About
AI-driven Product and Engineering Leader with 16+ years of experience building intelligent, scalable, and autonomous platforms for industrial automation and enterprise engineering ecosystems. My work focuses on transforming engineering from a manual, tool-centric activity into an AI-assisted, data-driven, and autonomous business capability—reducing engineering effort, accelerating time-to-market, and improving system reliability at scale with patents that directly address business-critical challenges in industrial automation including AI-enriched engineering workflows, open and autonomous engineering ecosystems, vulnerability detection intelligence, and Zero-Engineering paradigms. These patents serve as platform-level enablers, driving reduced engineering cost, faster commissioning, improved system resilience, and scalable ecosystem growth. Across roles at ABB, Siemens, and Intel Security, I have owned end-to-end product strategy, translating deep customer pain points into AI-powered, production-ready platforms through close collaboration with engineering, research, UX, and business stakeholders. Strategic Digital Transformation Leadership: Expertise in large-scale digital core modernization programs, with the ability to integrate AI-first design principles to reimagine end-to-end business workflows. AI-Driven Innovation: Demonstrated experience leading AI adoption initiatives — from ideation through scaled deployment Product & Portfolio Management: Proven capability to define product vision and strategy, manage complex roadmaps, prioritize backlogs, and shape pricing and commercialization models that align with market demand. Executive Advisory & Stakeholder Engagement: Trusted advisor to senior client sponsors and C-suite leaders; skilled at translating strategic objectives into actionable transformation initiatives and measurable outcomes. Go-to-Market & Growth Strategy: Strong background in designing go-to-market strategies, building cross-functional coalitions, and positioning digital core modernization offerings as catalysts for growth and efficiency. Outcome-Oriented Transformation Mindset: Ability to link AI-enabled transformation programs directly to business performance, ensuring each initiative drives measurable impact on cost, productivity, and experience metrics. Core focus areas: Agentic AI Systems • Industrial AI • Autonomous Engineering • AI Product Strategy • OPC UA FX • IIoT Platforms • Engineering Analytics • Edge-to-Cloud Architectures • Platform & Ecosystem Strategy • Cross-Functional Engineering Leadership
Work experience
Technical Product Manager at ABB, Sep 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 1 mo, Austria, Industrial AI & Engineering Platforms Define and execute strategy for engineering solutions focused on interoperability, intelligent automation, AI-assisted workflows. Translate complex industrial workflows into scalable product capabilities, reducing engineering friction and accelerating customer value. Align product roadmap with Runtime, OPC UA FX and cutting-edge industrial standards, ensuring future-proof, data-centric engineering experiences. Bridge customers, R&D, and platform teams, influencing long-term architecture, platform design, and system intelligence. Driving adoption of intelligent automation and embedding predictive insights across engineering processes
Product Owner at Siemens Technology India, Dec 2017 - Aug 2024 · 6 yrs 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Disruptive Innovation - Business product proposals - Software Economics - Benchmarking & Competitor Analysis - Software Piloting - GoTo Market Strategy - Lean Agile Leadership - STEP7, WinCC and TIA Portal software development frameworks - Engineering Systems, EDGE & Control devices - Runtime - Coordinates and synchronizes with other Product Owners, part of the same Agile Release Train - Product Technology Stack : Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Graphs, EDGE, Cloud Computing, Block Chain and Digitization solutions. - Product Campaign, Monetization & Business Models - Coordination with Legal/Business Development/Pre-Sales/Sales
Senior Software Development Engineer at McAfee, Mar 2016 - Nov 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bengaluru Area, India
Associate Consultant at Siemens Technology India, Aug 2012 - Mar 2016 · 3 yrs 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Meticulously involved in designing & implementing innovative ideas for testing compilers and IEC 61131-3 programming standards. • Developed Automatic Code Generators for Compilers. • Responsible for mentoring people and ensuring quality delivery from the team.
Lead Project Engineer at WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES, Sep 2009 - Jul 2012 · 2 yrs 11 mos, Bangalore, India, Project Planning and Execution Software Development Life Cycle Value Delivery
