I turn messy business problems into clear architecture, calm engineering teams, and software that holds up in production.
For 25 years I've sat in the room where the business problem gets explained, then stayed long enough to see the software actually ship. That's the job I like: listening first, drawing the architecture on a whiteboard everyone understands, and then leading the team that builds it.
I've done that for Fortune 500 companies at Dell Technologies, for city agencies in Washington, DC, for Corning and the State of Michigan, and lately for my own AI-first products. Today most of my work blends cloud-native SaaS with generative AI — OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, RAG and workflow automation — used where it saves real hours, not for show.
25+
Years building enterprise software
Fortune 500
and government delivery
4
AI-first platforms shipped
MS + Georgia Tech
IT Management · AI/ML coursework
What I'm good at
Experience
- Jun 2022 – Present
Principal Solutions Architect — AI Product & Cloud Strategy
Panchatantra LLC · Melbourne, FL
- Own architecture and delivery for a family of AI-powered SaaS products — HomeHealthQ, HomeLifeQ, CREAIOS and Mazall — from first sketch to production.
- Turn founder ideas into MVP scope, user stories, release plans and a backlog developers can start on Monday morning.
- Design the plumbing: REST APIs, serverless services, auth, relational data, event-driven workflows and secure multi-tenant SaaS.
- Put OpenAI, Claude and Gemini to work with RAG, vector search, document processing and chat interfaces; run the proofs of concept that decide what's worth building.
- Keep developers, QA, designers and vendors pointed the same way through testing, CI/CD, quality reviews and release readiness.
- Feb 2018 – Jun 2022
Principal Solution Architect — Client Strategy & Support
Dell EMC / Dell Technologies · Melbourne, FL
- Trusted advisor to Fortune 500 and global customers running complex hybrid and multi-cloud estates; translated their goals into target architectures and modernization roadmaps.
- Carried engagements end to end — assessment, design, implementation planning, onboarding, knowledge transfer and long-term support.
- Brought executives, architects, engineers and offshore teams to agreement, turning competing priorities into clear decisions, owners and milestones.
- Ran architecture reviews, proofs of concept and production-readiness reviews across VMware, Azure, Google Cloud and DevOps automation.
- Dec 2015 – Feb 2018
Senior Cloud Delivery Specialist — Hybrid Cloud Services
Virtustream, a Dell Technologies company · Washington, DC
- Coordinated enterprise cloud implementations and migrations — milestones, dependencies, risks and operational readiness.
- Worked hand in hand with architecture, engineering, operations and customer success to clear blockers and hand workloads cleanly into support.
- Supported VMware-based hybrid-cloud migrations for commercial and public-sector customers.
- Jun 2010 – Dec 2015
Application Architect — Cloud & Applications
Office of the CTO, Government of the District of Columbia · Washington, DC
- Led architecture and modernization for large city agencies and services residents depend on every day.
- Defined cloud and application strategy on VMware vRA/vCAC, OpenStack, AWS delivery models, SaaS/PaaS, .NET and SharePoint.
- Drove cloud automation, data-center consolidation and application modernization through standards, roadmaps and support models.
- Applied FedRAMP and FISMA principles to security architecture and risk management.
- May 2009 – Apr 2010
Senior .NET & Cloud Solutions Architect
Analysts in Media · New York, NY
- Led web, cloud and CMS delivery from requirements through QA, UAT, deployment and support; directed and mentored a globally distributed team.
- Sep 2007 – Mar 2009
Senior Web Team Lead / Project Coordinator
Corning Incorporated · Corning, NY
- Coordinated web, automation and integration projects across business units, including governance documentation and ISO 9002 audit artifacts.
- Jun 2006 – Sep 2007
Senior Web Developer / Junior Application Architect
State of Michigan · Lansing, MI
- Designed .NET applications for public services and led a small team through code reviews, Agile/Lean delivery and production readiness.
- May 1999 – Jun 2006
Software Engineering Consultant
India & New York Metro
- Built custom software, integrations and QA for government, healthcare, finance, manufacturing and technology clients across the full SDLC.
What I've shipped recently
HomeHealthQ
AI home operations · multi-tenant SaaS
HomeLifeQ
Editorial + social content platform
CREAIOS
PropTech + market intelligence
Mazall Connect
B2B marketplace · KYC · payments
Technology
- AI & engineering workflows
- Generative AI, LLMs, OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, prompt engineering, RAG, vector search, AI-assisted development, intelligent automation
- Architecture & infrastructure
- Enterprise/solution architecture, hybrid & multi-cloud, VMware, Azure, GCP, AWS, OpenStack, serverless, REST APIs
- Software & data
- .NET, C#, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SharePoint, Salesforce, CMS
- Delivery & quality
- Agile/Scrum/Kanban, SDLC, CI/CD, testing coordination, release planning, security, governance, risk & dependency management
Education
- M.S., Information Technology Management — Champlain College
- Postgraduate coursework in AI, Machine Learning & Human-Computer Interaction — Georgia Tech
- Postgraduate Degree, Software Engineering / Computer Science — Gujarat University
- B.S., Biochemistry — Gujarat University
Certifications
- VCP-Cloud (VMware)
- Six Sigma Yellow Belt
- Artificial Intelligence Certificate — Georgia Tech
- Human-Computer Interaction — Georgia Tech
Authorized to work in the United States for any employer
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