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Apr 2026 – Present

Co-Founder & CTO

Vigilronyx AI Pvt. Ltd.

India

Leading development of an enterprise AI platform enabling trusted autonomous operations for industrial drone fleets through Agentic AI, Edge AI, and mission-assurance technologies. Architected a deterministic AI validation layer combining Agentic AI, knowledge graphs, and rule-based reasoning to improve reliability and governance for mission-critical autonomous systems. Reduced human intervention by 90% by architecting an Edge AI platform for autonomous industrial inspections, surveillance, and situational awareness. Established commercial validation through engagements with four Drone-as-a-Service customers across agriculture and surveying, confirming product-market fit and enterprise demand. Built strategic partnerships with five leading drone OEMs, accelerating product integration, deployment readiness, and go-to-market scalability.

Mar 2025 – Mar 2026

Engineering Head – AWS Quick Business Suite

Amazon

India

Improved business data quality by 50% in 3 months and reduced inference costs by 30% by architecting and deploying a multi-agent orchestration platform using APIs, tool orchestration, and emerging MCP-based architectures. Reduced customer-reported issues by 90% in 1 year by leading a transformation roadmap and replacing legacy approaches with more scalable software solutions. Accelerated time-to-production by 40% by defining workflow architecture, evaluation pipelines, and MLOps standards for a 40+ member engineering and data science organization.

Apr 2019 – Mar 2025

Engineering Head – Receivables Tech India

Amazon

India

Cut manual effort by 30% by building and scaling an end-to-end document AI and automation platform for financial operations. Boosted cash flow by 30% and reduced bad debt by 20% by architecting real-time risk profiling models using internal and external signals. Established organizational standards for explainability, compliance guardrails, and safe deployment practices for production systems. Partnered with external stakeholders and customers to design scalable AI-driven solutions aligned with business and technical requirements. Led a 100+ member multidisciplinary engineering organization across multi-city matrix environments, delivering multiple business-critical products.

Sr. Technical Program Manager – India Advertising Technology

Amazon

India

Mar 2017 – Apr 2019

Achieved a 10x improvement in relevance metrics and proportional revenue growth by driving a product optimization program that integrated advanced ML models into customer-facing systems. Doubled model efficiency for Indian advertisements by partnering with applied science and engineering teams to improve feature pipelines and serving latency. Coordinated across global product, science, and engineering stakeholders to align business priorities with technical execution and operational constraints.

Engineering Manager

Cisco

India

May 2008 – Mar 2017

Launched 10+ world-first set-top box solutions across multiple countries by leading 100+ technical team members and managing distributed engineering teams across geographies. Reduced infrastructure costs by 80% by conceptualizing and architecting gateway solutions for large enterprise deployments. Led architecture and design of complex streaming and broadcast technologies for high-throughput consumer devices and customer-facing systems.

Early Career (2001–2008)

HCL Technologies & STMicroelectronics

India

Progressed across software engineering roles at HCL Technologies and STMicroelectronics, building foundational expertise in embedded systems, C/C++ development, and large-scale software delivery.

Studies

Dec 2023 – Jul 2024

Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Program

Indian School of Business (ISB)

Hyderabad, India

2009 – 2011

Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (PGDBA), Marketing Management

Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning (SCDL)

Pune, India

1997 – 2001

B.Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering

Institute of Engineering & Technology (IET), Lucknow

Lucknow, India