Hands-on AI engineering leader

Driving applied AI transformation for Global Private Bank, with focus on regulated enterprise AI adoption, AI platform applicability, and startup evaluation for financial services.

Led model customization, fine-tuning, distillation, and AI platform transformation work across partner ecosystems including Meta, Mistral, and NVIDIA; scaled engineering scope to 250+ engineers.

Founded AzureML India operations and grew the team from 0 to 37 engineers, establishing the local charter for ML platform engineering.

Built AutoML feature engineering, telemetry, and PowerBI integration capabilities for Azure Machine Learning.

Built Cortana Skills Platform from zero and reduced developer iteration time from one week to two days.

Worked on entity intent mapping for search relevance and ML/NLP models for Cortana Translation.

Early Microsoft engineering role; received Excellence in Execution award.

MTech, Computer Science · Advisor: Prof. Soumen Chakrabarti · Compressed Data Structures for Annotated Web Search, WWW 2012, Lyon · Google Travel Grant

BTech, Computer Science & Engineering

Judge · Bengaluru · Evaluated AI startups in security, voice AI, and document intelligence for enterprise applicability in financial services.