Experience — Selected Roles & Impact

Tribe Lead — OpenLM (September 2022 – Present)

Lead product & engineering tribe for license lifecycle and analytics; accountable for product architecture, delivery, and India operations scaling.

Responsibilities

• Architect and drive transition from a monolithic product to microservices and container-native SaaS.
• Design and operate streaming & batch data pipelines (Apache Spark, Kafka, Airflow, NiFi) for telemetry and analytics.
• Own hiring, org scaling, and engineering operations for India — recruiting, SRE practices, and vendor partnerships.
• Partner with product and CX to deliver high-value dashboards (Power BI / Superset / QuickSight) and ML-enabled license forecasting.

Value delivered

• Scaled Indian engineering & support operations from a small team to 85+ people across multiple product lines, enabling faster feature delivery and 24×7 support coverage.
• Implemented cloud cost optimisation that reduced infrastructure spend by ~30% through architecture redesign and right-sizing.
• Reduced on-prem/edge hosting costs by introducing a lightweight clustering approach for edge use-cases.
• Launched ML-based license forecasting and real-time analytics that increased reclaimable-license detection and delivered actionable customer recommendations.

Head — Business Process, Gunung Raja Paksi (Jan 2019 – Sep 2022)

Led digital backbone and ERP/analytics modernization for GRP during a transition to a public company — bridging C-suite reporting, plant operations, and procurement.

Responsibilities

• Drive ERP rollouts across departments and integrate finance, production and maintenance data for consolidated reporting.
• Build C-level dashboards unifying finance, HR, production, and maintenance to enable faster data-driven decisions.
• Introduce mobile asset management and digital inventory flows to reduce manual reconciliation effort.
• Design analytics-driven procurement intelligence and scrap pricing models to inform sourcing strategy.

Value delivered

• Delivered real-time scrap-cost dashboards and location-aware sourcing guidance that reduced procurement cost volatility.
• Introduced AI-based scrap grading to improve supplier fairness and reduce disputes, improving procurement cycle times.
• Enabled enterprise reporting that shortened executive decision cycles and supported corporate transformation.

Senior Manager — Virtual Engineering & Business Process, Tata Steel (May 2015 – Dec 2018)

Led digital engineering, drone & photogrammetry programs and CAD/BIM automation at one of India’s largest steel producers, focusing on brownfield expansion, maintenance, and operational readiness.

Responsibilities

• Piloted drone-based 3D modelling, photogrammetry and LiDAR workflows for large brownfield sites to accelerate design and reduce site visits.
• Integrated GIS, BIM, and digital twin workflows with engineering and maintenance processes for improved asset visibility and planning.
• Developed CAD automation (AutoLISP) to reduce manual drafting and speed engineering cycles.
• Partnered with vendors and operations to operationalise Industry 4.0 pilots into repeatable engineering practices.

Value delivered

• Pioneered Tata Steel’s first drone-based 3D modelling capability — reducing engineering rework and planning cycles by approximately 20%.
• Introduced LiDAR and BIM workflows that improved design accuracy and coordination across disciplines, lowering rework and enabling better CAPEX planning.
• Delivered CAD automation that improved drafting throughput and reduced manual errors in engineering deliverables.

Technology Lead — Engineering Systems, M. N. Dastur & Co. (Apr 2005 – Apr 2015)

Built standard 3D BIM workflows, enterprise CAD/GIS deployments, and automation that accelerated engineering delivery across multi-discipline projects.

Responsibilities

• Standardize BIM and CAD processes, integrate document management with engineering tools and reduce handoff friction.
• Design and deliver company-wide training and governance for digital engineering standards.
• Lead automation efforts (scripted CAD tools) to reduce repeatable manual work across projects.

Value delivered

• Reduced engineering delivery cycles by ~30% via design automation and standardized 3D workflows.
• Rolled out an in-house CAD Management System to integrate legacy workflows into automated pipelines across the firm.

R&D Assistant — CAD/GIS Automation, Cadworld Infosystems (Apr 2000 – Mar 2005)

Led photogrammetry production and automation projects; responsible for flight planning, aero-triangulation, orthophoto generation and 3D modelling for global mapping clients.

Responsibilities & outcomes

• Led a 30-member photogrammetry team and delivered 3D mapping services used in international projects, including contributions to Google 3D Maps.
• Owned end-to-end geospatial production chain — flight path design, aero-triangulation and vector capture — and improved throughput and QA.

Early Roles — RITES Ltd. (1998–2000) & Larsen & Toubro ECC (1997–1998)

Early-career engineering and automation work across EPC and infrastructure projects; delivered automation for surveying, plotting and feature extraction, and supported greenfield refinery execution.

• Automated irrigation gate control and survey plotting; reduced manual reporting time by ~50% at RITES.
• Supported EPC layout accuracy and concrete structure alignment at L&T — contributing to early greenfield refinery delivery.

Photogrammetry — OSIG / Google (Canada) — Select Project

Led a world-first photogrammetry program in partnership with OSIG to deliver high-fidelity 3D mapping datasets for a global client. The project formalised quality controls, processing pipelines and dataset handoff standards used in future mapping programs.