Building a Digital Learning Twin (DLT); an AI-Agent using Generative AI technology for children with Autism

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), I led the ideation, planning, and execution of innovative solutions in Data, ML/MLOps, and Generative-AI domains, driving significant value for customers.Leadership & Team Building: Led a high-performing team of 30+ Data Analytics specialists, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence.Strategic Consultation & Solutions: Provided strategic consultation and developed custom solutions through the Data Lab program, implementing comprehensive data strategies including Data Lakes, Domain-Driven Design, Data Mesh, Governance, Data Warehousing, and ETL/ELT processing with Kinesis, Kafka, Spark, and Glue.End-to-End Project Delivery: Launched multiple turnkey projects in ML/MLOps and Generative-AI, such as Semantic Search & Recommendations with BERT embeddings and K-NN, Intelligent Document Processing with OCR and NLP, and a custom Automated Advisor for curriculum analysis and performance modeling.Innovative Product Development: Deployed a Q&A Chatbot solution with LLM and RAG implementation using LangChain for a major customer, enhancing user experience and operational efficiency.Community & Thought Leadership: Led Community of Practice (CoP) efforts on Generative-AI use cases, addressing critical issues like privacy and logical fallacies in education. Demonstrated thought leadership through active participation in industry forums.Full Lifecycle Management: Collaborated across all stages of the software development lifecycle, from concept to production, ensuring seamless integration and robust deployment of solutions.My tenure at AWS was defined by strategic leadership, innovative problem-solving, and a commitment to delivering high-quality, impactful solutions.

Responsible for delivering the unified telemedicine platform achieving company’s vision of interconnecting Operating Rooms (OR) for MedTech efficiency and Robotic Surgery. Winner of Fierce 15 startup award• Managed multiple swim lane teams of mission critical Applications, Data and Computer Vision ML, multi-tasking deliverables adhering to FDA’s regulations, IEC 62304 software development, HIPAA, PHI requirements.• Led the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) to market thus enabling raising $100M in Series-B funding.• Fostered culture of continuous improvement, tracking operational and business intelligence metrics to improve performance, reliability, and user experience. Resulted in 80% reduction in support tickets within 7 months.• Implemented agile methodologies and streamlined software development processes.• Built a culture of Innovation, collaboration and team building that resulted in delivering solutions with quality.• Led 120+ software engineers, QA engineers and performance engineering teams spanning multiple countries.

Responsible for managing Xfinity Big Data Platform, a core stream processing aggregation engine operating at petabyte scale handling 21B events per day from 27M+ subscribers to power multiple applications, feature engineering/ML, actionable insights for internal teams in Comcast Internet Services Business Unit• Championed and built the state-of-the-art self-serve data processing platform with multi-tenant capabilities to empower multiple teams implement their own data processors, DAG, lifecycle policies, and governance for custom implementation. Reduced the operational costs by 70%, while accelerating feature delivery by 50%.• Owned budget estimations, consolidated vendors, and renegotiated contracts to optimize costs.• Engineered partnerships with ISVs for cyber security events - threat detection, device fingerprinting for fraud detection.• Led and drove the development of complex web and cloud native applications, ensuring automated development and deployment.• Championed software best practices, better planning and rigorous system design that has helped teams to deliver reliable software and improve overall quality and reliability of the platform.• Managed a team of 60+ engineers, managers, and architects.

Responsible for managing the entire backend for content search and personalized recommendations for IPTV platform that serves 5M+ FiOS subscribers.• Built data pipeline for ingesting linear TV guide, and on-demand metadata by partnering with Gracenote and Rovi• Delivered conversational voice search service by hosting Speech Recognition engine, Natural Language Processing for named entity recognition, Knowledge graphs, content relevancy ranking with Text vectorization using TFxIDF.• Championed data-driven culture for providing operational insights and business intelligence for every feature.• Led application development, testing and release, collaborated with frontend, data platform and data science teams resulting in the development of the new product.• Managed a team of 20+ engineers, ensuring high-quality software development through agile methodologies and code reviews.

Led technology vision and implementation for multiple telepresence, unified communications product portfolios