Shridhar Pathak
AI & ML · Strategy · Enterprise systems

I build AI that teams actually use and leaders can trust in production.

I lead AI & ML at Moderna, turning research models into systems people rely on. Before that I shipped multi-agent voice AI at Amazon Alexa on a $100M program. I'm doing my MBA at MIT Sloan (cross-registered at Harvard Business School), and I'm Founder & Advisor on a stealth enterprise agent evaluation platform that traces and scores agents before they reach production.

Boston, MA (Brookline) · +1 214 794 6073 · shripathmit@gmail.com

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Professional summary

Fifteen years in distributed systems and multi-agent AI. I've grown orgs past 50 people and run programs north of $100M, always tying the engineering back to revenue.

Doing my MIT Sloan MBA (with HBS cross-registration) while I build a stealth enterprise agent-eval venture as Founder & Advisor.

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AI engineering leader with 15 years in distributed systems and multi-agent AI. I've built global organizations from scratch to 50+ people and run programs over $100M at Amazon Alexa. I'm an MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (2026), cross-registered at Harvard Business School, focused on AI transformation and platform economics. Today I'm Senior Director, AI & ML at Moderna; before that, Amazon Alexa and Amazon Retail. I'm also Founder & Advisor of a stealth enterprise agent evaluation platform.

What I bring is both sides at once: deep engineering and executive strategy. At Amazon that meant Alexa, international voice shopping, the India retail integration, and the Southeast Asia launch. At Moderna it's GenAI transformation. My work spans retail, voice AI, regulated enterprise AI, and building a venture from zero.

Current focus

Venture · Impact · Advisory

Venture

Stealth agent evaluation

Tracing, observability, and human + automated evaluation for enterprise AI agents before production.

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Impact

Moderna & Alexa

GenAI roadmaps, multi-agent voice AI used worldwide, faster international retail launches, and deployments that hold up under regulation.

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Advisory

Education & counsel

MIT Sloan EMBA (HBS cross-reg), Stanford Seed, Health Galaxy founding tech advisor, and structured profile for agents.

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Current

Stealth venture

Founder & Advisor · Enterprise agent evaluation · 2025 – Present

Stealth · product story & milestones

Enterprise agent evaluation platform: we trace what AI agents actually do, then score them with both automated checks and human review, so teams catch regressions before launch and keep quality up over time.

50+ enterprise discovery calls; three design-partner pilots; validated seed-stage pricing within six months. MVP in progress.

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Key innovation

Evaluation and performance tracking for AI agents

  • Full tracing of what each agent does: its actions, decisions, and outputs
  • Scoring that combines automated checks with human review to keep quality up
  • Catch regressions before production and compare agent versions side by side

Value proposition

  • Treat AI agents like employees. Give them performance reviews before you trust them in production.
  • See exactly what an agent did instead of guessing at a black box
  • Roll out more digital workers without giving up on quality or compliance

Achievements

  • 50+ enterprise discovery and validation conversations
  • Three design-partner pilots underway
  • Validated seed-stage pricing model within six months
  • Technical architecture, MVP, and GTM strategy

Impact

Selected outcomes

Impact overview

Industry-first multi-agent AI on Alexa, celebrity and Hey Disney experiences, and international voice shopping. A major celebrity launch drove +500 bps engagement in its first month, on a platform generating $50M+ in annual recurring revenue.

Led the Southeast Asia retail launch (Project Nautilus) and voice AI for Amazon India at millions of users. At Moderna: a GenAI roadmap across 20+ apps, a 35+ person org, OpenAI and AWS partnerships, and faster R&D and clinical timelines.

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  • Shipped industry-first multi-agent conversational AI on Alexa; celebrity and character experiences (CNN, CNET, About Amazon).
  • +500 bps engagement in the first month of a major celebrity voice launch.
  • Led Amazon’s first retail launch in Southeast Asia (Project Nautilus, Singapore) and expanded Alexa Voice Shopping to ten international markets (US, India, Japan, Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Mexico, Ireland, Australia).
  • Architected voice AI for the Amazon India retail app at millions of daily users; built teams from 0 to 16+.
  • At Moderna: GenAI roadmap for 20+ enterprise applications; 35+ person engineering org from the ground up; multi-million-dollar OpenAI and AWS partnerships; expected ~30% reduction in R&D and clinical operation timelines; governance fit for regulated biopharma.

