Dec 2021 – Sep 2025 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Leading the vision, strategy and roadmap of Nike India Technology Center as a key driver for Nike’s digital transformation and innovation by leveraging distributed global teams.
• Responsible for leadership of the site across multiple functions - Technology, Product, Enabling Functions and Site Operations.
• Building and nurturing a high-performance, innovation-driven engineering culture, attracting top tech talent.
• Technologist at heart driving the maturity and agility of engineering capabilities being delivered.
• Also driving talent branding, great place to work and scaling leadership teams while working closely with global functional partners - HR, TA, Facilities, Finance, Legal and Company Compliance for India Entity.
• Engaging with Industry bodies and government to influence direction.

Aug 2019 – Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Built and led the Freshworks ( a Unicorn SaaS Products Company empowered by AI )Bangalore Center as Site Head.
• Also was Engineering Leader for AI/ML Platforms, Data Platforms and CX Platforms.
• Responsible for scaling and setting up new teams at Bangalore Center.
• As Site Head I was responsible for leading and growing the Bangalore which was a new Centre for Freshworks. I was involved in evangelizing and helping Flagship Freshworks SaaS Products to set up new teams in Bangalore, Hiring Strategy and Execution, Tech Branding, Innovation, University/Industry Relationships, HR and Office Facilities.
• As Engineering Leader I led the AI/ML & Data Platforms Initiative where we were building a new Data and AI/ML Platform. This involved ingestion of data from various sources (batch and streaming), curation and data transformations, feature sets creation, Model Training & Deployment and full cycle of Model Experiment tracking. I was also leading building of common AI/ML cognitive services like Orchestration, NLP (Questions and Answers, Intent Detection), Conversational Service and others.

Apr 2019 – Jul 2019 · 3 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Built and led the Data Engineering team.
• Was developing Big Data Platform and Products for a AI powered world.

Jul 2015 – Dec 2018 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore

• Digital Healthcare (Telemedicine)
• Co-Founder from inception to current stage.
• Besides CEO role I also played the role of CTO and was directly responsible for the technology and product development.
• From scratch developed and rolled out Telemedicine Platform (Online Doctor
• Video & Text Consulting, Personal Medical Records, Medical Lab Tests) and Multilingual (English and Indian Regional Languages) Medical and Health Content Portal. Hosted on AWS and available both via Web and Mobile (iOS and Android).
• Founded by Industry Veterans with extensive Technology and Healthcare Domain experience we were a Digital Healthcare and HealthTech startup transforming the Healthcare industry by building a highly engaging, impactful and innovative digital platform ecosystem (online and mobile) for India and globally.
• We were on a mission to transform healthcare and positively impact millions of lives through digital healthcare - Information Therapy and Telemedicine (Video, Audio, Text).
• We were the first multilingual Indian vernacular Health Portal and App in India serving the regional population with multilingual trusted medical and health information and telemedicine.

May 2014 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo · Dubai, Bangalore

• In my role I engaged with companies across verticals (Retail, Education, Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, Financial Services, e-Governments) to identify engagement, communication and collaboration gaps and propose digital strategy and technology solutions for leveraging Social Business, Social Media, Communication and Collaboration Hub, Online Communities, Gamification, Social CRM and Social Intranet and Extranet across employees, partners and customers.
• Presented strategy and solutions at Executive Level (CEO, CIO, COO, SVP, CMO, MD, Executive Council) I had proposed solutions leveraging Jive Social Business Software and others.

Jan 2012 – Apr 2014 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore

• Responsible for leading a high impact and large team for development, rollouts and maintenance of global Yahoo sites (like Movies, Music, TV, OMG, Lifestyles, Weather, News, Finance, Sports) to different markets such as Americas, LATAM , Europe, Middle East and Asia regions . Involves Global Regions interactions, multiple Yahoo Product team interactions and outsourced contractors management.Includes Multidevice (Smartphones & Tablets) site rollouts.
• Managing a 90+ Team comprising of FTEs and Contractors spread across regions.
• Have delivered over 150+ high impact high traffic International Yahoo Sites.
• Responsible for leading the rollout of 24+ International Olympic Sites for 2012 London Olympics which brought in the largest ever unique users(150M) and page visits(3B) for a single event at Yahoo.
• Was responsible for leading the engineering for the rollout out of the new Yahoo Redesigned Homepage in 23 Countries.
• Engineering Manager for Core Java Platform used to power Yahoo Websites and also Mobile Partner Proxy used as a interface by Apple and other Mobile Handset providers to power highly visible Apps like Stocks and Weather using Yahoo Content.

