San Francisco Bay Area
A seasoned technology executive with over 24 years of international experience, Kaushik has a proven track record in various senior leadership roles. With a diverse technical background in GenAI post-training, AI/ML, enterprise infrastructure operations, software product engineering and technology strategy, he has broad experience in leading global organizations through high-impact strategic imperatives. Currently Kaushik leads global technical program management for scaled software development of core compute and AI/ML infrastructure supply chain systems at Alphabet Specializations: MLOps, AI/ML Operations, GenAI model tuning, Cloud strategy, cloud migration planning, Cloud Operating Model, digital transformation, software engineering, IT strategy, data center strategy, IT infrastructure optimization, enterprise service management
Leads horizontal engineering programs for the Google Home ecosystem, driving the Geminie powered Home vision and an AI-first, agentic home strategy.
Leading a global technical program management team that manages software development of AI/ML infused platforms that power Google’s core and AI/ML compute capacity supply chain
Engaging within a global ecosystem of AI leaders, engineers, and investors to drive innovation across the artificial intelligence landscape. Actively collaborating with experts from Big Tech and research institutions to exchange cutting-edge insights and foster strategic partnerships that move the needle on AI implementation
In this engaging and global leadership position, I had 2 overlapping roles 1. Associate Partner, Cloud Advisory Services As a leader in the Cloud Advisory Global Center of Competence, I was responsible for business development, pre-sales, and delivery of strategic cloud advisory services to clients worldwide. I played a trusted technology advisor role to the C-Suite of governments and Fortune 100 corporations and have advised clients on: - Application migration and modernization to and in cloud - Development of innovation programs to enable digital transformation, including associated value and business cases. - Re-imagining their operating model to harness the value of cloud - Re-aligning their overall IT strategy to adopt and hardness new technology trends like AI, Machine Learning, Quantum and Blockchain 2. Global Leader for DevOps Transformation Advisory As the Global practice owner and thought leader for DevOps Transformation advisory consulting, I helped clients adopt and scale end to end DevOps capabilities across their enterprise portfolio in a hybrid multi-cloud ecosystem. These outcomes include: - Re-engineering Agile adoption by product/software development organization by transforming squads - Engineering automation for CI/CD and continuous testing - Re-inventing operations through new technologies like AIOps, ChatOps, NoOps - Transforming to a product focused development organization
I was a senior thought leader and consultant in an infrastructure strategy consulting practice within IBM GTS. I was responsible for pre-sales and delivery of strategic engagements that focused on advising the C-Suite on various aspects of infrastructure strategy. These engagements included: - Developing comprehensive data center strategies for global corporations that sought to either consolidate or expand their global data center footprint - Infrastructure optimization to reduce cost and increase efficiency of IT operations - Re-engineering infrastructure operational (ITSM/ITIL) processes to increase efficiencies
Lead the enterprise end-user and infrastructure support operations for HP’s global accounts comprising of 350 staff across APJ, EMEA and Americas
Lead strategic world-wide program of 75 employees aimed at migrating customer accounts on legacy service management platforms into the global leveraged solution. The program achieved a cost savings of over US$250 million over a 3 year period
Lead global product engineering team of 50 software developers and project managers to engineer and deliver the next generation HP Services standard suite of products for automating IT Service Management processes
* Technical and Management owner for Request Central (request management application portal) * Project Manager for web portal integration project with Request Central * Interacted with customers to identify their business needs and incorporate the same as technical enhancements to the tool * Designed web interface for Request Central for faster response time in Asia and Europe. * Led a virtual design team of offshore contractors in Philippines including providing on-going training for vendor. * Managed global outsourced IT contracting work of Request Central * Worked on a project to redesign Request Central from a Notes tool to a web-based platform. Responsibilities in this project include : (i) Assimilating technical requirements for new tool (ii) Analyzing and evaluating workflow application vendors and help make choice on workflow tool to be utilized in the redesign
* Provided technical support for all Domino and web based applications deployed in the P&G intranet infrastructure * Managed testing and deployment of Domino applications onto production servers * Identified and corrected critical outages in server availability due to unstable and volatile applications * Deployed and managed proactive monitoring of server capacity and performance