Software and AI leader with 20+ years of experience across startups and product companies, from enterprise Java and IoT analytics to LLM-based APIs and agentic AI. My last corporate roles were Head of Software Engineering & Global Delivery at OneVector, where I led the first MVP of an agentic-AI pharmacovigilance chatbot on AWS, and Assistant Vice President, Research Engineering at BUDDI AI, where I productised AI research into APIs and scaled the R&D team to 60+.
Since 2025 I have run Awailable Online, an independent consultancy building practical automation, AI tools and staff training for hospitals, clinics, colleges and manufacturers. I deliver with AI code agents such as Claude, using an architecture-first workflow that keeps quality high and delivery fast. I enjoy building teams and turning freshers into industry-ready engineers, and I am keen to guest lecture at colleges and institutes.
Teaching & mentoring
Built engineering teams and hired freshers straight out of college, then mentored them into industry-ready engineers.
Interested in guest and visiting lectures at colleges and institutes on software engineering practices, AI agents and AI-assisted development.
Train clinic staff on digital tools and AI-assisted workflows as part of consulting engagements.
Experience
Awailable Online (AWAIL) Chennai, India
Founder & Principal Consultant
01/2025 – Present
Independent practice delivering software, AI and training solutions to healthcare, education and manufacturing clients. I work directly with owners and leadership, from requirements through build, training and support, and deliver with AI code agents (Claude, Cursor): architecture decided first, then focused agent-assisted sessions for scaffolding, implementation, tests and review.
Eye-care clinic group – workflow automation, AI communication and analytics
Built in-house tools that clean and deduplicate patient records from billing-system exports, so front-desk staff need no extra data entry.
Designed AI-personalised WhatsApp follow-ups and a Google reviews programme with scheduled requests, cooling-off rules, AI-assisted replies and quality scoring.
Delivered dashboards on visit patterns and procedure volumes, and advised on WhatsApp Business API and Google Business Profile setup.
FeezApp – student fees and payments platform
Building a fee management platform with React 18/TypeScript, FastAPI and PostgreSQL, covering students, invoices and payments.
Defined the MVP scope, API contracts and a phased build plan; run as separate backend, UI and deployment repositories.
LeanHere (proof of concept) – project stage management for a manufacturer
Modelled a 7-stage project workflow, from quotation to mass production, with 74 sub-processes, stage-ownership handoffs, KPI clocks and automated email alerts.
Designed the architecture (React/TypeScript, FastAPI, NocoDB/PostgreSQL, AI comment summaries) and three separately scoped solution options, from Excel-based analytics to a full system of record.
Hospital digital transformation – multispecialty hospital
Guided a paperless outpatient (OPD) transition using a hospital management system and voice-AI dictation: go-live planning, 25 test cases across six categories, formal defect reports and post-go-live stabilisation.
Established IT project planning and execution guidelines, led AI enablement in hospital information system workflows, and advised on product evaluation and selection.
AWOL platform – reusable foundation for client projects
Built reusable Python and React/TypeScript components (authentication, role-based access, audit trail and a 24-component UI library) to shorten delivery of new projects.
OneVector Chennai, India (Remote)
Head of Software Engineering & Global Delivery
02/2025 – 10/2025
Led end-to-end delivery of the first MVP of an agentic-AI chatbot for pharmacovigilance research scientists, deployed on AWS.
Built the Python ETL engine for FAERS adverse-event data, and the AWS pipeline (CloudFormation, VPC, ELB, ECS, CodePipeline, ECR).
Standardised Git and JIRA workflows and worked with the CEO to define hiring and build the initial engineering team.
BUDDI AI Chennai, India
Assistant Vice President, Research Engineering
07/2021 – 10/2024
Owned the roadmap and releases for BUDDI Bazaar, an API marketplace built with Scala, Angular, Play, FastAPI and Python.
Productised deep-learning and LLM research into autonomous-coding APIs, cutting customer costs by 30–50%.
Retained the R&D team through a two-year financial crisis and scaled it to 60+ with strong hiring and remote-work processes.
Cut Azure costs by 10–20%, deployed MLOps pipelines, and completed POCs that secured million-dollar enterprise contracts.
Represented the company in angel and VC meetings and acted as technical liaison in customer audits.
Director of Engineering
12/2019 – 06/2021
Product owner for NLP, clinical NER, computer-vision and imaging-analytics APIs (Scala, Python, Docker, PostgreSQL).
Built an API containerisation framework that cut deployment time by 75%, and data-management tools that cut training-data preparation time by 40%.
Grew R&D to 35+ engineers and scientists, set architecture standards, and co-designed expert systems that improved prediction precision by 30–40%.
Principal Research Engineer
12/2018 – 12/2019
Set up Agile practices and a CI/CD pipeline (GitLab, TeamCity, Docker, Artifactory, Azure); enforced TDD and Veracode-based vulnerability checks.
Led 10+ engineers building foundational APIs in Scala, Python and Play, and scaled R&D to 20+ by hiring from IITs, IIITs and IISc.
PTC, ThingWorx IoT & Analytics Wayne, PA, USA
Principal Software Engineer
07/2017 – 10/2018
Led a Scrum team that operationalised PMML predictive models across ThingWorx IoT, Analytics and Mashup Builder.
Built a cross-platform installer (Docker, Go, InstallBuilder) and set up CI/CD with Bitbucket, Jenkins, Artifactory and AWS.
Senior Software Engineer
01/2016 – 06/2017
Supported PTC's acquisition of Coldlight Solutions; built distributed Java 8 workloads on Spark with AWS S3 and Dropwizard/Jersey REST services.
LexisNexis Risk Solutions King of Prussia, PA, USA
Software Engineer III
12/2013 – 01/2016
Supported the HealthMarketScience acquisition; built Java REST/SOAP services on Spring and Hibernate, and MapReduce jobs indexing data into Elasticsearch.
Built visualisation apps with AngularJS and D3.js; ran code reviews, release builds and CI standards.
Hexaware Technologies Chennai, India
Senior Software Engineer
01/2011 – 12/2013
Customised portlets at client sites in India and the U.S., configured Autonomy IDOL search, and delivered L1–L3 global support.
Built gamification POCs and published an augmented-reality white paper for the Innovation Lab.
Software Engineer
09/2004 – 07/2007
Built Oracle SQL/PLSQL batch jobs, ETL mappings and reports, plus Unix data-migration scripts; deployed Java applications on WebLogic and Tomcat.
Earlier roles, USA 2007 – 2010
Graduate Research Assistant, Georgia Tech GVU Center (2010): data-visualisation apps for tangible interactive media.
Software Developer, LifeSouth Inc (2009–2010): FDA-compliant barcode-scanning software in VC++ and Oracle.
Graduate Assistant, University of Florida (2007–2009): web tools for LEED certification and sustainability analysis.
Software Developer Intern, Net Enforcers (2008): computer-vision image matching in C++ and Python scraping tools.
