Professional Journey

I build things that think and things that move.

I believe in getting my hands dirty. My journey hasn't been about sitting in boardrooms drawing diagrams. It has been about building the systems that run them. From the early days of Kafka processing billions of events, to architecting sovereign AI clouds, to robots that have to work in the cold, I've always been at the edge of what's possible.

About Me

I spent eight years at SEB building a streaming platform that moved billions of events a day. All of it was bits. Numbers arriving, numbers leaving, nothing in the world any heavier for it.

Now I run AI and robotics at a stealth venture in deep geothermal energy chasing Nordic energy independence, and I am also CTO and CPO of a health-tech company. The work is the same instinct with heavier consequences. A bug used to cost a rollback. Now it costs a technician driving two hours in the dark.

I operate like a founder wherever I am. When I see a problem, I don’t wait for a committee to approve it. I pull together the right people, make the case, and ship.

Back in 2018, I was architecting production ML systems when most people were still figuring out what machine learning could do. That early bet on AI’s potential led me to build the streaming and inference infrastructure that companies are scrambling to implement today.

What gets me excited is the zero to one phase where nobody knows the answer yet. I’m good at spotting patterns others miss, seeing how second and third order effects will play out, and building systems that create entirely new value.

Personal Note

Based in Stockholm since 2013, and splitting my life between Stockholm and Lucknow. The Nordics are solving energy. India is solving talent. Physical AI needs both, and I like being in the middle of it. Outside work, I spend time with my kids exploring Swedish forests. Family life has taught me that the best solutions often come during long walks rather than long meetings.

Core Expertise

Physical AI & Robotics

Embodied AI for heavy industry. Perception and autonomy that has to keep working in dust, vibration, bad light, and cold.

AI Strategy & Adoption

Leading enterprise-scale AI architecture and preparing workforces for AI-native operating models.

Zero-to-One Execution

Thriving in ambiguous environments, identifying market inefficiencies, and building from scratch.

Streaming Architecture

Building platforms handling billions of events daily with zero downtime (Kafka, Real-time ML).

Product Leadership

Bridging the gap between technical elegance and product adoption. 90% developer satisfaction.

System Design

Architecting microservices and REST APIs that scale. Pattern recognition in distributed systems.

Early by Default

Kafka in 2013. Real-time ML serving in 2018, before ChatGPT existed. Generative AI in 2023. Physical AI now.

Timeline

2026 - Present

Head of AI & Robotics

Stealth venture, deep geothermal energy

Stockholm, Sweden

  • Lead AI and robotics for a venture chasing Nordic energy independence.
  • Building embodied AI for heavy industry, where a failure costs a technician driving two hours in the dark rather than a rollback.
  • Own the path from perception and autonomy work to hardware that runs unattended in the field.
2026 - Present

Chief Technology Officer & Chief Product Officer

Health-tech company

Stockholm, Sweden

  • Accountable for both the technology and the product function.
  • Set the architecture, the roadmap, and the engineering practices underneath them.
Present

AI Advisor & Mentor

Independent

Stockholm, Sweden

  • Advise leadership teams on AI adoption, architecture, and build versus buy.
  • Technical due diligence for investors assessing deep-tech claims.
  • Mentor engineers and product leaders moving into AI.
June 2023 - 2026

Technology Strategist

SEB (Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken)

Stockholm, Sweden

  • Identified need for sovereign compute; materialized with Wallenberg group buying NVIDIA Blackwell (first in Europe).
  • Launched cross-functional GenAI initiative in early 2023, becoming a strategic priority.
  • Built and evangelized AI strategy across 20+ enterprise teams.
  • Designed enterprise-scale AI architecture for secure LLM leverage.
  • Spearheaded transformation for 5,000+ workforce towards AI-native model.
Nov 2018 - Mar 2023

Solution Architect (Streaming, NLP & Anomaly Detection)

SEB (Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken)

Stockholm, Sweden

  • Delivered bank-wide streaming platform serving 2 billion events daily with zero downtime.
  • Pioneered real-time ML serving in 2018 (pre-ChatGPT era).
  • Designed microservices/APIs with 90% developer satisfaction (200+ teams).
  • Enabled Anomaly Detection using CERN’s Methodology (Markov chain models).
May 2018 - Aug 2021

Product Manager, Developer Experience

SEB (Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken)

Stockholm, Sweden

  • Reduced data onboarding from weeks to hours by building self-service platform.
  • Created internal marketplace democratizing data access for 500+ engineers.
  • Achieved 10x team adoption for DataOps automation.
July 2022 - Present

Board Member

Mani Choudhary Foundation

Lucknow, India

  • Lead capital allocation committee for child nutrition and education interventions.
  • Strategic advisor bringing data-driven decision-making to social sector.
Jan 2013 - May 2017

Software Engineer (Big Data & Streaming)

DigitalRoute

Stockholm, Sweden

  • Integrated Kafka into commercial platform (2013-14), earliest adopter in Europe.
  • Built streaming analytics processing billions of IoT/telecom transactions.
  • Evolved from engineering to product ownership.
June 2012 - Nov 2012

Technical Team Lead

IBM

Pune, India

  • Led distributed engineering team for FileNet document management solutions.
  • Managed end-to-end project delivery for government/nuclear clients.
Dec 2007 - Sep 2010

Data Pipeline Developer (Consultant)

AT&T

Pune/Bangalore, India

  • Built data pipelines generating millions in cost savings.
  • Solved complex distributed systems challenges.
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