Engineering technology into products that customers love (for form and function). Have been doing that for 27+ years, building and delivering award winning products, platforms and services across business domains of Insurance, E-commerce & Retail, Connected Buildings, BFSI and EDA. In terms of technology domains, I have lead engineering, design and product teams across mobile apps, distributed streaming systems, IoT, ML, cloud computing, data analytics and visualizations. Building product & technology strategies, execution plans, setting up the right team & team structures and delivering results are the key strengths. Driving Mantra: A successful product is finding the right balance between User Aspirations, Business Needs and Technological Constraints. Career Summary: -As VP and Head of Technology at Zendrive, I lead the entire Technology charter, responsible for scaling teams, technology and product lines to enable Zendrive to fast forward on its mission to 'Make Road Safer' and get to the $100 MM ARR. -As Bangalore site leader for eCF (E-commerce Foundational) Data org, part of Amazon Retail business, developing platforms and products centered around data ingestion, stream processing, live migrations, and data privacy & compliance, enabling customers to store, move & process data across datastores, clusters and regions at Amazon scale. -As GM & Head of Engineering for Wipro HOLMES Machine Learning platform, delivered platform solutions around eKYC, Cognitive Search, Chatbots and Text & Image Extraction. Ran successful pilots and deployments with the largest companies in BFSI and manufacturing domain for automating IT and HR help desks, contract reconciliations, eKYC, preventive maintenance etc. -Co-founded 75F LLC, a startup in the Connected Buildings domain, leveraging IoT and cloud computing to reimagine the HVAC and Lighting industry. Created platform and products that improved building occupant comfort, optimized energy consumption (25-40% in energy costs) and improved air quality. The products are installed across national retail chains, business centers and warehouses in US and India. Also Setup the India Engineering Center for 75F, responsible for design, development and production of the entire product and technology portfolio of 75F across software and hardware. -Spent 16 years in Cadence Design Systems working on various new products for PCB design automation along with leading many company wide initiates like improving product usability, data security, test automation etc.