22+ years, one through-line: delivery you can rely on.

Apr 2021 — Present

Technical Manager / Product Development Manager

Globant · Pune, India

• INK Content Catalyst, Deloitte US (Aug 2025 – present): leading discovery of an agentic RAG platform on Azure — specialised AI agents orchestrated via Durable Functions, Azure OpenAI, Cognitive Search hybrid retrieval, Neo4j multi-hop knowledge graph, Document Intelligence, Cosmos DB. Delivered architecture, backlog, estimates, and implementation budget.
• Transformation Hub, Deloitte US (Feb – Jun 2025): analysed a legacy DITA-OT publishing pipeline and produced the modern Azure/C# cloud-native solution architecture consumed by Deloitte audit applications.
• EY Helix Programme 2.0, Ernst & Young (Apr 2021 – Jan 2025): ran EY's global audit analytics programme — quarterly budgeting, PI and Solution Planning for 3+ scrum teams and 50+ people across India and onshore; embedded coding standards and CI/CD on Azure DevOps; executive-level Agile metrics reporting for clients such as Siemens and Nestlé (SAP HANA, .NET, ReactJS, Azure).

Oct 2019 — Apr 2021

Founder & Business Owner

SurpriseRed.com · Pune, India

Founded and ran an e-commerce start-up — owning P&L, business strategy, product evaluation, and technology decisions, and leading a 15-person technical team. Wound down due to Covid-19 supply disruption; the full-P&L experience remains.

Jul 2004 — Sep 2019

Senior Engineer → Technical Manager → Agile Project Manager

Zensar Technologies · Pune, India & onsite South Africa

• Assurant Mortgage Solutions, US (2017–19): Technical PM / Scrum Master for a microservices platform automating mortgage field services and valuations (.NET Web APIs, MS SQL), delivered in a regulated US financial services environment with metrics-driven releases in Jira.
• FLOW, C. Hoare & Co. — UK private bank (2012–17): Agile PM for a loan-origination and facilities platform — workflow application and business-rules engine on SharePoint/.NET; Scrum-of-Scrums across 2 onshore + 3 offshore teams; led Waterfall→Agile transformation. Direct Private Banking & Wealth Management domain experience.
• SILICA Fund Administration, South Africa (2010–12): PM for a wealth & investment management platform under CMMi Level 5 processes, including external CMMi L5 quality audit (C++, Oracle).
• Investec Securities, South Africa (2007–10, onsite): architected securities & wealth-management solutions — corporate action engine, data feeds, message broker, stock-exchange bill allocations — across regulated trading and settlement workflows; established CI with automated TFS builds.
• Marks & Spencer / National Grid, UK (2004–07): senior engineer — dependency-injection solution framework, ASP.NET, MS BI (SSIS/SSRS).

Jul 1999 — Jun 2004

Software Engineer → Team Leader

Microbit Associates & Esstech Software · Mumbai, India

Built a Sarbanes-Oxley compliance web application for Axentis Inc. (US) as team leader, and eLearning modules for commerce students — ASP/ASP.NET, C#, MS SQL.