AJ Jobanputra

• Transformed an underperforming AI education chatbot from a user-engagement rate of 35% to 70% by redesigning UX, and habit-forming usage patterns to overcome the ‘use once, forget forever’ problem with AI applications - MAU went up by 50%. • Led cross-functional teams of data scientists, developers, and product owners applying knowledge of transformers and reinforcement learning models to business problems. • Microsoft Co-Pilot product development team worked with my team to be a pioneer, the first integration partner in education, using the latest features in AI Foundry, including OAuth/OIDC authentication across applications • Defined a strategic product roadmap: rapidly changing AI competitors and technology, making decisions regarding defensible IP, monetization strategies, and personas’ problem statements. • Managed full lifecycle of new AI concepts from prototypes to MCP to production scale, to migration into new AI Foundry versions. • Fixed low-quality responses by redesigning the AI platform architecture, incorporating multi-LLM routing, Graph DB design, caching, AI Foundry, AI Agent SDK and Azure AI Search—lifting usefulness scores by +30pp.

As the Chairman, I guide the direction of the AIR Awards, ensuring that the program not only identifies and honors the leadership in AI innovation and also fosters a community of forward-thinking leaders and innovators.

• Achieved on-time national rollout of Bell IoT Portfolio by orchestrating 165 cross-functional engineers, and 3 business units; achieving 95% uptime on real-time telemetry from 10k devices • Building roadmaps, personas, and working SaaS platform for 6 product lines in 18 months for Bell IoT and Logistics customers, and generated $30M in ARR • Supported 70+ team members to transition from a waterfall methodology to the Scaled Agile Delivery Framework (SAFe), onto Agile Release Trains. • Collaborated with Big Data Analytics and architecture teams on data science, machine learning solutions, artificial intelligence cloud enablers • Implemented blockchain entire MVP loop 'build-measure-learn' in just 6 weeks

As a pivotal member of the senior management team, I spearheaded the vision and strategy for Esprida's products and platforms. My role was instrumental in shaping business and technological strategies, thereby channeling Esprida's expansion into new market territories.My oversight spanned across three critical functions: product development, marketing, and sales engineering. Key focus was: • Created Smart Manufacturing IoT product in 7 months, including early adopter clients • Created Smart Agriculture Product product in 9 months, including first customers and resellers • Managed product-development, product-marketing, go-to-market strategy, value proposition, sales efficiencies

I managed product development budgets, coached technical team members and improved delivery processes (DORA metrics). I was also responsible for negotiating contracts with customers and vendors. Results: • Esprida earned its rank among the Top 100 M2M influential companies for five consecutive years (M2M Source Book 2008-2012) under my leadership. • Designed single R&D investment strategy to support product launches in five industries: Smart Manufacturing, Industrial Automation, Agriculture, Retail Systems, and Digital Signage. • Generated $5+ M in grant programs by developing an R&D program • Managed a technology team of 65, incl. development managers, QA managers, project managers, and technical sales engineers. • Addressed technical challenges, devising business solutions across sectors like • Fostered industry alliances with key players such as Telus, Rogers, Wireless Certifications, Hardware design shops, and cloud providers. • Lead technical engagements: discovery meetings, proof of concepts, UI mock-ups, prototypes, iterative releases, and training programs. • Reducing mobile development costs by 40% by implemented outsourcing strategy with specialist partners in India and Argentina,

Evolved IoT platform to next-generation platform design for new markets, using new technology stacks. Managed platform architectures and implementation team. Results: • Spearheaded the transition to J2EE architecture, slashing implementation time by 25%. • Reduced codebase by 60% and increased developer productivity by 100+%. • Rapidly developed an IoT Platform within 17 months, positioning it as a competitor to industry giants like PTC, Evrything.io, and AWS IoT. • Designed an IoT cloud infrastructure, achieving 80% bandwidth reduction and 25% CPU savings per server node. • Innovated an IoT agent architecture, resulting in a 60% reduction in customer implementation effort. • Trained an AI algorithm leveraging IoT sensor data to predict yields with 85% accuracy. • Nurtured Artificial Intelligence skillsets across my teams. IoT Application Enablement Platform Program: • Crafted a comprehensive program framework encompassing program schedules, software and hardware engineering, project management, and business strategy. • Acquired extensive knowledge of cloud modules including Azure IoT, AWS IoT, devices, gateways, and analytics. • Utilized distributed systems for workloads segmentation, achieving 100x performance improvements in machine learning and streaming analytics. • Fostered strategic partnerships within the IoT ecosystem, spanning cellular connectivity, hardware design, software development, and integration. • Managed multi-dimensional implementation teams, including PCB Design, PTCRB certification, package design, and mobile app development. • Rolled out security training to ensure the development team's compliance with SANS and OWASP standards.

Oversaw enterprise implementations of remote management technology for tier 1 clients across Retail, Banking/Financial Services, and Public Sector domains. Instrumental in the Kodak deployment, marking it as one of the largest device networks globally. Achievements and Contributions • Secured $19.5M contract with Eastman Kodak to manage retail kiosks and other equipment • Delivered $1M professional services project on-time, on-budget to Bank of America • Protected intellectual property in legal battle, technology advisor for legal strategy • Transitioned the platform from on-premises solutions to cloud-based services, boosting agility. • Increased software platform capacity and performance by over 300% per node • Scaled client deployment fivefold, escalating from 9,000 to 48,000 devices in three years and adding support in 17 languages. • Leveraged the Lean Startup approach, validating the potential for an Advertising Display Product within a mere 3 months. • Optimized software engineering and product support processes utilizing methodologies like Scrum and Kanban.

Led a software development group (development, quality assurance, system administrators etc.) integrate remote management capabilities with enterprise applications & processes for fortune 500 clients. Managed a technical groups who were heavily involved with J2EE, Oracle, MySql, SOA technologies

• Managed development through inception, development, deployment & support phases of the product life cycle. • Transitioned the team to Agile development practices, resulting in enhanced product quality. • Tech advisor for acquisition of Icelandic software firm and licensing rights investment • Staffed and managed the software development:BA, engineering, QA and support teams (15 people) • Home Depot Client. Deployed kiosk management software to 2200+ locations • Syscon Client. Developed kiosk solution to track and monitor US parolees

Developed IP Strategy Awarded ET-Energy Patent WO2011156906A2 Process for treating a flue gas Awarded ET-Energy Patent WO2009121170A1 Chemical process for generating energy Evaluated IP licensing and co-development partnerships

Responsible for business analysis and testing of mortgage applications that was being rolled out across CIBC branches across the country.

Work on AI problems relating directly to: * Search. * Knowledge. * Uncertainty. * Optimization. * Learning. * Neural Networks. * Language.

Class of 2001, but got awarded late because I dropped out to start business venture.