Shivdeep (Shiv) Nancherla

CEO

India18 yrs 7 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led AI transformations impacting 14,000+ associates.
  • Achieved 95% user satisfaction in AI initiatives.
  • Spearheaded legacy IT modernization reducing vulnerabilities.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused AI and Digital Transformation leader.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial IntelligenceGenerative AiDigital TransformationEnterprise ArchitectureDigital StrategyMicroservicesCloud MigrationProgrammingSoftware Development

Other Skills

Emotional IntelligenceCollaborative Problem SolvingTechnology LeadershipLeadershipAgentic AI DevelopmentCross-functional Team LeadershipAzureOpenAIAKSFastAPIMicrosoft AzureAzure AIStrategic ThinkingSenior Stakeholder ManagementStrategic Influence

About

I have had a front-row seat to every major technological revolution over the last two decades, from mainframes to client-server, to the web, mobile, cloud and now AI. I empower teams, functions and organisations on their journey of AI-led digital transformations. Rather than asking "where can we add AI?", I nudge leaders to ask "How should we work given what AI makes possible?" I am at my best when I am connecting dots. I bridge the gaps between people, departments, and business opportunities. By connecting the right dots, I make it easier to navigate complex decisions and deliver real commercial impact. I speak both 'tech' and 'boardroom'. It is a balance of deep technical roots and the business rigor I honed at IIM-B. This helps me translate complex capabilities into strategies that actually make sense for business. I have driven the following transformation: β—Ύ GenAI Strategy: Scaled an enterprise RAG platform providing 14,000+ associates with instant access to siloed data, achieving a 95% user satisfaction rate β—Ύ AI Democratization: Helped launch a no-code Agentic AI playground, empowering 400+ non-technical users to build and deploy secure, autonomous agents β—Ύ Legacy Modernization: Spearheaded a 145-year legacy IT transformation using TIME modeling, resulting in a 10% system rationalization and a 25% vulnerability reduction β—Ύ Reference Architecture: Defined a unified architecture that doubled sprint velocity across 10 global programs through cloud-native standardisation I lead with a systematic, data-grounded approach and a commitment to people-centric growth. As a leader with a "High Influence, High Compliance" style, I bridge the gap between complex collaboration and disciplined organisational control. I am driven by the question, "𝙃𝙀𝙬 π™˜π™–π™£ 𝙄 π™π™šπ™‘π™₯?" This service-oriented mindset fuels me, whether I am supporting a team, leading a transformation or a CSR activity. My leadership is fuelled by a commitment to curiosity. I enrol in more online courses than I can complete, register for more meetups than I can attend, and buy more books than I can finish! This curiosity is what fuels my ability to stay ahead of the curve. When I am not transforming teams and orgs, you can find me running or spending quality time with my family. _ _ _ _ _ I am always open to discussing Leadership, AI strategy, enterprise architecture, solution architecture or how to navigate complex digital transformations. Feel free to reach out via LinkedIn Message or at shivdeep.envy@gmail.com

Experience

18 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
9 yrs 3 mos
Average Tenure
15 yrs 6 mos
Current Experience

Unisys

6 roles

Principal AI/ ML, AI Enablement | Data, Automation & AI | ESS | Office of the CTO

