I work to close the gap between AI ambition and AI that actually ships safely.
Technology Executive · AI & Enterprise Architecture Leader · Certified AI Engineer
I’m a technology executive with 25+ years spanning enterprise architecture, platform modernization, and intelligent automation. Today my work centers on enterprise AI transformation — embedding generative AI and ML across the software lifecycle, integration fabric, and operations, and defining the security, governance, and trust frameworks that let organizations adopt AI safely and at scale.
My signature work includes a defense-in-depth security model for multi-tenant, agentic platforms — tenant isolation across identity, API/BFF, and data layers, fronted by a multi-stage AI gateway — and a trust-governance approach that treats AI output as a proposal: validated deterministically and audited before it ever reaches a system of record.
Connect on LinkedInI’ve driven the AI-enabled transformation of an operational platform — governing budgets, leading a global engineering organization, and modernizing legacy estates into cloud-native, AI-native ecosystems while sustaining 99.98% uptime. I architected a commercial-grade integration framework that replaced legacy middleware and became the integration fabric that AI and ML workflows plug into.
Earlier, as Vice President & Chief Architect at Stone Bond Technologies, I architected Enterprise Enabler, a commercial-grade EAI/ETL integration platform adopted by Fortune 500 clients, and hold a U.S. patent (Integration Integrity Manager) from that work. I began my career as a Rocket Scientist at an Aerospace R&D Laboratory, designing aerospace mechanisms and mission-critical systems, and hold an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Madras.
I write regularly on trustworthy AI for multi-tenant, agentic systems — see the Insights for my latest thinking.
Certifications & credentialsI help enterprises adopt AI they can stand behind — to their board, auditors, and customers alike.
When I’m not architecting AI systems, I enjoy solving chess endgames, spending time with my pets, and riding my dual-sport Royal Enfield Himalayan. I also stay active in volunteering and charitable causes — and I’m an incurable nostalgic for the All India Radio morning devotional broadcast, Bhakti Ranjani.
Long before alarms and streaming apps, my mornings began the way millions of Indian mornings did: with the All India Radio (Akashvani) signature tune drifting through the house, followed by Bhakti Ranjani — the early-morning devotional program that gave the quiet blue hour before sunrise, the brahma-muhurta, a melody of its own. I’ve preserved a treasured recording of it here, and it remains one of my most sentimental possessions.
The recording opens with the celebrated AIR signature tune — composed in 1936 by Walter Kaufmann over a tanpura drone — and moves through Vande Mataram (India’s National Song), the Venkatesa Suprabhatam chanted by Vedic scholars in traditional cadence, the Lingashtakam in praise of Lord Shiva, the Mudrashtakam, and other stotras, slokas and bhajans — a devotional garland gathered across traditions. For a whole generation these were the first sounds of childhood mornings, and they are quietly disappearing; keeping this recording alive is my small way of holding on to them.