Open to Senior Director / VP of Engineering
Applied AI · Enterprise SaaS · Cloud Platforms
I scale engineering organizations that ship AI and platforms with P&L impact.
Leading Built To Order AI businesses and agentic engineering systems with measurable P&L outcomes.
+$28M
Net-new ARR added
40%
Operating income (AI Built To Order)
6×
Org growth (5 → 30 eng)
92%
Talent retention
20,000+
Technicians AI-automated
Engineering leader with 19 years building and scaling SaaS platforms and the organizations behind them. Shipped a production ML scheduling system for 20,000+ field technicians at Verizon years before AI was a boardroom priority, then scaled a Trimble cloud platform team 6× (5 → 30 engineers) while adding $28M in net-new ARR.
Most recently launched a Built To Order AI business from 0→1 with 5 paying enterprise customers at 40% operating income, delivering custom AI solutions as a new high-margin revenue line. Known for turning customer commitments into shipped product, retaining top talent (92%), and embedding AI into how teams build, not just what they build.
Title is Engineering Director; operating scope has consistently exceeded that band. India Engineering Council representative for 500+ engineers for more than 6 years, leads a Trimble India–level high-performance culture initiative, authored org-wide engineering playbooks, and partners on a $50M ARR portfolio. Functioning at Senior Director / VP scope for more than a year.
Looking to lead a software engineering organization for an enterprise SaaS business operating at scale. Targeting Director, Senior Director, or VP of Engineering roles in Enterprise SaaS, AI/ML platforms, or logistics & supply chain technology.
Proof points a hiring leader can verify against the CV: business results, not activity lists.
Trimble
5 paying enterprise customers at 40% operating income
Authored the business model and partnered with Sales on go-to-market to deliver custom AI solutions, establishing a new high-margin revenue line within the Applied AI portfolio. Stood up the Built To Order entity with org design, financial model, and operational playbook in a 30-day 0→1 transition.
Trimble
+$28M net-new ARR ($22M → $50M)
Launched two new product lines in transportation & supply chain and expanded enterprise adoption of the Forestry Industry Cloud, partnering with Product and Business as a P&L co-owner. Built the Forestry Industry Cloud from zero to cross-org adoption across four product lines with API standards, multi-tenant architecture, and AI/agentic-ready data workflows.
Verizon
20,000+ technicians · automation 34% → 80%
Built and shipped a production ML dispatch system optimizing 50,000 daily jobs, cutting manual scheduling time 30% years before ML became mainstream in operations.
GenAI productivity
~65% less test-case effort · ~75% less release-notes effort
Cloud economics
97% AWS efficiency · material annual FinOps savings
Release transformation
Quarterly cycles → sprint-end production deploys
Playbooks at scale
Engineering & AI-in-QA standards for 500+ engineers
High-performance culture
Trimble India–level initiative · outcome-driven operating model
Engagement
+11 Glint points · Pulse 80+
India Engineering Council
500+ engineers · representative for 6+ years
Community
BCDC · GDG Chennai · BeSA-AWS · CTO Talks · AWS UG Chennai
India, 2006 – 2018
Verizon
Progressed from Software Engineer to Technical Manager in Chennai. Shipped a production ML dispatch system automating 50,000 daily requests for 20,000+ field engineers.
2018 – Present
Trimble
Advanced to Engineering Director, leading a 30-engineer organization for cloud platforms and Applied AI. Drives global strategy across India, US, Canada, Finland, and New Zealand.
AWS, Azure, GCP certified. Architects resilient, multi-tenant SaaS platforms.
Integrates agentic AI, LLMs, and ML systems to automate complex workflows and elevate user experience.
Innovation culture
2023–2025 · Overall Excellence · Deep Tech
Led the team to three back-to-back victories in the Innovation Premier League (IPL) / Trimble India Hackathon. Proof that innovation is a habit, not an event.
Production AI, Built To Order delivery, and FinOps-backed platforms tied to measurable business value.
Stay Curious
Engineering Practices
Cultivate / Evolve
Measurements
Mature / Optimise
Capabilities
Mature / Drive
Production AI, multi-cloud, and the languages and platforms I use hands-on.
Tools I ship publicly, with a short definition and a link.
Hands-on lab that runs an LLM agent over MCP with a Streamlit UI, live tracing, and structured errors so you can watch every tool call in the loop.
CLI that diffs vector embeddings like git, reporting semantic drift and search regression so teams catch it before changing embedding models or chunking.
CLI that starts an MCP server, simulates Cursor, Claude Desktop, and VS Code, and runs a compatibility checklist so teams get a pass/fail score instead of testing each client by hand.
CLI that A/B tests AI agent skills, prompts, and tool definitions with LLM-as-a-Judge, scoring baseline vs. variant traces so teams know whether a change actually improved the agent.
CLI that counts, lints, and safely prunes AI instruction files (Cursor rules, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md) so teams stop paying token cost for forgotten rules.
CLI that wraps an MCP server as a stdio JSON-RPC proxy and trips a circuit breaker when an AI agent repeats the same tool loop, so sessions stop in 2–3 iterations instead of spinning.
Org design, culture, and succession: the operating system behind the metrics.
Leading a Trimble India–level high-performance culture initiative: shifting from task-based management to an outcome-driven operating model across the engineering organization. Built around the 3Ps (Purpose, Priority, Partnerships), psychological safety, and measurable engagement (Pulse 80+, +11 Glint).
Modular org design: clear missions, decoupled dependencies, and radical autonomy for product suites. The result is higher velocity and less friction. Mentors Future Women in Leadership (FWL).
Segment representative for 500+ engineers for more than 6 years, driving strategic alignment between regional talent and global product roadmaps, plus org-wide standards for architecture, AI adoption, and developer experience.
Trimble Inc. · Chennai, India
Engineering Manager → Senior Engineering Manager → Director
Oct 2018 – Present
$5B-revenue global enterprise SaaS leader (construction, transportation, agriculture), 150+ countries
Lead a 30-engineer organization through 2 engineering managers and 3 staff engineers; partner on the $50M ARR P&L with Product and Business; report to the Sr. Director & Global VP of Engineering.
Verizon · Chennai, India
Dec 2006 – Oct 2018
Fortune 500 #13 · $134B revenue · largest US telecom
Led a 70+ person engineering organization spanning direct reports and vendor (SOW) teams; delivered high-availability, data-intensive dispatch platforms end to end.
Credible technical fluency for AI, platforms, and multi-cloud. Not a junior skills dump.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect · Azure Fundamentals · Google Cloud Digital Leader
Master of Computer Applications (MCA)
Periyar University, Tamil Nadu
Selected commentary on AI systems, architecture, and engineering leadership, published on Medium and LinkedIn.
Chennai, India. Open to Bengaluru / Hyderabad / Pune · Open to relocation. Valid USA B1 visa holder. Collaborate across US, Canada, Finland, and New Zealand time zones. Available for Senior Director and VP of Engineering conversations in enterprise SaaS, applied AI, and cloud platforms.