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I build production AI platforms. Here's the evidence.

Director, AI Platform & Agentic Solutions at Zip — 20 years, 200+ engineers, $10M+ revenue launched.

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Executive Summary

20+

Years Experience

Building and scaling AI platforms

200+

Engineers Led

Global teams across India, US, Europe

13K+

B2B Customers Enabled

Enterprise API platform at Ola Maps

70%

Cost Reduction Delivered

Up to 70% — AI inference at scale

$10M+

Revenue Launched

Krutrim AI platform, 0 → production

Leadership Signal

Production AI Platform Leadership

Scaled from 0 to $10M+ ARR at Krutrim — built India's first commercial agentic AI platform

Engineering Budget Ownership

$8M–$20M annual P&L across Krutrim, Ola, and HERE — consistently delivered cost reduction alongside scale

Cost & Scale Discipline

70% infrastructure cost reduction at Ola · 40% AI inference savings at Krutrim

Global Org Leadership

200+ engineers across US, India, and Europe — built orgs from 40 to 200

AI Governance at Enterprise Scale

HITL checkpoints, eval-gated CI, drift monitoring — the controls Fortune 500 AI programs require

Career Arc: Infra → Autonomous AI → Agentic AI

18 yrs HERE (OEM autonomous driving) → Ola (13K B2B) → Krutrim (India's first agentic AI platform)

Recommended Path (2-3 minutes)

1

Start with capability map

(30 sec)

See platform capabilities mapped to concrete portfolio evidence in one executive view

2

See the flagship demo

(60 sec)

Watch the AI quality and governance pipeline in action — eval gating, drift detection, HITL checkpoint

3

Review operating model

(45 sec)

Scan board-facing AI governance, budget discipline, operating cadence, and ROI signals

4

Review governance controls

(45 sec)

Validate trust controls, traceability, and operational rigor before reviewing credentials

5

Book a conversation

(30 sec)

30 minutes — I'll walk you through any part of the platform you want to explore

The Role I'm Built For

Track record

Built production AI at scale — twice

India's first commercial agentic AI platform at Krutrim. 13,000+ B2B enterprise customers at Ola. 18 years building global infrastructure at HERE. This isn't a first attempt — it's a pattern.

Business outcomes

Every decision has a number. Here are mine.

$10M+ revenue launched. 70% cost reduction. 50% latency improvement. $8M–$20M budgets managed. I speak CFO and CTO in the same conversation.

Governance-first

I build the controls most teams skip

Eval-gated CI, HITL checkpoints, drift monitoring, prompt injection detection — live in production, not in a slide deck. This is what makes AI enterprise-safe.

Who This Portfolio Is Built For

  • Companies moving from AI experimentation to production — where governance, cost, and reliability are non-negotiable
  • Organizations that need platform thinking and operating model discipline, not just model selection
  • Boards and executive teams who want AI governance built in — not bolted on after an incident
  • Currently Director, AI Platform & Agentic Solutions at Zip — always open to AI platform strategy conversations

Best Fit / Not a Fit

Strong fit

  • Director / VP / Head of AI Engineering track record — global or regional
  • Chief AI Officer (CAIO) scope — building or scaling enterprise AI strategy
  • Senior Director, AI Platform or Applied AI
  • AI leadership for enterprise SaaS, fintech, mobility, healthcare, or deep-tech orgs
  • Chicago-based
  • Orgs scaling from PoC to governed production AI with real budget accountability
  • Roles requiring both technical depth and executive org leadership

Not a fit

  • IC / individual contributor engineering roles
  • Staff Engineer or Principal Engineer tracks
  • Pure ML research or data science roles
  • Lead Engineer or tech-lead-only roles
  • Roles without organizational leadership scope
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