AI & SAAS Product Leader, Multi-Cloud Architect, Trainer- Generative AI, Cloud system design & FinOps, Data Engg
13 Years of Experience
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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19+ yrs of experience in B2B and B2C Software Product Lifecycle (SAAS, On-premise/ run anywhere)- Ideation, MVP, Post revenue/ growth stage, late stage, rearchitecting/ modernizing, high scale (retail, telco) & multi-country complex production environments, customer implementations, customer onboarding, presales/ sales support, product roadmap & release mgt, multi-product operations, product design (UI-UX), product analytics incl customer journey mapping. Experience across full stack web, mobile, chat & voicebot apps, data engineering, AI/ML, security & networking, backend development. Worked on products with peak load stats: MAU of upto 3 mil users, 40-50k DAUs, 1000-1500 transactions per sec (tps). Max team sizes handled - 300 Core Experience : 1. Generative AI (2 yrs)- LLMs (Proprietary, Open source), Prompt engg, RAG, Finetuning, Vector databases, Langchain, Llamaindex, LLM from scratch, data engg for generative AI apps, LLMOps, RLHF, RLAIF 2. Classic ML- Supervised, unsupervised learning 3. Data Engg & Analytics- Google Bigquery, Dataflow, Cloud composer (Airflow), Spark, Kafka 4. Cloud Infra & DevOps (AWS, GCP, Azure) Domains- Supply Chain: S&OP/ IBP, New product introduction, demand sensing & shaping, O2C, supply chain control tower, SCOR, MRP, Master prod scheduling & RCCP, P2P, MD, asset ops. Customer experience (Marketing, Sales, Service): multi-channel commerce, Customer 360, journey mapping, campaign, loyalty, planning, analytics (attribution, ROI, churn, market basket analysis), recommendations, lifetime value FP&A: Planning/ Budgeting/ Forecasting, analytics (profitability, balance sheet, cash flow, EVA/ Economic profit, value creation), subsidiary & group close/ consolidation, activity based costing, MD. Industries: Retail/Ecom, CPG, O&G, BFSI 8 yrs Entrepreneurial Experience: co-founder/ partner in 5 startups (past, current). Product & CTO advisor to multiple tech startups.
Kloudstac, SaaS/Cloud Product, Computer Software
Cloudstack Multi-cloud Architecture & Design Community
Globussoft Technology
Kloudstac, Cloudstack Multi-cloud Architecture & Design Community, Globussoft Technology, Self-employed, GoBaskt Inc, TheCyborgs, Kore.ai, Capgemini, Capgemini (formerly IGATE), ITC Infotech USA Inc, ITC Infotech, Philips Electronics Limited India
Job Title : CEO & Product Head, Cloud, Generative AI skills trainer, Cloud, AI & Data Engg architect
Company name : Kloudstac
Period : December 2022 - Present
Summary : Kloudstac is preparing experienced & entry level professionals for future tech careers in the age of AI & automation based disruption.
We are building a career management platform, catering to the skill development needs/disruptions and mapping recruiters-jobs to right upskilled talent, in a post ChatGPT era.
We are hyperspecialized on AI for Business/ Generative AI-Cloud upskilling with our programs divided as below:
1. AI/ GenAI for Business (incl domains like BFSI, Manufacturing)
2. AI/GenAI for Machine learning engineers/ data scientists
3. AI/GenAI for Software Development /SDLC automation
4. Data engg/ data science related to AI
Website: www.kloudstac.com
Location : Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Job Title : Founder
Company name : Cloudstack Multi-cloud Architecture & Design Community
Period : December 2021 - Present
Summary : Building India's largest community of cloud architects across AWS, Azure, GCP with interactive architecture & design sessions. Tracks include Containerization based computation, Event driven microservices, system design, DevOps, Data engg, Web 3.0 development, GoLang, Observability & Reliability Engg
Location : Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India
Job Title : Chief Product & Technology Officer
Company name : Globussoft Technology
Period : February 2022 - November 2022
Summary : Building Generative AI (GPT2/3.5) driven content generation app.
Responsible for business-as-usual/ ops, re-architecting/ modernizing, new features, improvements, growing revenue on 3 SAAS products in digital marketing, adtech, workforce productivity & engagement (empmonitor.com, poweradspy.com, socinator.com).
Tech stack: GCP- MongoDB, Firestore, cloud functions, GCS, Bigquery, GKE-Kubernetes, Compute- VMs, containers, docker, Cloudsql-RDS, Elasticsearch, APIGEE; AWS- S3, EC2, Lambda, RDS-mysql, documentdb, API Gateway, athena; NextJS, NodeJS, Polygon L2 scaling with solidity-ethereum
Achievements:
1. Restructured product organization, cutting 30% cost, optimized engg team. This includes reducing cloud costs by 70-80% in 8 months.
