About
With 19+ years leading data, AI, and engineering programs at scale, I turn strategy into systems that work. I lead AI strategy, AI architecture, and digital transformation within Powertrain Engineering at Mercedes-Benz R&D India, where I'm responsible for a large-scale engineering AI Products & Platforms. My focus: building the data and AI foundations that let engineering teams move faster and make better decisions - not just adopting AI, but embedding it into how the org actually works. Before this, I spent more than a decade at Microsoft across Azure, building and scaling data and AI platforms. As Senior Product Manager for Azure Security Platform, I led the data engineering organization behind a major enterprise security product, scaling the team from a small core group to a large, high-performing org with zero attrition and driving significant revenue growth through ML-driven demand forecasting and an enterprise GenAI system that meaningfully reduced support load. Earlier programs included a large-scale cloud migration and an edge computer-vision system for worker safety - practices from both were later adopted org-wide across Azure. What I bring: → 19+ years across technical program management, data science, and ML systems → Track record building and scaling AI/data platforms in complex, regulated environments → Deep experience translating strategy into operational execution - cloud migrations, real-time systems, org-wide AI adoption → A bias for data-driven decisions and measurable outcomes over process for its own sake Beyond the roadmaps, I invest in building teams - mentoring engineers and program leads, and creating space for people to grow into bigger roles than the ones they started in. The strongest outcomes I've delivered were never solo efforts. I'm currently focused on data and AI strategy at enterprise scale
Work experience
Senior Program Manager Lead at Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India, Sep 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 1 mo
Senior Product Manager at Microsoft, Jan 2021 - Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 8 mos, Led the data engineering organization and product for a $50M ARR platform serving 10,000+ enterprise customers. Partnered with engineering (Azure , M365 , CXP , CSS and quality orgs on reliability engineering and incident reduction, driving ~15% gains in operational efficiency and support deflection through data-informed tooling and process automation.
Senior Program Manager - Security | Customer Experience Engineering (CxE) at Microsoft, Mar 2019 - Dec 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos, Drove engineering-led governance across Microsoft's cloud identity and security portfolio (Azure Identity, Microsoft Defender). Embedded with platform engineering teams to influence architecture and roadmap decisions - leveraging telemetry pipelines and customer insight models to prioritize risk-reduction capabilities at enterprise scale. Owned two large-scale platform programs: a 400TB cloud data migration and a real-time computer-vision system.
Senior Consultant - Cloud Modernization at Microsoft, May 2015 - Feb 2019 · 3 yrs 10 mos, Program Lead - SharePoint Cloud Modernization & FTC
Senior Development Engg at Aditi Technologies, Jan 2012 - Oct 2012 · 10 mos
Senior Software Engineer at Infosys / Aditi, Jun 2007 - Nov 2012 · 5 yrs 6 mos, Built distributed systems handling 50K+ daily users and 10M+ annual transactions at sub-100ms latency.
Technology Analyst at Infosys Technologies Ltd, May 2007 - Dec 2011 · 4 yrs 8 mos, Bangalore
