MongoDB, Hbase, etc.

Sep 2010 – Jun 2011 · 9 mos

• Played the role of a technical architect for the team working on various technologies in Java/Web 2.0/Spring space.

Apr 2010 – Sep 2010 · 5 mos

• Member of the Enterprise Architecture team where the team was responsible for,
• + Formulating enterprise wide strategy for technology usage across IDS products
• + Respond to customer facing RFPs and RFIs for various IDS products.
• + I lead the effort in institutionalizing a new tech stack using Grails/Groovy/Drools for a Web 2.0 style application.

May 2006 – Apr 2010 · 3 yrs 11 mos

• Part of the Archtiecture team for an enterprise class J2EE application. Among other things,
• + Designed/Architected a Swing based Wizard Framework.
• + Lead the effort on re-write of complete business modules like Quotes & Terminations, Workflow (Verity Liquid BPM).
• + Implemented large scale import/export solutions using Apache Velocity Engine.

Aug 2005 – Apr 2006 · 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Worked as an Architect on an enterprise class web application backed by a J2EE core on Weblogic AS.
• + Designed a proposal for web application security model for the application

Mar 1999 – Jul 2005 · 6 yrs 4 mos · Noida Area, India

• Worked as an engineer and technical R&D resource on myriad technologies including Visual Basic, Java, XML, Oracle Application Server, HTML, Oracle DB, webMethods, etc.
• + ST University Certified Associate Trainer on Object Technology and UML
• + Designed and developed a 3-day workshop on Object Technology whereby I trained Project Leads/Tech Leads on how to go about OOAD from scratch