Jul 2023 – Apr 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

• Architected and led the transformation of Data, Analytics, and AI/ML platforms, establishing a data-driven culture that propelled business growth.
• Built a high-performance data lake and warehouse, ensuring high data accuracy, consistency, and accessibility for real-time insights.
• Advised CXOs with powerful, data-backed insights and predictive metrics, shaping high-impact business strategies.
• Engineered AI-driven customer intent models, revolutionising engagement strategies and unlocking new revenue streams.
• Developed a next-gen Customer Data Profile Platform, driving hyper-personalization and superior customer experiences.
• Spearheaded the expansion of AMC, Wealth, Personal Lending, Insurance, and Mutual Fund businesses, pioneering new revenue channels beyond brokerage.
• Delivered a game-changing AI/ML-powered campaign, generating ₹120 crore in additional revenue—proving the power of advanced analytics. Achieved an ₹800 crore annual revenue impact through AI-driven initiatives.
• Championed AI-driven automation, streamlining customer interactions, decision-making, and operational efficiency at an unprecedented scale.
• Developed a 5-year roadmap for 10X growth using Data, AI/ML, and Analytics.

Jul 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 11 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

• Led ecological restoration and conservation initiatives, integrating traditional ethnic wisdom, technology, and policy advocacy to enhance grassland livelihoods and human well-being.
• Developed deep-tech tools for NGOs in remote Indian villages, bringing professionalism, governance, and scalable impact to grassroots environmental efforts.
• Spearheaded the restoration of 750+ acres of Commons land in Balbamora Village, MP, focusing on water conservation, biodiversity promotion, invasive species removal, and boosting farmers' income to ₹1 lakh per acre through organic agriculture.

Jul 2021 – Jun 2022 · 11 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Led Global Enterprise Data Operations for Master Data Management, Data Governance, Data Privacy, and Business Intelligence tools and reporting.
• Built and scaled the Global Data Analytics Group, integrating AI/ML engineers and data scientists to enhance operational efficiency across customers, finance, procurement, and operations.
• Developed 8 MVPs in 2021, showcasing the art of the possible in data analytics, securing executive buy-in to establish a centralised analytics hub for BP.
• Created a reusable artifacts store, enabling cross-company efficiencies and reducing development time for data-driven solutions.
• Established analytics verticals for Fraud Analytics, Control Analytics, Business Analytics, and Cash Analytics, driving insights for commercial leadership.
• Designed a 5-year digital strategy and transformation roadmap, rationalising data and analytics tools for streamlined operations.
• Led the internal consolidation of analytics functions within BP, positioning Analytics as a Service to enhance data-driven decision-making.
• Drove end-to-end data engineering and deep analytics initiatives across BP delivering enterprise-scale digital transformations.

Jul 2019 – May 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos · Pune Area, India

• Led a team of 7,000+ engineering staff, achieving a 25% improvement in engineering efficiency through data-driven monitoring and optimisation.
• Spearheaded UBS’s cloud migration, resulting in a 40% reduction in legacy system costs and a 30% increase in operational scalability.
• Established the Quality Engineering and Innovation Lab, driving 20% faster time-to-market for new solutions through agile practices and automation.
• Owned the IT applications portfolio across Wealth Management, Investment Banking, Asset Management, and Retail Banking, ensuring simplification, data quality, and improved decision-making.
• Drove cultural and engineering transformation, introducing crowdsourced collaboration, gamification for asset reuse, and a global mindset shift across distributed teams in Zurich, London, New York, Mumbai, and Pune.

