Bringing GPU and TPU accelerated high dimensional Vector Search to F100 enterprises at PetaByte scale to power various AI workloads.

AgrEco is an analytical insights and planning engine for farmers (yield prediction, disease load), FPOs (sesonality, demand analysis), and the various dependent stakeholders of the agriculture ecosystem, including catering to complex Supply Chain and Logistics decision making capabilities.

An AI-driven niche services marketplace to create green indoor spaces.

Under the aegis of NITI Aayog and AIC, the SMU center incubates and nurtures early-stage entrepreneurial ventures based on Technology and Innovation by providing infrastructure, consultancy, and seed grants to promising young entrepreneurs to pursue their dreams of starting their own firm. AIC-SMU Board of mentors: https://www.smutbi.com/board-of-mentors

Reimagining Space and Location Intelligence - Indoor positioning for people and asset tracking using RTLS (Real Time Location Analytics) across Healthcare, Logistics, and Manufacturing.

Championed the Research charter for data led disruptive innovation for solving some of the trickiest issues in Logistics. * Solving CVRP (Capacitated Vehicle Routing problem) using AI Deep Reinforcement Learning. US Patent was granted for this work. Our approach is highlighted here: https://medium.com/pando-labs/deep-reinforcement-learning-for-solving-combinatorial-optimisation-problems-part-1-437a02a9d841* Solving the 3D Bin packing problem using Deep Reinforcement Learning, an AI technique. Pando customers use this algorithm to visualize the actual planned 3D load profiling of their goods within their trucks before the items are physically loaded. This enables realistic go-no-decisions to be made for operations.* Conceptualised, designed, and powered the 'Network Map' at Pando. With eyes on thousands of transporters, performing millions of transactions on freight globally, the Network Map optimizes Freight management decisions for large Enterprises. Apart from providing a control tower for operations, it led to a solution that enabled collaborative routing across different customers!* Analysis of Transport Lane performance characteristics for Association mining using Apriori algorithms to solve for Anomaly Detection across the Supply Chain (https://medium.com/@siddhant7/anomaly-detection-in-supply-chain-part-1-learn-how-to-find-insights-in-data-to-convey-your-story-162ceb849243).

Technical advisor to the research teams at RBC to design and architect a reference middleware platform for vendor neutral acquisition and control of IoT sensor data for a pan India Smart Cities implementation and rollout.

As the CTO my team's charter was making spaces intelligent. Coupled with our Indoor positioning, mapping and navigation capabilities our AI platform continuously learnt the real time usage data from various IoT sensor meshes and CV analytics to generate a real time view from the live occupancy across all available supply. Factoring in the demand elasticity learnt from the behaviour patterns of users enabled accurate dynamic pricing of the various assets of the available supply. Creating business impact across India, US, Singapore and Australia.

Head Transportation Logistics at Flipkart - 1st mile, Line haul (inter city) and City Logistics.My teams worked across several applications, notably:Applying novel Machine Learning and Big Data techniques to solve for India's sparse and noisy Geo-Spatial and Address data for catering to India's urban and inter city logistics distribution challenges. Solving the CVRP for daily beat planning operations for Last mile routing. This application was later extended to hyper local deliveries for groceries.Real-time data driven Logistics Insights for optimised planning of capacity to cater to variable supply. Research projects included Indoor positioning & Routing using smart devices and sensors to enable an IoT backplane for End2End visibility through our Supply Chain Network. Applied Research collaborations with top Academic institutions - MIT Mega Cities Lab, Cambridge and Dept of Aerospace Engg, IIT Mumbai.

Gracenote is the world leader in the audio fingerprinting and recognition, powering identification and thematic media discovery and recommendations across a wide range of digital media offerings. iTunes Genius recommendations worldwide is powered by Gracenote. Our Research team drove AI and Machine Learning based behavioural insights to understand users' moods and tastes to power audio recommendations in products ranging from Apple iTunes, Amazon and Microsoft's media clouds. At Gracenote Research, my teams built technology platforms to learn Image, Video and Audio descriptors for thematic classification using AI Deep architectures (CNNs, RBMs) to power content recommendations leveraging users' moods, sentiments, and collaborative behavior analysis and mining.http://www.gracenote.com/company/

Head of Engg for Yahoo Image & Video Search globally across 41 intls. Led innovations in Y! Multimedia Search to grow worldwide revenues ten fold in little over a year. Our team won the CEO Challenge prize worth $150k for dramatically increasing Video playback and engagement. Collaborated closely with Y! Labs and Research faculties across India and Europe to employ various techniques to understand the semantic search context and surface the most temporal, spatially relevant multimedia content in the Search results.

Ran Mapquest engineering - Designed and deployed MQ's Worldwide Map Tile Cache server, Single Line Address geocoding. Championed and lead the India chapter of Aol's Mobile Development Center - built Truveo Mobile Video Search, and created Aol's first open source mobile development platform - Open Mobile Platform (OMP). Designed and Built Aol's Vertical Search technology stack that powered marquee Aol Channel Searches.Anchored Aol India's University Research programmes.

Set up Aventeon's India Development Center. Aventeon, Inc closed two rounds of VC funding from Intel Capital, TVM and 3i. Exited with the sale of Aventeon's flagship product line Logistics.ONE – intelligent GPS enabled GeoSpatial solutions for Transport and Logistics.

Aventeon mission was to "Mobilize Enterprise workflows" - seamless communication using ruggedized handheld devices that always kept in sync with all the relevant Enterprise backend workflows over the air. Settlement and Invoicing times got short circuited to near real time, from the traditional 30-45 day cycles.

As the charter member of the Media Technologies team, we were literally the first to conceive, design and build the secure platform to deliver digital assets over the Internet - created the eBooks, eMusic and eSoftware digital stores at Amazon.com. This included designing and creating the digital ordering and fulfilment pipeline at Amazon.com, including the secure delivery of electronic assets from third party providers to Amazon.com customers across the world.

Built native Netware file systems semantics on Unix/NFS file systems.Devised a Patented network scheduling algorithm for delivering Real-time multimedia traffic over the Internet. Lead the Network Security Products engineering teams.

Overhauled the Memory management of SoftWORD (i86 arch).