Jul 2020 – Dec 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• As the Global Leader of Data Services at AWS, I led a team of 40+ Specialists Solutions Architects, guiding 300 of AWS's largest customers towards a $12B+ global revenue target. We collaborate closely with enterprises, service teams, and account managers, offering expert guidance and tailoring Data & AI solutions to meet unique customer needs. We specialize in AWS Database and Analytics services.
• Our focus is for customers to realize their Data Strategy, accelerate Digital Transformation, and Modernize large-scale Operational, Analytical, and AI systems. With expertise in data architectures, I break down silos, improve quality, and through unified governance deploy enterprise-wide strategies to unlock trapped data value. Clients like Ferrari Scuderia, BMW Group, and Engie leverage data-driven insights to achieve their organizational objectives
• I have led pivotal initiatives across industry leaders like Adobe, Apple, Intuit, BMW, Expedia, Capital One, Goldman Sachs, and SAP, spanning Data, AI, Enterprise Application Migration and Modernization, and Core Data and Compute Services
• At AWS Industries, I expanded operations in India, conducting executive briefings across 100 executives from companies like NatWest, ADP, VW, Roche/Genentech, Novartis, and Schneider Electric, generating $30M pipeline and $10M incremental revenue potential
• I deployed scale mechanisms like Joint Arch Group, Feature Transparency, Platinum Program, Persona-Based selling, and Data Strategy Reviews to strengthen customer relationships and drive service adoption
• I aligned with service teams through feedback loops, prioritizing features, and sharing roadmap. I led cross-functional teams in delivering services like horizontal sharding, globally distributed resilient databases, and unified governance, prioritizing for successful launches
• Experienced in cultivating inclusive, psychologically safe environments, enhancing team dynamics, boosting morale, and fostering professional development

Aug 2019 – Feb 2026 · 6 yrs 6 mos

• As the Head of Data & AI at Amazon Web Services (AWS), I lead the Worldwide Specialists’ Solutions Architecture Organization for AWS Industries. The organization consists of three functions: Service Engineering, Business Development, and Solutions Architecture.
• My primary responsibility is, to [1] lead the technology designs for Data & AI solutions, [2] raise the technical bar, [3] lead go-to-market initiatives for service adoption and utilization, [4] drive product innovation with engineering through roadmap prioritization, and [5] improve product messaging feedback and insights to product management & marketing.
• My segment delivers repeatable customer value by overcoming complex challenges, influencing service roadmaps, and scaling deployable architectures across industry verticals. My segment has consistently attained 100% revenue targets since its inception five+ years ago.
• As a seasoned technology leader, I have spearheaded global deployments of cutting-edge generative AI applications for Fortune 100 clients across 6 industry verticals. Led enterprise digital transformations achieving 3x scaling and 5x cost reduction. Architected petabyte-scale biomarker platform reducing analysis from weeks to 24hrs, eliminating 43K+ manual hours. Doubled ad platform revenue to $20B+ through AWS migration. Deployed Cloud Data Hub supporting 20K+ users across 1,200+ use cases. Migrated 100K+ databases to AWS RDS/Aurora. Standardized AI/ML workflows reducing onboarding from months to days. Implemented responsible AI solutions using Amazon Bedrock and distributed data processing platforms.
• I lead Data Engineering and AI initiatives, implementing horizontal sharding and distributed databases with unified governance. Launched GraphRAG and Semantic Search solutions using Bedrock Agents and LangChain architectures. Drove AWS service implementations including DynamoDB, Aurora SQL, and SageMaker Lakehouse while maintaining performance metrics.

Aug 2019 – Jul 2020 · 11 mos

• As an Engineering Leader of the Customer Advisory Team (CAT), I lead a globally distributed cross-services team of Principal Solutions Architects for AWS Databases, Analytics, and applied AI/ML Services.
• CAT provides architectural guidance and solutions to help customers make informed technology choices, future-proof their architecture, and accelerate adoption of AWS services. CAT further scales SA and customer technical readiness, synthesizing insights from customer engagements to recommend high-value feature enhancements to service teams for over 50+ AWS services directly.
• CAT directly influenced the hiring of 150+ technical resources across the globe. Notably, CAT built and delivered a deterministic resourcing model to recommend engine-specific investments by geography and region, supporting revenue goals.
• CAT was instrumental in the M&A of DBBest and DMA, and conducted 600+ interviews with associated financial and resource planning for 300+ resources onboarded.
• CAT delivered 150+ workshops, including Sprint Weeks and Immersion Days, engaging over 5k participants from customers, partners, ISVs. These efforts helped close DBS revenue targets of $9.4B, exceeded 80% SLA through SpecReq demand signals, and execute growth plays for specific engines like ElastiCache, ElasticSearch, DynamoDB, and RDS/Aurora.
• CAT delivered 195+ direct engagements with customers, including Capital One, Paddy Power Betfair, Airbnb, Sony Music, Standard Chartered Bank, Nike, Zerobase, and Amazon.com, leading to 250+ opportunities.
• CAT drove initiatives like Rodin (intent-based database selection), OneLake (secure, audit-ready data lake for Capital One), and for Flutter/ Paddy Power Betfair (distributed data processing platform).
• CAT conducted 168 architectural design discussions, migration workload reviews, and delivered 21 solution reference architectures published on AWS GitHub and service product pages, including 11 for Industry Segments with accelerators like CloudFormation.

