Kandola Network is an early-stage startup that is developing a decentralized database and data exchange, with a vision to bring about blockchain inclusion for the next billion.* Launched Kandola Network to tackle unsolved problems in the Web3 data market. Instrumental in shaping the company's identity, game-changing technology strategy, designing a business model for growth, and defining a clear product roadmap and plan.* Hired and built the entire technology team from scratch - assembled a team of researchers, architects, and engineers with history of scaling disruptive applications to population scale. Directed the world-class team of engineers in the development of the MVP platform in under a year. * Led system design, architecture and implementation and achieved an unprecedented throughput of 1 million transactions per second with the MVP, setting a new benchmark in the industry.* Designed and co-authored the Proof of Real-time Transfer (PoRT) Protocol, a disruptive solution for scalable decentralized data exchange. Published as distinguished paper in the IEEE ICBC and IEEE COINS.* Conceptualized four patents at the intersection of decentralized computing, AI, security, privacy, and IoT.* Raised pre-seed funding from marquee list of investors and played pivotal role in planning and raising venture capital in the seed round.* Kick-started the initial revenue stream; personally onboarded our first two early adopter clients in the audit SaaS and media sectors; established an enduring relationship by offering innovative solutions leading to significant growth and scale opportunities for their products and services. * Created and fostered a "change-and-run" culture, balancing fundamental research with product-market fit and iterative development at scale globally.

FIS is a Fortune 300 enterprise with a revenue of $14 billion and 70,000 employees. FIS is the leading provider of technology solutions for merchants, banks, and capital markets firms globally with 100+ FinTech products.* Specified product roadmap, epics, user stories, system design, architecture and UX for the largest open-source Java-based BPM platform in the Eclipse Foundation leveraged by the likes of Deutsche Bank, Key Bank and UMB with 100k+ daily users.* Established the vision, strategy, product requirements, roadmap, UX and plan for the Fabric SaaS platform, a Low-Code-No-Code application platform that launched new FIS products and revenue streams. * Formed and led three agile squads (32+) of highly empowered, high-quality architects, product owners, UX designers, and front-end, back-end (microservices) and DevOps engineers.* Played a pivotal role in securing $5M in funding for the Fabric Platform from the corporate Growth Office.

SunGard, a Fortune 500 with a revenue of $5 billion, is a leading provider of technology products for financial services, energy, higher education, and public sector.* Started as a software engineer and quickly progressed to Technical Program Manager for multiple solutions.* Owned the product roadmap and spearheaded the development of the SunGard Infinity SaaS Platform from conception to release, managing cross-functional and cross-product teams.* Architected and implemented the Financial Systems IaaS initiative, resulting in a new product offering, increased adoption, ROI, and reduced time-to-market from 8 weeks to 16 hours for SunGard datacenter businesses.* Hired, and mentored 42 team members and built 5 offshore teams from scratch, improving scale and software delivery efficiency across product-lines.

BITS, Pilani is an Ivy-League university renowned for its strong programs in engineering, sciences, and management.* Popular instructor for 500+ students for undergraduate and graduate-level computer science courses.* As the Lead, Media Lab, designed and developed software solutions for the university and mentored student teams in computer science research and software development.