IBM Corporation, TX, NC, NY
Jan 1990 – Dec 2016
Director & Senior Technical Staff Member, Public Cloud Platform, IBM Jan 2012 - Dec 2016
Senior Technical Staff Member, Watson Platform for Health, IBM Jan 2008 - Dec 2011
Senior Developer Advocate & Manager, Cloud Developer Ecosystem, IBM Jan 2005 - Dec 2007
Worldwide Customer Support Manager, Business Process Management, IBM Jan 2000 - Dec 2004
Release Engineer & Stack Architect, WebSphere Application Server (WAS), IBM Jan 1996 - Dec1999
Developer, WebSphere Application Server (WAS), IBM Jan 1990 - Dec 1995
Director & Senior Technical Staff Member, Data Engineering, IBM Cloud Platform
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• Led a matrixed team to design Architectural patterns for Data Services for consumption by enterprise customers on the Public Cloud including SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Engaged with Customer to integrate multiple data systems using diverse protocols and helped them to migrate to IBM’s public cloud. Adhered to various compliances namely FedRAMP, FFIEC, SOC1, SOC2, PCI and HIPAA for Compute, Network & Storage systems in Data Centers worldwide.
• Led a geographically dispersed team to Deliver Watson Natural Language Processing APIs on IBM’s Public Cloud.
Senior Technical Staff Member, Machine Learning & Data Analytics, Watson Health Cloud
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• Led a matrixed 200+ member team responsible for the Design, Development, Testing and Delivery of a HealthCare Cloud Platform, for both GLP (Good Laboratory Practices) and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliances.
• As the Tech Lead for Site Reliability Engineering Team (SRE), designed and developed the Must Gather Automation for Watson Platform for Health GxP along with Real Time Monitoring for the Cloud Platform using Machine Learning algorithms.
• Led teams to Design and Develop Analytics Tools for analyzing large data sets to gain new insights for improved patient outcomes, including Spark Architecture for massive scale and in-memory performance.
• Led a team to Design and Develop a Test Automation System for testing the High Availability & Resiliency of all the services in the Watson Platform for Health, while adhering to highest compliance with GLP best practices, using Kubernetes & running in Containers on the IBM Cloud.
• Managed relationships across the Watson Health Organization to migrate large enterprise software products to use IBM Public Cloud services such as NoSQL & SQL Databases, Backup, Logging, Monitoring and Alerting. Designed the Resiliency, High Availability and Disaster Recovery for Watson Health applications while running on the Cloud.
• Led Developer Advocates for evangelizing Watson NLP APIs on IBM Cloud, Bluemix. Completed projects using Watson APIs with Java champions worldwide. Presented at Conferences
Worldwide Customer Support Manager, BPM (Business Process Management Software)
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• Led the product development of BPM (Business Process Management) software while leading cross-functional and geographically dispersed teams.
• Supported Enterprise customers such as BNYM (a worldwide leader in wealth management), Banco DaVivienda (leading bank in Bogota, Columbia), HSBC, Mexico City (one of the largest banking and financial services institutions in the world), and others.
Release Architect, Stack Architect, Security Developer, WebSphere Application Server (WAS):
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• Led the development of a new offering on IBM Cloud named WebSphere Liberty, with a smaller memory/disk footprint and faster startup time as the Lab Advocate for Cerner HealthCare, Inc.
• End to End Product Development and Delivery for WebSphere Application Server 5.0, 6.1 and 7.0 offerings. Led the strategy and product development while integrating WebSphere software in complex ecosystems at companies such as Bank of America, Federal Reserve Bank, eBay and more.
Meta, Menlo Park
Jan 2017 – Apr 2022
Senior Director, AI & Data Infra, Facebook/Meta Jan 2017 - Apr 2022
• Led the product development of Real Time Gateway software with teams in US, London and Israel to enforce compliance regulations for Real time screening of Payment Transactions across Facebook platforms namely Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, Facebook app, Messenger and more.
• Developed Risk Profiles for Facebook products. Led the development of software for Fraud Detection, Fraud Monitoring and Dispute Resolution for disputes, claims and chargebacks.
• Dealt with Exabytes of data flowing across global data centers. Collaborated on the development of Presto, Apache Spark and Stream Processing Engine with monitoring and alerting built-in for handling peak workloads. These compute engines served the Analytics
needs of internal and external businesses at Facebook.
• Enforced Privacy of data during payment transaction processing with required audits to ensure GDPR and CPRA compliances.
• Combined Machine Learning models using Facebook Feature Framework (FFF) for Risk Management and Fraud Detection.
Styra, Inc., Redwood City, CA
May 2022 – June 2023
Senior Director of Engineering, Styra Inc May 2022 - June 2023
• Led the Engineering teams to deliver Cloud Native Authorization with software (Styra Declarative Authorization Service) that enables definition, enforcement and management of fine-grained security policies as code across infrastructure, applications and APIs.
• Customer Integrations with OpenAM, Okta Single Sign-on and Ping Identity Cloud Platform. Architected solutions to ensure seamless, automated workflows that weave together authentication, user management and Multi Factor Authorization to delight customers without sacrificing security.
• Handled use cases of seamless signup and on-boarding, secure friction free login, account recovery, personalized profile management.
• Provided automated guardrails so customers can deploy Kubernetes resources that align with security, compliance and operations team requirements.
PayPal Inc., San Jose, CA
July 2023 – Present
VP of Risk Engineering, PayPal Inc July 2023 - Present
• Leading Engineering teams to deliver Gen AI based Risk Evaluation Platforms across Payments, Checkout experiences, Credit Products, Disputes, Collections, Onboarding of new users along with SMB and Large Merchants at scale.