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Vice President- Product & Engineering AI | Digital | Data

About

Technology executive passionate about building AI-first products and engineering organizations that deliver measurable business outcomes. I specialize in combining AI, platform engineering, cloud, and data to create intelligent, scalable solutions that accelerate growth, improve customer experiences, and drive operational excellence. AI, Product & Platform Leadership ----------------------------------- Lead enterprise Digital, Data & AI strategy for large-scale customer-facing platforms. Build AI-powered products using GenAI, Agentic AI, intelligent automation, and real-time decisioning. Drive cloud-native, API-first, microservices-based architectures with modern DevSecOps and platform engineering practices. Enable faster software delivery through AI-assisted engineering, reusable platforms, and automation. Technology Strategy & Business Transformation ------------------------------------------------ Align technology investments with business strategy to accelerate growth, improve customer engagement, and optimize operations. Build enterprise AI capabilities, including RAG, AI agents, recommendation engines, and intelligent decision platforms. Champion innovation while balancing scalability, security, governance, and reliability. Leadership ----------- Build and mentor high-performing engineering teams with a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous learning. Partner with executive leadership to translate business vision into technology strategy and measurable outcomes. Passionate about developing leaders, modernizing engineering organizations, and using AI to solve complex business challenges at scale.

Location

Pune Division

AI stack

antigravity

codex

opencode

Work experience

Vice President- Product & Engineering at Star Health and Allied Insurance Co. Ltd, Jul 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos, Accountable for end-to-end technology transformation, digital platforms, and AI-led operations across retail, agent, and partner channels while co-owning overall organisational strategy, with C-suite business leaders.

Assistant Vice President - Digital Transformation at Star Health and Allied Insurance Co. Ltd, Oct 2022 - Jun 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos

Senior General Manager - Digital Transformation at Star Health and Allied Insurance Co. Ltd, Dec 2021 - Sep 2022 · 10 mos

Senior Managing Consultant-Data Platform Services at IBM, Jul 2020 - Jun 2021 · 1 yr, Implementation of Big Data, BI & Analytics solutions (road map and implementation) Owner of Data Platform solutions using Hortonworks/IBM/Cloudera and Open Source technologies to support marketing and customer experience use cases. CASE STUDY>>https://ibm.co/37trKaT Developing Technology Enterprise Architecture Build end to end ICT enterprise architecture for complex technology stacks Linking organisation strategies and priorities with ICT road-maps to maximize the returns on technology investment, including change management under controlled costs. Adopting 'tailored' TOGAF as EA Framework.

Managing Consultant-Data Platform Services at IBM, Aug 2016 - Jun 2020 · 3 yrs 11 mos, ~Conceptualising and setting up Micro Services & Digital development factory ~Build and manage software development team delivering digital work products ~Converting application as a collection of services (Micro Services running on Kubernetes) that are highly maintainable, loosely coupled, and managed in DevOps model. ~End to End CVM solution Design and delivery of one of the world’s largest Customer Value Management (CVM) implementation for 200 mil customers based on SAS CASE STUDY >> https://ibm.co/347gfDJ

Senior Advisory Consultant at IBM, Mar 2013 - Jul 2016 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Senior Managing Consultant at IBM India Ltd, Sep 2010 - Jun 2021 · 10 yrs 10 mos, Led multiple digital and data platform transformations for top telecom clients, managing multi-million-dollar engagements and global teams.

Senior Application Engineer at Oracle Corporation, Dec 2009 - Sep 2010 · 10 mos

Application Engineer at Oracle Corporation, May 2007 - Sep 2010 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Software Engineer at Infosys Tech Ltd, Jul 2005 - May 2007 · 1 yr 11 mos

Education

Executive education, AI Strategies for Business Transformation, Indian School of Business

B.E., Computer Science & Engineering, Rajiv Gandhi Prodyogiki Vishwavidyalaya