Seasoned Engineering Leader with 27+ years of experience, specializing in driving technological innovations and leading global software engineering teams. Expert in strategic planning, Agile methodologies, and Innovations, with a proven track record of delivering high-value product and solutions in areas such as telecom, datacom, cloud SaaS, PaaS, NAS storage, industrial IoT, bigdata, data engineering, data analytics, AI/ML, Generative AI, cloud services, edge and cloud integration.Pradip has demonstrated success in building and mentoring cross-functional teams of mulitiple products, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence. he is skilled in navigating complex, cross-functional environments to achieve strategic goals and drive profitabilityAs an engineering and technology leader, Pradip has established and lead large global high performing engineering teams from scratch and transformed many struggling teams to success. Hired senior experts, groomed leaders and able to retain talents to meet strategic objectives of the business.In his current role as head of engineering and India site leader at Honeywell Forge, Pradip responsible for driving digital transformation of Honeywell products by developing Honeywell Forge platform, a data and AI platform and a suite of end-customer, persona-based SaaS applications framework. It leverage an unified industry 4.0 data platform that integrates IT, OT and IOT data and creates insights from millions of raw data points that delivers intelligent operations outcomes.Pradip is responsible for driving the product development, strategy and execution of the cloud data platform and applications. Partnered with buisness leaders, product managers, senior stakeholders and cross functional teams to develop and implement business strategies and technical roadmaps to solve csutomer pain points. Earlier at Huawei, he was head of India cloud, AI & storage lab and was instrumental in development of Huawei's Next generation distributed NAS File System with breakthrough Technologies. ONE Industry Leading Architecture of Distributed NAS File system serves as the basic platform for multiple Storage products. Pradip also played pivotal role in developing and executing Huawei Cloud PaaS data services and bigdata kernel capabilitites. Handled Bigdata Kernel Components (Hadoop, Spark, HBase, Hive, CarbonData etc) to Support Enterprise Intelligence Services for Huawei public Cloud BigData Solutions, Real Time Data Integrations Cloud CDC Service, Data Virtualization Engine, Cloud DB Services.