Dhairya Kalyani
Eastvale,USA
Summary
Passionate technology leader with 20+ years of experience in innovation, digital transformation, and technical leadership across cloud, AI, IoT, and advanced analytics. Skilled in driving product engineering, establishing standards, and fostering cross-functional collaboration. Proficient in delivering POCs to MVPs using agile methodologies, mentoring global teams, and aligning technology with strategic business goals. Certified cloud architect (AWS, GCP, Azure), with expertise in migrating, optimizing, and modernizing workloads to maximize impact and business value. Thought leader and author of blogs, PoV videos, and global presentations on cloud technologies. Experienced in building training programs and fostering a culture of learning, continuous improvement, and innovation.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Advisor – AI, Digital Innovation, & Emerging Technologies
Southern California Edison
06.2023 - Current
- Senior Advisor in Innovation team responsible to architect, build and scale AI & emerging tech innovative solutions to boost worker productivity, improve worker safety, embark on sustainability, and enhance customer experience
- Enhanced business unit relationships by providing strategic advice and guidance on industry trends and best practices.
- Led technical architecture for Vegetation Management's Canopy Sense and Remote Sensing program.
- Key collaborator in AI and Gen-AI CoE defining AI strategy, governance and technology roadmap for SCE.
Innovation Product Lead
Accenture
05.2022 - 06.2023
- Led and directed global cross-functional teams comprising of cloud developers, process designers and UX engineers to design, build, and launch innovative solutions that addressed complex client challenges in cloud adoption and digital transformation
- Delivered product releases by conducting market analysis and prioritizing features based on customer needs
- Championed the adoption of agile engineering methods to accelerate delivery cycles
- Created technology roadmaps, engineering playbooks, solution runbooks, onboarding wikis along with program management documentation including metric tracking, team governance and budget management
- Mentored team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth within the organization.
Global Lead – AI, Emerging Areas Prototyping & NA Innovation Offering Co-lead
Accenture
09.2018 - 04.2022
- Scaled and managed a global rapid prototyping program comprising of 35+ professionals including developers, product managers and UX engineers delivering130+ POCs and MVPs across AI, ML, & cloud-native tech showcasing art of the possible for re-imagined client processes that reduced costs and improved time to value for cloud and AI.
- Responsible for end to end program management including defining strategy, staffing, metrics and KPI tracking / reporting, stakeholder management, communications, client expectations and escalations management.
- Established engineering and architectural standards, reusable design patterns, and governance frameworks to streamline PoC delivery.
- Led client engagements to bridge cloud investment gaps and address strategic business challenges by designing scalable, design-thinking-driven frameworks for sustainable innovation
- Led thought leadership and delivered external and internal publications within the cloud team
- Mentored, created promotion opportunities and career-coached all my team members, which resulted in promotions of more than 50% of the team in the span of four years
Cloud Transformation and Data Centricity Lead
Accenture
04.2016 - 09.2018
- Cloud Transformation and Data lead responsible for leading a global team that builds and harvests reusable assets such as point of views, POCs, whitepapers, automation assets, reference architectures etc. that could be used across various clients to accelerate deliveries focusing on cloud transformation strategy, governance, migrations, data analytics & overall best practices.
- Provided architectural leadership and guidance to technical teams to deliver robust, highly scalable and cost-effective solutions in the cloud.
Cloud Center of Excellence Lead
Esri
02.2015 - 03.2016
- Defined governance policies, standards, and best practices for Esri’s hybrid cloud footprint
- Oversaw cloud operations team to manage hybrid cloud accounts in the areas of IAM, Security, Cost Management, Performance Management, Networking, Compute, Governance etc
- Trained teams on cloud technologies while improving security, cost management, and scalability processes
- Achieved cloud operational excellence by streamlining processes and implementing best practices.
Cloud Managed Services (Various Roles)
Esri
06.2010 - 01.2015
- Managed Services technical lead responsible to design, architect, deploy and manage highly available hosting environments in production on AWS and Azure for more than80+ Esri customers
- Standardized and automated cloud onboarding, cloud tech stack, UAT, and production deployments to enable faster delivery and smoother and repeatable deployments
- From June2010 to Jan2013, I was responsible to automate deployments, administer, manage, and operate staging and production environments on AWS and Microsoft Azure
Quality Coordinator/Configuration Manager
Esri
02.2008 - 06.2010
- Quality Assurance & Release Management professional with hands-on expertise in QA, configuration, and release management\
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to improve overall product performance and customer satisfaction rates.
Software Quality Analyst
Intrack Inc
08.2005 - 05.2006
- Quality Analyst responsible for functional and automated testing of Environment, Health, and Safety (EH&S) web apps
Education
Management
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA06.2023
MS - Computer Science
University of Southern California
12.2007
B.E. (Bachelor of Engineering) - Computer Engineering
University of Mumbai
07-2005
Skills
- Global team leadership and mentorship
- Engineering management, architectural governance, roadmaps, and reusable technology patterns
- Straegic consulting and problem-solving for business-critical challenge
- Technical architectural governance, roadmaps, and reusable technology patterns
- Agile product engineering, MVP development, and POC delivery
- Collaboration across UX, analytics, and product teams to drive innovation
- AI, Innovation, Cloud, Microservices, Serverless, Program Management, Mentorship, consulting, Gen AI
Certification
- Azure AI Fundamentals Certified Nov2024
- Google Cloud Digital Leader Jan2024
- Digital Transformation with Google Cloud May2023
- Google Generative AI Fundamentals July2023
- AWS Machine Learning Specialty certification July2021
- Accenture Certified Senior Technology Architect Feb2021
- MIT – Corporate Innovation Strategies Oct2020
- MIT – Artificial Intelligence Business Strategy May2019
- Accenture Certified Technology Architect May2018
- AWS Certified Solution Architect – Professional (Recertified)2017 &2020
- AWS Business Professional May2016
- AWS TCO and Cloud Economics May2016
- CompTIA Security+ Certified Mar2014
- Certified Project Manager, UC, Riverside Mar2013
- Lean Six Sigma – Green Belt, UC, Riverside Jul2012
Timeline
Senior Advisor – AI, Digital Innovation, & Emerging Technologies
Southern California Edison
06.2023 - Current
Innovation Product Lead
Accenture
05.2022 - 06.2023
Global Lead – AI, Emerging Areas Prototyping & NA Innovation Offering Co-lead
Accenture
09.2018 - 04.2022
Cloud Transformation and Data Centricity Lead
Accenture
04.2016 - 09.2018
Cloud Center of Excellence Lead
Esri
02.2015 - 03.2016
Cloud Managed Services (Various Roles)
Esri
06.2010 - 01.2015
Quality Coordinator/Configuration Manager
Esri
02.2008 - 06.2010
Software Quality Analyst
Intrack Inc
08.2005 - 05.2006
Management
University of California, Los Angeles
MS - Computer Science
University of Southern California
B.E. (Bachelor of Engineering) - Computer Engineering
University of Mumbai
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