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CTO ( Tech & Digital) @ Digitide Solutions Ltd | “AI-First Digital Native Value Creator” | PhD Scholar - AI TRISM

About

Technology business leader and entrepreneur with 30+ years of global IT services experience, building and scaling high-growth businesses across Digital, Cloud, AI & Enterprise Applications. Proven track record of driving business strategy, P&L growth, market expansion, practice incubation and enterprise transformation across North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia, with leadership experience spanning Wipro Technologies, IBM, Mindtree, Mphasis ,Coforge & Digitide Ltd. A business builder at heart, with a track record of creating businesses, entering new markets and scaling technology capabilities from zero to enterprise scale. At Digitide, built and scaled a large-scale Digital Services business, establishing a portfolio of 100+ global clients within five years and making a significant contribution to organisational revenue and profitability. Core expertise spans AI Strategy & Implementation, Digital Transformation, Cloud, Enterprise Applications, Business & Technology Strategy, P&L Leadership and Global Client Growth. Brings a distinctive combination of entrepreneurial mindset, commercial leadership, technology depth and executive-level client engagement, helping enterprises translate emerging technologies—particularly AI—into business strategy, scalable solutions and measurable business outcomes. Currently Chief Technology Officer (Tech &Digital ) at Digitide Ltd, responsible for AI Strategy & Implementation, P&L of Niche tech practicesCloud and Digital . Also pursuing my PhD in Artificial Intelligence - Trust,Risk and Security Management frameworks currently ,aiming at creating enteprise class robust Agentic AI solutions for global customers.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

cursor

github copilot

langchain

lovable

Work experience

Chief Technology Officer (Tech & Digital) at Digitide, Jun 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 5 mos, bangalore, Currently CTO (Tech & Digital ) @ Digitide Solutions Ltd with prime KRA of AI Strategy & Execution with a focus on helping enterprises move from AI ambition to measurable business impact—shaping AI strategies, prioritising high-value use cases, building GenAI and agentic AI solutions, integrating AI with enterprise data and applications, and scaling successful initiatives into production. Experienced in combining business strategy, technology, data, AI platforms and transformation execution to build sustainable AI-led growth and productivity. P&L ownership of Data & AI ,Digital and Cloud servicelines is another key KRA for the year.

Head -Digital Process Automation at Happiest Minds Technologies, Jan 2020 - Aug 2020 · 8 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, Heading the Digital Process Transformation Initiatives enterprise wide and for our customers . Enterprise Digital transformation Advisory services, Cognitive /Intelligent Automation for the all the BUs of Happiest Minds (Digital ,IMS and Product Engineering Services) comes under my portfolio. End to end Hyper Automation initiatives for Digital Transformation viz, intelligent BPMs ,RPA, Cognitive Automation by AL /ML tech stack, Infra and Security Automation comes under this portfolio. Also ,currently I am a serving member of NASSCOM's SIG on Engineering Automation, charting out the automation best practices and guidelines for the applicable areas of Industry.

Chief Operating Officer at Coforge, Feb 2018 - Sep 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos, Hyderabad Area, India, My role was COO & Head of Digital Process Automation of NIIT Incessant Pvt LTD, a fully owned subsidiary of Coforge ltd ( formerly NIIT Technologies), focusing on Digital Integration and Process Management, thereby facilitating end to end Enterprise Digital Transformation. Core Functions of DPA Delivery ,Technology Practices , Innovations and Solutions reported to me. Proud moment for us at Incessant Technologies to be named as Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Digital Process Automation Service Providers, Q3 2018 . Incessant is a leader in Digital Process Automation, Hybrid Integration and agile delivery of enterprise iBPM solutions. With proven expertise in leading IT solutions involving iBPM, CRM, Case Management, ECM, Middleware, Analytics & Decisioning delivered across digital channels, Incessant has developed innovative go-to-market solutions leveraging partnerships with leading iBPM platforms providers like Pegasystems and Appian. With a focus on Financial Services, Insurance, Travel & Transportation, Government, and Manufacturing, Incessant empowers organizations to exceed business outcomes globally. Incessant, ISO-27001 certified, is ranked in the '20 Most Promising Banking Technology Solution Providers- 2015' by CIO Review and Top 10 Most promising Services Companies in India' by Silicon India (US Edition). Also Recepient of best partner -Customer Excellence : Practice building in Pega World 2018 .Recipient of Best Partner APAC in AppianWorld 2018

Vice President & Head -Digital Practices for DXC & HP BU at Mphasis, Dec 2015 - Jan 2018 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bangalore, Was heading the Digital practices for the DXC & HP Channel business @ Mphasis with P&L ownership of a combined portfolio of USD 100 M +. Also was Global Practice Head for BPM and EAI practices with focus on iBPMs (PEGA ,Appian, IBM ,Tibco, Oracle) This include P&L ownership, capability building, Thought leadership ,sales and presales support of Analytics/ Bigdata ,Mobile ,ECM, User Experience ,Portals, Digital marketing,EAI ( MuleSoft, Dell Boomi, IBM, Oracle, Tibco, Biztalk), BPM ,CRM (Salesforce ,Siebel, PEGA,MS Dynamics),Agile ,Devops and Application Modernization practices. Also heading BPM (Digital business platforms), Integration and Enterprise Architecture (EA) Practices of Mphasis Ltd. Our focus is on Digital Business Platforms (DBP) for enterprise transformation through SMAC and IoT enablement using BPM and EAI product platforms from PEGA ,Appian ,IBM ,Oracle and Tibco. Hybrid Integration Platforms (HIP) for digital transformation is another key service area.API Economy implementation and Realization using leading products like APIGEE,Mulesoft etc and Cloud integration platforms (iPaaS) are also another areas of our specialization.Cloud transformation strategy and Roadmap, Cloud Native ADM,Cognitive technology platforms etc are the key services area of focus.

Serviceline Head - EAI & BPM at Mindtree, Jun 2008 - Dec 2015 · 7 yrs 7 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, Created and led the practice since its inception in year 2008. Digital Transformation using BPM technology is the core focus area using leading products of IBM,PEGA,Appian, Oracle,TIBCO, Software A.G and Microsoft. Grown it to a USD 60 M+ technology Service line which made rapid growth strides in US ,Europe and ME regions for BFSI ,CPG Retail and Manufacturing customers. My Focus areas of specialization are Digital Transformation through intelligent BPMs, SMACT enablement for dynamic enterprises ,Cloud integration, BPaaS and IoT for business process optimization Evangelized and established a “SMACT” CoE (Social ,Mobile ,Analytics,Cloud ,Internet of Things) CoE.Created “SMACT enablement” services for our customers with combined offerings of iPasS (integration Platform as services) and bPaaS( business processes as services.) Established a Cloud integration team who are experts in leading products, IBM CastIron, Dell Boomi, Informatica Cloud,Oracle Cloud,Mulesoft Cloudhub,MS Azure, webMethods and Tibco Silver Cloud platform.

Education

PhD ( In Progress), AI-Trust,Risk and Security Management models, Rv university

MCA, Computer applications, Doctor Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University