Industries

The same six decisions, in eleven industries

Cost, performance, governance, architecture, scale and future-readiness apply everywhere. What changes is the regulation, the data and the legacy you start from. Here is where I've built, and where I build or advise.

Building or advising

Banking, fintech & payments

What's changing: AI moves into credit, fraud, compliance and the finance function, under strict model-risk rules.

My work here: Agentic finance workflows (including Prospero, a financial agentic ERP in build) with audit trails regulators can read.

RBI, SEBI, Basel, FATF, DPDP, GDPR

Built & shipped

Healthcare & wellness

What's changing: Care shifts to prevention and home, and AI has to handle sensitive data safely.

My work here: AAYU, recognised by the Ministry of Ayush; privacy-preserving health architecture.

HIPAA, HL7 interoperability, DPDP, GDPR

Building or advising

Precision health & life sciences

What's changing: Multi-omics and AI make prediction and prevention practical.

My work here: Dirghayu: multi-omics and language models for healthspan.

HIPAA, GDPR, DPDP, consent and provenance

Built & shipped

Gaming & consumer internet

What's changing: Scale, real-time events and monetisation at the edge of what platforms can take.

My work here: Group CTO at Nazara: 100M+ users, ~6B events a day, India's first gaming IPO.

Data protection, payments, content rules

Built & shipped

Telecom & VAS

What's changing: Networks become platforms, and operators need AI on top of billing and legacy stacks.

My work here: A decade of VAS platform engineering; services across 140+ operators.

Telecom regulator rules, lawful data handling

Built & shipped

Education

What's changing: Personalised learning and content at scale, in many languages.

My work here: Education CMS and LMS delivery for IIMX; multilingual GenAI (AskQX, 100+ languages).

Student data protection

Building or advising

Cybersecurity

What's changing: Attackers use AI; defenders need agentic detection and response.

My work here: Agentic security operations designed for GCC frameworks.

NCA ECC (Saudi Arabia), UAE NCS, ISO 27001

Building or advising

Insurance

What's changing: Underwriting, claims and fraud detection become AI-driven.

My work here: Governed underwriting and claims-automation design.

IRDAI, AML, DPDP, GDPR

Building or advising

Logistics & supply chain

What's changing: Forecasting and routing decisions move to real time.

My work here: AI logistics orchestration: demand forecasting and multi-modal routing.

Data sharing across partners

Building or advising

Public sector & sovereign AI

What's changing: Governments want AI they control, in their languages, on their soil.

My work here: Sovereign architecture, Indian-language support, citizen-voice analytics design.

Data residency, public procurement, DPDP