SVP Software Engineering & CTO | Leading Healthcare Digital Innovation

Extensive experience (25+ years) as an executive leader of Product, Software Engineering, Sciences (AI / ML and Data) at some of the world’s best organizations (Microsoft, Amazon, United Health Care, Flipkart). Proven track record of leading large, cross functional product engineering organization distributed across the globe to successfully ship world-class software with multi-billion dollar business impact. Hands-on experience in building highly complex, scalable and distributed systems leveraging data sciences, analytics and machine learning in the areas of eCommerce, Retail, Health care, Consumer internet, operating system middleware, etc. Advocate of "humanity-first, empathy-first" leadership. Love building healthy and sustainable engineering cultures that inspire my teams do their best. * Strong track record in delivering several software products and services from concept to market. Managed all aspects of product development (architecture, analysis, design, and implementation), managed cross functional teams (software development, product & program mgmt., QA, and operations) * Deep experience in building and scaling high performance organizations from 0 to 500+ members backed by long term strategic vision and organization planning. Inspiring leader who has mentored and promoted several people to senior leadership roles * Passionately driven operational excellence by defining right engineering strategy, processes and making continuous improvements to increase agility and predictability. These practices have led to reduction in engg. cycle time, faster releases, high uptime, reduced operating costs, improved quality and customer satisfaction * Extensive hands-on experience in building products and services (Consumer, AI / ML and Data, Health AI and Analytics, etc.) using Java, C++, MySql, Oracle, Cassandra, Aerospike, Redis, Elastic Search, Hadoop, Hbase, Spark, Kafka, React, misc. open source tech stacks Specialties: Product Strategy, Engineering Leadership, Design & Architecture, Large scale distributed systems, driving engg. excellence, hiring and developing strong leaders, leading globally distributed teams.