2. As architect, re-engineered/ created to-be design for EMPMonitor.com on AWS, later on GCP and poweradspy.com on GCP. Used best-in-class tech stack - serverless and containerized microservices.
3. Changed/ modernized the obsolete/in-consistent product strategies for EMPMonitor.com (employee monitoring to Workforce productivity & engagement platform), poweradspy (updated to- "Discover social media ads + content strategy of competitors") with 18 months product roadmap in line with market reqs/in-demand use cases.
4. Improved processes & practices/mix across sales, marketing, ops leveraging past experience in startups, large enterprises. Cut down marketing costs by half within 3 months.
5. Executed ISV partnership with Google cloud platform giving global access to customers and GCP sales network via GCP Marketplace
6. Defined, optimized product roadmaps, pricing & GTM strategy on continuous basis and provided needed leadership & mentorship to various teams.
Location : Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Job Title : Startup Advisor- Product & Technology
Company name : Self-employed
Period : October 2021 - February 2022
Summary : Skills: Product Design - UI/UX, business workflows, use case development
Product Engg: AWS, GCP - OLTP, OLAP backends; AI - NLP, CV, Machine teaching; Data engg: Snowflake, Databricks; Web3.0/ Blockchain: Polygon, Solana
Helping tech startups on their product journeys:
As Product advisor:
1. Business model & product design- Edtech startup focused on rightskilling engg students
2. LiveCommerce startup on product platform & tech design
3. Design- Fintech BNPL (Buy now pay later) platform
Tech/ Engg Advisor:
1. HR Tech co - App platform (Azure) architecture & design assessment, improvement, new capabilities
2. Edtech platform- MVP development
3. App platform (AWS) architecture & design assessment for a Travel tech co
4. Solutioning for "machine operator automation" use case using Deep RL, Machine teaching for manufacturing.
Location : Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India
Job Title : Co-Founder, Chief Product & Technology Officer
Company name : GoBaskt Inc
Period : September 2019 - October 2021
Summary : GoBaskt (US headquartered, http://gobaskt.com) is a tech product startup offering a hyperlocal commerce platform for local businesses, retailers & CPG Brands. We are helping businesses acquire & retain customers and improve revenue within local area of 5-6 miles with our unique technology.
For local businesses, we bring modern technology, that only large brands can afford, on a value based pricing model.
For consumers, we offer an intelligent virtual shopping assistant app that uses AI, multi channel engagement, analytics in new ways, in order to create unique interaction experiences between individuals and businesses for commerce, marketing and service. It helps consumers to save time, money & efforts, while shopping for services & products.
Achievements:
1. Developed product vision-mission, value proposition, use cases, UI-UX/ business workflows, pivoted to more valuable use cases during covid times and built them fast.
2. Built technology strategy, designed, developed, deployed complex full stack web and mobile apps with NextJS-React for web apps (migrated from angular), backend with python-nodejs (migrated from Java) + AWS Lambda, Containerized microservices with AWS Fargate/ ECS and EKS/ Kubernetes, Snowflake, S3, Athena, Kinesis/ Kafka, AWS Step functions, mobile apps with IOS native, Android native (Kotlin), databases- dynamodb, mongodb, postgresql, DevOps- Github-AWS Codebuild, codepipeline, codedeploy. Multiple use case built and deployed in production over 2 yrs.
3. Ran engineering/ operations frugally with a low budget esp during COVID time when primary customer
Title : Google Cloud Certified Professional Architect
Period : December 2022 - January 2025
Issuing Authority : Google
Title : Management Accounting
Period : July 2016 - Present
Issuing Authority : Chartered institute of management accountants (CIMA), UK
Title : ABM Certified Strategist
Period : April 2016 - Present
Summary : linkedin.com, https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7037470?trk=flagship-lil_details_certification
Issuing Authority : Demandbase - The Leader in Account-Based Marketing
Title : Financial Accounting
Period : May 2015 - Present
Issuing Authority : Chartered institute of management accountants (CIMA), UK
Title : Big data driven Micro Segmentation
Publisher : Linkedin blogs
Publication time : 2015
Summary : Big data driven Micro Segmentation with Hybris Marketing
Title : Shared Services Costing Models
Publisher : Linkedin Blogs
Organization name : Entrepreneurial Experience Position : Co-Founder / Partner Period : November 2006 - October 2009
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