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Pankaj Kenjale

McKinney,Texas

Summary

Innovative engineering leader with over 19+ years of experience in driving globally distributed, cross-technology AI and Data engineering teams to deliver large-scale AI/ML, and data-driven products and platforms to serve billions of users worldwide.


Widely recognized for exemplary leadership and proven track record in delivering complex solutions within organizational constraints.


Committed to driving innovation (multiple patents under filing) while fostering collaboration with internal/external partners.


Self starter and constant learner with a positive attitude.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

Group VP - AI, Analytics and Data R&D

Mavenir
08.2020 - Current
  • Heading globally distributed cross technology AI/Data Science practice, Data Analytics and Data Engineering R&D Organization for building huge scale AI/ML and data-driven products/platforms to serve 2.5B+ users.
  • Guiding AI and Data strategies, roadmaps, and platform implementations across the organization, covering 100+ customers and 50+ products.
  • Building and nurturing expert teams of 100+ professionals/leaders across various disciplines (Data Science, ML Engineering, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, etc.) to deliver AI/Data driven products and platforms.
  • Spearheading AI/ML products development for 5G/RAN network optimization using custom recommendation models powered by cutting edge, innovative and patented Reinforcement Learning based models (DQN, DDPG, etc.).
  • Leading the development of industry-first AIOps platform powered by Generative AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP) with seamless integration of Voice bots, Chat bots and self-hosted Large Language Models (LLMs).
  • Leading the development of EdgeAI/Industry 4.0 products such as Computer Vision AI powered Intelligent Video Analytics (IVA), Time Series AI powered Intelligent IOT (IIoT), Robotics/Drones.
  • Leading the development of custom MLOps platform and self service platforms (Network Intelligence as a Service, Causation as a Service, Forecasting as a Service, Digital Twin, DBaaS, etc.) used by all AI products across the company.
  • Leading the development of cloud native (Kubernetes/containerized/multi-cloud) AI products across all AI/ML disciplines such as Classic ML (supervised/unsupervised), Deep Learning, Time Series AI (forecasting, anomaly detection), Reinforcement Learning, Computer Vision, and Conversational AI (NLP, GenAI/LLMs).
  • Leading the development of huge scale Data platform (real time / analytics) utilizing cutting edge big data stacks such as Cassandra, Couchbase, ElasticSearch, Kafka, Prometheus, SingleStore, Spark, Airflow, etc.
  • Coaching and mentoring a high-performance team of Data and AI leaders.
  • Collaborating with CTO org, BU heads and Product owners to drive the AI vision across the company.
  • Managing hardware/software/cloud and overall budget for the Data and AI organization.


Senior Director, Engineering

Mavenir
11.2016 - 07.2020
  • Lead Data and AI strategy, and it's implementation across the company.
  • Directed engineering teams to develop scalable Data, AI/ML platforms, and products.

Principal Engineer

Mitel Mobile Division (previously Mavenir)
02.2015 - 10.2016
  • Lead development of huge scale mission critical products with cutting edge database technologies such as Big Data/NoSQL distributed databases like Cassandra, Hadoop, Swift, MongoDB, Couchbase, Redis, Oracle, TimesTen, MySQL, Kafka, etc.

Manager - R&D

Mavenir
06.2011 - 02.2015
  • Lead development of huge scale mission critical products with cutting edge database technologies such as Big Data/NoSQL distributed databases like Cassandra, Hadoop, Swift, MongoDB, Redis, Oracle, MySQL, TimesTen, etc.

Technical Lead - R&D

Mavenir
07.2009 - 06.2011
  • Lead development of huge scale mission critical products with MySQL and Oracle databases.

Senior Software Engineer

Rancore Technologies Ltd / Reliance Jio Ltd
10.2007 - 05.2009
  • Lead development of database module of real-time telecommunications platforms such as IMS Charging and Service Delivery Platform (SDP) based on Oracle and MySQL databases.

Sr. Software Engineer

Reliance Communications
01.2005 - 06.2007
  • Contributed in database module development of real-time telecom applications such as Intelligent Networks.

Education

Master of Science - MS - Business Analytics - Data Science

The University of Texas At Dallas

Master of Science - MS - Finance

The University of Texas At Dallas

B.E. - Electronics and Telecom

University of Mumbai

Diploma in Electronics and Video Engg - Electronics

St. Xavier's Institue of Technology

Skills

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Generative AI (GenAI)

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Location

McKinney, Texas

Timeline

Group VP - AI, Analytics and Data R&D

Mavenir
08.2020 - Current

Senior Director, Engineering

Mavenir
11.2016 - 07.2020

Principal Engineer

Mitel Mobile Division (previously Mavenir)
02.2015 - 10.2016

Manager - R&D

Mavenir
06.2011 - 02.2015

Technical Lead - R&D

Mavenir
07.2009 - 06.2011

Senior Software Engineer

Rancore Technologies Ltd / Reliance Jio Ltd
10.2007 - 05.2009

Sr. Software Engineer

Reliance Communications
01.2005 - 06.2007

Master of Science - MS - Business Analytics - Data Science

The University of Texas At Dallas

Master of Science - MS - Finance

The University of Texas At Dallas

B.E. - Electronics and Telecom

University of Mumbai

Diploma in Electronics and Video Engg - Electronics

St. Xavier's Institue of Technology

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