Dec 2018 – May 2019 · 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• I co founded DSI in Nov 2017 and took over as CEO from Dec 2018 and than handed over to other partner in May 2019.
• Digital Spaces Inc. (https://www.digitalspacesinc.com) is a leading Space Utilization & Behavioral Analytics Platform that captures people count, position, engagement, movement and their demography in a given physical space. We are trying to bridge the gap that exists today for organizations to capture all this data 1) at the most granular level possible 2) in a very non-intrusive manner without capturing any personal data 3) with zero operational overhead and 4) in a very cost-effective manner
• The applicability of the platform is cross-industry:
• In CRE (Commercial Real Estate/Co-working spaces) it’s designed to compute real time space occupancy and people engagement in a given space like meeting rooms, conference rooms, offices & common areas for maximizing space utilization
• In Retail for detecting people flow, movement and dwell time in Stores for increasing customer experience
• In Clubs & Leisure for understanding usage pattern of various amenities
• In Banks for benchmarking one branch against others based on people traffic and their engagement and so on
• Value Proposition:
• Our product is designed with 3 tenets in mind – Quality, Simplicity and Ease of Use. You’ll see these tenets in our technology stack, engagement model and customer service.
• Data accuracy of 90-98% through Deep Neural Net algorithms
• Multiple solutions through one hardware – people count, detections, track map, demographics
• Installation in minutes and see the data live
• Fully managed solutions & services on SaaS (Software as a Service) model that covers hardware, cloud platform, analytics, etc. – reduced dependency on your internal IT resources

Jul 2018 – Dec 2018 · 5 mos · Pune Area, India

• Lead and Manage the Engineering and Product team for Public Cloud business (Intellicloud) for India from Pune and Hyderabad.
• Build Cloud services on AWS and Azure for Teradata Vantage.
• Build the marketplace offering for Teradata on Azure and AWS Marketplace
• Build few cloud services end to end https://www.demo.intellicloud.teradata.com
• Collaborate with Core Database Engineering, Professional Services and Product team creating cloud ready Teradata software and offerings.

Nov 2017 – Jul 2018 · 8 mos · San Jose,CA

• Global Logic
• Leading large digital transformation program for Pearson – largest education company that help people worldwide learn new skills.
• Help create feature roadmap for next generation scalable, global learning platform that integrates various courses and allows reuse and quick development of new courseware for instructors.
• The learners flow keeps students challenged all time, and quickly access the gaps for mastering a skill by doing preliminary diagnostic test and then recommending a custom course for a student to save time to quickly acquire skills
• Evaluate the gaps from AS IS and create roadmap for TO BE educational platform for Pearson
• Managing Schedule, Plan , resource allocation and budget for this initiative.
• Building teams and owning the Program Management, Product and Platform Management for the program

May 2016 – May 2017 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

• Help build AppDirect India from local legal entity formation, office built to setting the entire end to end engineering and product functions at India.
• Hired 120+ engineers in Pune in less than 8 months, organize and lead them to produce SaaS engineering products and platform working in global distributed team in US, Canada, India, Germany, and Argentina.
• End to end ownership in building product and owning professional services for customers from Asia and Europe ensuring revenues made the India centre profitable.
• Refined the full customer solution experience on Mobile and Desktop for various players like end users, reseller, channel partners and optimized interaction flow
• Defined and started the platform refactoring journey from monolith to micro services architecture
• Lead Product and Engineering teams (Dev, QA, Release, PSO) of 120+ engineers. Organized it into a structure of 10+ hierarchical teams under 15+ engineering leaders. Mentored new engineering leaders in areas such as leadership, management, decision making, and processes.
• Aligned with other execs then figured out the best ways to implement decisions. Setup metric gathering on build/release/QA processes to illuminate progress and drive decision making. Redefined the QA/Dev team relationship to ensure that all team members fully understood and contributed to our quality standards.
• Regularly traveled to HQ and other offices to share information and get feedback directly from my engineers. Tracked morale and worked with the team to boost engineering confidence and ownership.
• Also, played role as country head for AppDirect India, to select development center site, run India Company, make choices and strategy for core and flex investments, set up policies and ensure training and productivity and manage PnL for India.

