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AI Architect & Engineering Leader | AI-Native Platforms • Distributed Systems at Scale | Driving End-to-End Product & Technical Strategy

About

Engineering leader with 17+ years of experience building and scaling large-scale AI platforms and distributed systems across FinTech, Web3, AdTech, and ML. I focus on AI-first platform strategy, driving intelligent automation and resilient systems that deliver measurable business outcomes. Currently architecting AI-native systems at Tekion, leading the transformation of compliance, document intelligence, and F&I workflows through agentic AI and scalable platform design. Previously led the architecture of Okto Chain and the Okto Web3 platform at CoinDCX—building unified liquidity, distributed wallet infrastructure, and an intent-driven network, scaling to ~8M users across 20+ chains. I’ve built and led 40+ engineer teams (Staff, Leads, ICs), owning org design, hiring, execution, and multi-quarter roadmaps. Strong track record of aligning engineering with product and business goals to deliver high-impact, reliable platforms. Earlier experience includes ML-driven recommendation systems, fintech platforms, and AdTech systems processing 1B+ daily events, along with significant cost optimizations through infrastructure redesign.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Ai Architect at Tekion Corp, Dec 2025 - Present · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, At Tekion, I led the architecture of an AI-native platform for automotive retail, transforming compliance, document intelligence, and F&I workflows across the deal lifecycle. I built and scaled an agentic compliance system that validates deals end-to-end using AI-driven reasoning combined with deterministic checks, delivering real-time, auditable insights.

Principal Engineer at CoinDCX, Oct 2024 - Nov 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos, Led architecture and engineering for Okto Chain and Okto Web3 platform, serving ~8M users across 20+ chains. Responsible for technical strategy, system design, execution, and delivery across product, infra, and wallet components. Key Outcomes • Designed & shipped Okto Chain (intent engine, liquidity layer, mempool, distributed wallet network) • Reduced production incidents by ~40% via engineering best practices and platform hardening • Built & scaled engineering org from ~10 to 40+ (ICs, Staff, Leads) • Integrated 20+ chains & 15 protocols into unified wallet infra • Partnered with Product, Ops, Security for roadmap, compliance, and platform reliability Scope & Leadership • Led multi-quarter roadmaps, architecture reviews, tech strategy and hiring • Drove engineering culture: ownership, quality, and accountability • Managed performance, coaching, promotions & hiring pipelines • Reported to CTO; influenced Product & Business outcomes Tech Focus Distributed Systems · Wallet Infra · Blockchain · High Throughput APIs · AWS · Performance · Observability

Senior Staff Engineer at CoinDCX, Sep 2022 - Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Building the Bridge to Web3 I'm excited to be leading the charge in building the Chain Abstraction layer for the OKTO DeFi project. This involves deep-diving into the world of wallets and crypto custody, ensuring a seamless and secure Web3 experience. As a Senior Staff Engineer, I'm focused on bridging the gap between Web2 and Web3, prioritizing security, scalability, and user experience. I'm collaborating with a talented team to develop innovative solutions that push the boundaries of DeFi.

Engineering Manager at Cars24 Australia, Feb 2022 - Sep 2022 · 8 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, Engineering Manager for Cars 24 Australia business. Leading, coaching and managing a team of 15 + engineers, 3 teams, which includes multiple Dev leads and Principal Engineers, Front end engineers. Replace 3rd party Finance module with in-house developed Consumer finance. This saves additionally $6M annually.

Engineering Manager at ZEE5, Apr 2021 - Feb 2022 · 11 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Engineering Manager for Zee5 Recommendation Service. Built products from scratch, driving recommendations using machine learning techniques to serve more personalized content to end users to increase overall engagement. Headcount savings of millions of people. This Service replaces the Existing 3rd party recommendation service which uses huge infra and has huge monthly charges.

Solutions Architect at ZEE5, Sep 2020 - Apr 2021 · 8 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Solution Architect for Zee5 Ads optimization Service. Built products from scratch, driving personalize ads using machine learning techniques to serve more personalized ads to end users to increase overall engagement. Headcount savings of millions of people.

Chief Manager at Times Internet, Jan 2017 - Sep 2020 · 3 yrs 9 mos, Noida Area, India, Colombia Ad-Server: a service cluster is responsible for generating a response for an ad request, it handles the campaign's budgets, targeting, creatives, and other advanced ad-serving features like frequency capping. Its uses multiple recommendation algos for serving Content/Ads. Some of them were feedback-based algos Like Audience Learning, and Industry Learning and some of them was ML-based model for serving more personalized ads and content. In a day it serves ~1B requests for ads/Content. Lead, coach and managed a team of 15 + engineers, 5+ Testers, 3 Tech Support and 2 DevOps person, 4+ teams, which includes multiple Dev leads and Principal Engineers, and Front-end engineers.

Tech Manager 3 at Times Internet, Apr 2015 - Jan 2017 · 1 yr 10 mos, Noida Area, India, Build a SAAS platform from scratch for managing the day-to-day operation of ads/Content delivery. Self-Service/Expresso is a front-end application being used by advertisers/publishers/agencies/sales teams/ operation teams. Users can create and manage campaigns, and creatives and can see different reports. Expresso/Billing Service is responsible for the billing of advertisers and payouts of publishers. It is connected to the organization's internal SAP for recovery and collection.

Tech Manager 2 at Times Internet, Jun 2013 - Apr 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos, Noida Area, India, Developing a framework for Advertisement. on which client can schedule their Advertisement and also customize the Advertisement. Domain: AddTech AdSales(Smart Client): 1. Server side/ Client side architecture 2. Integrate with diff diff adverser. 3. Develop Work flow. 4. Customization flow. 5. Data Mapping. 6. Background Action Process (BAP) Responsibilities: 1. Application development with Spring 3.0 framework. 2. Design the Integration Solution for third party Integration 3. Work on Business Solutions related to specific client requirements.

Ssme at Amdocs cyprus, Jun 2010 - Jun 2013 · 3 y, Limassol

Software Engineer at Vriti, Mar 2009 - Jun 2010 · 1 y 3 mo, Noida