Headline

Director, Digital Platforms and AI Engineering

About

Technology and Digital Leader with nearly 20 years of experience leading global Engineering, Product, Platform, Data, Infrastructure, Security, and AI organizations. Proven track record of driving digital transformation, scaling high-performing teams, modernizing technology platforms, and delivering enterprise software products that accelerate business growth and customer value. Currently leading global teams across software engineering, digital platforms, cloud, data, and AI, with a focus on Connected Labs, AIDLC, Platform Engineering, and Agentic AI. Passionate about building future-ready organizations through innovation, engineering excellence, AI-powered delivery models, and product-centric operating models. Experienced in technology strategy, organizational transformation, cloud modernization, enterprise architecture, AI adoption, M&A integration, and leadership development. I enjoy partnering with business leaders to turn technology into a strategic growth driver while building teams and platforms that scale globally.

Location

Bengaluru

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Work experience

Director, Digital Platforms and AI Engineering at Thermo Fisher Scientific, Sep 2024 - Present · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Driving digital transformation and connected laboratory initiatives by bridging customer needs, business strategy, and technology innovation. - Leading global organizations across Digital Products, Platforms, AI, Cloud, Data, and Engineering to deliver scalable solutions that accelerate scientific discovery and operational excellence. - Championing Generative AI and Agentic AI adoption through intelligent platforms, workflow automation, and next-generation digital experiences. - Partnering with customers, commercial teams, R&D, and executive leadership to shape product strategy, technology roadmaps, and long-term business growth. - Building high-performing global teams and innovation cultures that transform ideas into measurable customer and business outcomes.

Director, Software Engineering at Thermo Fisher Scientific, Oct 2022 - Sep 2024 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Lead teams building AI enabled features for Connect Platform leveraging Open AI LLMs, SBERT, Vector DB for embedding layer, Graph DB for relationships and visualisation of data. -Responsible for Digital Foundation Teams. - Built product development teams from ground up. https://www.thermofisher.com/in/en/home/digital-science/thermo-fisher-connect.html - Leading Platform teams who are responsible for building Enterprise class Mobility and Cloud Platform Products on AWS using SaFE Agile methodologies - Drive Technical roadmap, Engineering excellence, Architecture, Best practices and innovation - Lead Global Hackathon focused on emerging technologies, purpose driven innovation - Attract, retain, develop and manage engineering & technical talent pools including input into performance reviews and managing career paths - Engage with the Product Management, SRE, R&D, Finance and C-level executives in driving the Digital -Business alignment - Received accolades as role model leader

Senior Engineering Manager at Thermo Fisher Scientific, May 2021 - Oct 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Responsible for building teams from scratch, leading Connect Platform teams and managing the operational budgets annually for the division - Empower teams to focus on optimization of SDLC, CI/CD practices, automation, NFRs, CIS practices and purpose driven innovation - Competency development, running innovation hub and general management of the team - Responsible for process compliance, quality and regulatory aspects of the development and lead the core teams who has driven the ISO 9001 and 27001, GDPR, GxP certifications - Partner with recruiting team to optimize the process for interviewing and evaluating candidates to ensure an inclusive, high-performing team

Manager, Software Engineering at Zurich Insurance Company Ltd, Feb 2012 - Nov 2017 · 5 yrs 10 mos, London, United Kingdom/ Zurich, Switzerland, Technical Manager leading the teams distributed across multiple geographies including Project Managers, Technical Architect and Team Leads from Development and QA practices. Instrumental in making the teams deliver as per the release plan and making sure the communication is efficient across the projects. - Managed teams spread across UK, Switzerland and India - Provided technical direction for the development, design, systems integration from definition phase through implementation - Analyse metrics, deliver engaging, informative, well organised presentations to the customers as well as internal Governance meetings with program management and key stakeholders -Oversee the team onboarding and off-boarding, making sure the compliance is adhered throughout the process - Encourage and organize technical forums within the team to enforce customer standards and best practices

Technical Lead at D+H, Sep 2010 - Feb 2012 · 1 yr 6 mos, Toronto, Canada Area, Development Lead for a greenfield product team. First person to land in the team and grew the team to 30+, both in Canada and India. Helped in setting up the team from scratch, standardised operations and delivery. -Played a key role in establishing the best practices, operating mechanisms and delivery teams across multiple locations -Vendor management for the application based on OpenText Livelink, SQL Server and IBM Web Sphere - Able to quickly go from ideation to product development. Designed and provided the technical solutions for critical modules.

Lead Software Engineer at Wipro Limited, Aug 2007 - Aug 2010 · 3 yrs 1 mo, London, United Kingdom/Bangalore, India, Analyst Programmer/Module Lead for various critical modules and delivered product with high quality - Proposed and developed various in-house tools that increased the productivity and quick turnaround for the clients. Developed and supported applications with C#, XML,WPF ,ASP.NET, WCF, SQL Server, ASP.NET, Informix etc., - Recognized as the SME for the Product and played Build and Deployment Lead role for the overall BU. - Played a vital role as the communication point of contact for all the teams that are part of the product for any issues or change requests on the product. - Responsible in assisting in the design, delivery, and improvement of in-house software applications training programs and related course ware.

Education

Program for Senior Executive Leaders, Organizational Leadership, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, JNTU Anantapur