Pankaj Kenjale

Innovative engineering leader with over 20+ 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, technical and strategic acumen and promoting continuous learning culture in the organization while fostering collaboration with internal/external partners.

• Core competencies
o AI and Data Transformation
 Vision and Strategy – Collaborate with CTO org for formulating the vision and the strategy across the company
 Roadmap – Collaborate with all BUs Product leaders for finalizing the roadmap to align with the vision and the strategy
 Execution – Collaborate with all BUs R&D leaders for integrating AI and Data natively within their products as per the roadmap

o AI-Native Product building with traditional AI/ML
 Supervised, AI-Native Product building Unsupervised, Regression, Classification, Clustering
 Deep Learning (DL), Reinforcement Learning (RL), Time Series
 Conversational AI/NLP (Chat/Voice bots) and Computer Vision
 Recommendation Systems (Collaborative and Profile based)

o AI-Native Product building with Generative AI
 LLMs - Prompt Engineering, Custom Domain GPTs with Fine Tuning (PEFT, Q-LORA) and Reasoning (RL GRPO)
 RAG with Vector Stores and Knowledge Graph
 Autonomous/Agentic (multi-Agent)

o AI-Native Platform building for operationalization of AI
 ML Ops (Model Lifecycle, Serving, Monitoring and Level 4 CT-CD)
 Gen AI Ops (Guardrails, Evaluation, Bias, Security)
 Agent Ops (Orchestration, Frameworks, Monitoring, Security)

o Generative AI for productivity improvement across the company – Coding, Documentation, RFP/Bid Proposals, and Automation.

o Data-driven Product and Platform building - OLTP, OLAP, Operational, Real Time, Streaming, Batch Analytics, Warehouses, Fabric and Lakes.

o Establishing Practice/Team for Data and AI Execution comprising of Data Scientists, Data Analysts, Data Engineers, ML Engineers, Software Engineers, UI Engineers, Architects and Leaders (Managers, Directors, VPs).

o Partner Engagement for Data and AI Platforms/Stacks management.

• Lead Data and AI transformation across the company, covering 100+ customers, 50+ products, millions of transactions per second, and 100+ petabytes of storage bringing in cumulative revenue of $300M+ while serving billions of users.
• Spearheaded development of multiple innovative Data/AI products and platforms some of which won prestigious industry awards for the most innovative product.
• Established Big data, AI (Data Science) and Generative AI practices of 100+ experts to deliver innovative AI products and platforms across the company.
• Established IPR (Patents) portfolio in AI over a short span
• Awarded 14 consecutive top performance ratings over a 15-year tenure, reflecting sustained excellence and leadership impact.
• Earned 9 rapid promotions, progressing from Engineer to Group VP.
• Honored with the company’s highest Pinnacle Award in 2024, recognizing exceptional strategic contribution and enterprise-wide impact.