Manish Limaye

Experience

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  Air India

  Feb 1994 - Apr 1997

  Systems Engineer
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  Mastech Digital

  Apr 1997 - Jul 1999

  Senior Software Engineer
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  SITA

  Aug 1999 - Apr 2011

  Led and managed system and software architecture of SITA's multi-million dollar Baggage portfolio. Baggage applications are of mission critical nature and are used by hundreds of airlines at thousands of airports all over the world. Responsibilities included providing leadership on technical direction of the portfolio; Business process and requirement analysis for new projects; Service identification and modeling; Increase product integration and software reuse in portfolio; Technology research and selection; Mentor development teams and monitor for architectural compliance. Show less

  • Senior Architect

    Apr 2008 - Apr 2011

  • Product Architect

    Jan 2006 - Apr 2008

  • DBA/Lead Engineer

    Apr 2003 - Jan 2006

  • Senior Engineer

    Aug 1999 - Apr 2003
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  Travelport

  May 2011 - Jun 2019

  Led Platform Architecture group responsible for setting and aligning technology strategy with business priorities, championing shared IT platforms and technical services, making business cases and sponsoring multi-million-dollar transformation initiatives ($10M+). Managed a large team of architects, engineers and contractors, including director level reports. * Ran Cloud COE for Travelport focusing on best practices and cost management* Cloud and Hybrid Cloud - Driving use of Public Cloud (Azure) and championing Hybrid Cloud Strategy * Platform as a Service (PaaS): For both Greenfield Cloud Native and Brownfield apps using Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift and CloudFoundry in hybrid cloud setup* DevOps and Automation - Ran DevOps Engineering team for 3 years, and built modern Git/Jenkins tools and CI/CD practices for TPF mainframe assembler/C code* API management, Identity & access management, API security etc.* Data Platforms including traditional RDBMS, NoSQL & Big Data (Hadoop)* Common reusable shared services: Logging, Caching, Monitoring, Eventing/messaging etc. * Multi-million-dollar vendor negotiations Show less Led Travelport's "Common Technical Services" initiative to create multiple reusable technical assets like logging, analytics, security, monitoring, job scheduling etc. This is a multi-year initiative with a goal of handling thousands of requests per second, and requires leadership in building consensus across multiple stakeholders and consumers, prioritization of enterprise needs, cost/benefit analysis, building of service assets, and most important of all - consumer adoption.Also helping data center operations team in coming up with Enterprise end-to-end monitoring strategy. Earlier focused on roll-out of Service Oriented Architecture across the enterprise. Created the SOA reference architecture, maturity model, SOA governance and SDLC steps, SOA training, and service framework assets like service portfolio hierarchy, namespaces, service versioning strategy etc. Show less

  • Senior Director, Platform Architecture & Shared Services

    Sept 2014 - Jun 2019

  • Senior Enterprise Architect

    May 2011 - Aug 2014
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  Equifax

  Jul 2019 - Sept 2024

  Resumed full time Chief Architect role to finish the transformation and focus on building post transformation EA and AI strategy to harness the power of the cloud and data transformation:* Successfully completed 3+ year long transformation project to replace Mainframe based Consumer Credit system with Cloud Native data architecture.* Enterprise Architecture - Recalibrated EA practice post transformation to focus on Strategy, Governance, enterprise tools and processes for cloud native world.* Led architecture work for AI-infused OneScore multi-data credit risk model that leverages alternative data potentially resulting in up to 15% uplift in approval* Member of Model Risk Management (MRM) steering committee. Optimized model response time by 30% and created roadmap to reduce MLOps cycle time in cloud native setup* GenAI experimentation in Equifax analytics ecosystem for customers to easily understand Equifax data & insights, as well as for internal software development Show less Took on the additional responsibility to build and mature Data Engineering practice in USIS to realize the multi-data product vision of Equifax while continuing as the Chief Architect of USIS. * Led development for all USIS Data Products offering data at three levels: Source-aligned Journaled data, Consumer-aligned Purposed data for online use, and Consumer-aligned daily snapshots for offline use and Data Science work. Directly oversaw $90M of labor, software and cloud budget. * Led onshore/offshore data engineering team of 450+ spread across 4 countries - Data ingestion teams moving 9 data exchanges to cloud powering $1.7B of revenue, including a complete cloud native rewrite of US Consumer and Commercial credit data exchanges - Data centric team for Credit Marketing product line, generating hundreds of millions of revenue from 4+ PB of data- Data pipeline team managing Petabytes of data in cloud for ML and statistical usage by Data Scientists to create new insights for Equifax customers* Built Data Engineering practice, data architecture standards, coached teams on tech & agile skills. * Co-developed and contributed features into Global Data Fabric platform, and uplifted USIS reusable components like Model Execution Engine and Batch processing framework into Global platforms Show less Head of Enterprise Architecture for Equifax's largest business unit, United States Information Solutions (USIS), generating $1.7 Billions in yearly revenue from technology offerings. USIS provides consumer and commercial risk management solutions to businesses in the U.S. in the field of Consumer Credit, Commercial business credit, Risk Decisioning services, Identity and Fraud products, Mortgage, Auto, Property segments, Data Driven Marketing and Analytics* Built architecture practice from scratch by recruiting a team of 20+ Architects, defining architecture roles & responsibilities, and the operating model. * Built transformation strategy, business capability maps, business cases, technology roadmap, reference architecture, governance process, application rationalization, technology debt management etc.* Set cloud migration strategy for apps, and guided 1500+ IT team on transformation path using Cloud Native design with industry leading security, resulting in decommissioning of thousands of servers and hundreds of legacy apps, and migration of petabytes of data.* Two applications sunset for every new application built, resulting in rationalization of many products.* Influenced and guided over hundreds of millions of yearly labor/cloud/software spend for USIS * Directed M&A due diligence and the integration work to acquire 3 companies worth hundreds of millions Show less

  • SVP, Chief Architect - USIS

    Oct 2023 - Sept 2024

  • SVP, Chief Architect & Head of Data Engineering - USIS

    May 2021 - Oct 2023

  • VP, Chief Architect - USIS

    Jul 2019 - May 2021
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  Trust2Connect.ai

  Sept 2024 - now

  Senior Advisor

  KYB made simple — fast, smart, and built for trust. Advising Trust2Connect on technology/data/AI strategy and incremental build approach

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  Freelance

  Nov 2024 - Jan 2025

  Executive Advisor, Data & Technology Strategy

  As an independent consultant, advising mid and large size companies on technology & data strategy, setting up a modern data practice for AI readiness, cloud transformation and mainframe modernization.

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  GODOT

  Nov 2024 - now

  Senior Advisor

  GODOT flips the economics of waste management from a persistent and intractable problem to a source of value. GODOT converts waste to bioenergy and other commercializable outputs of economic and environmental value. GODOT provides a comprehensive, systemic solution to commercial waste management. We build and operate hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) processors to leverage agricultural and industrial feedstock availability and satisfy local off-take needs—creating new streams of revenue, reducing supply chain risk, and providing impressive sustainability benefits.Advising the company on data and technology strategy. Show less

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  Revinate

  Jan 2025 - now

  Chief Data Officer

  Chief Data Officer of the company covering all pillars of modern data management: Data Platform, Data Engineering, Reporting & Analytics, Data Science & AI, Data Governance