As CTO of "software" I lead engineering/devops teams across multiple product lines that provide end-end supply chain visibility and applications (DSCSA/EMVS/RU/Other Compliance for Pharma, Warehouse Workflows, Brand Protection, IOT/Farm-to-Fork, Analytics) atop that data across verticals such as LIFE SCIENCES, F&B, AgroTech etc. Antares vision group is an amalgamation of several companies that cater to the needs of quality inspection for manufacturing lines/plants (hardware, associated software and machine learning) and provide track and trace capabilities across the entire supply chain from raw materials to consumers to recycling (circular economy).

*** PWC (via MBO): 2022: Executive Technology Advisor: Technology Due Diligence for private equity (Life sciences, ECommerce,Supply Chain and Enterprise Infrastructure software).*** SUPPORTLOGIC: 2021: VPE: (https://www.supportlogic.io | CXP Product Suite): NLP-based Data pipeline & Support Apps: Augmented team, Improved Security Posture, CI/CD (on GCP) & AGILE.*** WELLS FARGO: 2020: VPE: NLP-based data pipeline to deliver CLM (Contract Lifecycle Management) and related use-cases (LIBOR remediation) & AGILE transformation.*** STARTUP ADVISOR: ****** SPARKFLOWS.IO: Jun-2016->Oct-2024: http://www.sparkflows.io: Spark AI workflows.****** Squelch: Jul-2016->Jul-2019: Maximize SNR for unstructured content; ****** Board Member: Neptium Software: Apr-2004->Apr-2007: Supply-chain Shipping Software.

Enterprise grade, AWS-cloud-native, ML-infused Data Pipeline + B2B SaaS applications aimed at Procurement/Supply-Chain. End-users were typically Global Commodity Managers/Engineers/Program Managers grappling with Supplier/Spend Management, RFX and NPI (New Product Introduction) => http://www.levadata.com.Key roles in delivering the product and working with leadership in the company's journey from Series-A to multiple rounds of additional funding. * Planned Engineering/AWS budgets, delivered needed compliance via SOC2 Audits.* Transformed a non-AGILE team closer to AGILE. * Augmented an implementation (via 15+ releases) of a ML-infused (Classification, Predictive Analytics, Entity De-duplication) data pipeline with human in the loop, with sources of data = customers + data marketplace. Consumption via "intuitive" visualizations, workflows to operationalize these insights and automated cognition via Leva (The World’s First AI Advisor for Strategic Sourcing) to deliver effective decision support and negotiation playbooks.

Investment Due Diligence + Technology/GTM Advice to portfolio companies (focus = Enterprise/Data)**************Joined a company, that received Series A funding as SVP-Engineering for 1 year: Slamdata (now Reform) => Agile Analytics against noSQL, now that data is a lot more semi-structured (JSON/XML) and unstructured, without the need to flatten/ETL/ELT (i.e. a Virtual Data Warehouse) and augmented one of the best functional programming teams around (Scala, Purescript).

Enterprise grade, AWS-cloud-native, ML-infused Data Pipeline + B2B SaaS applications aimed at E-commerce Merchandising. * Key roles in building the company/engineering team and processes/products from the ground-up to current levels of success (multiple product releases, significant Annual-Recurring-Revenue, large# of marquee customers, multiple wins over competition). * Modern Big data pipeline on AWS includes noSQL-based-polyglot-persistence and features - Large-Scale Distributed Crawl and Extraction of the Classic/Social Web + - Machine-Learning-based-Semantic-Extraction (images and text)+- Support via Crowd Applications/Humans-in-the-loop, - To deliver Big-Data label-worthy structured hyper cubes. - Unstructured -> Structured Journey front-ended with custom analytics and visualizations to unearth latent patterns of interest to E-Commerce Merchants/Marketers & Financial Analysts. - https://conferences.oreilly.com/strata/strata-ca-2016/public/schedule/detail/47379

* Enterprise Architecture leadership to re-platform and deliver SOA based E-Commerce architecture to handle organic and inorganic growth.* Components related to Polyglot Persistence & Distributed Computing: Data-Access-Layer that abstracts noSQL(Mongo), RDBMS access + Caching/Session-HA based on Ehcache/Memcached + Messaging substrate based on ActiveMQ* DEVOPS Projects: Included Build/Release Automation via CI (Jenkins), Configuration (Puppet) and home-grown Database Automation Tools + Capacity Planning, GC Tuning, Scalability/Availability Support to Operations Groups

* LATER acquired by Software-AG* Java based distributed-computing and data-grid vendor.* Built the sales-engineering, services and support team from the ground up (including satellite office in India) to now support annual revenue of several-million $ & several-100 deployments. Delivered account-management/technology services to marquee accounts. Member of the core-management team, which drove company strategy and tactics. Product Road-Map stake-holder.* Fostered OSS Community Adoption and played evangelist.

* E-Commerce Thought leadership, enterprise-wide architecture practice.* Reported to Engineering CxOs as Manager of the ATG (Advanced Technology Group), advised on Capacity Planning, CapEx/OpEx tradeoffs, delivered & maintained several mission-critical middle-ware components, Managed the ESMM function (Enterprise Systems Monitoring/Management) * Prior to this role, worked as managing architect for the Platform/Software Infrastructure Team. Acted as1. Key-resource to call when site scalability/latency/availability threatened.2. Led x-functional teams for Vendor evaluations.3. Designed/implemented ----- Several generations of middle-ware Assets (Distributed Caches, Session-HA).----- Online Search, pieces of Shopping Cart, Site-Navigation functionality.----- Web Analytics Solutions. ----- Supply/Chain Solutions.----- Online/Offline channel integration.

* AI (Case Based Reasoning/Decision Trees), before it was fashionable - Acquired by eGAIN* Oversaw Web/Email-based Personalization implementations at high-profile .COMs.* Executed several Call/Contact-Center Implementations at Fortune-500 companies and integrated core-product-offerings to IVR, Contact-Tracking and other CRM offerings.

* Big Data (before it was called that).* Schlumberger is a permanent fixture on the Fortune-500 list of companies: Implemented ORDBMS components for the Geoframe Platform, which dealt with Big Data in Petroleum as well as Reservoir Modeling/Geology Applications on this platform. Details @ http://www.slb.com/services/software/geo/geoframe.aspx.

* LATER, acquired by TCS* Designed, implemented & globally deployed at a few, high-volume Container Terminals -> Shipping Container Terminal/Warehouse Planning/real-time Operations products. Details @ http://www.cmcltd.com/industry_practices/shipping/mach.htm.