Priyanka Rotti

Director of Engineering

San Jose, California, United States14 yrs 11 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Drove $250M in partner-led revenue.
  • Advised founders on enterprise AI purchasing.
  • Implemented AI solutions saving $10M annually.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic leader in AI and cloud infrastructure with extensive enterprise experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Corporate StrategyPartnership DevelopmentStrategic VisionOperations OptimizationData StrategyMarket AnalysisGtm StrategyProduct ManagementProject ManagementEngineering ManagementSoftware DevelopmentCloud Infrastructure

Other Skills

Strategy BuildingMarket ResearchData AnalysisMicrosoft ExcelSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Team LeadershipAgile Application DevelopmentTeamworkAgile MethodologiesC (Programming Language)C++Data StructuresInternal and External CommunicationsStrategic ThinkingBusiness Case Preparation

About

Most enterprises don't fail at AI because of the model. They fail in the gap between pilot and production — where guardrails break down, evaluation frameworks don't exist, and nobody budgeted for what running an agent at enterprise scale actually costs.I've lived in that gap for the last two years. I've managed 25+ AI startups through enterprise partnerships long enough to know exactly which ones survive it: the ones with a defensible moat, enterprise-grade product maturity, and the contract infrastructure to back it up. I've driven $250M in partner-led revenue doing this. I advise founders on what enterprises actually buy and why. I've deployed agentic AI in regulated environments where a misbehaving agent isn't just a product problem — it can escalate into legal one. I prepare quarterly briefings for Boards making long-term AI infrastructure investments. And I write Billion Parameter Bill, a newsletter about what enterprise AI actually costs to run — because that conversation needs to happen more honestly than it currently does. What genuinely energizes me is meeting founders, builders and innovators at the edge of what's possible. The ecosystem is the best real-time indicator of where innovation is headed and what problems enterprises are willing to pay to solve. That intersection — between what's being built and what enterprises actually need — is where I work best. If you're building or deploying AI infrastructure or AI agents at enterprise scale, I'd like to know you

Experience

14 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
6 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Tata group

Director, AI Innovations & Corporate Strategy

Jan 2024Present · 2 yrs 4 mos · Santa Clara, California, United States · Hybrid

  • Partnership Development: Spearheading development of strategic partnerships with high growth AI-first startups to augment internal products with AI features; negotiated and executed partnership deals, technology agreements and revenue sharing deals with 5 startups, with $3M annual revenue potential.
  • GTM Development: Leading and empowering cross functional teams to position partner backed AI-offerings to build cost efficient, failure proof solutions for large enterprises across various verticals, reducing time to market for AI-first products.
  • Thought Leadership: Leading a cross functional team to develop an AI transformation strategy for the company with focus on a build/partner decision. Trusted advisor to senior leadership backed by an architecture stack to identify strategic moats and partnership opportunities through strategic frameworks and competitive analysis of the market.
  • Operations Optimization: Drove the strategy and implementation to reduce contact center wait times & handle times and improved resolution rates by deploying AI-first solutions; increased cost efficiency by 35% and saved $10M annually
  • Data Strategy: Driving the development of a data strategy for the engineering and product teams in Datacenter Networking, Contact Center and Mobility teams – identifying the internal pipelines, external data sets and assessing the need for synthetic data generators with special focus on compliance regulations like GDPR/CCPA and other regulations for handling PII
Strategy BuildingCorporate StrategyPartnership Development

Freelance

Business Consultant

Jan 2023Present · 3 yrs 4 mos · San Jose, California, United States · Hybrid

  • GenAI Based Startup: Worked with the founders of the GenAI based startup to perform the following functions:
  • Customer Survey:
  • Designed a market survey to understand customer needs
  • Analyzed the results from the survey to identify 3 primary customer segments
  • Market Sizing:
  • Analyze 3 customer segments in a $10M TAM
  • Define specific value proposition (70% reduction in turnaround time) that is targeted to each segment.
  • SaaS based Startup: Working with the founder of the company about product based decisions and GTM strategy to launch a new product
  • Designed and conducted in-person/online market survey with 100 people
  • High level product design and wireframe design with MVP features
  • User stories to communicate desired features to engineering team
  • Generated 50 sales leads to enable sales team to reach customers
  • Prepared value proposition and competitive analysis to enable sales teams
Market AnalysisStrategic VisionGTM Strategy