May 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 1 mo · United States

• Forbes Technology Council is an invitation-only organization comprised of elite CIOs, CTOs and technology executives. My areas of expertise are Cloud Computing, Information Technology, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Information Governance, Open Source Technology and Cybersecurity. A few industries that I focus on are Healthcare, Retail, FinTech, IoT and Government.

Dec 2017 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Missioned to Lead the impact of digital transformation by streamlining approaches to cybersecurity, incubate through research and development, grow partnerships in markets, academic alliances and technology adoption through innovation
• Unique opportunity to extend thought leadership through R&D, product development and venture investments, to grow the organization’s evaluation and expand the business into agencies & regulated industries in the commercial sector
• With the new investment arm, through innovation and engineering, developed 5 new intellectual property in the cyber domain called CyberSe7en, CyberASK, ISEAM, ShareIT, and Fathm
• M&A and Equity investments in 3 international firms in the cybersecurity and secure communication technology domain, servicing highly regulated industries like Federal, Health, FinTech
• As a key senior leader, visionary, set strategic direction for Product Development and Engineering
• Built an agile culture, development organization, located in 4 countries, over 50 people
• Responsible for architecture, design, implementation & delivery of product. An innovative loosely coupled, event driven, scalable, highly available cloud native solution, always real time, reads from various security tools and provides threat intel, alerts, evidence, correlation & historical chronology of an endpoint or incident, with kill chain
• Implementing NIST RMF, CIS controls, automate ATO processes through a marketplace and DevSecOPS, build context aware and autonomous routines, self-learning and evidence based self-correcting and self-healing systems with AI applications in Natural Language Processing, Glassdoors, and probabilistic reasoning
• Worked with IBM, MITRE, CACI and Unisys to establish a Lab of the Future (LoTF), Global Solution Center (GSC), increase monetizing opportunities with 80% POC conversation rate, increase adoption
• Designed a Cybersecurity SOC of the Future, DevSecOPS, CI/CD, private / hybrid clouds, Cloud Migrations, InfoSec Practices

Aug 2017 – Aug 2019 · 2 yrs

• Key senior leadership collaborator formulating vision and strategic direction, using competitive landscape, for Product Development and Engineering, valued at $35M. Directed delivery of new products, enterprise platforms and releases on established production timelines and budgets. Aligned standards, frameworks, and security with overall strategy including reliability, performance, maintainability, scalability, security and usability.
• Over 10 years transforming scalable cloud architectures, for over 40 clients, tailored for rapid transition, across the enterprise including service oriented, and microservices based on multiple Cloud environments; and Cloud Native technologies Kubernetes; Microservices
• Originated and built new development organization, with $3.6M budget, located in 4 countries, of over 25 people from the ground up servicing existing customers, partner channel needs and expanding commercial business. Launched product in market in 9 months with 3 proposals shortlisted and under consideration.
• Delivered cadence to leadership, stakeholders, development and engineering measuring the efficiency and effectiveness of activity, facilitate resource allocation, and continue product maturity and capabilities.
• Incorporated flexibility and creativity in solution design using emerging technologies. Built unique threat intel platform using complex attack patterns, risk and compliance approach allowing experts to respond with greater accuracy
• Implemented various security features in platform, namely Passive; ping, recon, Offensive; pen testing, attack simulation, and Defensive; SIEM, NAC, IPS/IDS, Firewall, AppSec security including APT, Botnets, C&C, IOC, IOA. Security Assessment, RMF, CSC, NIST 800-53, OWASP, SANS, CIS, PCI DSS, FIPS 140-2, FIPS 199, FISMA, MITRE, SOX
• Oversaw maintenance of ATO status, SOAR complant with Handbook for Cybersecurity OCIO-01 for mitigation of security risks or incidents on Systems Security POAM management process to closure

Mar 2010 – Aug 2017 · 7 yrs 5 mos

• As a GTA, I'm a Business Unit Executive for Cloud Analytics in IBM Global Markets
• Outcome based Analytics, with cross-industry expertise across IBM's Product & Solution Ecosystem and Open-Source Technologies
• Served as member on multiple Customer Advisory Board representing IBM
• Authored RedBook on Data Lifecycle and Management. Write White Papers, Tech Notes and Articles
• Lead technologist and strategist, bring a breadth and depth of experience when it comes to massively distributed frameworks, application and data. Technical Leader managing Analytics across IBM’s vast portfolio of Cloud, Social, Mobile, Analytics and Security
• Direct Architecture Leadership and meet with many many Clients each year to discuss & design solutions that meet specific Business Objectives. Have C-level conversations on value proposition, vision, strategy, best practices, ROI models Industry Standards and Roadmaps
• Deep knowledge and experience in Cloud Services with Bluemix and Softlayer. Hands on experience with OpenStack, CloudFoundry, Heroku, UrbanCode Deploy, Secure Hybrid Cloud Strategies and Deployments.
• Bring deep experience in analytics from open source technologies like Hadoop, Spark and the open source ecosystem of Distributed Systems along with NoSQL, NewSQL and Graph Databases. One of the early adopters at Netflix.
• Focus on industry verticals like Internet of Things, Security Domain, Healthcare, Retail, Finance and others.
• Quick in building solutions solving intricate business problems like Fraud Detection, Member Health, Financial Management with Adviser & Portfolio efficiency, 3D Contextual View, using portfolio for Big Data, Analytics, Watson Technologies, Information Integration & Governance, Business Intelligence, Security Platforms and open source technologies
• Built Data Science and Analytics programs (Machine Learning, Recommendation Engines, Search Personalization)
• Proficient and accomplished public speaker at conferences like INCOSE, Reflexions, Insights and InterConnect

