Jul 2025 – Present · 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

• Contributed insightful articles on AI and technology trends, focusing on innovation and agentic service management.
• Engaged with a community of thought leaders to discuss emerging AI innovations and their implications.
• Enhanced my writing and analytical skills while staying updated on the latest advancements in the tech industry.

Apr 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

• As the founding member of Atomicwork and Digital Transformation Leader, I am excited to lead Atomicwork’s journey to bring modern service management through its agentic AI platform to our customers and prospects.
• Global GTM
• Partnerships
• Customer Advocacy
• Business Development
• Sales
• Events
• CIO Thought Leadership
• Unlocking Opportunities

May 2022 – Present · 4 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

• Thought leader and practitioner who works with startups, founders, and VCs in B2B, Cyber Security, IT-Infrastructure, Enterprise SaaS, Cloud, Data Centers, DevOps, DevSecOps, Data Management, DataOps, AI / ML.
• I engage with 350+ CxOs, Enterprise executives, and Leaders from Startups to Fortune 1000 companies to dig deep into the problems and trends being addressed in their ecosystems. I help raise funds, build better products, scale growth, great teams, and fantastic culture.
• Some of the recent startups in my portfolio.
• rapidfort.com; balkan.id; privado.ai; observo.ai; storytell.ai; Private-ai.com; motherduck.com;
• getsift.ai; getmiles.com; cloudeagle.ai; invigrid.com;linen.cloud;

Jan 2017 – May 2022 · 5 yrs 4 mos · Mountain View, California, United States

• Contributed to revenue growth by 2x to $500M+ with global acquisitions and expansion.
• Consolidated and grew the team by 2X to more than 100+ IT, Security, Data Engineering, Data Products, MLOps.
• Strengthen product and business security by partnering with the leadership and their teams.
• Led 24/7 IT service for 1500+ remote home offices worldwide.
• Led large-scale projects in hybrid clouds(AWS, GCP, Azure) involving redesigning the organization for M&A integrations.
• Established EPMO to consolidate global project and portfolio organization and budgets.
• Established COE for cyber security and enterprise business technology to support products, global ERP deployments.
• Established a Center for Enterprise Architecture to define enterprise strategy and architecture in collaboration with product, engineering, and IT teams.
• Democratized data through global data engineering teams, data products and business analytics.
• Developed strong security, privacy controls, and enterprise security policies globally.
• Led compliance and ITGRC teams with 100% on-time execution of 10K, SOX, CCPA, GDPR, and SOC2 global programs.
• Extensive experience in digital engineering promotions, personalization, loyalty programs, DSP, DMP, and advertising;
• Led multiple migration projects from Hadoop, Netezza, and Snowflake to bigQuery.
• Data integrations using Airflow, Python, and DataOps on GCP, Azure, and AWS.
• Managed multiple M&A portfolio company data and services integrations.
• Led data security, privacy (CCPA, GDPR), compliance engineering
• Extensive collaboration with legal, engineering, product, operations, and senior leadership
• Collaborated with customers, business leaders, and product organization to prioritize features, products, and tech rollouts.
• Led DSP, DMP, retailer, and agency data partnership program contract negotiations and integrations;
• Led Retail, CPG, and consumer technology partnerships and integrations;

Oct 2011 – Jan 2017 · 5 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

• Managed a global team of 60+ employees across China, Singapore, India, Europe, Canada, and the U.S.
• Led DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, game development, and QA functions for social and mobile games.
• Created scalable infrastructure to lead multiple migrations to and from the cloud;
• Collaborate with game developers, designers, and data science teams globally.
• Developed enterprise data strategy and transformed data culture to make data #2 priority after Player.
• Led development teams to build data-driven games, infrastructure, analytics, security, privacy, and data services
• Managed and migrated big data warehouses in Vertica, Redshift, Teradata, Cassandra, Google Big Query, MySQL, Spark, and Hadoop with various BI tools and OEM players.

Jun 2008 – Oct 2011 · 3 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

• ShareThis is a social media data aggregator and provider of sharing widgets, products, and services to large publishers and advertisers through content and ad-tech platforms. ShareThis was one of the largest single cloud deployments on AWS between 2010-2011, with multiple data platforms and services to support publishers and advertisers.
• Contributed to revenue growth from $0 to $40M.
• Bootstrapped Data Engineering and Business Intelligence teams.
• Developed state-of-the-art AWS infrastructure and data products at the cloud scale with strong DevOps and Agile methodologies.
• Strong collaborator, and worked across product, engineering, and data science teams, during which ShareThis became a data powerhouse.
• Engineered cloud-scale products and supported real-time bidding(RTB) for advertising with ~20ms response times.
• Created ad-ops platform, reporting, insights for ad campaigns, and ML models for audience segments.
• Developed highly scalable Hadoop, Hive, Aster Data, MySQL, CouchDB, Memcached, Cassandra, and MongoDB-based server infrastructures

Sep 2001 – Jun 2008 · 6 yrs 9 mos · West Chester, Ohio, United States · On-site

• Qurate Retail is a retail, catalog, and E-commerce company focused on premium apparel and home furnishings brands.
• Grew from $200M to $500M from 2001 to 2007.
• Led efficiency in processes, cost optimization through consolidated technology, services and people.
• Provided leadership across IT and R&D departments, establishing priorities and driving global transformational IT programs
• Overhauled entire enterprise systems Infrastructure & application architecture that was built on legacy technologies.
• Consolidated enterprise databases - from multi-vendor database solutions (Oracle, Sybase).
• Led infrastructure, engineering and operations, network, telecom, data center, messaging, ITIL, and PMO.
• Managed frontgate.com; ballarddesigns.com; garthill.com; travelsmith.com; grandiroad.com; territoryahead.com e-commerce technology operations and projects to support brand growth, revenue, and customer experience.

Jan 2000 – Aug 2001 · 1 yr 7 mos · Cincinnati Metropolitan Area

• As a Data Management Consultant architected databases, applications and Data Warehouses.
• Led projects and worked both in private and public sector industries.

Jun 1996 – Dec 1999 · 3 yrs 6 mos · European Union · On-site

• I worked on SWIFT, Export Import Banking Software, EURO, and Telecomg companies like Nokia to develop and deploy GSM network infrastructure across Europe.