Keysight Technologies, Santa Rosa, CA [01/2010 – Present]
We’re a $5B test technologies company with 32,000 customers in more than 100 countries, served by a passionate and diverse workforce of more than 14,300 employees enabling innovators to create the technologies that define our future.
Director of Software Engineering (07/2020 – Current) I manage a $XM P&L while leading software engineering teams in Asia, EU and US that execute enterprise software integration, master data management, and software licensing for cloud applications.
- Lead the AI Productivity team focused on driving enterprise transformation through the deployment of agentic AI and conversational interfaces.
- Spearheaded the implementation of ZBrains and Copilot Studio to design intelligent agents tailored to enterprise workflows and domain-specific LLM models.
- Delivered intelligent chatbot capabilities through Moveworks to handle service desk, HR, and compliance automation use cases.
- Architected and deployed MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers enabling secure and scalable agent-to-agent communication and context sharing across enterprise AI platforms.
- Partnered with business leaders to prioritize use cases delivering measurable operational gains, including time-to-resolution reduction, workflow automation, and cost savings.
- Established AI engineering best practices and governance frameworks to ensure responsible AI deployment, model versioning, and traceability.
- Hired and trained 10+ engineering leads and successfully managed the team culture by creating career growth methods, building performance KPIs and mentoring them to build strong technical leadership and customer skills.
- Managed cloud infrastructure development programs by driving business transformation and ensuring effective migration processes are used while maximizing the potential for automation, data analytics, and IT microservices.
- Partnering with system integration teams and cloud vendors (AWS, Azure) to perform infrastructure upgrades and system migrations while following an effective process as per operational excellence and standards.
Engineering Manager (12/2017 – 06/2020) Developed a DevOps team from the ground up and managed a 15 software engineers in 4 countries who built the microservices architecture for the integration of SAP-based enterprise applications.
- Built a culture of high performance, transparency, and continuous improvement mindset which required making tough re-organization decisions, eliminating redundant roles, and making changes to improve team performance.
- Led the expansion of platform services and tooling for multiple business units through utilizing innovative technologies, event logging and metrics monitoring that resulted in faster time-to-market and system launches.
- Ensured tactical and strategic design decisions and multi-year roadmaps for cloud-based solutions through collaboration with the business stakeholders, executive leadership team, project management and IT vendors.
Principal Enterprise Architect (07/2010 – 06/2017) Led 50+ system integration and data analytic projects, which included platform migration from Oracle Fusion to iPaas solutions as well as vendor management in delivery of integrated solutions.
- Received 4 promotions in 7 years, which allowed me the opportunity to participate in the acquisition of Agilent Technologies and all migration projects as well as the demand management processes and data analytics platform.
