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Sep 30, 2026
The Real AI Arms Race Is Measured in Watts, Not Parameters
SiMa.ai's $1.45B raise and a quiet quantization paper are pointing at the same bottleneck from opposite directions.
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Read on SubstackLead Director of Engineering and Product @ CVS HealthGen AI • Edge AI • Physical AI at Retail Scale
Building the Future with
Artificial Intelligence
Lead Director of Engineering and Product at CVS Health transforming enterprise operations through Gen AI and Agentic AI—delivering $90M+ annual savings at scale. Leading teams of 60-100+ engineers building AI systems that power America's largest pharmacy retailer, serving 120M+ customers and 300K colleagues daily.
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RetailAgentOS
Agentic commerce infrastructure: a reasoning layer that lets AI shopping assistants understand and enforce retailer-specific rules (pricing, eligibility, inventory, fulfillment) before checkout, so the cart actually works. Explainable decisions, open specifications and a tested reference engine.
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ezyUpload
Marketplace-ready product photos. Prepare and optimize product images for online marketplaces and retail listings without a photo studio.
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Tech Observations
Sep 30, 2026
Shopify Just Made Checkout Legible to Machines — Most Retailers Aren't Ready
WebMCP's new checkout tools are a bigger deal than another agent headline, and most product catalogs weren't built for the customer they now have t...
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Tech Observations
Sep 29, 2026
The Model You Picked Six Months Ago Is Already Overpriced
GPT-6.1 Sol just made frontier-adjacent intelligence a fifth of the price it was last quarter — and that should scare your procurement process, not...
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Professional Background
Resume
Lead Director of Engineering and Product | Gen AI & Agentic AI | 18+ Years Transforming Enterprise Operations
Experience
Lead Director, In-Store AI, Technology & Omni-channel
CVS Health
Leading engineering teams building AI systems that power America's largest pharmacy retailer, serving 120M+ customers and 300K colleagues.
- •$90M+ annual savings through Gen AI/ML models and agentic workflows
- •Modernized $50B+ POS transaction platform across 9,500+ stores
- •Led 60-100+ cross-functional engineers building StoreOS with edge computing & computer vision
- •Launched patented Virtual Verification AI and biometric authentication systems
- •Built AI-driven pill verification, inventory detection, and omnichannel CMX/ Retail Ad-Tech
- •Computer Vision for inventory detection and shelf management- CPU@Edge AI Computing
- •Agentic platform - storeOS - with seamless biomteric authentication, connected journey mapping, and AI-driven recommendations
Sr. Manager, Pharmacy POS & Store Applications
CVS Health
Managed engineering, product, and UX for StoreFront delivery, mobility apps, and pharmacy POS applications.
- •Led architecture and engineering for ~10K stores pharmacy modernization
- •Built vaccine administration platform (including Covid-19)
- •Implemented state-of-the-art @Edge engineering for analytics
- •Delivered unified retail/pharmacy experience across all store modals
Sr. Manager, Pharmacy POS
CVS Health
Rebuilt Pharmacy POS on web platform for unified experience across CVS and Target stores.
- •Unified POS experience across all store modals
- •Built SRE team for product reliability tracking
- •Modernized pharmacy applications architecture
Sr. IT Consultant & Java Developer
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Lead developer for enterprise applications at Staples Inc. and innovation projects at Java Center of Excellence.
- •Led distributed teams on next-gen web applications
- •Built SOA-based product management systems
- •Developed real-time messaging frameworks
Education
Professional Education - Applied Agentic AI for Organizational Transformation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Focus: Applied Agentic AI for Organizational Transformation
Executive Education - Competing in the Age of AI
Harvard Business School
Focus: AI Strategy and Business Transformation
Professional Education - Internet of Things
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Focus: IoT: Roadmap to a Connected World
B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Focus: Electronics & Communication Engineering
Skills
Leadership
Engineering LeadershipProduct ManagementAI StrategyStrategic RoadmapsTeam Building
AI/ML Expertise
Gen AIAgentic SystemsComputer VisionML ModelsEdge AIMLOps
Architecture
Enterprise ArchitectureDistributed SystemsEdge ComputingKafka/SRECloud Infrastructure
Product & Tech
OmnichannelE-commerceAd-TechPOS SystemsDevOpsReliability Engineering
Certifications
Patents
Virtual Verification in Pharmacy Workflow (Patent #20240249428)
Automated Prescription Product Counting (Patent #20210374762)
Certifications
Professional Scrum Master - PSM 1 (Scrum.org)
Java Certified Professional - JCP (Sun Microsystems)