Engineering Director | "People" first - not "resources" | Drive Large Scale Distributed Platforms | AI/ML - DeepLearning | Data Engineering/Big Data | GCP Architect | Financial Risk | Learner

Seasoned Engineering Director, currently driving Digital Acquisitions at American Express, with more than 20+ years of experience leading large-scale applications in fintechs. Proven track record in driving over $40 million tech investments per year and managing products impacting 20+ global markets, 10M+ users and 10,000+ servicing center reps. Expertise in AI/ML, GenAI, Data Engineering/Analytics and financial technologies (credit and fraud risk) using Java/Python/Go. Good experience in LLM training, data curation, and fine-tuning foundation models like Llama. Seeking engineering leadership
roles in driving exponential business growth.

Skills
• Technical Leadership Technical roadmap for AI/ML and GenAI and delivery of Large-Scale Distributed Applications
• Strategic Planning Partnering & Collaborating with C-Level Executives, Researchers for technical and product strategy.
• People Leadership Exemplar of organization culture, Building and mentoring cohesive global distributed teams.
• Influencer Managing key external customer technical relationships including Amazon, Lowes, Delta, Hilton.

✉ shail.bade@gmail.com

Shailendra Bade

AI agents are no longer living in laboratories. 
They're out in the wild, making decisions, writing code, and connecting with everything in sight. 
And guess what? 
The old security rules don't work anymore. ⚠️

Security baked in, not bolted on. 
We've all heard it. 
But now, with autonomous AI agents, it's not just a nice idea. 
It's survival. 🔒

Let's talk reality: Meta's LlamaFirewall is a wake-up call. 
It's not just another firewall. 
It's a signal that attackers are catching up to AI, and our playbook needs an overhaul. 🚨

Here's how the attack surface has changed: 
- Jailbreaking 2.0: Hackers don't just tweak outputs, they hijack agent goals. 
- Goal hijacking: Feed the agent the wrong input and you can reroute its entire mission. 
- Code injection at scale: If your AI writes code, every output is a security risk.

I've run my own POCs using layered defenses, inspired by this new approach. 
Real numbers, real results: 
- Input filtering blocked threats with over 97% accuracy. 
- Behavioral monitoring using lightweight models caught agents straying from intended goals. 
- Output validation checked every line before execution. ✅

The outcome? 
- Successful attacks dropped from nearly 18% to under 2% in controlled tests. 
- Small, efficient models (86M parameters) outperformed their heavyweight cousins for security tasks. 
- False alarms stayed below 2.5% and didn't slow down the systems.

Here's the uncomfortable truth: 
If your AI agent can search the web, write code, and act on its own, the entire system becomes an attack surface. 
The security fence moves with every new feature you ship.

The organizations that win in the autonomous AI era? 
They're the ones building security into the DNA of their AI from the very beginning. 
Not via quick patches. 
Not by "adding a firewall later." 
But by rethinking how AI is designed, deployed, and monitored. 🛡️

Leaders, the time for afterthought security is over. 
If your plan starts with "we'll add protection later," you're already behind.

Engineering Director | Gen AI/RAG |AI/ML & LLM Systems at scale | From Financial Fraud Detection to Personalization | Data Engineering & Privacy

Tata Consultancy Services

- Provide technical vision and strategy for the multiple scrum tams in 'Credit and Collections'; design and lead a multi-year technical roadmap, balancing short and long-term technology investments (Enterprise 50 / regulatory / compliance growth initiatives)
- Partner closely with Product Management, UX, and other Engineering teams to create, drive, and deliver an innovative, compelling, and user-friendly
experience to our customers
- Unlock roadblocks and foster collaboration with teams across Amex through leadership, creativity, and intelligence
- Acquire, develop, and grow talent through effective hiring, mentoring, and coaching
- Leading several meta-roles (such as Program finance management, Architectural Infrastructure Uplift initiatives, Total cost of Application Infrastructure, Release Management, etc.)
- 'Technologies & Tools: Java, React, RDBMS, NOSQL, APIs, OneAmex framework, CA Agile Central (Rally), JIRA, Confluence, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, Sharepoint etc.

Technical Program Manager

• Collaborating with multiple distributed Scrum teams across different regions to develop high-quality products and services.
• Driven Disaster Recovery exercises, a subprogram to ensure the company's technology resources are protected and operating in a
"business as usual" manner during times of crisis or disaster.
• Skilled in data analytics - querying, transforming, and publishing - cumulative and incremental product quality stats.
• Continuously implementing Lean-Agile principles and best practices to reduce waste and improve
SLA.
• Implementing real-time quality metrics, dashboards using Splunk for executive leadership to make decisions using a data-driven approach.
• Experienced in going through the leadership approval process in different phases.
• Expertise in preparing Wireframe, use case diagrams, functional data flow diagrams.
• Expertise in managing Service Now Workgroups, Access & Role Management.
• Skilled in designing risk decision trees & tables for BPM rules.
• Enabled artificial intelligence to monitor & optimize application performance (KRI) using
Dynatrace.
• Continuously enhancing enterprise processes to leverage open source tools and frameworks and reengineering legacy processes.

• Digital transformation & enabled globalized framework across North America, Europe, India, China, Australia, New Zealand & Hong Kong.
• Collaborating with all the stakeholders and shipping Minimum Viable Products.
• Working with the senior management of the company to understand the vision and translate it into implementation strategy for the digital platform.
• Achieving (> $380k) annual reduction in Technology Operating cost by successful decommissioning of legacy mainframe processes & dependent infrastructure.
• Migrating extensive legacy IMS, DB2, SQL databases into Hybrid Cloud solutions.
• Scaling platform architecture by expanding dialer feed size to enable differentiated dialing campaigns.

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Developed a business case to document major issues, reasons for moving to the new LMS system and options (to be) considered
Captured and documented proiect and business requirements by liaising with key business stakeholders and broken them down into epics and user stories
Developed use cases and target operating models to document AS IS, TO BE models and provide stakeholders & developers with a clear illustration of the functionality a new LMS would provide
• Performed extensive wireframing in the Balsamiq cloud to allow the client, developers and designers to explore the structure of the new system mitigating the risk of distraction by minor elements
Demonstrated required business functions were operating in realistic circumstances through user acceptance testing (UAT) scripts
Produced benefits realisation document to inform senior stakeholders how the proiect went
Key Achievement
• Provided a framework for the company to deliver a new cloud-based system, allowing them to move away from traditional classroom-based training and, in turn, create a new revenue stream.

Senior Business Analyst

Business System Analyst , PMO

Experienced Technical Program Manager, Project Manager, Certified Scrum Master & QA Manager having around 10 years of experience in Agile & Waterfall Project Management, Quality Assurance, Service Virtualization, Automation, DevOps, Systems Engineering, AWS Cloud services for Web & Mobile based applications in Banking & Financial services, Digital Marketing & eCommerce services domains.

Seasoned Leader with proven ability to lead cross-functional teams across large programs from Inception to launch delivering industry leading solutions.

Extremely motivated & committed, Result oriented, Customer Centric , Technically sophisticated and Strong support professional. Well-coordinated in keeping teams motivated and on-task to meet aggressive deadlines.

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