Headline

Vice President of Engineering | Agentic AI Expert | Ex-Intuit, Target, Honeywell

About

With over 20+ years of experience in enterprise and digital technology, I am a seasoned leader who spearheads strategic technology planning and execution initiatives. I am currently working as Vice President of Engineering at WorkSpan an AI First #1 co-selling platform. Helped organisations to build the AI ML strategy using cloud technologies from defining objectives, tools and techniques, use cases and ROI, iterate and improve and building the CoE My primary focus lies in defining future state technology architectures and crafting comprehensive roadmaps, while also establishing clear visions for IT modernization and coexistence strategies. I also possess expertise in evaluating vendor technology products, offering valuable recommendations on package solution purchases while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards. Additionally, I have a proven ability to build high-performing technology teams from the ground up, handling budget planning, talent acquisition, and fostering a culture of engineering excellence within the organization. As a domain expert in supply chain management and B2B platform development, I have successfully designed, developed, and executed large scale enterprise solutions that cater to the needs of thousands of customers and orders per day. I have also enabled API first approach, SaaS delivery model, E2E tracking, and seamless integration with third-party logistics providers. Furthermore, I have strong expertise in cloud computing, systems architecture, and microservice architecture, using AWS, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Jira, Git, MySQL, and MongoDB as my preferred tools and technologies. I am passionate about building and scaling tech and talent for Arzooo Commerce and Fintech, and making strategic decisions for buy-build-partner scenarios. Areas of Expertise: Product Development, Engineering Management, Product Management, Program Management, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Research and Development (R&D), Software Project Management

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

hugging face

langchain

ollama

openai

Work experience

Vice President of Engineering | India Site Lead at WorkSpan, Nov 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos, Bangalore Urban, Lead engineering execution across core SaaS platform and Agentic AI product initiatives, aligning roadmap delivery with quarterly OKRs and GTM priorities post-SKO. Driving Workspan’s transition from SaaS to an AI Agent company by building agentic workflows integrated with JIRA, Bitbucket, Confluence, MCP tooling, and LLMs (Claude/GPT). Established measurable engineering quality outcomes: reduced production incidents, improved release predictability, and increased delivery speed through stronger release governance and engineering discipline. Built scalable engineering operating rhythm: sprint cadence, release readiness, quality gates, incident reviews, and cross-functional execution with Product, Sales, and Professional Services. Improved customer trust by focusing engineering priorities on reliability, customer-impacting defects, and operational excellence (production health as a first-class KPI). Led execution strategy for Partner Desk and AI-enabled features including natural language query, workflow automation, and operational intelligence for partner teams. Partnered with Customer Support and PS to drive operational enablement, closing feedback loops from production issues into engineering prioritization. Built a culture of accountability and high performance through clear ownership, measurable goals, and engineering excellence standards.

Fractional CTO at Freelance, Jun 2024 - Nov 2024 · 6 mos, Remote, Helped multiple orgs to scale from 1 to 10

Vice President of Engineering at Arzooo, Jan 2024 - Aug 2024 · 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Director of Engineering at Arzooo, Apr 2023 - Dec 2023 · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Leading Arzooo B2B engineering team - Building platform for B2B omni-channel commerce - Responsible for ensuring SRE operations for org - Responsible for enabling data drive development to help PODs to increase productivity - Establishing strategic alliance with major tech companies - Established Tech roadmap for Arzooo Commerce Tech and Fintech - Scaled Arzooo commerce App to handle 10K RPS - Scaling SCM solution for SaaS - Hiring and Growing talent for B2B and Fintech - Enabling processes to operate at 100x scale

Director of Engineering at Arzooo, Aug 2022 - Apr 2023 · 9 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, - Responsible for building supply chain products and distributors technology platform. Scaled SCM and Distributors platform from 1 to 10+. - Built SCM platform to cater to 10K orders per day - Enabled API first approach in ensuring platforms are enabled for SaaS - Built integration platform for seamless integration with 3PLs - Enabled E2E tracking for all miles providing real time analytics for control tower

Group Development Manager at Intuit India, Mar 2021 - Aug 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Responsible for building and scaling mid-market and high-value customer solutions. Build tech road map in close association with tech architects and product owners Providing engineering leadership for the QuickBooks platform which is clocking revenue of 1.7 bn USD

Chief Software Architect/CTO at SCLEN.AI, Sep 2018 - Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, Rebuild TMS (Logistics and Trasnportations) to SaaS subscription-based on Microservice architecture. Build highly scalable cloud-based solutions for the logistics industry serving and managing most of the marquee clients in India Responsible for implementing DevOps culture leading to many first features in the market Managing IT budget within the constraints Negotiation with technology vendor partners

Education

Executive Leadership, Artificial Intelligence, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Gulbarga University