Why Most Enterprise AI Programs Fail Before They Start
The failure mode isn't technical. It's organizational. Most enterprises skip the operating model and jump straight to tooling.
ReadArchitect · Builder · Leader
Building production AI systems in the hardest environments.
Vice President, Cloud & Platform Architecture at Deutsche Bank. I architect and build production GenAI, NLP, and data systems — and I lead the strategy, governance, and teams that make them ship in regulated financial services.
Latest Writing
Ideas on AI governance, data architecture, and enterprise transformation.
Data Vault 2.0 in Banking: Architecture for the Audit That Hasn't Happened Yet
Why insert-only modeling, hash keys, and full lineage aren't academic exercises — they're survival patterns in regulated environments.
ReadThe AI Center of Excellence Is Dead. Long Live the AI Operating Model.
Centers of Excellence centralize capability. Operating models distribute it. The difference determines whether AI scales or stalls.
ReadOpen Source
Selected projects.
enterprise-rag-bench
RAG patterns benchmarked for enterprise. Five chunking strategies, five retrieval patterns, evaluation harness, guardrails, and observability — built for regulated environments.
enterprise-genai-platform
Reference architecture for LLM applications in banking. Chain routing, prompt registry, guardrails, evaluation pipelines, and output drift monitoring.
applied-nlp-research
Production NLP from pre-LLM to post-LLM era. Capsule networks, BiLSTM-CRF for NER, transformer fine-tuning, and event-driven stream processing in PyTorch.
ai-governance-framework
AI governance for regulated industries. Risk classification, model lifecycle controls, EU AI Act mapping, and worked examples for credit scoring and fraud detection.
Background
Experience
- Deutsche Bank VP, Cloud & Platform Architecture — 2021–Present
- Halialabs Chief Scientist, AI & Platform Architecture — 2018–2021
- Cognizant Technology Specialist / Software Architect — 2012–2017
- Syntel Software Engineer / Project Lead — 2007–2012
Education
- PGPMAX (Executive MBA) Indian School of Business
- M.Tech, Enterprise Business Analytics National University of Singapore
- B.E., Computer Science RGTU, India
Contact
Open to leadership conversations.
If you're shaping the next stage of enterprise AI capability, data platform modernization, or technology transformation — I'd welcome the conversation.