Promoted

Feb 2025 – Present Β· 1 yr 3 mos

  • Unisys Knowledge Assistant
  • β˜… Led the strategic transformation of Unisys’s internal operations by architecting a scalable GenAI RAG platform on Azure (OpenAI, AKS, FastAPI). I directed the end-to-end program delivery, from initial pilots to full production, to dismantle data silos across IT, Sales, Finance, HR, and Security.
  • Key Leadership Impact:
  • ⦁ Scale & Adoption: Orchestrated the rollout to 14,000+ associates, integrating 600,000+ pages of data into 42 specialized Knowledge Bases.
  • ⦁ Operational Velocity: Accelerated critical decision-making and security ticket resolution from days to minutes through cited, conversational AI.
  • ⦁ Performance Excellence: Achieved a 95% user satisfaction rate across 25,000+ queries, ensuring system reliability through complex platform challenges.
  • AgenticAI Playground
  • β˜… Helped evangelize a secure, no-code Agentic AI Playground (CrewAI), democratizing agent creation for 400+ non-technical associates across HR, Sales, and Engineering.
  • Key Leadership Impact:
  • ⦁ Measurable Innovation: Helped drive the deployment of 100+ active agents with 500+ executions, automating complex workflows including contract drafting, document analysis, and testing.
  • ⦁ Organizational Transformation: Eliminated technical barriers by establishing a safe 'playground' positioning Agentic AI as a core productivity companion across the global workforce.
  • Unisys Document Translator
  • β˜… Spearheaded a custom AI translation platform to displace high-cost vendors and secure sensitive data. Directed full-stack architecture and strategy to centralize cross-border agreement processing for Finance and Legal.
  • Key Leadership Impact:
  • ⦁ ROI: Captured ~$50K in annual OpEx savings and compressed translation cycles from days to seconds.
  • ⦁ Governance: Architected a decentralized RBAC framework, migrating 1,000+ monthly documents to a secure Azure environment to eliminate third-party privacy risks.
Artificial IntelligenceEmotional IntelligenceCollaborative Problem SolvingTechnology LeadershipLeadershipGenerative AI+3

Principal Engineer, Gen AI Enablement | Office of the CTO

Oct 2023 – Jan 2025 Β· 1 yr 3 mos

  • 2023 is when the world discovered GenAI; 2024 is when organisations will derive value from this technology.
  • The key to success is to shift focus from experimentation to realisation.
  • GenAI Provides Revenue Opportunities, Cost/Productivity Opportunities, and Risk Opportunities.
  • Led AI Enablement teams (Office of CTO), shifting from experimentation to value realisation.
  • Partner with CIO/GIS/Sales functions to deliver revenue, productivity, and risk management opportunities.
  • DevSecOps AI Bot
  • β˜… Orchestrated the end-to-end delivery of the organisation’s first AI-powered Knowledge Assistant. I led a cross-functional coalition of Platform Engineering, CIT Infrastructure, and Developer teams to transition from requirements to an enterprise launch.
  • Key Leadership Impact:
  • ⦁ People Leadership & Mentorship: Built and directed a high-performing cross-functional team of 5 associates, fostering a culture of innovation.
  • ⦁ Developer Velocity: Enabled 2,500+ developers to bypass manual documentation searches, reducing technical information retrieval from minutes to seconds.
  • ⦁ Operational Efficiency: Significantly increased development velocity and reduced support ticket volume for the "Singularity" platform engineering team by providing instant, self-service troubleshooting.
  • ⦁ Innovation Firsts: Successfully piloted and launched the first-ever GenAI business application within the company, establishing a blueprint for future AI-powered internal tools.
  • AskGIS (Security Bot)
  • β˜… Architected and led the development of an enterprise-wide Cybersecurity AI Assistant from proof-of-concept through successful production deployment.
  • The bot democratized access to security guidance and best practices for all associates. Transformed security awareness by providing instant, natural language access to cybersecurity policies and best practices, reducing security ticket volumes and accelerating security-related decision-making from days to minutes.
Artificial IntelligenceMicrosoft AzureEmotional IntelligenceAzure AITechnology LeadershipStrategic Thinking+14

Principal Engineer, Architecture & Standards | Solution Innovation & Architecture

