Bengaluru · AI Product Leader, Banking & Data Transformation

Eighteen years turning banking complexity into AI-native products.

I run the full arc — discovery, prototyping, agentic build, delivery, and the team underneath it — across core banking, payments, and capital markets. Most recently: designing and shipping an agentic system that turns raw source schemas into deployable data products.

Latest build — the Data Product Factory, end to end
01Source schemas
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02Metadata catalog
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03Semantic knowledge graph
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04Domain model
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05ODP / FDP design
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06Deployable artifacts
PostgreSQL · Neo4j

About

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I've spent my career at the point where banking data breaks — legacy core systems, payment rails mid-migration, risk feeds no one fully trusts. Publicis Sapient has been home since 2016, leading product for global banking clients through core banking migrations, ISO20022 payments modernization, and real-time data platforms.

In the last two years that's shifted from writing roadmaps about AI to building with it. I design and ship agentic systems myself — not just specify them for engineering — because the fastest way to know what an AI-native data platform should do is to build one and watch where it strains.

I'm looking to take on a bigger leadership charter next — owning AI product strategy end to end, prototyping it hands-on, and building the team that scales it.

  • Domain Core banking, payments, capital markets, regulatory data
  • Now Agentic AI product design — discovery to deployable artifact
  • Stack GCP, Kafka, Gemini-based LLMs, Neo4j, PostgreSQL, Slingshot, Bodhi Studio
  • Method SAFe Agile, value-pool & value-proposition led roadmapping
18+ yrsbanking, data & payments transformation
75%cut in feed-analysis timelines via AI-driven review (12 mo → 3 mo)
40%improvement in data consistency, Group Core Banking Data Model
30%lower transaction cost from New Payment Architecture (ISO20022)
50%faster payment processing after NPA implementation
$2Mannual savings from enterprise cloud migration
AI-NATIVE
PRODUCT
LEADER

Experience

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Senior Product Manager

Publicis Sapient — India, UK
Sep 2016 — Present
  • Drove enterprise-wide adoption of AI/LLMs for documentation and COBOL feed analysis, cutting project timelines from 12 months to 3.
  • Delivered an AI-led director credit scoring platform for a UK bank — automated ingestion, enrichment, and delivery of credit data into risk decisioning models, with product governance across quality, compliance, and PII.
  • Led development of a unified Core Banking Data Model, standardizing data architecture across global entities.
  • Implemented New Payment Architecture (NPA), replacing legacy rails with ISO20022-compliant schemes and building the System of Engagement / System of Intelligence layers.
  • Defined a Kafka-based real-time event architecture powering financial and non-financial data replication.
  • Managed HSBC's Rates business migration to SUMMIT and led functional design for a UK retail bank's core migration to Thought Machine Vault.
Capco Technologies Senior Consultant — authored functional specs for the Target2 Securities settlement engine Jun 2015 – Sep 2016
Société Générale Senior Associate Consultant — functional & technical lead, market data management, India / France Oct 2008 – Jun 2015
Wipro Technologies Business Analyst — OTC credit derivatives confirmation systems Mar 2006 – Sep 2008
Syntel Limited Analyst Programmer — OTC credit derivatives confirmation enhancements Feb 2005 – Mar 2006

Featured Work

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The Data Product Factory

AGENTIC AI · BUILT SOLO

An agentic workflow that automates the journey from raw source-system schemas to business-ready data products. It generates metadata catalogs, semantic knowledge graphs, and domain models, then produces ODP / FDP designs and deployable PostgreSQL and Neo4j artifacts — collapsing what used to be a manual, multi-week data-modeling exercise into an orchestrated agent pipeline. Designed with dedicated evaluation subflows and guardrails alongside the main pipeline, ensuring output quality and safety at every stage — this is the kind of AI-native data modernization tooling I want to bring into a larger platform team.

Slingshot Bodhi Studio Claude LangGraph Agentic workflow design Eval subflows & guardrails PostgreSQL Neo4j Semantic knowledge graphs

GitHub Explorations

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Smaller builds where I'm getting hands dirty with agentic systems, LLM tooling, and data patterns — code at github.com/rsri24.

Writing

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Skills & Certifications

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Core Competencies

GenAI data transformation Agentic AI product design Data product strategy Banking digital transformation Payments modernization Cloud migration & API strategy Data governance & compliance ISO20022 & Open Banking Real-time event platforms Product roadmaps & value pools SAFe Agile leadership Stakeholder & team leadership

AI & Agent Tooling

Claude Gemini-based LLMs LangGraph Slingshot Bodhi Studio n8n Zapier Kafka Neo4j PostgreSQL GCP

Certifications

  • SAFe Agilist
  • SAFe POPM
  • Thought Machine Vault Fundamentals
  • NSE Certified — Securities & Derivatives Market
  • Quantitative Financial Risk Management