Bharath Ram Sankar

Building Futures That Scale. Turning startup ambition into scalable, intelligent enterprises • Driving scale, capital strategy, and operational maturity for high-potential start-ups. • Growth architecture & scaling playbooks • Investor readiness & funding strategy • Product & technology roadmaps • AI enablement and platform strategy • Building high-performance leadership teams Bridging deep product engineering expertise with business strategy to help start-ups build durable, fundable companies.

Driving innovation at scale in EY Products, Platforms by architecting business outcomes and value using technology strategically Scaled GCC from 500 → 5,000+ FTEs, expanding platform suite 4x (USD 38M → 150M). Deployed AI/GenAI solutions saving 25K+ FTE hours; automated 3.7M+ audit reviews. Forged co-innovation partnerships with IIT-H, BITS, T-Hub, and state AI missions.

Built platforms for Smart Cities, Industry 4.0, and Digital Payments; $100M+ revenue in 6 quarters. Led 100+ member engineering team, embedding AI/ML and predictive intelligence.

• Directed delivery of digital capabilities, data strategy, customer experience channels and platforms in the OCIO portfolio covering all products, Business Processes, Legacy to BPM, Saleforce and global data platform applications; • Spearheaded development of new architecture and innovations, global reviews, resulting in savings of $18M YOY; Legacy to micro services migration, significant improvement in NPS and engagement • Led Enterprise transformation teams for Global Customer Experience channels, Disputes, Risk UX, integrations and enterprise technical debt analysis. • Collaborated with product, sponsors, and business teams from various global regions, resulting in improved customer engagement, KYC, customer activation, Merchant Acquisition, and reduced customer servicing costs

• As CTO, designed and developed National trading platform which connects millions of farmers, thousands of Agriculture markets, large institutional buyers, hundreds of traders, banks, third party vendors, suppliers, departments, toll gates and other sub- systems. • Built high performance teams of engineering, product and national deployment groups. • Architected and Scaled entire platform from ground zero to more than 41,000 crore (5.7 billion USD) worth transactions per year. • At Sakala, built largest govt. services platform in the country integrating 50+ departments delivering thousands of services to citizens a day through Omni- channels • With lot of innovations, this large national projects are inspiration to many developing nations and won many national and international accolades

• Part of one key large $1B USD engagements of IBM managing product engineering teams, integrations, Agile Factory, BPM capabilities building globally and integrations; • Lead Product and engineering teams for 6 major multi-million integrations • Managed multi-site engagements, coordinating 150+ FTE direct and vendor resources; • Created systems which resulted in winning 5 multi-million-dollar contracts; • Received IBM Excellence & Eminence Award for 2013

Started career as programmer gained various skills in programming, tools, architecture and team management while working on projects at various global client locations. Designed and built products as programmer, Tech lead and as an Architect

Business Analytics, ML, Data Engineering, Data science, Statistics, Bigdata, python, R