Siemens — Pune, India | Software Architect / AI & GenAI Software Architect | August 2020 – Present
SieAssist | AI Solution Architect | October 2025 – Present
- Architected SieAssist, an agentic AI platform integrating diagnostic reasoning workflows with live OPC UA data streams and time-series analytics using PostgreSQL and InfluxDB.
- Designed end-to-end agentic/RAG architecture: multi-source data ingestion, OCR-enabled document processing, chunking, embeddings, retrieval, query rewriting, answer grounding, agent planning, tool integration, evaluation, guardrails, and traceability.
- Built a provider-agnostic LLM abstraction layer enabling use of OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Ollama, and vLLM, with prompt versioning and model configuration.
- Architected ingestion capacity for up to approximately 300 million log lines per day, subject to configurable administrative scope and retention settings.
- Reduced log-analysis/report-generation time by 40% and fault-resolution time from approximately 30 minutes to approximately 2 minutes.
- Implemented production observability using OpenTelemetry and Prometheus and responsible-AI controls covering prompt injection, data leakage, RBAC, traceability, and auditability.
- Shipped from kickoff to first production deployment in 4 months; live at one Siemens manufacturing site and architected for a roadmap to scale across 40+ sites.
- Led a team of 3 engineers directly on this platform.
ICFO — Industrial Copilot for Operations | AI Platform Architect | April 2025 – September 2025
- Architected ICFO, a multitenant GenAI copilot for industrial operations with per-tenant vector database isolation, tenant/data partitioning, and conversation management.
- Reduced new-tenant onboarding to under 10 minutes through reusable deployment accelerators, database migrations, and CI/CD-friendly patterns.
- Built RBAC, secure access controls, audit trails, and model/prompt versioning; designed with high-availability patterns, with uptime as a design objective rather than a formally tracked SLA.
- Implemented production observability using OpenTelemetry and Datadog; led AI security/governance reviews covering prompt injection, data leakage, and access control.
- Led a team of 7 engineers directly within a broader approximately 25-person organization where other leads owned separate workstreams.
Mondelez — Industrial IoT Platform | Technical Architect | August 2023 – April 2025
- Owned solution architecture and delivery for a cloud-connected industrial IoT data platform processing sensor, controller, and manual inputs across multiple plants.
- Led requirements and architecture workshops directly with customer business and engineering stakeholders; performed presales activities including SOW scoping, effort estimation, technical risk assessment, proof-of-value engagements, and technical escalation resolution.
- Scaled the platform from 3 to 9 plants and reduced open production incidents from approximately 60 to single digits after go-live.
- Implemented real-time visualization, alerts, quality workflows, data validation, time-series processing, RBAC, secure identity, and observability.
TCTP — Tool Circulation Tracking Platform | Senior Lead Developer / Reporting Manager | August 2020 – July 2023
- Owned architecture, technical delivery, deployments, production support, and day-2 operations for a global platform across approximately 10 regions.
- Led customer workshops and recurring customer meetings throughout delivery, serving as the primary technical point of contact for client stakeholders.
- Owned the post-delivery technical relationship, reviewing platform performance, addressing production issues, and aligning on roadmap priorities.
- Led on-premises-to-cloud migration, reducing infrastructure costs by 30% while maintaining availability and performance.
- Architected direct API-based SAP integration replacing a file-based exchange, improving traceability and operational efficiency.
- Reduced defects from more than 90 to fewer than 20 through systematic triage and reliability improvements; managed and mentored 7 direct reports.
Citicorp Services India Ltd | Officer, Application Development | September 2019 – August 2020
- Served as informal technical lead for a 7-person offshore Pune team delivering the KYC Workflow Tool using Angular 8,.NET Core, and SQL Server; owned delivery lifecycle, code reviews, unit testing, performance optimization, and production support.
- Contributed to an estimated approximately 10% productivity improvement for internal users through KYC workflow modernization, with positive feedback on the redesigned UI; worked directly with internal business stakeholders throughout delivery.
FIS Global Solutions | Specialist, Development | August 2017 – September 2019
- Started as an individual contributor on the Intellimatch NextGen reconciliation platform component team and progressed to technical/module lead for a 6-engineer team.
- Delivered the Payment Investigation feature and a reusable component library that reduced development effort on subsequent features by an estimated approximately 20%; contributed to Azure microservices R&D with NUnit/xUnit integration testing.
Cognizant Technology Solutions | Project Associate | December 2015 – August 2017
- Developed the Credit Suisse MiFID regulatory reporting portal using AngularJS, C#, ASP.NET Web API, and Sybase in a regulated financial-services environment.
- Contributed to code reviews and architecture decisions.
Symphony Teleca Corp. (Harman) | Senior Software Engineer | July 2014 – December 2015
- Built the backend of a distributed server framework for the Consilio RPMX e-Discovery SaaS application from scratch as part of the core design team.
- Moved to the feature team to provide technical leadership across workflows, MSMQ background services, and Elasticsearch integration.
Syntel Ltd | Software Engineer | February 2012 – June 2014
- Provided technical leadership for a 12–14 member delivery team migrating 24 legacy VB6 applications for Ameriprise Financial to C#.NET over approximately one year.
- Delivered horizontal feature enhancements on the multi-application SAM platform using ASP.NET MVC and SQL Server.
