23+ years turning data and domain insight into production AI

AI Solution Architect & Fractional AI Product Manager

• Architected an intelligent data catalog and procurement co-pilot using LLMs, custom fine-tuning, and NER to standardize product data across regions and brands and surface market-signal recommendations.
• Owned product as fractional PM: market analysis, feature prioritization, VC and customer pitch, and AI-API monetization strategy and roadmap. Trained the team from zero AI skills to a working product built on Azure with OpenAI models, vector databases, and Azure AI Search.

Senior Manager, Data Science · Bengaluru

• Operated across product owner, MVP discovery, architecture, and AI/ML production roles for Retail, FMCG, Fashion, Beauty, and Mining clients (Unilever, Tesco, Belcorp, Anglo American, Woolworths, The Container Store, The Children’s Place).
• Delivered production GenAI for meal-waste reduction combining Google multimodal and text models with custom deep-learning models and guardrails (Unilever, with Google).
• Drove a 15% lift on product detail pages through GenAI content enrichment and DAM (The Container Store) and 100% match on multipack bundle recommendations (The Children’s Place).
• Improved retail forecast accuracy by 5 to 15% over client models using integrated marketing, sales, and external data (Belcorp); delivered computer vision at 80%+ accuracy. Trained and mentored 200+ product and program managers across 5 batches.

Senior Principal / Principal Engineer, Data Analytics · Bangalore

• Founding data science team member; built the AI and analytics competency for a retail leader deployed at 80%+ of the world’s top 200 retailers across 70+ countries; co-invented 2 granted computer vision patents.
• Built MVPs and prototypes demoed at NRF 2020 (Smart Shelf, Shrink Analytics); delivered Smart Exit theft reduction (Macy’s), Sweethearting POS video analytics, dwell-time computation for curbside pickup (McDonald’s), and emotion analytics using YOLO, TensorFlow, Keras, OpenVINO, and Dlib.
• Earlier in tenure (DB and QA): set up the offshore QA team and managed QA for multiple V1 releases of the TrueVUE RFID product; won the TRS Global (2018) and Affine Analytics (2016) data science hackathons.

Quality Manager (Individual Contributor & People Manager) · Bangalore

• Set up and led the offshore QA team for endless.com and Javari (US, Japan, UK), owning execution, hiring, and 24x7 production monitoring for e-commerce feature launches and performance projects.

Database Development Lead (2008 to 2010); Test Lead (2006 to 2008), Xbox Supply Chain E&D Systems · Hyderabad

• One of two key architects of the data-driven warranty engine for 220M Xbox consoles with full traceability across refurbishment, fulfillment, and repairs; reduced warranty errors for 90% of consoles.
• Led the database development team; delivered 8-step touchpoint visibility that reduced shipment, pickup, and delivery delays, and a SQL 2000 to 2008 migration improving query performance by 200%.
• Gold Star award (top 1% across all divisions) for identifying critical supply-chain performance issues.

Senior Project Engineer

• Early team member setting up the Nestle ODC; handled application support, migration of 40+ enterprise applications, ITSM support, and Windows sustenance testing across 29 locales.