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anishek agarwal

@anishekagarwal

Visionary technology leader with 20+ years of experience.

India
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What I'm looking for

I am looking for a role that allows me to leverage my extensive experience in technology leadership, focusing on innovation and team development within a dynamic organization.

With over 20 years of experience in technology leadership, I have a proven track record of building and managing global engineering organizations across fintech, ad-tech, and analytics. My most recent role at Visa involved transforming the enterprise data and AI platform, where I successfully drove architectural strategies that resulted in significant cost savings of approximately $80 million over three years. My expertise in big data warehousing and distributed systems has been honed through leadership positions at Cloudera and Hortonworks, where I aligned technology strategies with business goals to foster innovation and scale high-performing teams.

As a Senior Director at Visa, I managed a 25-engineer organization and served as the Product Owner for Hive/Trino, overseeing the migration of SQL workloads to an open-source big data platform. I developed a GenAI SQL conversion tool that streamlined processes and improved productivity by 20%. My leadership style emphasizes mentorship and performance management, cultivating future leaders within my teams. I am passionate about driving technology initiatives that enhance productivity and innovation, and I thrive in environments that challenge me to push the boundaries of what's possible.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Current

Tech Advisor

Xiphi.ai

Feb 2025 - Present (5 months)

Helped Xiphi.ai as a technical advisor to build a knowledge platform for professionals, laying out the overall technical architecture strategy. Incorporated cutting-edge technologies like real-time conversational AI agents and Chat Agents with RAG/CAG implementations to provide exceptional user experience.

VI

Senior Director, Data & AI Platform

Visa

Nov 2022 - Dec 2024 (2 years 1 month)

Managed and scaled a 25-engineer organization, serving as Product Owner for Hive/Trino and driving the technical delivery and strategic direction of petabyte-scale analytics solutions. Led the strategy and execution for migrating SQL engine workloads to an open-source big data platform, contributing to projected cost savings.

SL

Director of Engineering

Soroco India Pvt Ltd

Apr 2022 - Nov 2022 (7 months)

Managed a team of 14 engineers to develop the core inferencing engine for a flagship process mining product, responsible for analyzing high-volume, noisy clickstream data. Architected a synthetic data generation solution to enable robust performance testing of this complex inferencing engine.

TL

Lead Consultant Engineer

Thoughtworks India Pvt Ltd

Nov 2009 - Dec 2014 (5 years 1 month)

Spearheaded development of a flagship product for a global consulting firm, targeting CMOs of Fortune 1000 companies to help them make better marketing spend decisions. Delivered an intelligent workload orchestration platform on AWS EMR, dynamically optimizing resource allocation and reducing cloud infrastructure costs.

RS

Senior Software Engineer

RSA

Nov 2006 - Nov 2009 (3 years)

Worked on SAML 2.0 implementation for the RSA Federated Identity Manager product. Took the product through Industry Interoperability Certification done by the Liberty Alliance group.

TL

Software Engineer

Thoughtworks India Pvt Ltd

Jul 2004 - Nov 2006 (2 years 4 months)

Developed a Heavy Duty Equipment Leasing application for a leading US manufacturer, delivering an enterprise solution to streamline leasing operations. Built expertise in software development and stakeholder collaboration.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

PB

PESIT, Bangalore

Bachelor of Engineering, Information Science

Grade: First Class

Completed a Bachelor of Engineering in Information Science, achieving First Class honors. The curriculum provided a strong foundation in information technology and engineering principles.

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