Director TPM | AI Founder (Bubblenet: TensorFlow, $180K Funding, Published IJRI) | Google · Airbnb · VMware | Kubernetes Infrastructure | Built Teams 5→25

Co-founded Bubblenet (AI healthtech startup): Architected production TensorFlow diagnostic model (91.5% accuracy), raised $180K Google funding, published peer-reviewed research in IJRI 2021. Validated model efficacy against expert radiologists.

18+ years leading infrastructure programs at Google, Airbnb, VMware spanning 500-800+ engineering orgs. Known for execution debugging at scale and restoring delivery velocity in high-blast-radius, multi-org programs.

Executive Influence: Appointed as Initiative Owner for a company-wide OKR and founded the "Bureaucracy Busters" program with the Office of the CEO to resolve systemic blockers for 15,000+ employees

Core expertise:

- AI/ML Infrastructure: TensorFlow, model training pipelines, ML observability

- Kubernetes & Cloud Native: Tanzu (K8s), service mesh (AirMesh migration), container orchestration

- War Room Crisis Recovery: 68% technical debt reduction in 19 days at Airbnb, incident management at scale

- Team Building: Scaled VMware TPM org from 5→25 globally across 5 countries

- Infrastructure at Scale: Google Storage Infrastructure (500+ eng), GCP Regional launches (first cloud region), $500M Diskless Project, Airbnb Cloud Infrastructure (Reliability)

Currently on sabbatical (intentional career break) before next role focused on AI infrastructure at frontier scale

Open to: Director/Head of TPM/IC roles at AI-first companies

Publications: 2 peer-reviewed papers (IJRI 2021, JAPI 2022)

Awards: VMware Elevate Our Best, Google TI Awards, Informix DNA Clone Award

Bubblenet - AI Diagnostic Platform (Co-Founder & CTO)
Built production AI healthtech startup from scratch 

Impact: 

• 91.5% diagnostic accuracy validated against expert radiologists 

• $180,000 Google Cloud funding 

• 2 peer-reviewed publications (IJRI 2021, JAPI 2022) 

• 100,000+ image dataset processed 

• Tech Stack: TensorFlow, Python, Django, Firebase, Google App Engine, Inception-v3, Transfer Learning, NoSQL (Firestore)

• Publications: - [Indian Journal of Radiology & Imaging (2021)] - [Journal of Association of Physicians in India (2022)]

Google - Infrastructure at Scale
Led large-scale infrastructure programs for 500+ engineers 

Impact:

• Launched Google's first commercial cloud region (us-east1) 

• Led $500M Diskless Project modernizing global datacenter infrastructure 

• Launched Census (now industry-standard OpenTelemetry)

• Award: Google Tech Infrastructure Award