Corporate Strategy · AI Product Leadership · Management Consulting

Turning AI complexity into enduring business value.

STEM MBA candidate and Fisher Leadership Fellow with 9.5+ years driving corporate strategy and AI product management across Amazon, Oracle, KLA, Rakuten, Cisco & Microsoft. I secure VP-level buy-in, architect multi-quarter roadmaps, and translate frontier machine learning into scalable, multi-million dollar enterprise P&L growth.

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01 · Executive Profile

The intersection of technology and the boardroom.

I lead at the seam where deep technology meets business strategy. Over 9.5+ years, I've moved from building the models to defining the capital roadmaps that fund them — authoring 45 business cases that secured VP-level approval for 12 strategic initiatives across Amazon's Retail, Devices, Prime Video and AWS organizations.

My work is measured in outcomes the C-suite cares about: a $28M revenue impact for Kindle, a $20M ARR portfolio at Oracle, a 44% CTR lift at Amazon Ads, a 3× reduction in OpEx for 70M customers, and go-to-market cycles shortened by 25% through rigorous Lean Six Sigma process optimization.

Equally, I build the teams that deliver it. I've mentored 51+ engineers, spearheaded autonomous multi-agent pipelines (AURORA), and set the AI product vision for entire enterprise organizations. My STEM MBA at Ohio State's Fisher College formalizes the finance, operational strategy, and product-management craft behind that instinct.

"Translate technical complexity into actionable business plans — then build the cross-functional team that ships them."

— Operating Principle

Core Mandate: Strategy · Product · Management Consulting
Current: STEM MBA @ Fisher College of Business (OSU)
Distinction: Fisher Leadership Fellow & Graduate Assistant
Academics: 3.9/4.0 GPA · GRE 336 · GMAT-FE 685
Contact: basumallick.2@osu.edu
02 · Functional Specializations

Executive Résumé Dossier.

Targeted credentials highlighting specific strategic leverage, technical architecture depth, and quantifiable business outcomes across distinct leadership mandates. All links provide instant, inline PDF access.

Strategy & Advisory

Management Consulting & Corporate Strategy

Positions deep technical competencies as strategic leverage. Emphasizes structured problem-solving, digital transformation roadmaps, business case approvals, and enterprise P&L outcomes.

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Product Leadership

Technical & AI Product Management (TPM)

Frames leadership around zero-to-one product lifecycles, user experience optimization, engineering prioritization, feature backlog management, and technical MLOps platform strategy.

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Applied Research

Principal AI Scientist & ML Architect

Highlights deep applied science mastery: frontier LLMs, autonomous multi-agent orchestration (AURORA), GraphRAG, distributed GPU infra scaling, and proprietary model architectures.

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Operational Excellence

Operations, Supply Chain & Automation

Applies Lean Six Sigma (DMAIC), root-cause analysis (RCA), and AI automation to complex operational bottlenecks, digital inventory supply chains, and enterprise throughput scaling.

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FinTech & Capital

Quantitative Finance & FinTech Strategy

Concentrates on capital structure optimization, DCF/LBO modeling, treasury workflow automation, and algorithmic risk mitigation models for high-volume transaction ecosystems.

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General Management

General Management & Executive Leadership

A balanced executive overview designed for Leadership Development Programs (LDPs), Chief of Staff mandates, and general management roles requiring cross-disciplinary operational command.

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03 · Documentation & Playbooks

Strategic Frameworks & Blueprints.

How I structure ambiguous enterprise problems into scalable, operational realities bridging tech and high-level strategy.

Corporate Governance

PR/FAQ & Business Case Architecture

The structured "working backwards" mechanism I utilized to author 45 business cases, securing VP-level funding for 12 strategic initiatives across Amazon Retail, AWS, and Prime Video.

  • Authored multi-year OP1/OP2 investment documents.
  • Secured budget alignment across disparate org silos.
  • Mapped exact TAM/SAM/SOM expansion metrics.
Systems Design

Autonomous Multi-Agent Orchestration

The technical blueprint behind the AURORA 10-agent pipeline. Defines state-graph routing, asynchronous self-correcting verification loops, and O(1) label-based RBAC graph security.

  • Tech Stack: LangGraph, CrewAI, Anthropic MCP, Neo4j.
  • 1,000+ PRs delivered autonomously in ~6 mins each.
  • Scaled across 19 production repositories.
Operational Scaling

Lean Six Sigma Throughput Acceleration

An end-to-end DMAIC cycle and SIPOC playbook used to eliminate catalog mapping latency. Integrated Root Cause Analysis (RCA) directly into cloud infrastructure optimization.

  • 90% mapping latency reduction across 3 continents.
  • 93% compute cost savings via AWS EMR parallelization.
  • 0.3 Million daily batch processes optimized.
FinTech Strategy

Treasury & Risk Automation Playbook

A comprehensive strategy deploying generative AI workflows within financial operations to automate intent classification and function calling for global customer queries.

