Niraj N.

Builder, Cofounder, C-suite Executive | Board Member | Advisor | xVP@Google | xVP@Amex| xGM@Microsoft

Palo Alto, California, United States

About

Seasoned C-suite transformation leader, growth-mindset, AI/Cloud-native, Digital, Platform & Infra Technology & Science Executive. Managed P/L, grew ARR (>$2.5B), optimized budgets (>$200M), led geo-distributed teams (>1000; 3 TZs). Proven passion and leadership in building, growing, modernising, transforming and operating hyperscale Digital workflows, SDLC tools, Data OLTP/OLAP Platform, DW, Ontology Graph/Knowledge Graph/Context Graph, RAG/GenAI models (Gemini, OpenAI, Claude), Analytics, Infra with AI & Cloud native approach in a hyper-scale, highly resilient, secure ,available Cloud infrastructures (AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenStack). Deliver measurable impact via OKRs business outcomes, ARR growth, MAU, Subscriptions, EBITDA, Opex, SDLC productivity, release quality & velocity, Availability SLO Extensive experience in incubating Tech TDCs, leading Technology & Science teams, skills & organization transformation, recruiting talents, and developing tech leadership. Collaborate with senior executives to align strategies, planning, OKRs, MBRs, Operational Metrics, BoD presentations and execution toward shared business goals. Held various Tech executive roles at Wayfair, Google, Ancestry.com(SilverLake backed, successful exit), American Express, SnapLogic (A16Z Unicorn), Microsoft, and iManage (Cofounder, Startup->IPO’ed). Contribute as an advisory board member to early stage startups and non-profit volunteer.

Experience

  • Chief Data and AI officer at Altimetrik
    Apr 2026 - Present · 3 mos

  • VP/GM GenAI, Marketplace, Data Platform, Cloud Infra at Wayfair
    Sep 2021 - Dec 2025 · 4 yrs 4 mos

    Lead a global org of >800 across BLR, BOS, BER, SEA,TOR. Drive >$2.5B in incremental GRS. AI-Native Data Platform, Model Transformation, SDLC Modernization -Modernized 120PB Unified Data platform (CloudSQL,Spanner,BigTable,GBQ,GCS ; 50K slots, Lakehouse/Lakebase, FDL/CDL, views, aggregates) ETL, 85K+ PHP monolith objects & 500+ SQL DBs to cloud-native GCP stack; streaming architecture; real-time analytics; metadata; semantic layers. -GenAI/RAG tools: Apollo Federated GraphQL, Ontology/Knowledge/context Graph using GleanAI, Code Bison, DGS Codegen, VertexAI, VectorDB -GenAI (Gemini) enabled Transformed Catalog data model as SoT across 30M+ SKUs,22K tags; 830 classes; 30M MAU; Enriched catalog health: 89% precision,−62% false positive; Duplicate detection 97%, inconsistency detection 93%; -Multi-agent Engineering Factory with Unified KG telemetry across DataDog, GitHub, SourceGraph, PagerDuty, K8s, SonarQub, Jira, Terraform, Figma, Cursor, Claude Code. -Drove GenAI Tool adoption across 90+ teams; +20–25% SDLC productivity (legacy), +70% (new); Reliability AI: AI Monkey Bot, PR Risk Classifier, SRE Bot (−70% MTTR) AI-Native Marketplace modernization, Inventory mgmt and Services/Support Automation -Multi-agent framework for Supplier Assistant with LangChain,LangGraph,Vertex,Gemini-2.5, GPT-4.1, Twillio Conversation Relay, RAG, VectorDB, MoE, Vercel AI −6K supplier contacts/mo, −20K tickets/mo; -93% intent accuracy, 98% language detection,88% supplier match; Customer Service AI: −12% handle time,+2–5% policy adherence -Consolidated workflows (200→<25); Improved Catalog Product add P95<4h ; EDI onboarding 0→80%; API platform SSAT 4/5; KYB/KYC onboarding <7 days -Enabled 100% DIY Offers/Loyalty promotions →+$300M uplift,99% success, SSAT >4.0; Scaled Supplier Ads to $500M GRS,+$20M ARR; B2B rewards & project shopping →>$380M GRS -Improved inventory accuracy 33%,unlock $26M/yr GRS; Eliminated $24M stranded inventory; Demand forecasting, promise accuracy AI →+25% CSAT

  • VP/GM Platform, Tools, AI Science, Operations at Google
    Jul 2019 - Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos

    Lead 700+ team across NY, MUC, ATL, SVL, SEA driving >$2.2B revenue uplift. ML/AI-Enabled Data Platform (GCP, Play Store, Ads) -Led platform strategy and engineering for Firebase, Flutter, TensorFlow, Angular supporting F100 enterprise cross-platform mobile (iOS/Android), web applications. Delivered fully managed BE services, tools, analytics, experimentation, monitoring, engagement platforms. Platform drove >$2.5B annual revenue uplift across GCP, Play Store, App Ads, AdMob. -Enterprise advertisers (AppAds) and publishers (AdMob) leveraged Firebase to increase engagement (>3M MAU) LTV; 75% buy-side and 57% sell-side revenue originated from apps using Firebase/Flutter (CSAT 85). Delivered SDK ecosystem including Emulator Suite, In-App Messaging, ML Toolkit, Crashlytics, A/B Testing supporting automation, testing, analytics, monetization. -Launched Flutter 2.2 at Google I/O enabling Google Pay integration. Achieved 200K+ Play Store apps using Flutter including WeChat and 70+ ByteDance apps. Partnered with Google Mobile Ads to release Flutter Ads SDK Beta (adaptive banners, GMA SDK vNext, null safety) scaling to 1,800 daily publishers (+57% MoM), 80M+ daily ad requests, $70M ARR. Flutter became Google’s #2 GitHub project (116K stars, 700K+ MAU). Built ML/AI developer platform and SDLC tooling - For 50K Google developers; GCP customers (~$0.5B impact) including Knowledge Graph-driven developer workflows integrated with VSCode, code search, review, build and launch, eliminating 15+ context switches (20+ hrs/SWE/month saved). -Deployed Transformer-based ML code completion (GPT-like) with 35% suggestion acceptance and ML-driven Java build repair used by >25% of GCP customers. -Owned CI/CD, code build; experimentation platforms supporting 40K+ developers, processing 26M builds/day, 350K workflows/day, 150K presubmits/day; ~1B test targets/day, reduce flaky failures 20–30%.

  • CPTO, Mentor at BootUP World
    Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

    For Early stage, Strategic AI First advisor, angel investor, operator and board member, providing expertise on market entry, Operations, customer journeys, Enterprise Technology, Agentic architecture, Product market fit, and go-to-market strategy to entrepreneurs in the very early phases of their startup journey. Emphasizes on Agentic approach towards solving enterprise pain points.

  • Member of the Board of Advisors at Nexla
    2021 - Present · 5 yrs 6 mos

    CPTO and Strategic - GenAI advisory board, angel investor providing expertise on AI first Enterprise Technology, Operations, Agentic Framework architecture, Enterprise GTM strategy, Product market fit and B2B partnership.