Two decades of building, leading, and shipping.

Pune, India

• ◆Directed engineering teams of up to 25, owning recruitment, performance and career development for 9 direct reports — driving a 20% improvement in retention and productivity.
• ◆Designed and launched TalentPulse360, a production Generative AI platform on Python, FastAPI and Google's Agent Development Kit, orchestrating multi-agent workflows on Gemini — reducing HR process time from 7 days to 30 minutes.
• ◆Engineered RAG pipelines on Vertex AI integrated with pgvector and fine-tuned embeddings; explored LangGraph / LangChain for stateful multi-turn agents.
• ◆Built prompt-engineering frameworks for automated reporting, competitor analysis, and network intelligence — improving accuracy and turnaround by 40%.
• ◆Led release management and incident response for Opteon, a nationwide property evaluation platform — achieving a 30% reduction in downtime.
• ◆Deployed AI services on Cloud Run and Cloud SQL with full CI/CD and AIOps observability; built data pipelines using BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub and Looker Studio.

• ◆Directed end-to-end delivery of enterprise automation solutions for global clients including Saudi Aramco, Pertamina and KOTC — improving operational efficiency by up to 30%.
• ◆Negotiated and secured a pivotal 10-year service contract with Pertamina in Jakarta.
• ◆Orchestrated multi-site teams across geographies for deployment, integration, and production support — improving system uptime by 25%.

Pune, India

• ◆Managed mission-critical banking databases for Westpac and Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
• ◆Improved application performance by 70% via SQL optimization, index redesign, and query tuning — earning company-wide recognition.
• ◆Built automation scripts that reduced manual DBA intervention by 50% across production environments.

• ◆Led a team of 30 DBAs administering 1,000+ production IBM DB2 instances for Morgan Stanley.
• ◆Established standardized procedures for provisioning, backup/recovery, and capacity planning.

• ◆Managed production databases for Westpac and BAML in regulated financial environments.
• ◆Achieved 70% application performance improvement through deep SQL optimization (company award).
• ◆Built automation improving reliability across production banking environments.

• ◆Built SQL, stored procedures, and data processing logic for high-volume payment systems serving DBS Singapore, Standard Chartered, and KBank Thailand.
• ◆Delivered backend solutions for transaction platforms with onsite deployment in Singapore and Thailand.

• ◆Developed backend services and database interfaces for industrial data-acquisition systems in C++ and SQL.