Feb 2015 – May 2021 · 6 yrs 3 mos · Pune Area, India, San Francisco, USA

• Active Investor, founder and advisor : reverse sequence of time :
• 1. Audharya Dham Pvt Ltd
• https://audaryadham.com. : It is India company and started in March 2021 and it Buys and Sells Real estate in India.
• 2. Perfect and Complete Solutions Inc: Feb 2015
• http://pcsitspl.com
• Closed Companies: Investor, founder and advisor : reverse sequence of time :
• 1.Energetics IOT Inc : https://www.energetics-iot.com
• Platform for Remote monitoring of Solar PV assets. closed in 2021
• 2. Mind Therapy Exchange. https://app.mindtherapyclinic.com/patient/signin
• Marketplace connecting Therapist, Facilities to people. First customer will be Mind Therapy Clinic.
• Exited in 2020
• 3. Lets Dream 4U : http://mychatri.com
• Educational revolution in India through mychatri. Makes India Job Ready. ( closed in Dec 2021)
• 4. Digital Spaces Inc : Closed in Oct 2022
• Digital Spaces Inc. (https://www.digitalspacesinc.com) is a leading Space Utilization & Behavioral Analytics Platform that captures people count, position, engagement, movement and their demography in a given physical space. We are trying to bridge the gap that exists today for organizations to capture all this data 1) at the most granular level possible 2) in a very non-intrusive manner without capturing any personal data 3) with zero operational overhead and 4) in a very cost-effective manner
• 5.Get Skill Upgrades to get better in current job, Edureka https://www.edureka.co ( exit in Sep 2021 )
• 6. Goal of code-less automation : Lambdatest https://www.lambdatest.com ( exit Aug 2020)
• 7. Tanatan Inc : ML ( Closed in 2021)

Dec 2009 – Feb 2015 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Cupertino, CA

• Lead the engineering and product team that managed and build iTunes big data platform and multiple core Business Intelligence products in agile environment for SMB and other end-users (including Giftcards, iTunes Sales & Trends Platform, iAd data platform…) and support 15 Business Managers and up to 50 IT resources, while supervising 4 Product Managers (direct reports)
• Lead product teams to deliver prioritized product features as per customer needs to get best user experience design and customer support focus from beginning.
• Manage full product development lifecycle, to include product ideation, requirement matrixes, roadmaps, User Experience and design, data quality requirements, transaction and master data management and schedules, build and manage the QA and user experience testing along with launch strategies and product feedback analysis and operational support
• My data engineering team was spread in US, India and was responsible for Project management, requirements collection, design and development, QA, Deployment and finally Operation and Production Support for all solutions supporting Apple internal and external customers
• Build solid technical engineering team and created a culture of innovation and constant improvement to handle scale and feature set.
• A Data guy who loves to get into details and find insights to solve complex business problem.
• Prioritization of feature set that helps unlock maximum benefits and plays foundation role for the future product releases
• Troubleshoot all escalated issues reported by SMB developers (e.g. large App developers and music companies)
• Multiple concurrent initiatives helping from data ingestion, enrichment, aggregation, visualization, reporting and analytics
• Coach cross-functional teams engineers, data analyst, architects on solution development, scale and user experience

Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 · 1 yr

• Managed product services for a portfolio of 3 large hi-tech, BFSI and healthcare accounts in Service desk operations, enterprise application development and maintenance, with teams of up
• to 300 across globe (USA, India, Europe)
• Help in successfully migrating the service desk of Hitachi Data System including case management, contact and call center management.
• Own the Business development, opportunity/lead generation and sales operation management for these accounts
• Deep customer focus and served as Executive connect at the CXO/VP and Sr Director level for strategic technology and business initiatives/projects/programs
• Mentored and coached team members in account leadership

Jan 1998 – Jan 2008 · 10 yrs

• Initially served as Technical Lead in charge of 3 core solutions, Automated Assembly Lines (1998-2000), HR Solution (Total Compensation) (2000) and Reporting Applications solution (2001-2002) and supported 60 team members (2000-2002)
• Promoted to Product /Program Manager within the Delivery Centre within the areas of Business Intelligence, Analytics & Campaign Management in 04/2002, and supervised
• 150+ delivery center staff
• Integrate data from Apple diverse channels (Retail, Apple store, Repairs, ITunes, iCloud, etc.) and touch points and build marketing platform consisting of data warehouse, selection of analytic tool and campaign management tool (Unica)
• Created useful data insights for Marketing analyst by creating 360 single view of customer and analyze channel behavior for each customer
• Number of campaigns went from 4 in a month to over 120 in a month.
• Number of emails going out went from less than 5 M a month to 2 B a month
• Created Campaign response in terms of direct purchases, inferred response.
• Managed projects related to order management, CRM and data analytics for hi-tech customers