Product launches & innovation

  • Pioneered multi-agent AI framework on Alexa enabling personality switching (industry first)
  • Launched celebrity voice experiences: Melissa McCarthy, Shaq, Amitabh Bachchan
  • Delivered Hey Disney voice assistant (CNN, CNET, major media)
  • Led Amazon’s first retail launch in Southeast Asia (Project Nautilus, Singapore)
  • Expanded Alexa Voice Shopping to ten countries (US, India, Japan, Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Mexico, Ireland, Australia)
  • Architected voice AI integration for Amazon India retail app (millions of daily users)

Technical leadership

  • Built teams from 0 to 16+ across multiple product initiatives
  • Architected systems processing millions of daily requests with low latency
  • Designed scalable infrastructure for high-volume ML-driven voice interactions
  • Built measurement and analytics frameworks that treat metrics as an engineering problem
  • Integrated LLMs into Moderna enterprise applications across R&D, manufacturing-adjacent workflows, and quality, with governance built for regulated biopharma

Business impact

  • +500 basis point engagement increase in first month of celebrity voice launch
  • Enabled revenue expansion through international Alexa market launches
  • Positioned Moderna as an AI leader in enterprise biopharma applications and partnerships
  • Built measurement infrastructure tying technology to business outcomes
  • Created frameworks for AI governance in highly regulated industries

Proof

Signature stories

Short snapshots: the problem, my role, and what actually happened.

Voice AI at scale (Amazon Alexa)

Problem → multi-agent voice experiences & international growth

Problem: Ship reliable, engaging celebrity and multi-agent voice experiences while expanding Alexa into new markets.

Role: Tech lead and senior TPM for multi-agent AI initiatives; led international Alexa launches and measurement frameworks.

Outcome: +500 bps engagement lift in the first month of a major celebrity voice launch; enabled revenue expansion through international market launches and analytics that tied product work to business results.

GenAI at enterprise scale (Moderna)

Problem → roadmap, org, and partnerships

Problem: Stand up GenAI across R&D, clinical, and operations with real ROI, secure cloud paths, and executive buy-in.

Role: Senior Director, AI & ML; built a 35+ person engineering organization; C-suite translation; OpenAI and AWS strategic partnerships.

Outcome: Roadmap for 20+ enterprise applications, meaningfully faster R&D and clinical timelines, and production LLM workflows on AWS with governance for regulated environments.

Enterprise AI agents (stealth)

Problem → observability and evaluation

Problem: Enterprises need to treat AI agents as accountable digital workers, with real visibility and evaluation before they ship widely.

Role: Founder & Advisor; product vision, MVP, and enterprise discovery for an agent evaluation platform.

Outcome: 50+ enterprise discovery calls; three design-partner pilots; validated seed-stage pricing within six months; MVP with tracing, scoring, and regression detection.

Organizations & visibility

Moderna · Amazon · MIT Sloan · Harvard Business School (cross-reg.)

Press: CNN Business, CNET, About Amazon (see More for detail)

Background

Experience

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Senior Director, AI & ML · Moderna Cambridge, MA · July 2023 – Present

GenAI roadmap for 20+ enterprise applications; built a 35+ person engineering organization from the ground up; production LLM workflows on AWS for global manufacturing.

I translate AI capability for the C-suite, run our multi-million-dollar partnerships with OpenAI and AWS, and target meaningfully faster R&D and clinical timelines.

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Key responsibilities

  • Define and execute enterprise GenAI strategy across R&D, clinical, and operations, including how we partner with OpenAI and AWS
  • Architect scalable AI solutions on AWS and open-source frameworks; security, scalability, and regulatory compliance
  • Partner with product, engineering, and external stakeholders on AI-driven process optimization and ROI
  • Integrate multimodal AI (text, image, structured data) into high-stakes workflows with governance fit for regulated biopharma

Impact

  • Roadmap spanning 20+ enterprise applications with expected ~30% reduction in R&D and clinical operation timelines (portfolio-level target)
  • Engineering organization of 35+ members built from inception for production-grade LLM delivery
  • Secured multi-million-dollar investments and partnerships; shaped measurable business outcomes with executive stakeholders
Sr. Manager & Tech Lead · Amazon Alexa Conversational AI & multi-agent systems · June 2018 – July 2023

Large-scale conversational AI and multi-agent orchestration for Alexa worldwide, with 40 direct reports and 145 partner-team reports across 8+ countries.

