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Founder, REM Labs | Making autonomy safe and explainable for regulated enterprise

About

I am building the next wave of AI driven autonomy in software delivery, focused on making autonomy safe and explainable for enterprise environments. After more than a decade leading product and engineering across large scale gaming, cloud platforms, and regulated banking and fintech, I have seen what actually breaks as systems and teams grow. Not the technology, but the way work is planned, coordinated, and executed. I have taken products from zero to scale, built and led high performing teams, and delivered secure and compliant systems in environments where reliability and trust are non negotiable. Those experiences shaped a clear point of view on execution, ownership, and how to build software that holds up in the real world. Today I am applying that experience to an early stage AI initiative focused on rethinking how software is planned, built, and delivered as autonomy becomes unavoidable. The goal is not to maximize autonomy, but to make it safe, explainable, and deployable in enterprise environments where institutional trust matters. If you care deeply about building real systems, leading with clarity, and shaping the future of product and engineering, I am always open to connecting with engineers, leaders, builders, and founders who think the same way.

Location

Bengaluru

Work experience

Founder at REM Labs, Dec 2025 - Present · 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Building an AI-native autonomous engineering system for enterprises where velocity, risk, compliance, and accountability must coexist. REM enables end-to-end software delivery from intent to production while preserving institutional trust. The system is designed to operate safely inside real organizations by maintaining shared context, enforcing governance, and recording decisions across the software lifecycle. This work is informed by years of leading large engineering systems in environments where reliability, security, and oversight are not optional. Currently focused on design partnerships and assembling a founding engineering nucleus.

Vice President of Product and Engineering at Kotak Mahindra Bank, Oct 2023 - Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Strategic Technology Leadership: Owned the engineering roadmap for the Lending portfolio, aligning technical execution with business verticals (Loan Origination, Data Analytics) to drive an 11% revenue increase and a 50% boost in cross-sell opportunities. - Platform Architecture & BaaS: Spearheaded the Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) strategy, architecting a scalable microservices layer and external API gateway that improved system scalability by 50% and slashed partner onboarding time by 70%. - AI-Driven Transformation: Delivered the "Unified Lending Interface" by leveraging AI/ML automation and smart integrations, reducing loan processing time from 7 days to 1 day and increasing user productivity by 55%. - Organizational Governance: Built the Product, Program, and Technology functions from the ground up, managing TCO, budget, and talent acquisition. Established an Architecture Review Board (ARB) to standardize design patterns and ensure long-term system resilience. - Engineering Velocity: Institutionalized a bank-wide Test Automation Framework (Rest Assured, Selenium, Healenium), reducing regression efforts by 70% and resulting in a 30% improvement in delivery predictability via enhanced CI/CD pipelines.

Senior Manager, Strategic Initiative at Mobile Premier League (MPL), May 2021 - Oct 2023 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Founding Leadership & Platform Scale: As a Founding Member, led the 0-to-1 launch of Striker (Mobile Game) and GGX.io (a Blockchain-enabled SDK & Marketplace for developers). Scaled the ecosystem to process $20M in transaction volume and support 100k trades per minute within a 4-month timeline. - Organizational Scale: Built the engineering culture from the ground up, scaling the team from scratch to a 70+ member cross-functional organization with aligned KPIs to drive rapid business growth. - High-Performance Architecture & Web3: Defined the foundational tech stack, integrating Solana blockchain for high-throughput NFT minting and ledger services alongside a resilient microservices architecture (React, Java, Python) to ensure industry-leading uptime. - Product-Engineering Strategy: Bridged the gap between product vision and technical feasibility, managing backlog prioritization and roadmaps to ensure 98% adherence to release cycles in a high-velocity gaming environment. - Revenue Engineering: Architected a "White Label" monetization backbone with dynamic payment routing, optimizing vendor integrations to achieve a 98% transaction success rate and maximize revenue capture. - Operational Excellence: Established the engineering governance framework, improving analytics and reporting while maintaining 97% compliance with cost projections and preserving 100% P&L integrity. - AI/ML Monetization: Partnered with Data Science to deploy advanced CLM strategies, utilizing ML modeling of in-game assets to drive a 7% revenue boost and 10% WoW user resurrection. - Platform Engineering (DevEx): Built the "Vector Design System" and a global "plug-and-play" architecture template, accelerating new market launches by 45% and reducing engineering overhead by 65%.

Senior Technical Manager at Nutanix, Jun 2019 - May 2021 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Drove global-scale delivery of Nutanix hybrid cloud solutions, aligning technical execution with product strategy and accelerating infrastructure adoption across key markets. • Hybrid-Cloud Feature Delivery: Led delivery of hybrid cloud features with embedded AI/ML-driven analytics, increasing customer adoption by 12% YoY across 35 enterprise clients. • Agile at Scale: Instituted SAFe Agile Release Trains and Doneness Criteria across 6 global pods, improving sprint predictability and boosting resource utilization by 20%. • End-to-End Program Ownership: Delivered complex, multi-release programs across Application Orchestration and Cloud Migration platforms, contributing to a 12% GMV increase through coordinated cross-functional execution. • Roadmap & Risk Leadership: Partnered with senior leadership to shape engineering roadmaps aligned with strategic business goals; accelerated delivery timelines by 30% across APJ and SAARC markets. • Global Collaboration & Stakeholder Management: Drove weekly execution forums across Engineering, Product, and Support orgs, enabling synchronized releases across regions and improving GTM readiness.

Technical Manager at Dell EMC, Mar 2016 - Jun 2019 · 3 yrs 4 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, Led large-scale infrastructure and release programs across global product lines, ensuring secure, compliant, and scalable delivery across cloud and data center environments. • Program Delivery Excellence: Engineered and delivered cloud infrastructure solutions for storage, backup and disaster recovery solution, driving $17.3M in revenue and achieving a 9.4 CSAT score. • Accelerated Global Delivery: Managed cross-continental cloud releases across NA, EU, and APAC—reducing time-to-market by 40% while maintaining 100% compliance and delivery integrity. • Secure CI/CD Architecture: Built and governed CI/CD pipelines with embedded security gates and audit-ready compliance frameworks; reduced ops costs by 25%. • Stakeholder Alignment: Aligned cross-geo engineering and product teams on program objectives, increasing on-time delivery by 30% and ensuring consistent quality across global projects.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science and Engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University