Cisco

2 roles

Engineering Leader

Promoted

Aug 2020Mar 2024 · 3 yrs 7 mos

  • ● Direct 5 global engineering teams of 20+ to architect and implement cloud technology features deployed to ~40K enterprise customers (> $1M accounts) globally to enable Microsoft Azure deployment
  • ● Drive quarterly resource planning, budgeting, forecasting and risk planning for technical projects using Jira & Excel with a total $750k+ budget; responsible for delivery of technical features and budget adherence; created $3M in revenue (to date) from these projects
  • ● Establish dialog with VPs and Sr. Directors of key customers with contract values of $10M+ to clarify technical and user requirements, identify technical and process dependencies, define 2-3 month implementation plans, and execute delivery
  • ● Collaborated with certification, QA, release and engineering teams to identify process bottlenecks using stepwise process time analysis; optimized in the release pipeline to reduce turnaround time by 20%, saving $50k annually
  • ● Part of a team driving product strategy by performing market/competitor analysis & cost attribution for a cloud based product offering; projecting a 30% increase in profit margin
  • ● Established partnerships with 4 US universities US - hosted 2 webinars to showcase the work of women researchers to 100+ technical fellows at Cisco, mentored 20 undergrad women, and conducted 2 tech seminars to 60+ undergrad students
  • ● Led a team of 20 from 7 countries to organize annual event for Cisco employees with a $100k budget showcasing various cultures and discussing social justice with global audience of 1.7K+
  • ● Directed a team of 16 to architect a first-of-its-kind event titled “Breaking Barriers” – addressed issues about breaking physical, mental, gender, nutritional and societal barriers – with a $40k budget to a global audience of 1.3k+ spanning AMER, EMEA and APJC; procured renowned speakers like Dr. Sheena Iyengar & Rujuta Diwekar
  • ● Organized fundraisers for 5 organizations at Cisco, raising $30k+ in the last fiscal year
Microsoft ExcelMarket AnalysisProject ManagementEngineering Management

Software Engineer

Jun 2013Sep 2021 · 8 yrs 3 mos

  • ● Delivered cutting-edge cloud enablement features to ~40K global customers using Microsoft Windows products in a team of 3-5 engineers; worked with several Fortune 500 clients to identify functional & performance issues.
  • ● Led adoption and integration of remote hardware management interface by Cadence Systems into our ecosystem – lead a team of 3 engineers to run a pilot, resulted in 60% reduction of setup time, saving $100k per project
  • ● Created technical documentation for to enable performance enhancement features; reduced configuration errors by 75%; viewed and downloaded by 1000+ customers
  • ● Developed next-generation cloud infrastructure hardware in a team of 20 engineers that increased network throughput by 40%, which generated $2M worth of sales
  • ● Led software testing automation by building a Python library to reduce regression testing time, resulting in 30% increase in efficiency and ~$100K annual savings
Agile Application DevelopmentTeamworkSoftware DevelopmentCloud Infrastructure

Microsoft global technical support center

Support Engineer

Jun 2008Jun 2010 · 2 yrs

  • ● Partnered with engineering & customer experience teams to diagnose technical issues for high visibility enterprise customers with contract values of $5M+; received a consistent 3.8/4 customer satisfaction rating with a 95% success rate for issue resolution
  • ● Partnered with account management and marketing teams to facilitate contract renewals of 4 key customers; developed insights into issue resolution rate, speed of initial contact and business value for customers
  • ● Established formal customer email templates to capture technical details of issue resolution; template is still in use
  • ● Published a blog on Microsoft site about “Performance Analysis of Logs Tool (PAL)”; webpage viewed ~4500 times.
Teamwork

Education

The Wharton School

Master of Business Administration - MBA

Apr 2023May 2025

Louisiana State University (LSU)

Master of Science — System Science

Jan 2010Jan 2012

Vishveshwaraya Technological University

Bachelor of Engineering — Information Science and Engineering

Jan 2004Jan 2008

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