First multi-agent switching framework (celebrity and Disney agents), a $50M+ ARR business, Voice Shopping in ten countries, and the India retail app at millions of DAU. CNN, CNET, About Amazon.

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Key achievements

  • Architected and launched Alexa’s first multi-agent conversational switching framework, covering Melissa McCarthy, Shaquille O’Neal, Amitabh Bachchan, and Disney (Hey Disney)
  • Core infrastructure for a business model generating over $50M in annual recurring revenue (celebrity and partner agents)
  • Rolled out Alexa Voice Shopping in the US, India, Japan, Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Mexico, Ireland, and Australia
  • Led integration of speech recognition, NLP, contextual understanding, and response orchestration; APIs and ML endpoints for the Amazon India retail app at millions of daily active users
  • Built and scaled multi-disciplinary teams; cross-organizational alignment across Alexa AI, retail, device, and international engineering
  • +500 bps engagement in the first month of a major celebrity launch

Media: CNN, CNET, About Amazon

Manager & Tech Lead · Amazon Retail International expansion · June 2015 – Dec 2018

Cut Amazon’s standard three-year country launch timeline to nine months for its first retail entry in Southeast Asia. I was the sole technical owner, aligning 26 teams and seven global organizations.

Region’s first end-to-end digital marketing and last-mile logistics stack; two-hour delivery in Singapore; proprietary systems fulfilled 100% of regional orders.

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Project Nautilus · Singapore

  • Decoupled legacy US-centric systems to create a lightweight, region-specific operating model for flagship launch goals
  • Architected marketing technology stack from the ground up
  • Integrated ad targeting, email triggers, and coordination between inventory and marketing
  • Built the measurement infrastructure and treated metrics as an engineering discipline
  • Launched Alexa Voice Shopping in India, Japan, Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Mexico, Ireland, and Australia (during overlapping international expansion scope)
Software Development Engineer · Amazon.com Amazon Register (POS) · June 2012 – June 2015

High-scale distributed services and fraud detection for Amazon Register: global merchant onboarding, financial portal integrations, and fault-tolerant payment flows in Java and C++.

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Tech lead across Seattle and Bangalore: cross-site delivery velocity, customer-facing widgets and service endpoints, and technical onboarding for thousands of new merchant partners.

Education & advisory

Education

Consulting & advisory

Founding Tech Advisor · Health Galaxy AI Heart Score app · 2024 – Present

Founding tech advisor to the CEO on scaling operations and AI-enabled business models, including AI-ready architecture for the AI Heart Score app.

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Scope

  • AI-ready architecture and technical direction for product scale
  • Operating model and AI-enabled go-to-market alignment with leadership
Stanford Seed Consultant Global founders · June 2025 onward

Strategic advisor to global founders on scaling operations and AI-enabled business models, especially in developing economies.

Digital transformation, process efficiency, and applied lessons from large-scale tech leadership.

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Contributions

  • Technology adoption and digital transformation guidance
  • Process optimization and operational efficiency
  • Mentorship on scaling in resource-constrained contexts
  • Applied lessons from global tech to emerging markets

Expertise

Technical & strategy

Skills & domains

AI/ML: LLMs, LLM orchestration, agentic and multi-agent systems, NLP, speech, multimodal AI, MLOps, governance. Cloud: AWS, distributed systems, APIs, data pipelines, security and compliance.

Engineering: Python, Java, JavaScript, C/C++, SQL, major databases. Business: product, GTM, modeling, executive communication, org transformation.

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Artificial intelligence & ML

  • LLMs: GPT, Claude, and Llama-family architectures
  • LLM orchestration & fine-tuning strategy
  • Agentic frameworks & multi-agent systems
  • NLP; speech recognition & synthesis
  • Predictive analytics & ML pipelines
  • Multimodal AI (text, image, structured data)
  • MLOps
  • AI governance & responsible AI frameworks

Cloud & infrastructure

  • AWS: compute, storage, ML services
  • Distributed systems; APIs & microservices
  • Big data pipelines & data engineering
  • Scalability, performance, security & compliance

Programming & development

  • Languages: Python, Java, JavaScript, C, C++, SQL
  • Databases: MySQL, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL
  • REST, GraphQL, WebSockets
  • Git, CI/CD, Agile
  • Data structures, algorithms, system design

Business & strategy

  • Product strategy & roadmaps
  • GTM & business model design
  • Financial modeling & TAM/SAM/SOM
  • Stakeholder & executive communication
  • Cross-functional leadership & change management

Additional

Certifications, leadership, philosophy

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Certifications & awards

Rice University leadership certificates (2018), Coursera AI coursework, IIT Bombay ML/AI lab fellowships, and KVPY national science fellowship (2005–09).

