Amit Shinde
Associate Vice President-Engineering, Product Engineering, AI Services, Growth Leader and Large Programs
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Executive technology leader with 25+ years of experience building and scaling product engineering services for global ISVs and enterprises across AIML Services, Cybersecurity, Networking, Telco & Cloud. Proven track record in leading geo-distributed engineering organizations as a BU head (450+ FTE) to deliver complex products and platforms in Datacenter-Infra, Telco-CSP and manufacturing domains. Specializes in AI-led digital engineering defining product roadmaps.
Adept at partnering with CxOs and product leaders, shaping engagement models for product engineering services, and building high-performance engineering cultures with strong focus on quality, automation, and DevSecOps.
Experience
Associate Vice President, Engineering & Senior Director - Calsoft Pvt. Ltd.
(2024-07)
BU Head for Networking, Cybersecurity, and Telco-Cloud portfolio. Led 450+ member engineering org delivering product engineering to ISV and enterprise clients (30+ logos) achieving 25% y-o-y revenue growth.
- AI in SDLC transformation of workforce in key accounts introducing prompt engineering & AI assisted dev & test, delivering operational cost reduction for clients
- AI in SDLC: Adoption and Productivity metrics for AI first delivery
- Order Visibility for Sales: Implemented a solution using Conversational Interface with LLM (OpenAI GPT 4), MongoDB, Text-to-SQL
- Data Curation with AI Agents for Leading SIEM SaaS Company: Multi-agent RAG implementation with Open AI – GPT4 models, Python, Vector Database, Langchain, Llamaindex
- Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) solution using nVIDIA DeepStream SDK, DeepSort, CRNN, DNN, Pytorch, Torchserve, OpenCV
- Gen AI: Web Scraping Agent using Crew AI, Llama Index, OpenAI, React
- Modernization of monolithic cybersecurity IAM product acquisition onto microservices based flagship Singularity platform
- Security Hardening & Platform migration for cybersecurity solutions
- End point access security for device Filesystems
- CipherTrust Application Data Protection: Cryptography APIs
- API gateway security & airgap security for govt. projects
- Functional safety for Autonomous Vehicle Drive OS: ISO 26262 compliance
- VAPT for plug-n-play firewall and cybersecurity device
- Large Programs delivery with leading Networking OEM covering SDWAN, WLAN management & control plane solutions
- Multi-cloud Networking solution for L3-L7 connectivity using Pulumi, Submariner, K8S and BGP/FRR implementation
- ONAP-based Service Orchestration development program with features including Ethernet BoD, ILL, IPT, IPT-Cloud Access, and IZOMCC
Associate Vice President, Engineering & Senior Director - Calsoft Pvt. Ltd.
(2022-07 - 2024-06)
Program Head - TechMahindra
(2021-11 - 2022-07)
Part of 'Code Red' team reporting to the COO organization. Entrusted with guiding teams on large Digital Transformation program, delivered a Building Information Management transformation for CPWD, GoI.
Associate Director, Engineering - Calsoft Pvt. Ltd.
(2019-06 - 2021-11)
Directed engg teams delivering product journeys and enhancements for Data Protection and Storage/Virtualization customers. 35+ unique projects across marquee clients like Veritas, StorageCraft, Lenovo, VMware.
Program Director & Delivery Manager - Wipro Technologies
(2010-01 - 2019-06)
Telekomsel, Indonesia: Directed a Business Intelligence transformation program worth TCV $35M for High volume, real-time data stream processing for a CSP. It included building a single Ingestion layer to Ingest data from multiple Data Sources (40 Txn feeds, 30 Ref feeds & 52 Aggregates, 60K Src files, 4TB/day), processing Batch and Real Time Data to perform the calculation of Customer &
• Business KPIs with Data Lineage capabilities. A1 Telekom, Austria: 5 year fixed-priced ADM contract for enterprise IT (40+ applications) worth ACV $15M, which drove consolidation of OSS (inventory & fulfillment), BSS(Sales portals, campaign mgmt., workforce mgmt., CRM, Offering and Order mgmt.) applications. It covered projects like SIP trunking, OneTV (TV on mobile plan), Case Mgmt Cockpit &
• Siteminder, Digital BSS stack harmonization, New Billing for Wholesale &
• EOL Party Master, DevOps 360 &
• GDPR compliance. SFR, France: Location Head of Wipro Rennes, France. Multi-year ADM contract with penalties & bonuses worth ACV of $12M covering feature development, technical transformations & system upgrades for Network Inventory and Back-Office applications.
Senior Software Engineer/Lead - Wipro Technologies
(2005-02 - 2010-01)
