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Treats AI agents as digital workers—trackable, measurable, continuously improvable—with visibility into performance, failures, and improvement over time.", "keyInnovation": "Agent evaluation and performance intelligence: end-to-end tracing of agent actions and outputs; automated and human-in-the-loop scoring; regression detection; side-by-side agent version comparison.", "valueProposition": [ "Manage AI agents like employees—performance reviews, accountability, continuous improvement", "Replace black-box deployments with operational transparency", "Scale digital workers with quality and compliance confidence" ], "achievements": [ "Technical architecture and go-to-market strategy", "Pitch deck and financial models", "Enterprise customer discovery", "Build MVP" ] }, "education": [ { "degree": "Executive MBA (EMBA)", "institution": "MIT Sloan School of Management", "officialProgramUrl": "https://mitsloan.mit.edu/emba", "schoolAboutUrl": "https://mitsloan.mit.edu/about", "endDate": "2026-05", "status": "Expected", "location": "Cambridge, MA", "skillsDevelopedInProgram": "Strategy and platform economics; new venture building; marketing and customer analytics; global and cross-cultural leadership; data-driven decisions and science of management through applied, work-linked projects; organizational design, systems thinking, and change leadership; AI in business and technology-led innovation (MIT Executive MBA, Sloan).", "focusAreas": [ "Platform Strategy & Digital Business Models", "Entrepreneurship & New Ventures", "Global Organizations & Cross-Cultural Leadership", "Marketing Management & Customer Analytics", "Organizational Processes & Change Management" ], "coursework": [ "15.390 New Enterprises", "15.732 Marketing Management", "15.708 Global Organizations Lab", "15.717 Organizational Processes", "MIT Platform Strategy" ] }, { "degree": "Master of Computer Science", "institution": "University of Texas at Dallas", "endDate": "2012-05", "specializations": ["Distributed Systems", "Machine Learning", "Algorithms"] }, { "degree": "Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science", "institution": "Pune Institute of Computer Technology", "endDate": "2009-07", "location": "India", "honors": [ "Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) Fellowship — Young Scientist, Engineering Stream, 2005–09" ] } ], "consultingAndAdvisory": [ { "role": "Stanford Seed Volunteer Consultant", "focus": "AI for nonprofit scaling", "date": "2025-06", "summary": "Volunteer consulting for business owners in developing economies on AI, digital transformation, scaling, and operational efficiency." } ], "leadershipAndCommunity": [ { "role": "Junior Research Fellow", "organization": "Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR)", "location": "Mumbai, India", "startDate": "2009-07", "endDate": "2010-04", "summary": "GRAPES-3 / CERN-related detector monitoring algorithms; ROOT and C++." }, { "role": "Orientation Team Mentor", "organization": "University of Texas at Dallas", "date": "2011", "summary": "Orientation for ~1,700 freshmen; group leader for 100 students." }, { "role": "Graduate Chair", "organization": "National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), UTD", "summary": "Industry–graduate bridge; recruiting and professional development." }, { "role": "Public Relations Officer", "organization": "IEEE student chapter, PICT", "date": "2006-2008", "summary": "Communications and events for ~700-member chapter." } ], "skills": { "aiAndML": [ "LLMs (GPT, Claude, Llama-class)", "Agentic and multi-agent frameworks", "NLP", "Speech recognition and voice synthesis", "Predictive analytics and ML pipelines", "Multimodal AI", "AI governance and responsible AI" ], "cloudAndInfrastructure": [ "AWS", "Distributed systems", "APIs and microservices", "Big data pipelines", "Scalability, security, compliance" ], "programming": [ "Python", "Java", "JavaScript", "C", "C++", "SQL", "MySQL", "DynamoDB", "PostgreSQL", "REST", "GraphQL", "WebSockets", "Git", "CI/CD", "Agile" ], "business": [ "Product strategy and roadmaps", "GTM and business models", "Financial modeling and TAM/SAM/SOM", "Stakeholder and executive communication", "Cross-functional leadership", "Change management" ] }, "certifications": [ "Leadership Development for Engineers — Rice University, 2018", "Personal Leadership Development / High Performing Teams — Rice University, 2018", "Relationship Management — Rice University, 2018", "Self-Awareness and the Effective Leader — Rice University, 2018", "AI for Everyone — Coursera", "Machine Learning Specialization — in progress" ], "mediaFeatures": [ "CNN Business — Amazon Alexa celebrity voice features", "CNET — Hey Disney voice assistant", "About Amazon (India) — Amitabh Bachchan celebrity voice partnership" ], "selectedImpact": [ "Industry-first multi-agent conversational AI on Alexa; celebrity voices; Hey Disney", "+500 bps engagement in first month of celebrity voice launch", "Amazon first retail launch in Southeast Asia (Project Nautilus, Singapore)", "Alexa Voice Shopping in nine international markets", "Voice AI for Amazon India retail app — millions of daily users", "LLM and multimodal AI in Moderna CMC manufacturing and quality" ], "workHistory": [ { "role": "Sr. Director, Artificial Intelligence", "organization": "Moderna", "division": "CMC", "startDate": "2023-07", "endDate": null, "summary": "AI transformation for manufacturing, QC, and research; OpenAI partnership; AWS and open-source; governance in regulated biopharma." }, { "role": "Sr. Manager & Tech Lead", "organization": "Amazon Alexa", "team": "Multi-Agent AI Systems", "startDate": "2022-06", "endDate": "2023-07", "summary": "Multi-agent systems with Disney and celebrity agents; aggregation and routing at scale; US and India; CNN, CNET, About Amazon." }, { "role": "Principal Technical Program Manager", "organization": "Amazon Alexa", "team": "Conversational AI & Voice Technology", "startDate": "2021-09", "endDate": "2022-06", "summary": "First multi-agent conversational AI framework on Alexa; personality switching; international deployment." }, { "role": "Senior Technical Program Manager", "organization": "Amazon Alexa", "team": "Voice Commerce Integration", "startDate": "2019-01", "endDate": "2021-09", "summary": "Alexa in Amazon India app; APIs and ML endpoints; team 1 to 16+." }, { "role": "Manager & Tech Lead", "organization": "Amazon.com", "teams": ["Prime Now", "Alexa", "International Expansion"], "startDate": "2016-06", "endDate": "2019-12", "summary": "Singapore retail launch; Flex routing; Project Nautilus marketing stack; Alexa Voice Shopping in nine countries." }, { "role": "Software Development Engineer", "organization": "Amazon.com", "product": "Amazon Register (POS)", "startDate": "2012-06", "endDate": "2016-06", "summary": "Onboarding, settings, money portal for merchants." } ], "openTo": [ "Advisory board positions in AI and tech startups", "Speaking on AI governance and enterprise AI", "AI strategy and implementation consulting", "Partnerships for Noesis", "Conversations on the future of enterprise AI" ], "agentHints": { "preferredContact": "Email for inbound; 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