Senior AI Data Architect
Azure AI · GCP Vertex AI · Agentic AI · Data Lakehouse · GenAI / RAG
Corona, CA · Remote · Hybrid · On-site
Portfolio
Production systems at the intersection of AI, critical infrastructure, and real-world scale.
Autonomous Reliability for Critical Power
Fully serverless Azure-native multi-agent platform for data centers, hospitals, and industrial facilities. Three AI agents (Diagnostic · Librarian · Planner) on GPT-4 + Ada-002 reasoning over IoT telemetry and equipment manuals — raw telemetry to repair work order in under 2 minutes, 24/7. Addresses $9k/minute cost-of-downtime and 14-hour manual diagnostic time for mid-size facilities.
EV Battery Intelligence API
Financial-grade EV battery risk and residual intelligence for lenders, insurers, and fleet operators. Composite 0–1000 risk index (5 sub-scores), A–F grading, 60-month residual value forecasting, LTV recommendations with risk premium in basis points, and second-life viability pathway — 142ms median latency. EU Battery Passport-ready for 2027 mandate, opening €2B+ European market.
AI Workforce Intelligence Platform
Enterprise-grade AI career intelligence platform. Upload a resume: get a 5-stage pipeline delivering 200+ extracted skills via spaCy NLP, vector-based gap scoring against 8 industry centroids, a Gemini-written career narrative, 90-day reskilling roadmap, and a live opportunity radar for fractional, consulting, and advisory roles. 40–60% improvement in role-fit accuracy across 100K+ profiles.
Multilingual AI Talent Marketplace
Voice-first multilingual NLP matching platform for the Indian restaurant ecosystem across the US. RAG-style retrieval with FAISS vector embeddings matches workers and restaurant owners across 9 dimensions in 8 Indian languages + English — WhatsApp-native, GCP-hosted, 50K+ active users.
Technology
Every layer chosen for production reliability, not demo day.
About
With over 25 years of experience across manufacturing, energy, critical power, logistics, healthcare, and financial services, I architect AI operating systems for the physical world. From scaling $50M+ transformation programs at Fortune 500 enterprises to founder-led ventures solving real problems in EV finance, workforce intelligence, and critical infrastructure reliability.
My engineering philosophy is grounded in the Medallion Architecture principle: raw data is worthless until it flows through bronze, silver, and gold layers into deterministic, auditable, production-ready intelligence. Every system I build must be observable, hallucination-guarded, and drift-monitored in production — not just accurate in a notebook.
I've led teams of 10–40 engineers, presented reference architectures to CXO and board-level stakeholders at 12+ Fortune 500 clients, and closed $30M+ in multi-year AI engagements. The track record is 20–60% productivity and decision-cycle gains across every vertical I've touched.
Beyond the code — shaped by running a restaurant and decades of enterprise leadership, I understand that in critical infrastructure, "zero downtime" is not a goal. It's a requirement.
Career
VKDesignLabs — Enterprise AI Consulting
Designs end-to-end AI operating systems for industrial and critical infrastructure enterprises. Leads engagements of 10–15 data engineers across $5M–$50M+ programs on Azure and GCP. Shipped four production AI products (Kinetic Core, VoltLedger, ReSkillio, RasoiLink). Achieved 40–60% productivity gains and 30–60% faster decision cycles for clients across manufacturing, energy, and logistics verticals. 20–30% cloud AI cost reduction via FinOps frameworks.
Birlasoft
Led global AI/ML innovation labs with 40+ engineers and data scientists across India, US, and UK. Founded and scaled AI/ML innovation labs; generated $15M+ in new practice revenue. Architected AI platforms serving 10M+ daily transactions. Directed cloud modernization of 1,000+ workloads — $4M+ annual infrastructure savings. Closed $30M+ in multi-year AI engagements with Fortune 500 CXOs.
Birlasoft
Architected Industrial IoT sensor fusion platforms processing 2TB+/day across 5 regulated manufacturing plants on 3 continents. Computer vision defect detection: 25%+ accuracy improvement, $8M/year quality-cost reduction. Edge-cloud AI at sub-50ms inference latency across 200+ edge nodes. Reduced operator onboarding from 12 weeks to 5 weeks.
KPIT Technologies
Incubated and scaled enterprise AR/VR and wearable computing platform (HoloLens, Vuzix, Unity3D, OpenCV) from 0 to $12M ARR across 15+ global industrial clients. AI-assisted field maintenance reduced MTTR by 40%. 92% gross retention on per-device SaaS + professional services model.
Financial services platforms, enterprise systems, and large-scale infrastructure modernization across capital markets, securities trading, and fintech.
Education
MBA, International Business
Symbiosis University, India
B.E., Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Bangalore University, India
Let's Build
Open to strategic consulting, advisory roles, and fractional CTO engagements in AI systems, industrial IoT, and data architecture.
Corona, CA · 919-903-4693 · Remote · Hybrid · On-site