Headline

OT|IT convergence, Architect for IOT applications, Digital Transformation Architect.

About

With over 22 years of experience in Industrial Automation, I bridge the critical gap between shop-floor reality and enterprise - level intelligence. My career has been defined by a single mission: transforming raw industrial data into a strategic business asset. As a Product Head and Architect, I specialized in building vendor- agnostic orchestration layers that allow legacy systems to communicate seamlessly with modern ERP and SAP environments. By focusing on "plug-and-play" logistics ecosystems and robust cybersecurity governance (IEC 62443), I help global organisations achieve measurable gains in productivity and operational scalability. Key Highlights: Innovation: Awarded a US Patent for a Finite State Model method that derives equipment behaviour directly from sensor data. Operational Impact: Engineered a proprietary PLC code generation methodology that slashed development time by 70% Strategic Leadership: Spearheaded Digital Transformation journeys for global automotive leaders, resulting in 15% productivity increases and 20% cost reductions.

Location

Pune Division

AI stack

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gemini

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Work experience

Head of Product at Wipro PARI, Oct 2025 - Present · 10 mos, Pune District, Maharashtra, India, OT/IT convergence, Delivery management of Warehouse orchestration layer, customer interaction and tasks planning, risk anticipation and mitigation.

Head Of Deployment and Application Development at Linecraft AI, Oct 2020 - Feb 2026 · 5 yrs 5 mos, Pune Division, Maharashtra, India, • Head of Deployments o Interact with the customer and understand the client’s business needs and work out the scalable solution using the Linecraft product to add value to the client. o Consult the customer for the digitization journey to get the OT connected to the IT system. o Demonstrated through product deployments a 5% improvement in productivity for the customer. o Managed project deployments and execution for a team of 15 engineers. o Collaborated with the Software engineering team and the Product managers to define the features and product roadmap. o Improved the efficiency and deployment in operations hence optimizing the operations time and budget by 20% by bringing in scalable cloud architecture. o Initiated channel partnerships in US and India, to improve the market reach. • Head of R&D o Leads the R&D and ML team to develop the Digitization roadmap for the CNC machines. o Lead the team to conceptualize and develop intelligent algorithms for identifying the states, cycles and the behaviour of the machine using IO signals o Developed competitive digitization strategy by developing inhouse protocol layer for CNC machines o Demonstrated a successful implementation of AI strategy of agentic algorithms and Predictive maintenance algorithms. • Actively worked in Manufacturing, FMCG sector. • Successfully Integrated Fanuc (Focas, MtLink-i), Siemens (Sinumerik and Simatic), MTConnect (Mazak,Haas) • Helped Customers in integrating the legacy machines by providing the right convertors and libraries and saving capex investment of upgrading the controller. • Defined the entire user journey of digitization for the CNC machines. • Have US Patent for defining finite state model for identifying the states, cycles and behaviour of the asset based upon the IO patterns

Head of Controls and Software (Logistics and Automated Car Parking Systems) at Precision Automation and Robotics India Ltd., Jun 2010 - Oct 2020 · 10 yrs 5 mos, Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area, o Implemented the process to collect, process and make the data ready for analysis. o Architected the data flow from OT to IT using the technologies like OPCDA, OPC UA, MQTT, Kepware, DeviceWise, Python, Node-Red. o Managed multi-product (about 7 products) portfolio. o Defined the concept and architecture for: Warehouse Management System, Traffic management and different automated car parking products. o Products were design based upon the .Net (C#) and SQL o Managed a hybrid team of 20 controls engineers and 10 software engineers. o Engaged with customers for requirement understanding, new feature feedbacks and product feedbacks. o Established processes for the product verticals for seamless deployments and support across functions, this increased data traceability and reduced implementation time by 10% o User testing and user feedbacks were implemented, which helped make the products reliable and configurable and achieved the target of completely freeing up the software bandwidth from deployment and support. o Pioneered new methods to generate PLC code using the PC application configuration. This saved 70% time of rewriting PLC code for the product. o Integrated with the SAP and ERP systems for handshaking for the delivery orders and inventory feedback using Rest API, RFC

Technical Team Lead at Precision Automation and Robotics India Ltd., Jun 2007 - Jun 2010 · 3 yrs 1 mo, o Worked with the team of 10 software engineers for the design and execution of the projects. o Developed the projects primarily using C#, SQL, LabVIEW o Mainly focused on modular and reconfigurable applications o Main application focus was gauging applications, MIS, Part traceability, SPC. o Customer engagement for project deployment and requirement gathering. o Pioneered the Vision and Data Acquisition and Analysis Technology, this helped open new offerings for the organization.

Software Engineer at Precision Automation and Robotics India Ltd., Jun 2003 - Jun 2007 · 4 yrs 1 mo, o Developed projects using C#, C on RTOS, LabVIEW and SQL to develop projects. o Implemented projects for Automotive companies. o Used OPC, MODBUS and LabVIEW to collect data from different controllers and probes. o Worked as a part of product team to develop the indigenous Robot Controller System using C on RTOS Projects developed in VC++, VB and .Net

Education

Master of Science (MS), Electrical Engineer, The University of Toledo

Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Industrial Electronics Technology, Vishwakarma Institute of Technology