Director of Engineering @ CVS Health • Gen AI & Agentic AI

Building the Future with
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Director of Engineering 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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Professional Background

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Director of Engineering | Gen AI & Agentic AI | 18+ Years Transforming Enterprise Operations

Experience

Lead Director, In-Store AI, Technology & Omni-channel

CVS Health

Sep 2022 - Present

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

Sep 2020 - Aug 2022

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

Feb 2020 - Sep 2020

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

Jan 2007 - Aug 2012

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)

Sep 2025 - Nov 2025

Focus: Applied Agentic AI for Organizational Transformation

Executive Education - Competing in the Age of AI

Harvard Business School

Sep 2021 - Nov 2021

Focus: AI Strategy and Business Transformation

Professional Education - Internet of Things

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

May 2017 - Aug 2017

Focus: IoT: Roadmap to a Connected World

B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

2003 - 2007

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)