Headline

Outcome driven Engineering Leader

About

With 27 years of experience in IT companies big and small, I bring with me a focus towards solving outcome based pain points of our customers. AI or not AI, my focus is on solving business problems, moving them forward in their journey of higher efficiencies and outcomes. I bring with me experience and knowledge of hundreds of products and integrations that we put together using myriads of technologies solving business problems. .

Location

Pune District

AI stack

aistudio

codex

geminicli

perplexity

Work experience

Head of Digital Engineering India at Syngenta Group, Aug 2025 - Present · 11 mos

Product and Technical Leadership at Nuragi | AI Workforces Built for Results., Apr 2025 - Jul 2025 · 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Building outcome based Agentic AI solutions leveraging and orchestrating best in class AI platforms and Agents available globally. Expediting your Agentic AI journey leading to higher efficiencies and business outcomes.

VP of Engineering, Data Platform, Analytics & Insights and Behavior Management at PowerSchool, Apr 2022 - Apr 2025 · 3 yrs 1 mo, On-site, - Expanding engineering teams to over 50 professionals, driving an exceptional 10x enhancement in platform capabilities and responsiveness to market demands. - Establishing dynamic cross-functional forums that consistently decrease invalid support escalations by over 40%, thereby optimizing operational efficiency and enhancing stakeholder engagement. - Implementing a transformative team reorganization that significantly boosts operational efficiency and accelerates innovation cycles across the engineering domain. - Leading the migration of hundreds of customers from Azure to AWS, achieving an impressive 80% reduction in upgrade timelines, which streamlines deployment processes and improves service delivery. - Expanding and scaling platform and establishing large customers with millions of students and users. - Developing brand new application for multi-tier system of support with high demand and rapid growth

Sr Director of Engineering, Classroom (Schoology, Performance Matters, Kickboard, Haiku Learning) at PowerSchool, Dec 2017 - Apr 2023 · 5 yrs 5 mos, Hybrid, - Established and grew teams for Schoology with 80+ engineers from scratch - led acquisition and integration of multiple teams such as performance matters, haiku learning and kickboard - successfully led applications to sunset migrating customers to new lms - enabled teams to manage end to end including releasing during india time and supporting P0s.

Director of Engineering at Zenoti, Sep 2015 - Nov 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Hyderabad Area, India, - selected architecture, technologies for analytics and data migration platforms. - launched data and analytics platform to 3 of largest customers with 200% revenue growth - hired and built team from scratch of 25+ engineers

Founder, Haducation and SoApt at Haducation, Jan 2015 - Sep 2015 · 9 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, • Launched Training programs for professionals in Big Data and Hadoop Technologies, training 200+ professionals on technologies like Hadoop, map-reduce, and hive. • Focused on yoga and meditation to re-center myself during this time.

Education

B.Tech, Manufacturing Sc and Engg, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

PGDMS, AIML and Data Science, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore