24+ years in software · Principal Engineer & Systems Architect at ABB · 8+ patents · 75 publications on ResearchGate

Professional profile

Building trusted platforms
for the world, over
two decades.

From an IIS tenders application in 1999 to platform and patent work as Principal Engineer and Systems Architect at ABB — a career shaped by systems architecture, industrial automation, and now a growing focus on navigating technology change.

24+
Years in software
8+
Patents across career
20
Engineers led, peak team
7
Countries — based & collaborated

Part I — Career

From IIS applications to platform products

24+ years of building, leading and shipping software — across ERP, search, industrial automation, and platform strategy.

ActiveX .NET · ERP / CRM Retail & Travel Search Systems Engineering · Architecture · Platform Web → Cloud Platform-as-Product · Digital Twins Disruption · Rate of Change
Foundations · Early Career
Software Engineer1999
TIME Technologies · Kottayam
IIS-based application for tenders — built sync engine over HTTP.
VBIISHTTP Sync
Technical Support2000 – 2002
Lucid Technologies · Coimbatore
Provided technical support for the Micro ERP and Problem Tracker products.
VB / ASP
Lead, User Management2002 – 2003
BNS Solutions · Technopark, Trivandrum
Led the User Management module for the OnWareHouse product and the OnCRM initiative — closely collaborating with headquarters in Germany on CRM.
.NETOnWareHouseOnCRM
Consulting & Systems Roles · Bangalore
Associate2003 – 2004
Cognizant Technology Solutions · Bangalore
Worked on NextGen Accounting for ADP, Retail for Schwan's (mainframe elimination), and for Travelport.
.NETWCFMainframe Elimination
Systems Analyst2004 – 2005
LG CNS · Bangalore
Built BBC TMG on Autonomy search technology.
.NETAutonomy
ABB · 14+ Years of Growth (2005 – 2019)
Technical Manager2005 – 2011
ABB · Bangalore — collaborating with Sweden & Finland
Led Connectivity Packages architecture for industrial automation — architecture, platform, embedded and continuous software delivery.
.NETArchitectureEmbeddedContinuous S/D
🎓 MS in Software Systems — completed alongside ABB tenure (BITS Pilani)
Technical Specialist / Workpackage Lead2012 – 2014
ABB · Bangalore — collaborating with Italy
ITT 9-2 (IEC 61850-9-2) simulation, S+ Engineering IP strategy and S+ cybersecurity. Visited the Hannover Fair.
C++.NETIEC 61850-9-2Cybersecurity
🏆 First patent granted — from the ITT 9-2 (IEC 61850-9-2) work
Associate Principal Engineer2014 – 2015
ABB · Bangalore — collaborating withItaly Australia
Worked on SPlus Cyber Security, SPlus Engineering IP Strategy, an MPlus Controller cybersecurity fix, with the Australian unit.
NutOSM+ ControllerCybersecurity
Principal Engineer, Systems Architect2015 – 2019Signature role
ABB · Bangalore — collaborating across ABB units - Finland
Electrical Relay Platform architecture using SAFE. Contributed 6 patents and led a 20-member engineering team, shifting the group toward a "Platform as Product" strategy, including digital twins.
Systems ArchitectureSAFEPlatform as ProductDigital Twins6 PatentsTeam of 20
Technology Lead2020 – 2021
Learnovate Centre EduTech Innovation Centre at Trinity College Dublin · Ireland
Architected AssessMake 21, a platform for makers, built on AWS.
AWSPlatform ArchitectureMakers
Platform & SaaS Leadership
Senior Software Architect2021 – 2022
PartAnalytics
Architecture improvements for Supply Chain 4.0, a SaaS platform, Cyber Security strategy and Penetration Testing.
SaaSArchitecture
Research Break
PhD Scholar, Computer Science2022 → present
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Stepped back from full-time industry roles to pursue doctoral research on Time-Sensitive Communication Networks — the break behind the "24+ years in software" framing.
PhDResearchTime-Sensitive Networks
New Chapter
Founder & System Architect, Vijnanadisha2026 →
System Architect, final stage of PhD research
Launching a new venture, Vijnanadisha, against a backdrop of disruption and an accelerating rate of change — the next arc of the journey.
DisruptionRate of ChangeTrend Storms

Part II — Education

Education & practice foundation

Two degrees and a PhD in progress, built on five practice pillars developed on the job.

PhD (pursuing)

🎓 💻 📖

Computer Science

Time-Sensitive Communication Networks

⚙️

Software Engineering

Practice
🗺️

Systems Architecture

Practice
📊

Simulation

Practice
🦾

Industrial Automation

Practice
🧠

Data Science + AI

Practice
BITS PilaniMasters, Software Systems
AmritaBachelors, Mechanical Engineering

Part III — Strategic Outlook

A three-dimensional approach to technology management

Technology decisions weighed along three axes — oriented toward new disruption. Published in IEEE Engineering Management Review →

DISRUPTION NEW 👥 MAKERS AGILITY RATE OF CHANGE TREND ANALYSIS TREND STORMS
Vertical axis

Agility → Rate of Change

How fast the organisation can sense and respond as technology shifts underneath it.

Lateral axis

Trend Analysis → Trend Storms

Reading incoming signal early enough to act before a trend becomes a storm.

Outcome axis

Makers → New Disruption

The people who turn signal and agility into genuinely new, disruptive capability.

Part IV — Talks & Publications

Talks, papers & research

Conference talks and papers on architecture, innovation and human-machine collaboration, alongside an active ResearchGate research record.

75
Publications
27,459
Reads
117
Citations
Being SuperHuman With AI thumbnail
Talk · Dec 2025

Being SuperHuman With AI

Reframes AI as a tool to ride rather than fear — treating it like an animal to master, in service of rediscovering ourselves as superhumans.

China HMI 2018 talk thumbnail
China HMI UI/UX Summit · Oct 2018

Human-Machine Collaboration Promotes Industrial Automation

Cloud, IoT, machine learning and AI combining to reshape how humans and machines collaborate on the factory floor.

IEEE INOCON 2020 talk thumbnail
IEEE INOCON · Nov 2020

Innovation Over 3 Axes

The Agility · Trend Analysis · Maker framework — later published in IEEE Engineering Management Review — for staying in the eye of the storm.

Software Architecture in an Agile World talk thumbnail
Software Architects Bangalore · Jul 2018

Software Architecture in an Agile World

How the architect's role and craft evolve inside agile teams — why architecture still matters to project success.

Full research record — including papers on Time-Sensitive Networks, Digital Twins, Cyber-Physical Systems and Innovation Management — is on ResearchGate →

Continuing the journey

Now navigating technology storms for SMEs

This career led to Vijnanadisha Labs — a navigation and guidance system helping SMEs make sense of technology change.