Promoted

Jun 2022 – Sep 2023 Β· 1 yr 3 mos

  • Enterprise Architecture & Standards Governance
  • β˜… Led a critical post-reorganization initiative to unify fragmented development practices across company-wide solution teams. Was a part of a cross-functional team to establish a robust governance framework, ensuring architectural consistency and scalability for the entire organization.
  • Key Leadership Impact:
  • ⦁ Risk Mitigation: Achieved a 20% reduction in security vulnerabilities by eliminating inconsistent development practices and enforcing centralized guidelines.
  • ⦁ Operational Excellence: Drove enterprise-wide compliance by launching a central standards portal and implementing a rigorous architectural assessment process.
  • ⦁ Cross-Team Alignment: Improved code maintainability and reduced technical divergence by facilitating workshops to align diverse engineering teams with the new global standards.
  • Enterprise Architecture & Portfolio Transformation
  • β˜… Directed the modernization of a 145-year legacy IT landscape by institutionalizing Application Portfolio Management (APM) to centralize risk and business criticality. Led a cross-functional team of across CIO and CTO to to migrate fragmented data into a unified LeanIX architecture, establishing a single source of truth for 410+ applications.
  • Key Leadership Impact:
  • ⦁ Team Leadership: Led a cross-functional team from CIO and CTO to execute a global metamodel rollout, aligning Corporate IT and product teams on technical standards.
  • ⦁ Operational Excellence: Achieved a 10% system reduction and 25% decrease in security vulnerabilities through the implementation of the TIME-modeling framework.
  • ⦁ Enterprise Governance: Rationalized 219 tech categories and 800 IT components, eliminating duplicate technical debt and duplicate purchases.
  • ⦁ Fiscal Impact: Empowered executive leadership with strategic roadmaps that significantly reduced avoidable spend and operational risk.
Business StrategyDigital StrategyIT Risk ManagementEmotional IntelligenceTechnology LeadershipEnterprise Architecture+14

Lead Systems Engineer/ Architect | Products & Platforms

Promoted

Sep 2018 – Jun 2022 Β· 3 yrs 9 mos

  • Unified Product Reference Architecture (UUPRA)
  • β˜… Orchestrated "Project Falcon," an enterprise-wide architectural roadmap designed to resolve critical non-standardization and containerization gaps across 10 global programs. I led two of the architecture layers - API Management and Containerization to standardize the core technology stack, transitioning legacy systems into a modern, cloud-agnostic microservices ecosystem.
  • Key Leadership Impact:
  • ⦁ Team & Stakeholder Leadership: Led two of the arch. layers and collaborated with Platform Engineering to define and implement standardized architectural layers across diverse product lines.
  • ⦁ Operational Velocity: Achieved a 2x improvement in sprint velocity by delivering a unified reference architecture that addressed DevSecOps maturity and streamlined development workflows.
  • ⦁ Technical Orchestration: Defined a cloud-agnostic tech stack and managed strategic vendor integrations (Rancher, WSO2, Elasticsearch) to enhance security and finance portfolios.
  • ⦁ Enterprise Scale: Deployed a scalable architecture supporting 25+ microservices, 60+ endpoints, and 300+ container images across 20+ Kubernetes clusters.
MicroservicesCloud MigrationGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Emotional IntelligenceCollaborative Problem SolvingTechnology Leadership+15

Engineering Lead | Global Technology Center India (GTCI)

Promoted

Jul 2013 – Sep 2018 Β· 5 yrs 2 mos

  • β˜… Lead the engineering team in developing a Digital Platform. Work involves understanding the requirements and implementation, guiding the team and taking tactical decisions.
Business StrategyTechnology LeadershipProgrammingElastic Stack (ELK)Digital TransformationComputer Science+1

Senior Software Engineer | GITOS

Oct 2010 – Jul 2013 Β· 2 yrs 9 mos

  • β˜… Worked as a Software Developer working on Microsoft Technologies.
  • β˜… Developed and unit tested software for large clients in the pharmaceuticals and communications space.
C#.NET FrameworkProgrammingEnterprise Service CatalogSharePointComputer Science+2

Ntt data corporation

Software Engineer

Jan 2007 – Mar 2010 Β· 3 yrs 2 mos Β· Bengaluru

  • β˜… Requirements Analysis and Proof of Concept development
  • β˜… Gathering project requirements from Clients
  • β˜… Implementation and unit testing
C#.NET FrameworkInfoPath FormsJavaScriptSoftware DevelopmentSoftware Design+8

Education

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

General Management for IT Executives (GMITE)

Jan 2022 – Nov 2022

RNS Institute of Technology - India

B.E (Visvesvaraya Technological University) β€” Information Science and Engineering

Seshadripuram First Grade College (S.F.G.C), Bengaluru

Pre University β€” Physics

Sindhi High School

Middle School Diploma

St. John's High School, Bangalore

High School/Secondary Certificate Programs

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