Nitin Pillai Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Blackbird.AI, a global leader in Narrative & Risk intelligence, delivers advanced AI-powered solutions in its mission to empower trust, safety and integrity across the information ecosystem. The Blackbird Constellation Platform™ powers the detection and analysis of information-driven attacks and evolving threats in a dynamic adversarial environment. Its purpose-built and patent-pending technology offers high fidelity detection and automated decision-making, leading to reduced complexity and faster resolution times.Blackbird was recognized by Forrester as a "Top Threat Intelligence Company" and provides mission critical solutions for public and private customers globally.The team is comprised of Artificial Intelligence experts, Threat Intelligence analysts and National Security professionals with a mission to defend authenticity and fight narrative manipulation.For additional information, please visit: www.blackbird.ai

Boston, Ma, Us

Forbes Technology Council is an invitation-only community for world-class CTOs, VP Engineering and other technology executives. Members are vetted and selected by a review committee based on the depth and diversity of their experience. Criteria for acceptance include a track record of successfully impacting business growth metrics, as well as personal and professional achievements and honors.

New York, New York, Us

Currently I serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) and trusted advisor to founders across a portfolio and network of early-stage businesses at NYC's premiere early-stage venture firm.• Collaborated with founders to build and develop unicorns.• Gained accessibility to over 50 early-stage businesses, resources, leadership network, and emerging industry trends and resources through a top-tier seed-stage firm. Primary is New York City’s premier early stage venture firm working alongside founders to build unicorns like Alloy, Chief, Electric, K Health, Slice, and many more.

New York, Ny, Us

Dataminr is the world's leading AI platform that detects the earliest signals of high-impact events and emerging risks from publicly available information. These real time alerts enable enterprise and public sector clients around the globe to know critical information first, respond with confidence, and manage crises more effectively. I am a dynamic strategist of engineering initiatives for the Core Platforms Division charged with Routing Intelligence, Search, Alert Personalization and Delivery. I was selected to lead EU regionalization priorities as the Technical Advisor for Strategy and Execution. I advanced all initiatives spanning Engineering, GTM, Legal, Product, and Security teams to redesign product functions to comply with EU/US data residency and privacy statutes.• Led, equipped, and empowered engineers in the Core Platforms division and cross-functional personnel that drove EU regionalization initiatives.• Scaled the organization by providing a multi-year strategic action plan to grow alerting platform teams. • Presented a strategic 1-year roadmap for a regionalized product in the EU.• Directed the 70+ member cross-functional team to execute deliverables.• Planned, allocated, and distributed a multi million dollar budget.• Prepared the product to penetrate a highly regulated EU defense sector and product markets. • Outlined blueprint for scalable real-time alerting that saved $3M a year in AWS infrastructure costs and decreased delivery latency from 55 minutes to 3 minutes.• Overhauled the alert matcher service and actualized the Abstract Query Language (AQL) vision that simplified alert definition criteria and enhanced accuracy. Partnered with the AI Research team to integrate Semantic Search. ◦ Slashed matching time from 55s to 500ms to match 2M watchlist queries. Saved $1.5M annual in AWS infrastructure costs.• Spearheaded the enterprise cloud optimization initiative that cut AWS infrastructure costs by several million dollars.

New York , Ny, Us

As a board member for the cybersecurity program at Ithaca college, I will be responsible for working closely with faculty in shaping the curriculum based on real word security practices from the field. My main focus will be on guiding students and faculty on how to use Big Data and Machine Learning strategies to build an automated SOC with minimal human intervention cutting through the security alert noise and producing actionable alerts.

Redmond, Washington, Us

In this role, I was the primary overseer of M365 security initiatives, fighting hackers in regards a $10B JEDI contract for the U.S. government. I helmed technical leadership, strategic vision and direction, tactical execution plans, and team growth to ensure all on-time deliverables. I also tasked to develop a comprehensive and innovative security analytics pipeline to capture and eliminate threats, risks, and attacks.• Directed, motivated, and mentored an Engineering team (Security, SRE, SWE, Government Contractors) to mitigate risks from hackers.• Steered architecture on Vanquish, a real-time security analysis pipeline, to catch hackers in MS365 and government clouds.◦ Delivered fast and actionable security detection, alerting, and analytics to process millions of events per second and petabytes of data daily. Averaged 12 minutes to detect intrusion in any global Azure datacenter.◦ Designed remediation functions and capabilities to prevent further damage once an attacker is detected.

Redmond, Washington, Us

At Microsoft, I started as a Software Engineer but earned a quick promotion to Tech Lead due to exemplary leadership and performance.• Supervised, developed, and coached a 10-member team of engineers.◦ Advised team members on career progression, mediated/resolved conflicts, and guided skills enhancement in software design, with emphasis in code reusability, performance, and scale.• Lead Architect on the new Office 365 CRM back-end hosted on Azure.◦ Designed analytics pipeline, authentication, data ingestion, and REST APIs for data/KPI retrieval and storage.• Integrated an intelligent agent for NLP that understood customer utilization and supported conversational styles of customer speech. Automated processes to reduce support costs.• Created the Exchange/Office 365 Active monitoring infrastructure comprising of 1000+ components to track cloud services. Enabled self-healing of common issues, while improving communications to on-call teams on escalations.

Melville, Ny, Us

In this position, I was instrumental in the strategic positioning of technology and architecture for growth in response to market environments, emerging trends, and competitive dynamics, in alignment with enterprise vision and customer requirements.• Oversaw and inspired up to 15 software engineers to execute all deliverables.◦ Supported a complex, real-time solution across high-throughput servers, web-based client/administrator modules, and more than 25 reporting and analytics tools to promote data-driven insights and decision-making.• Designated Architect and Lead Developer in the design, testing, and deployment of a Unified Voicemail Solution.

Master'S Degree, Data Science And Machine Learning

Master Of Science - Ms, Electrical And Computer Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Computer Science And Engineering