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Leadership development (Rice, 2018)

  • Leadership Development for Engineers
  • Personal Leadership Development; Leading High Performing Teams
  • Relationship Management
  • Self-Awareness and the Effective Leader

Technical

  • AI for Everyone (Coursera)
  • Machine Learning Specialization (in progress)

Fellowships

  • IIT Bombay: three fellowships in Machine Learning and AI research laboratories

Academic honors

  • KVPY Fellowship (2005–09): Young Scientist, Engineering Stream; only engineering student selected in 2005 EB stream in India
Leadership & community

Research at TIFR on GRAPES-3 / CERN; orientation leadership for ~1,700 UTD freshmen; NSBE graduate chair; IEEE communications lead at PICT.

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Junior Research Fellow · TIFR (July 2009 – April 2010), Mumbai

  • Algorithms for monitoring scintillator detectors; GRAPES-3 / CERN
  • ROOT framework and C++

UTD Orientation Team Mentor (2011)

  • Led orientation for ~1,700 freshmen
  • Group leader for 100 students; cohorts up to 25

NSBE · UTD Graduate Chair

  • Bridge between industry and grad students; recruiting and workshops

IEEE PRO · PICT (2006–08)

  • Communications and events for ~700-member chapter
Publications & media

Press: CNN Business, CNET (Hey Disney), About Amazon India (Amitabh Bachchan). Technical: GRAPES-3 work, internal AI governance talks, voice AI architecture docs.

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Media

  • CNN Business: Alexa celebrity personalities
  • CNET: Hey Disney at Disney World
  • About Amazon (India): Amitabh Bachchan partnership
  • Additional coverage of Alexa innovation and expansion

Technical

  • GRAPES-3 (CERN): scintillator monitoring algorithms
  • Internal talks on AI governance and multi-agent systems
  • Architecture documentation for scalable voice AI
Professional philosophy

I build where engineering depth meets business strategy: systems that ship, scale, and tie back to real outcomes.

Measurement is an engineering problem; on the stealth agent-eval venture, focused on trustworthy, auditable multi-agent enterprise AI.

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I operate at the intersection of deep technical engineering and high-level business strategy. My career has been defined by building systems that don’t just work technically, but solve real business problems and create measurable value.

From Amazon’s first retail launch in Southeast Asia to AI transformation at Moderna, I've learned that technology leadership comes down to three things. You need the technical depth to architect solutions that scale. You need the business acumen to tie those decisions to outcomes. And you need customer focus, so you're building for real users and measurable impact.

I treat measurement as an engineering problem, because it's what tells you whether a business is actually working. On the stealth enterprise agent evaluation platform, my focus is multi-agent enterprise AI you can trust and audit. That's the thing that makes real automation possible.

What I bring to organizations

Bilingual technical and executive communication; 15+ years across Fortune 500 and startups; global launches in ten countries (Voice Shopping footprint).

Founder & Advisor on a stealth agent-eval venture, so I'm used to ambiguity, fast iteration, and outcome-led execution.

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Bilingual communication

  • Fluent in technical and business languages
  • Architect with engineers; present strategy to the C-suite
  • Bridge technical teams and business stakeholders

Proven track record

  • 15+ years on complex, high-impact technical initiatives
  • Retail, voice AI, healthcare, enterprise software
  • 0-to-1 launches and market expansions
  • Fortune 500 and startup environments

Global perspective

  • International expansion across 10 countries (Alexa Voice Shopping footprint)
  • US, India, Singapore, Vietnam, and global markets
  • Cross-cultural teams and multi-jurisdiction awareness

Entrepreneurial mindset

  • Building a stealth enterprise agent evaluation platform from the ground up
  • Comfort with ambiguity and rapid iteration
  • Outcomes over outputs; strategy, resources, execution
Closing note

A career focused on technology that matters, and products that ship and create real business value.

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This portfolio reflects a career spent building technology that matters: systems that scale, products that ship, and solutions that create real business value. Whether leading at global tech companies or building startups from scratch, I stay focused on one question: How can we use technology to solve problems that actually matter?

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