{"data":{"education":{"edges":[{"node":{"frontmatter":{"title":"Executive MBA, General Management","company":"UCLA Anderson","location":"Los Angeles, USA","range":"2022","url":"https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/"},"html":"<p>Earned my <strong>Executive MBA in General Management</strong> from the <a href=\"https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/\">UCLA Anderson School of Management</a> — one of the world's top-ranked business schools — completed alongside a full-time engineering leadership role.</p>\n<p>This is the credential that lets me operate fluently on both sides of the table: rigorous systems thinking from engineering, paired with the business judgment to own outcomes. Core areas I studied:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Corporate &amp; Platform Strategy</strong> — build-vs-buy frameworks, competitive positioning, and technology roadmaps anchored to business outcomes</li>\n<li><strong>Finance &amp; P&amp;L Ownership</strong> — reading the numbers, managing cost structures, and quantifying technology ROI</li>\n<li><strong>Leadership &amp; Organizational Design</strong> — scaling high-accountability teams, capacity planning, and change management</li>\n<li><strong>Data-Driven Decision-Making</strong> — turning signals into prioritization and executive-ready narratives</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Every high-stakes call I make as an engineering leader — vendor negotiations, the Nabla build-vs-buy decision, roadmap trade-offs, driving $2.1M+ in savings — traces directly back to the frameworks I sharpened here.</p>"}},{"node":{"frontmatter":{"title":"Master of Science, Software Engineering (Data Analytics)","company":"BITS Pilani","location":"Pilani, India","range":"2017","url":"https://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/"},"html":"<ul>\n<li>M.S. in Software Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, with a specialization in <strong>Data Analytics</strong>.</li>\n<li>The Data Analytics focus gave me an early, rigorous grounding in statistics, data modeling, and machine learning — the foundation I later built on across MLOps and production ML systems.</li>\n<li>The systems-engineering rigour from this program shapes how I set technical standards, design architecture, and hold teams accountable for the full lifecycle.</li>\n</ul>"}},{"node":{"frontmatter":{"title":"Bachelor of Science, Computer Science & Engineering","company":"PTU","location":"Punjab, India","range":"2011","url":"https://ptu.ac.in/"},"html":"<ul>\n<li>B.S. in Computer Science &amp; Engineering from Punjab Technical University.</li>\n<li>Where the fundamentals started — algorithms, systems, and a habit of building things end to end.</li>\n</ul>"}},{"node":{"frontmatter":{"title":"","company":"Certifications","location":"","range":"","url":""},"html":"<ul>\n<li>Post Graduate Program in AI &#x26; Machine Learning — Caltech (2024)</li>\n<li>Responsible AI for Digital Leaders — Google Cloud (2024)</li>\n<li>Databricks Certified Generative AI Engineer Associate (2024)</li>\n<li>Databricks Generative AI Fundamentals (2024)</li>\n</ul>"}},{"node":{"frontmatter":{"title":"","company":"Awards","location":"","range":"","url":""},"html":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Best Project Award</strong> — Ivanti (2022) · for outstanding delivery and cross-functional collaboration on a critical enterprise mobility initiative</li>\n<li><strong>Project of the Year</strong> — Samsung R&amp;D (2016 &amp; 2017) · back-to-back recognition on the FLIP/eBoard flagship</li>\n<li><strong>GWP Champion of the Year</strong> — Samsung R&amp;D (2016)</li>\n<li><strong>Appreciation Award</strong> — Samsung R&amp;D (May &amp; Sep 2015)</li>\n</ul>"}}]}}}