Every role, drawn on the same axis, so the widths mean something. Pick one.
2010 — 2012
Infosys · Systems Engineer
Pune & Mysore, India
Developed Java applications for telecom clients, together with the build and deployment automation around them.
- Java
- Linux
- Shell scripting
- Build automation
Carried forward — Delivery is measured in production, where the software has to run reliably outside the development environment.
2012 — 2014
IMI Delhi, then ICICI Bank · PGDM → Deputy Manager, Elite Trade Relationship Group
Delhi, India
A two-year PGDM in management, followed by a year as Deputy Manager in the Elite Trade Relationship Group covering foreign exchange, foreign direct investment (FDI) and portfolio advisory.
- TCO & ROI modelling
- Commercial structuring
- Executive communication
Carried forward — The commercial grounding behind every migration business case and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) model I build today.
2014 — 2017
HCL Tech · Associate Manager, Presales
Bengaluru and Noida, India, with extended client engagements on the US East Coast
Pre-sales solution design and RFP responses for large enterprises across AWS and Google Cloud, covering platform sizing, migration planning and governance-aware architecture to tight bid deadlines.
- AWS
- GCP
- RFP & bid design
- Platform sizing
- Migration planning
Carried forward — Pre-sales architecture, accountable to the customers who would operate the solution. This is the foundation of my current role.
2017 — 2018
PricewaterhouseCoopers · Principal Consultant
Gurgaon & Delhi, India
Assessed IT estates for public sector clients and authored their cloud adoption roadmaps. Established and chaired the Change Approval Board.
- Cloud adoption strategy
- Change Approval Board
- Data cataloguing
- Access control
Carried forward — Architecture designed to withstand audit as well as design review, which shapes every design decision.
2018 — 2021
Google Cloud · Customer Engineer
Gurgaon, India
Data centre exit and complex SAP migrations, alongside operational work: diagnosing hybrid VPN routing issues and leading the remediation of an outage caused by an accidentally deleted load balancer.
- SAP on GCP
- Terraform
- VPC & hybrid VPN
- Cloud Load Balancing
- Migration frameworks
Carried forward — Documented root cause analyses and taught them internally, so that each fix was shared across teams.
2021 — now
Google UK · ISV Customer Engineer
London, United Kingdom
Technical discovery and target architecture for strategic accounts, coordinating Google Cloud Consulting with GSI, RSI and ISV partners. Led the architecture of a petabyte-scale Databricks Lakehouse migration for a global consumer goods group, where SAP integration accounted for roughly 40% of the estate. Design and build generative AI agents for ISV use cases, including Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis and the assistant that answers questions on this site.
- BigQuery
- Databricks
- Lakehouse
- SAP integration
- Vertex AI
- Gemini
- ADK
- A2A
- MCP
- RAG
Carried forward — Challenging an assumption in front of a C-suite audience is a core technical skill.