Aug 2011 – Dec 2011 · 4 mos · Bangalore

• Responsible for leading the Engineering (Development & QA).
• Responsible for: - Inducting "outstanding" engineering talent and grooming. - Oversee day to day operations for in-production platform. - Conducting a quarterly release for platform addressing white spaces and eliminating defects. - Extending platform to new interfaces (mobiles, desktops, television and kiosks), platforms (Mac OS, android) and devices. - Identifying core IP and building proprietary stack for the same. - Fine tuning the performance of the system to work on any/all bandwidths. - Managing partners (hosting, SMS and other new ones). - Creating an integration framework for the platform with other systems of interest. - Managing POC's for problem statements as it relates to the core platform. - Devising strategies for better delivery of platform to customers. - Securing the platform. - Representing Wooqer at engineering discussions. - Partnering with growth teams to explain engineering aspect of platform. - Measuring performance of the team.
• Wooqer was a SAAS based product platform (multi-tiered Java Architecture) which enables customers to create any type of content (e.g. Business processes, Training modules, Compliance Checklists, Surveys), collaborate using that content with a distributed workforce and then do lot of rich analytics based on the content generated (both operational effectiveness and targeted promotions).

Jul 2006 – Aug 2011 · 5 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore

• Responsible for leading and managing the engineering of Virtualization and Cloud Security Products.
• Engineering lead for the newly announced RSA Cloud Trust Authority service.
• Also led engineering of Identity and Access Management products.
• Led a 50+ geographically distributed product engineering team to deliver products.
• Also responsible for developing and evangelizing Security Solutions to customers and partners.
• Product Engineering Management and Products Strategy for multiple products using technologies like Java, J2EE , Spring, Webservices, SOA, C#, SAML, WS-TRUST
• Key stakeholder in Solutions Centre conception and Partners enablement.
• Focussed on developing products and solutions for Securing the Cloud and Virtualized Environments(private and public).
• Mobile Banking Security Solutions, Cloud Computing, Next Generation Data Center, GRC (Governance Risk & Compliance) and Virtualized Data Centers.
• Led the Common Criteria certification effort for Access Management Product.
• Led Security as a Service (Cloud Trust Broker) project.
• Developing joint next generation solutions in collaboration with the office of the CTO and other product vendors like VMware, Microsoft & Cisco.
• Contributor to Products Strategy.
• I also made product presentations to Gartner, customers and partners.

Mar 2003 – Jul 2006 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore, USA, UK

• Project Management, J2EE Applications Development, Transition Architect, Outsourcing Specialist, Onsite Program Management.
• Led and managed multiple development projects for UK & USA clients((Retail,Health,Telecom).
• Managed a J2EE development team of 80 engineers for one of the largest key projects at Accenture.
• Provided innovative architecture solutions.
• Also did Transition planning & execution of Projects to offshore for large clients.
• Managed a distributed team between USA & India.

May 2002 – Mar 2003 · 10 mos · Bangalore

• Project Management, J2EE Applications development

Sep 1999 – Apr 2002 · 2 yrs 7 mos · California

• Technology Architect, Technical Manager, Consulting Architect, J2EE Applications Development based out of San Jose.
• Responsible for developing J2EE Applications and B2B portals (including a recruitment portal, medical claims portal).
• Provide consulting for premier USA clients to move from Java to a J2EE platform (iPlanet, NetDynamics, Weblogic, Websphere).
• Worked as part of the Sun Microsystems and Netscape professional consulting services.
• Also managed a global development team across San Jose (California) and India.

Sep 1998 – Aug 1999 · 11 mos · Bangalore

• Senior Software Engineer playing a key contributor role in developing J2EE Applications with focus on Electronic Commerce domain for large clients.

Jan 1997 – Aug 1998 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bangalore

• Developer - Real Time Fault Tolerant Computing and Networking, Supercomputers.
• Key contributor for developing the first real time fault tolerant (using a VSAT network and SCADA) product in India for monitoring steel plants and electrical grids.