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Data & Analytics Lead and Site Lead, South East Asia

Google, Singapore

Professional Services Organization

• Led Google Cloud's data analytics in South East Asia
• For SE Asia, Data and Analytics - owned and delivered high stakes projects (100% CSAT), defined the regional GTM Strategy (> $7m in presales, 7+ new offerings), Practice and Innovation Strategy
• Delivery Governance oversight across multiple practices - AI/ML, Data Analytics, Infrastructure, Security, etc. ( > $15m)

Principal Engineer

Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore

Data and Analytics Transformation and Strategy

• Conceptualized and built Retail Bank's data platform across 11 markets and 1200 users, significantly reduced ML model deployment time.
• Created credit downgrade & default prediction models based on news trends and social influencers for over 15,000 named entities.
• Formulated risk scoring models based on customer's social media profile attributes, photos, videos, and neighborhood metrics.
• Defined technology strategy and roadmaps for Bank's External/3rd party data management, Data Partnership & Ecosystems, Data Monetization, Marketing Automation (Martech), Customer Experience, Data Privacy, Explainable AI (XAI), Data Sovereignty and Cloud adoption

Principal Data Engineer

Teradata / Think Big Analytics, Singapore

Global Big Data and Analytics Consulting

• Designed and developed 5 global Data Lakes with scalable ETL pipelines, handling up to 1.2 PB per hour and 40K daily files.
• Engineered a low latency real-time in-memory platform, processing over 2.5 million events per second.
• Built a real-time fraud detection ML system for a leading bank, reducing false positives by 60% and increasing detection rates by 70%.
• Successfully built and upgraded multiple Hadoop clusters on Cloud/On-prem, ranging between 150-250 nodes.

Technical Lead

UTU, Singapore

Foundational Services Development and Integration

• Built foundational services and partner integrations for the maiden launch of UTU in Thailand.
• Developed a low latency (<25 μs) transaction processing module for bank mainframe integration.

Founder

Truckaurbus Marketplace, India

Startup Growth and Platform Development

• Scaled Truckaurbus from inception to operation across 15 cities, securing partnerships with over 25 OEMs, Banks, and NBFCs, achieving 240K unique visitors per day.
• Architected the core marketplace and auctioning platform, alongside developing a dealers' lead generation network and ad-serving platform.

Senior Software Development Engineer

Microsoft, India

Core System Development and Early AI Implementation

• Contributed to the Windows Kernel Platform Group for Windows 7/8 and Windows Server 2012 R2 / Hyper-V, and MS Lync.
• Developed early machine learning modules on Azure and enhanced the Azure Content Delivery Network.

MBA, Business Analytics

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, IN

Business Analytics

• Financial Risk Analytics
• Marketing Models
• Financial Management
• Strategic Management
• Operations Management
• Financial and Management Accounting
• Predictive Analytics

Master of Technology, Software Systems

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, IN

Software Systems

• Algorithms
• Distributed Systems
• Deep Learning
• Natural Language Processing
• Machine Learning
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Bachelor of Science

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Science

Data Monetization Strategy for Enterprises

BITS Pilani

This paper details a Data Monetization Framework for enterprises to transform data into economic value, discussing strategic implementation, emerging technologies like AI, and related challenges.

Open Location Proof (OLP)

GoLocateMe

A privacy aware open protocol to prove without repudiation an entity’s point-in-time presence, participation and location in physical or virtual space. GoLocate.Me is a planned implementation node demonstrating the protocol.

OConsent: Open Consent Protocol for Privacy and Consent Management with Blockchain

BITS Pilani

This paper proposes a blockchain-based protocol for transparent personal data processing, enhancing user control and compliance with data privacy laws like GDPR.

Open Location Proof (GoLocate.me)

A privacy aware open protocol to prove without repudiation an entity's point-in-time presence, participation, and location in physical or virtual space. GoLocate.me is a planned implementation node demonstrating the protocol.

OConsent - Open Consent Protocol

A transparent, fast, and scalable protocol for Consent and Privacy management built on top of public blockchains.

ISO8583 Simulator

A simulator that processes ISO 8583 messages, a messaging protocol used by banks, payment processors, clearing houses, and other financial institutions.

Heartohelp.us (Compassion Pit)

Created an anonymous chat system for online emotional support featuring a live Listener and Venter chat, profile, and rating system. Registered 19,800 users across 19 countries by 2012.

Micromechanical Flying Insect

Developed a micromechanical flying insect for low-cost outdoor surveillance, utilizing swarm intelligence, piezo-electric thorax actuators, muscle wire technology, with onboard GPS and real-time imaging.