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title: "Shashank Shekhar - AI Delivery Lead (AI Strategy & Transformation) in Bengaluru | Tal"
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# Shashank Shekhar on Tal

## Headline

AI Strategy & Transformation Leader \| GenAI, Agentic AI \| Driving Enterprise AI Adoption, ROI & Automation at Scale \| Ex Consulting \| C\-Level AI Programs

## About

AI Strategy & Transformation Leader with 14\+ years of experience driving enterprise\-scale AI programs across telecom, banking, insurance, and IT services\. I specialize in translating GenAI and Agentic AI capabilities into measurable business outcomes — including cost optimization, process automation, and revenue enablement\. Currently leading AI initiatives at T\-Systems, I have designed and executed enterprise\-wide AI roadmaps, secured C\-level sponsorship, and delivered high\-impact GenAI solutions including autonomous workflows, SAP automation, multilingual AI platforms, and enterprise assistants\. My work focuses on bridging business and AI — from RFP and solutioning to production deployment — ensuring scalability, governance, and measurable ROI\. Core expertise: • AI Strategy & Transformation • GenAI, Agentic AI, LLMOps • Enterprise AI Platforms \(RAG, GraphRAG, MCP\) • Program Leadership & Governance • Stakeholder Management \(C\-Level\)

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

claude

elevenlabs

kimi

langchain

langgraph

## Work experience

AI Delivery Lead \(AI Strategy & Transformation\) at T\-Systems ICT India Pvt\. Ltd\., Jan 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 8 mos, AI Strategy & Delivery Lead \| T\-Systems • Shaped the enterprise AI agenda by defining a multi\-year roadmap across 16\+ high\-impact use cases, securing C\-level sponsorship and aligning AI initiatives with business priorities and ROI objectives\. • Drove adoption of GenAI and Agentic AI across business functions by translating emerging capabilities into scalable, enterprise\-ready solutions integrated with core systems such as SAP and ITSM platforms\. • Owned end\-to\-end accountability for AI programs, guiding cross\-functional teams through ambiguity and ensuring alignment between business stakeholders, architecture, and delivery execution\. • Established governance, prioritization frameworks, and operating cadence for AI initiatives, enabling leadership visibility, structured decision\-making, and consistent delivery outcomes\. • Acted as a strategic partner to business and technology leaders, influencing investment decisions, solution direction, and enterprise AI adoption strategy\. • Led AI solutioning and proposal development for key opportunities, shaping narratives, defining architecture, and contributing to pipeline growth and successful bid outcomes\.

Senior Data Scientist \| AI Consulting & Solution Delivery at Fujitsu Network Communications, Sep 2022 \- Oct 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Enhanced scalability and performance of enterprise AI applications for telecom analytics \(RU router data\), enabling reliable anomaly detection, forecasting, and data\-driven decision\-making at scale\. • Improved model accuracy and system performance by identifying optimization opportunities, resolving critical issues, and enhancing overall user experience across AI\-driven workflows\. • Re\-architected core correlation algorithms, significantly improving scalability and analytical precision for large\-scale telecom datasets\. • Designed and implemented intelligent assistant capabilities within the platform, improving user interaction, accessibility, and adoption of AI features across business users\. • Built and optimized microservices\-based architecture \(FastAPI, ETL pipelines, sequence mining\), enabling modular, scalable, and production\-ready AI components\. • Enabled continuous improvement of analytics capabilities by recommending and implementing enhancements across classification, forecasting, and insight generation modules\.

Senior Data Scientist at Innova Solutions \(Standard Chartered Bank\), Jan 2022 \- Jun 2022 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Developed reusable AI modules for evaluating data suitability, stability, and robustness in model validation, utilizing TensorFlow, PyTorch, pytesseract, NLTK, CV2, sklearn, pandas, and other Python libraries • Served as a member of the Responsible\-AI \(RAI\) review forum and council, responsible for creating and implementing a governance framework to ensure ethical development and deployment of AI technology and data usage, leveraging ICS and materiality assessment techniques • Conducted research on creating and encrypting pip\-installable packages for model validation classes, intended for future use by other teams and organizations as proprietary assets\. • Prepared monthly presentations using advanced charts generated with Plotly, Seaborn, and Matplotlib libraries, for business updates, stakeholder engagement, and MIS reporting

Senior Analyst at LTI \- Larsen & Toubro Infotech, May 2017 \- Jan 2022 · 4 yrs 9 mos, Bangalore, • Led and delivered an end\-to\-end machine learning project to predict the company's attrition rate with a 0\.81 recall, employing ML\-based classification models and NLP techniques \(text classification\) using LTI employee data for model training and validation\. • Contributed to a computer vision project aimed at identifying license plates of moving vehicles on streets\. The project utilized YOLO v\-4 from the CV2 library, pre\-trained on the COCO dataset, to capture license plates in real\-time • Engaged in continuous R&D for AI solutions such as NLP \(attention\-based transformers\) and computer vision • Developed action plans to mitigate decision\-making risks while increasing profitability through data science applications • Oversaw end\-to\-end project execution, managed risks, and ensured project quality • Enhanced an existing AWS\-based recommender system using collaborative filtering and SVD for the search feature on the Viacom web and mobile app

Senior Analyst at Deustche Bank, Jul 2015 \- Jun 2017 · 2 yrs, • Developed automated trade booking scripts using UFT \(VBS\), which were adopted by teams across various verticals, resulting in reduced manual effort during test cycles • Participated in project estimation, tracking, and reporting processesc

## Education

Information Technology Project Management, IT Project Management, Indian School of Business

PGP, Artificial Intelligence, Texas McCombs School of Business

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