Mar 2010 – Jul 2014 · 4 yrs 4 mos

• Serving as Senior Architect and lead as IBM’s Global Technology Ambassador
• Served as member on multiple Customer Advisory Board representing IBM
• Authored IBM RedBook on Data Lifecycle and Management. Constantly write White Papers, Tech Notes and Articles
• Lead technologist and strategist, and bring a breadth and depth of experience when it comes to massively distributed frameworks, application and data. Technical Leader managing Analytics across IBM’s vast portfolio of Cloud, Social, Mobile, Analytics and Security
• Direct Architecture Leadership and meet with many many Clients each year to discuss & design solutions that meet specific Business Objectives. Have C-level conversations on value proposition, vision, strategy, best practices, ROI models Industry Standards and Roadmaps
• Deep knowledge and experience in Cloud Services with Bluemix and Softlayer. Hands on experience with OpenStack, CloudFoundry, Heroku, UrbanCode Deploy, Secure Hybrid Cloud Strategies and Deployments.
• Bring deep experience in analytics from open source technologies like Hadoop, Spark and the open source ecosystem of Distributed Systems along with NoSQL, NewSQL and Graph Databases. One of the early adopters at Netflix.
• Evolved into more outcome based analytics for various industry verticals like Internet of Things, Security Domain, Healthcare, Retail, Finance and many others.
• Quick in building solutions solving intricate business problems like Fraud Detection, Member Health, Financial Management with Adviser & Portfolio efficiency, 3D Contextual View, using portfolio for Big Data, Analytics, Watson Technologies, Information Integration & Governance, Business Intelligence, Security Platforms and open source technologies
• Built many Data Science and Analytics experience (Machine Learning, Recommendation Engines, Search Personalization)
• Proficient and accomplished public speaker and many internal and external conferences like INCOSE, Reflexions, Insights and InterConnect

Feb 2008 – Mar 2010 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Los Gatos, CA

• Engineering Leader across all facets of the business including consumer offering, IT Infrastructure management and support, large scale systems, Instant Watch, Web Analytics, Business Intelligence, eCommerce, and Cloud. Thrived in environments that involve working with cross functional teams to leverage problem solving and product skills
• Designed & Managed systems that were responsible for Movie Ratings, DVD Shipping, Web Services, Customer Acquisition, On-boarding, bring titles with hundreds of tags, numerous pieces of artwork, subtitles, audio and video files together in a single experience. Web development, analytics and business intelligence teams extracted value to improve this experience and achieve scale at the highest possible quality
• Defined internal and external needs, developed and supported products to meet those needs by creating strategic engineering objectives. Advised on strategy, best practices and compliance requirements like SOX and PCI, and align with key objectives and goals for quick and efficient delivery
• Manage, Administer and 24/7 support enterprise wide databases and IT Operations in Oracle, Teradata, SQL Server and MySQL. Very strong full stack understanding and control of all stacks and 7 layers of IT Infrastructure. Designed and Implemented Cloud Native Architectures for Databases, WebServices, supported migration of Instant Watch to AWS and adoption. Ran many benchmarks, built prototypes, concepts to validate the use of technology like Nagios, Cloud Computing, Hadoop Processes, HIVE and Cassandra.
• Served as Advisor and Lead to Business Intelligence Team for product and strategy management. Lead Teradata SME, DBA and Liaison. Advanced statistical, machine learning and predictive web analytics application development support
• Lived and grew the Netflix culture and the 12 basic tenants, infused in high performance delivery with complete freedom, responsibility and ownership with strong emphasis to team building, and leadership

Jan 2005 – Jan 2008 · 3 yrs

• Lead oracle and teradata dba. BI application dba.

Jan 2005 – Jan 2005 · 0 mo

• Lead developer oracle and web technologies

Sep 2004 – Jan 2017 · 12 yrs 4 mos · Leesburg, Virginia

• Markets systems that enable medical professionals to perform effective and efficient functional diagnosis in the field of urodynamics, gastroenterology and neurology.

Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 · 1 yr · Wilmington, Delaware

Jan 1998 – Jan 2004 · 6 yrs

Jan 1996 – Jan 1998 · 2 yrs · Gujarat, India

• Engineer Production Line, supply chain. L&T Group 5