Selected work

Experience & Impact

Highlights from 19 years in product engineering and leadership (2007 - Present) - scale, global delivery, and innovation.

Awards: Leadership Excellence Award (2023), MVP (2015)

Career path

• Apr 2023 - Present

  Senior Software Development Manager, Excelsoft Technologies

  ~30-engineer multi-location org (9 direct); scaled 22 to 30; people and budget ownership

• Jan 2015 - Mar 2023

  Software Development Manager, Excelsoft Technologies

  Team 15 to 22; single-product to multi-product, multi-country portfolio (US, UK, Australia)

• Jan 2012 - Dec 2014

  Senior Team Lead | Products and Innovation, Excelsoft Technologies

  Product Owner and Tech Lead for VoiceLr (2012-2013; role 2012-2014)

• Jan 2007 - Dec 2011

  Software Engineer to Team Lead, Imfinity Pte Ltd

  Founding India team; Tech Lead on Pegasus Assessment; acquired into Excelsoft (2009)

• Aug 2002 - Jan 2007

  Early career - Software Engineer / Trainer

  Bajaj Allianz broker platform; OMR question bank; technical training

Selected cases

• Platform

  OpenPage

  Large-scale interactive eBook / digital learning delivery for global publishers. ~450,000+ learners and ~3,300+ titles. Publishers include Hodder Education, HarperCollins, Ascend Learning, Cengage, and Cambridge University Press. Shipped production AI features - AI assessment generation, adaptive practice, a Remediation Agent, and in-content learning support - under Excel AISprints guardrails.

• AI delivery

  AI-orchestrated delivery

  Excel AISprints at Excelsoft - technical PRDs, guardrails, and micro-sprints on real feature work on the ExcelAI Platform. On pilot feature releases: ~50% defect reduction and ~30% engineer time saved. AI overview · Excel AISprints.

• Analytics / ML

  Cognowise · BYU-Idaho

  As Data Science Manager for Cognowise learning analytics - student retention and course-success risk models at ~91% precision on millions of events, with US executive engagement.

• AI product

  Insurance Institute of Canada

  Delivered AI Micro Apps for Insurance Institute of Canada (Excelsoft client, Nov 2024 - Apr 2025) - concrete external-client AI delivery outside the core EdTech portfolio.

• Delivery

  Global product delivery

  Multi-country portfolio work spanning US, UK, Australia, and Canada - including on-site executive engagements. Earlier founding India team work at Imfinity (acquired into Excelsoft).

• AI ops

  Self-hosted LLM lab

  Privacy-first self-hosted LLM tooling (Mistral / Codestral family) for coding, test generation, and docs, used by ~150 internal engineers. Governance and adoption over demo theater.

• Engineering Services

  Pearson Learning Services

  Architecture contributor and services delivery owner for Pearson Learning Services on CRX (Oct 2025 - Present) - microservices for a new program and integration with other Pearson domain services. Earlier Pearson Education delivery includes Operation Management Simulations (2015-2023), World Languages Single Solution, LarkLore, and GMLP (2015-2017), plus Tech Lead on Pegasus Assessment (2008-2011). Full arc on Learning Engineering.

Current role - Senior Software Development Manager, Excelsoft Technologies - Noida / Mysore. Lead a ~30-engineer multi-location org (9 direct), managed through team leads; own hiring plans, attrition, promotions, and engineering budget / cost decisions for the multi-product portfolio.