Headline

Forward Deployed Engineer & Technical Lead | Enterprise Data Journeys, Systems Analysis & AI-Augmented Delivery

About

I am a Technical Lead and Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) with over 9 years of experience bridging the gap between complex enterprise business requirements and rapid, scalable technical execution. While my foundational engineering background is deeply rooted in Java and complex object-oriented design, I currently operate as a language-agnostic systems expert. By heavily leveraging Agentic AI frameworks (GitHub Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT), I drive high-velocity execution across Python, C#/.NET, and Azure ecosystems without being bottlenecked by language-specific syntax. This AI-assisted model allows me to focus entirely on high-level system analysis, strategic client integrations, and robust cloud infrastructure design. Currently, I serve as the Delivery Lead and Platform SME for the Unified Data Platform (UDP) backend at BP, operating in a highly forward-deployed capacity. I treat BP’s massive internal business units as direct enterprise clients, actively partnering with the UDP Project Manager to audit their legacy workflows, conduct rigorous cost and feature analyses, and architect complex migration paths onto our core platform. To maintain project momentum, I provide critical directional guidance that unblocks downstream engineering teams, collaborating closely with enterprise architects to finalize target-state platform designs. A core pillar of my role is analyzing and defining comprehensive Enterprise Data Journeys. My involvement spans the entire data lifecycle: from data discovery and access control to metadata management, platform governance, data quality, cost isolation, and real-time telemetry. I structure these journeys to ensure our platform directly solves real-world bottlenecks for data stewards, engineers, and executive stakeholders. Alongside this analytical, client-facing role, I remain deeply hands-on in end-to-end technical delivery. Over the past 15 months, I have driven 80+ production releases and 80+ pull requests. I direct AI frameworks to generate comprehensive backend solutions encompassing CI/CD pipelines, background job automation, and event-driven data ingestion via Azure Event Hub to successfully deploy platform capabilities to our consumers.

Location

Pune District

AI stack

claude code

claude

gemini

github copilot

mcp

ChatGPT

Work experience

Technical Lead / Forward Deployed SME at bp, Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos, Pune District, Maharashtra, India, Forward-Deployed Analysis: Operate as the primary platform SME, treating massive internal business units as enterprise clients. Partner with the PM to audit legacy workflows, conduct cost/feature analysis, and engineer migration paths onto the UDP core product. Strategic Direction: Drive technical momentum by providing directional guidance to client teams and collaborating with enterprise architects to finalize target-state platform designs. Enterprise Data Journeys: Define user workflows spanning the full lifecycle: data discovery, access, metadata, governance, quality, cost & real-time telemetry. Drafted unified metamodels integrating Databricks & Palantir Foundry for end-users. AI-Augmented Delivery: Executed 80+ releases & 80+ PRs in 15 months utilizing AI-assisted tools (Claude, Copilot) to generate Python/C# code, maximizing delivery velocity. End-to-End Infrastructure: Engineered client-facing solutions beyond APIs, delivering CI/CD pipelines, background Hangfire automation, and Azure Event Hub event-driven data ingestion to support massive legacy migrations.

SDE2 at ServiceNow, Feb 2021 - Jun 2024 · 3 yrs 5 mos, Built Engagement Messenger from scratch, embedding real-time conversational chat directly into CSM/FSM portals & third-party mobile apps via WebView. Owned end-to-end component design, UI, server-side integrations & Java SDK implementation. Designed the Portal Browse Taxonomy for hierarchical knowledge discovery.

Lead Software Engineer at Persistent Systems, Sep 2020 - Dec 2020 · 4 mos, Pune Division, Maharashtra, India, Ideas Dev team

Senior Software Engineer at Persistent Systems, Mar 2019 - Sep 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos

Senior Software Engineer at Capgemini, Oct 2018 - Mar 2019 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Software Engineer at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech, Oct 2016 - Sep 2018 · 2 yrs, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Citi bank Development team

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Savitribai Phule Pune University

12th, PCM and Computer Science, kendriya vidyalaya