Headline

Technology Executive | Engineering, AI & Platform Transformation | Building & Scaling Global Technology Organizations | India Technology Leadership | AI Hubs & Global Capabilities

About

Global Technology Executive with 25+ years of experience leading Product Engineering, Platform Engineering, Enterprise AI/GenAI, Developer Platforms, Cloud Modernisation, Digital Transformation, and Global Capability Centre (GCC) strategy. I build and scale global engineering organisations, modernise mission-critical platforms, and create technology operating models that improve customer experience, engineering velocity, resilience, and business outcomes. My leadership experience spans startups, Big Tech, and Fortune 100 enterprises, including Amazon, Intuit, Allstate, NetApp, EMC, HP, Novell, and IBM. I have led global Product Engineering organisations of 380+ across India, the United States, and the United Kingdom, and provided India Site Leadership for a 700+ technology organisation. I work at the intersection of technology strategy, organisation design, talent and leadership development, engineering execution, product management, UX, architecture, and platform strategy. Core leadership areas: * Global Technology & Engineering Leadership * Product Engineering & Digital Product Organisations * Platform Engineering, Internal Developer Platforms (IDP) & Developer Experience * Enterprise AI, Generative AI, LLM Platforms, AI Governance & Agentic AI Orchestration * Cloud-Native Modernisation, API-First Architecture, DevSecOps, SRE & Observability * Engineering Transformation, Product Operating Models & Outcome-Based Delivery * GCC Strategy, India Site Leadership, Organisation Design & Talent Development * Customer Experience Platforms, Payments, Insurance Technology & Cyber Resilience I have led enterprise platform and operating-model transformations that materially improved software delivery speed, deployment frequency, reliability, operational resilience, and customer outcomes. My work includes scaling cloud-native developer platforms, building governed enterprise AI capabilities, and establishing India technology organisations as strategic global product engineering and innovation hubs. I engage with business and technology leaders, founders, and investors on global technology leadership, enterprise AI adoption, platform engineering strategy, product transformation, and GCC setup and scaling. I build organisations, platforms, and leaders that create durable enterprise capabilities and measurable business outcomes.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

aistudio

anthropic apis

cursor

gemini

langchain

langgraph

Work experience

Executive Advisor at Confidential Client Engagements / Strategic Advisory, Jan 2026 - Present · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, * Partnering with C-suite executives, founders, and investors on enterprise AI adoption, platform engineering strategy, and Global Capability Centre (GCC) setup and scaling. * Support Vilocha Technologies, a U.S.-based EdTech startup, with AI-enabled product strategy, WCAG-aligned accessibility, and scalable platform architecture. * Guide AI infrastructure ventures on enterprise scalability and commercialisation strategy, translating platform capability into go-to-market readiness.

Director of Product Engineering - Allstate Technology Solutions at Allstate, Jun 2023 - Dec 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, India Site Leader for a 700+ technology organisation and direct leader of a 380+ global product engineering organisation across India, the United States, and the United Kingdom, spanning engineering, product, UX, platform, and AI teams. Partnered with business and technology executives to introduce a digital product operating model, including Outcome-Based Delivery, Digital Product Teams, platform engineering, and product-centric governance. Led global product engineering for Allstate’s Agency ecosystem—including eAgent, AdvisorPro, and related agency-facing products—as well as the iVantage product portfolio, spanning agent experiences, digital sales, payments, policy servicing, and omnichannel capabilities Modernized engineering through platform engineering, API-first architecture, cloud-native modernization, DevSecOps, SRE, and engineering automation, reducing delivery cycles from ~3 years to under 3 months while achieving 10× deployment frequency, 85% lower lead time, <5% change failure rate, 73% fewer production incidents, and 68% faster MTTR. Co-created governed enterprise AI capabilities—including LLM platforms, agentic AI orchestration, conversational AI, and intelligent automation—that supported Allstate’s broader AI ecosystem and aligned with the emerging AI strategy. Built senior engineering leadership capability, strengthened succession and engineering excellence, and positioned India as a strategic global product engineering and innovation partner.

Co-Founder healthcare startup at Stealth Mode Startup, Sep 2022 - Jun 2023 · 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Joined the founding team of a healthcare technology startup. Led product strategy and engineering, building a cloud-native, multi-tenant platform for secure healthcare data exchange and digital experiences. Defined the technology vision, platform architecture, security, and engineering operating model. Strengthened my perspective on building products, platforms, and technology organizations from an early stage.

Director - Developer Platform - Services and Experiences at Intuit, Dec 2020 - Jul 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Led Intuit's Developer Platform organisation in India and served on the Intuit India Engineering Leadership Team. As the India site leader for the organisation, led cross-functional Engineering, Product Management, Program Management, and UX teams building strategic cloud-native platform capabilities that enabled software development across Intuit's flagship products. Co-led the evolution of Intuit's Kubernetes-based Internal Developer Platform (IDP), delivering a 6× improvement in engineering velocity by reducing developer cognitive load through platform standardization and infrastructure abstraction. Led engineering for a platform operating 2,500+ production services across 350+ Kubernetes clusters, providing the cloud-native foundation for secure, reliable, and scalable software delivery. Led the evolution of the Istio-based Service Mesh, modernized Intuit's internal messaging platform for cloud-native scale on AWS, and co-led API Gateway modernization to strengthen security, resilience, and traffic management across distributed applications. Co-led the One Intuit Logging (OIL) initiative while leading distributed tracing, customer observability, and Full Customer Interaction (FCI) capabilities, transforming platform telemetry into actionable engineering and customer insights. Partnered with Product Management, Architecture, Security, and global engineering leaders to define platform strategy, technology roadmaps, and long-term engineering investments while building high-performing leaders and teams.

Engineering Leader at Amazon, Jan 2018 - Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 10 mos, Bangalore, Led engineering for Amazon Music's digital commerce and media platforms, including the Digital Music Store, payment processing, Transcoding Platform, Music Downloads, and strategic platform initiatives. Partnered with global leaders to scale Amazon Music internationally, modernize core media infrastructure, and launch new customer experiences. As Single-Threaded Owner (STO) for Amazon Music Videos, led platform architecture and execution across multiple engineering organizations spanning Alexa, AI/NLP, catalog, mobile, UX, and search. Built high-performing engineering teams while driving platform scalability, operational excellence, and technical innovation.

Engineering leader at Amazon, Aug 2016 - Dec 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Led engineering for Amazon India's Payments Acceptance platform, partnering with business, product, banking, and engineering leaders to build the payment capabilities powering one of Amazon India's fastest-growing businesses. Owned the last mile of Amazon India's customer payment journey, including Amazon India's first Payment Gateway, payment processor and bank integrations, checkout payment experiences, UPI enablement, and the operational platforms supporting high-volume commerce transactions. Led strategic platform initiatives spanning payment processing, intelligent transaction routing, real-time payment observability, and platform resilience to improve customer experience, operational efficiency, and business scalability. Built and developed engineering leaders while strengthening technical excellence, operational rigor, and cross-functional execution across engineering, product, operations, finance, risk, and external payment partners.

Education

Executive education, Sustaining High Performance, Babson F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business

BE, Electronics and Communication, Karnatak University