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AI Governance & Responsible AI Architect @ Fidelity Investments (14+ Years)| Enterprise AI & Agentic AI | Copilot Studio | Power Platform | Azure | Financial Services & Compliance

About

I help regulated enterprises adopt AI responsibly, building the governance frameworks, architecture standards, and agentic AI solutions that let organizations innovate with confidence, not risk. With 13+ years spanning Finance, Pharmaceutical, Automotive, and Insurance, I've spent my career at the intersection of compliance, technology, and business value. Today, that experience shapes how I approach AI Governance: designing systems where innovation and control aren't trade-offs, but design principles built in from day one. My Focus: 🔹 Responsible AI & Governance: Establishing AI governance frameworks aligned to NIST AI Risk Management Framework (NIST AI RMF) and ISO/IEC 42001 (AI Management System standard), while evaluating AI system design against emerging regulations including the EU AI Act and India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDP) - translating global regulatory requirements into practical architecture decisions 🔹 Agentic AI & Copilot Architecture: Designing and deploying Copilot Studio experiences and AI Agents that integrate conversational AI with enterprise data — built for scale, security, and auditability from the ground up 🔹 Enterprise AI Architecture: Architecting Power Platform, Azure, and Dataverse solutions that operationalize AI within regulated environments, backed by risk classification, access controls (DLP), and audit trails that satisfy both innovation and compliance mandates 🔹 Compliance-First Delivery: A track record designing Employee Compliance products, Legal Hold litigation tools, and Asset Management systems — the same rigor now applied to how I govern AI systems: risk-tiered, transparent, and accountable by design 🔹 Global, Cross-Functional Leadership: Delivering high-stakes solutions across US, UK, and Japan, leading teams up to 12, in GxP and other tightly regulated environments Governance & Regulatory Frameworks: NIST AI RMF | ISO/IEC 42001 | EU AI Act | DPDP Act | Data Privacy & Protection | AI Risk Classification | Model Governance | Audit & Compliance Controls Technical Foundation: Power Platform | Copilot Studio | Dataverse | Azure Data Factory | Custom Connectors | Azure DevOps CI/CD | REST APIs Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Solution Architect (PL-600), Power Platform Developer (PL-400) Let's Connect: If you're navigating AI governance, building responsible agentic AI programs, or architecting compliant AI solutions in financial services, I'd welcome the conversation. AI's next chapter in regulated industries will be defined by those who can build trust into the architecture itself.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

mcp

xai

githubcopilot

Guardrails AI

Humanloop

Work experience

Senior Manager at Fidelity Investments, Sep 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, AI Governance & Responsible AI: ✔️ Define and operationalize AI governance frameworks, policies, and control standards across the AI/ML and agentic AI lifecycle — from intake and risk classification through deployment and monitoring ✔️ Partner with Legal, Risk, Compliance, and Data Privacy teams to assess AI use cases against regulatory obligations (NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act, DPDP, ISO/IEC 42001) and translate requirements into technical architecture decisions ✔️ Establish model and agent risk assessment processes — evaluating bias, explainability, data lineage, and human-in-the-loop controls before production deployment ✔️ Design access, security, and DLP policies governing AI agents' interaction with enterprise data, ensuring least-privilege access and full auditability ✔️ Drive AI governance committee reviews, documentation standards, and audit-readiness for AI systems deployed across the enterprise Enterprise Architecture & Delivery: ✔️Architected enterprise-wide Employee Compliance modernization, consolidating fragmented Java/.NET applications into a unified Power Platform and Dataverse ecosystem, delivering 60–80% faster disclosure processing ✔️Architected an enterprise Compliance AI Agent platform using Copilot Studio, Power Platform, Dataverse, and Power Automate for policy intake, classification, escalation, and regulatory training Established Copilot Studio governance, AI security, connector standards, and DLP policies to enable responsible enterprise AI adoption ✔️Translated regulatory and business requirements into scalable solutions aligned with FINRA and GDPR, establishing security architecture via Dataverse RBAC and row/column-level controls ✔️Architected an investment data integration platform using Azure Data Factory, ADLS Gen2, Oracle, and Dataverse - automating ingestion, transformation, validation, and distribution ✔️Directed cross-functional teams of up to 12 members across architecture, delivery, and governance

Power Platform Expert at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, Nov 2019 - Sep 2023 · 3 yrs 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Collaborating with stakeholders to ensure the right expectations are set. Resolving customer complaints and escalations as per the defined TAT. Connecting with the customers to understand the problem and providing an early resolution. Designing software as per the project requirements. Mentor all the team members in Power platform. • Preparing product walkthroughs and product manuals (with the help of the product team), SOPs so that customers can understand various product features. Implementing new tech features and ensuring operations and sales team members understand how to use those features. Created Custom component in Power Apps • Actively participate in technical innovations, external presentations. Analysing information to recommend and plan the installation of new systems or modifications of an existing system. Ensuring the product-related complaints and suggestions are taken up with tech and prioritized. Created multiple Power Apps and automated process using power automate

Senior Analyst at Accenture, Jun 2018 - Nov 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Experience in managing projects across cross-functional teams, building sustainable processes, and coordinating release schedules. Responsible for development life cycle of the solution and manage complex projects with significant bottom-line impact. Transition and managing all deliverables in a transition life-cycle. • Work with business partners to understand business problems and challenges, in order to develop strategy, and propose solution options including advice on design, implementation, tools, dependencies, best practices, suitable frameworks/standards and processes for delivery teams. Preparing reports on project specifications • Proactively highlight and resolve issues to help team deliver to planned scope and schedule. Serve as “hands-on” escalation point to identify and suggest approaches to resolve issues. Led teams in building high-quality and highly resilient scalable products and platforms. Implementation of security and data protection.

Consultant at Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India, Oct 2015 - May 2018 · 2 yrs 8 mos, Bangalore Area, India, • Working with governance team for approval and project management methodology. Helping business line to understand project management methodology. Leads team effort in relentless improvement, define and implement improvement stories to increase the velocity and quality of the program. Implement and support principles, rules and processes. Engaging with the team and unblocking them in their daily tasks. • Diagnosing and troubleshooting the problem remotely, which frequently will require re-creating a virtual version of the system environment used by the customer. Performing testing and analysis to evaluate the solution for the discrepancy. Representing Progress in relevant customer/stakeholder communications.

System Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services, Mar 2013 - Oct 2015 · 2 yrs 8 mos, Greater Chennai Area, • On boarding new teams, applications and resources. SPOC for line of business transition process and business requirements. Single point of contact with respect to SOW creation and renewal process for line of business. SME and key member for process improvement. Helps the Product Owner maximize productivity • Act as an enabler for the effective functioning of a software development team using required Methodology. Create & maintain top level development plan according to planning progress, align development with cross functional dependencies and project risk. Delivers on key metrics of project (cost, schedule, performance). • Instil sense of urgency, drive team debate around key issues and risk while keeping big picture and long-term targets in mind. Prepare weekly status reports. Contribute to the company's Community and help develop Communities of Practice, mentor practitioners. Removing impediments to the development team’s progress. Worked on SharePoint various versions SharePoint 2010, 2013 along with knowledge of office 365 (SharePoint online), Nintex Workflow, K2 Workflow, Lotus notes to share point migration.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and instrumentation engineering, University institute of technology

High School, Science, Carmel School