Dr. Amit Sachan

Vice President @ Jio

About

I’m a technology executive with extensive experience building and scaling enterprise-grade AI/ML platforms that power large consumer, media, and enterprise products. I specialize in founding and leading AI organizations, designing resilient and scalable ML platforms, and operationalizing AI across multiple business lines. My work has included building large-scale recommendation and personalization systems, agentic AI platforms, and RAG-based enterprise AI solutions, all engineered for reliability, quality, and long-term extensibility. Across roles, I’ve driven step-change improvements in user engagement, built AI-led monetization capabilities, and delivered production-grade AI systems for content quality, safety, and intelligence. My focus has consistently been on translating advanced AI into real-world business and user impact, not just experimentation. Beyond systems and products, I care deeply about people and culture. I’ve built knowledge-driven, high-performing teams, established strong engineering and research practices, and enabled organizations to execute effectively despite ambiguity and rapidly evolving product directions.

Country

India

City

Bengaluru

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

AI Strategy, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Team Leadership, AI first product design, Agentic AI, Knowledge Graphs, Systems Design, Leadership, Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLM), Recommender Systems, Computer Vision, ChatGPT, Algorithms, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Data Structures, Java, Computer Security, R

Experience

Vice President

Jio

2022-4 - Present · 4 yrs 6 mos

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

* Lead AI/ML strategy and execution across multiple consumer and enterprise platforms within Jio’s ecosystem. * Built and scaled multiple AI/ML teams and platforms from the ground up, spanning recommendations, content intelligence, creator tools, and enterprise AI. * Architected and evolved recommendation platforms for JioCinema and JioTV+, significantly improving personalization and user engagement. * Launched multiple AI-first products, including: -Agentic AI systems for short-form video creators -Automated thumbnail generation solutions -Visual and audio content moderation and profanity detection systems * Delivered production-grade content quality and safety systems across diverse video formats and use cases. * Drove substantial improvements in short-form video user satisfaction across multiple quality and engagement dimensions through AI-led product enhancements. * Fostered a knowledge-driven, collaborative engineering culture, enabling teams to deliver consistently despite evolving product priorities and ambiguity.

Assistant Vice President

Jio

2018-7 - 2022-3 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Bangalore

-Started AI/ML practice from scratch for JioMedia platform (JioCinema, JioNews, JioTV+, JioTV). -Built AI/ML platform and team to power recommendations, personalization and NLP driven products. -Significantly improved business metrics for multiple applications over the years. -Worked on research and patents on Media and News.

Head of Machine Learning

Disney+ Hotstar

2016-9 - 2018-7 · 1 yr 11 mos

Bengaluru Area, India

-Started AI/ML practice and built AI/ML team from scratch -Worked on Advertisements (targeting related) and Personalization products. -Ads Targeting: Demographic targeting, Interest based targeting, Lookalike modeling -Solved some of the most impactful business problems and helped in generating a significant revenue with AI/ML systems.

Data Science Lead

Info Edge India Ltd

2014-7 - 2016-9 · 2 yrs 3 mos

noida

Leading recommendations, job alert and premium.

Lead Engineer

Samsung Electronics

2013-3 - 2014-6 · 1 yr 4 mos

Noida Area, India

Scientist

A*STAR - Agency for Science, Technology and Research

2011-9 - 2013-3 · 1 yr 7 mos

Singapore

Worked on Visa Inc. sponsored project on fraudulent merchants detection and credit card fraud detection. Used NLP, information extraction and machine learning methods.