  • Tech: Meta Llama 3.1, Qwen2.5-Coder, Direct Policy Optimization (DPO).
  • Reduced Treasury Operational Expenses (OpEx) by 3x.
  • Protected 1.5M+ nodes against credential exposures.
Go-To-Market

Zero-Shot Personalization GTM

The rollout strategy for the 'Rec-Rainbow' LLM engine. Mapped client segmentation, robust A/B testing infrastructure, and sequential monetization models across ad networks.

  • Drove 44% CTR lift and +53% user dwell time.
  • 16% ancillary revenue expansion.
  • Cross-functional alignment of 15 MLEs & PMs.
Organizational Leadership

Technical Change Management

A comprehensive playbook for upskilling global organizations. Detailed the deployment of 29 reusable Claude Code skills, CI/CD pipeline heuristics, and internal engineering hackathons.

  • Mentored 51+ engineers across 7 distinct teams.
  • Established ML vision for the Digital Acceleration org.
  • Conducted biweekly global ML learning sessions.
04 · Quantifiable Results

Enterprise Value Creation.

45 ➔ 12

Business Cases to Approved Roadmaps (Amazon)

Authored 45 comprehensive PR/FAQs, successfully securing VP-level approval and funding for 12 strategic AI initiatives shaping Digital Acceleration across 4 organizations.

14.5x

Capital Efficiency & Inference Optimization (Amazon)

Launched "HELIUM-PRISM," a patented multi-modal model accelerating product mapping. Outperformed legacy baseline systems with 9X lower latency and 14.5X better memory efficiency.

$28M

Direct Revenue Impact via Demand Shaping (Amazon Kindle)

Led strategic demand-shaping action for the Kindle e-reader organization, enriching the digital product catalog to drive a 15% QoQ increase in unit sales and a 12% uplift in attach rates.

$20M

Annual Recurring Revenue Portfolio Built (Oracle)

Managed product strategy and 8 agile sprints across 4 healthcare data verticals. Led the acquisition of 42 international enterprise clients by shipping 9 low-latency AI solutions.

$1.8M

Annual Cost Savings & Reliability (Cisco)

Developed predictive analytics forecasting network equipment failures in real-time for Webex, preventing global service outages and improving system uptime availability by 78%.

92%

Security Risk Reduction (KLA)

Designed production-grade label-based RBAC protecting 1.5M+ nodes across 15 Neo4j Databases, reducing credential leak exposure by 92% at infinite scale (O(1) bitmap time).

05 · Track Record

Nine years of measurable impact.

Each role framed as it would be in a consulting case: the context, the numbers, and the precise execution I drove.

AI Consultant / Scientist
KLA
May 2026 – Aug 2026

Led enterprise AI governance and autonomous workflows, building highly secure, scalable multi-agent ecosystems.

  • Accelerated AI evolution by spearheading AURORA, a 10-agent autonomous system converting bug reports and feature requests into production-ready Git code in ~6 minutes.
  • Deployed an org-wide Agentic RAG knowledge-management system achieving <50ms latency at $0 infrastructure cost using BM25, MPNet, and Gemma-4 routing.
  • Led enterprise AI governance for 1.5M+ nodes over 15 databases, configuring 500 role policies and O(1) bitmap checks to reduce credential leak exposure by 92%.
  • Established AI adoption by publishing 29 reusable Claude Code skills for citizen-developers, covering compliant environment setups, CI/CD pipelines, and 33 unique review heuristics across 15+ enterprise systems.
Principal Applied Scientist & Senior Tech Lead
Amazon
Feb 2021 – Aug 2025

Set AI product strategy and led cross-functional execution across AWS, Amazon Pay, Kindle, Prime Video & Retail Science.

  • Defined the 2024 annual strategic roadmap for four organizations (Retail, Devices, Prime Video, AWS), authoring 45 business cases and securing VP-level approval for 12 strategic initiatives influencing long-term capital allocation.
  • Spearheaded the "RecRainbow" commercial strategy; led a cross-functional team of 15 MLEs to deploy an agentic-AI personalization engine — driving +44% CTR, +53% dwell time, +16% ancillary revenue.
  • Directed the GenAI roadmap for Amazon Pay (70M customers); integrated Anthropic Claude LLMs on an AWS Bedrock multi-agent workflow to automate customer queries, reducing OpEx by 3X and resolution time by 5X.
  • Managed end-to-end product lifecycle for an Enterprise Knowledge Retrieval (RAG) system processing 500k+ daily queries for AWS Documentation. Integrated Pinecone, Longformer, and Flan-T5 to achieve 87% BertScore and 0.91 MRR at 0.4ms latency.
  • Launched the patented "HELIUM-PRISM" multimodal model. Achieved 98% precision and 99% recall while outperforming VGG/ResNet baselines with 9× speed and 14.5× better memory efficiency.
  • Mentored 51 engineers, led talent development & change management for 7 teams, established the ML vision for the Digital Acceleration org, and introduced quarterly hackathons.
Senior Applied Scientist & Product Lead
Oracle
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021

Owned product strategy and delivery for enterprise document-intelligence and healthcare-data verticals.

  • Pioneered $9M worth of business tenets and the team charter for a 16-member team launching low-latency AI solutions.
  • Executed a 4-quarter strategic roadmap for a next-gen automation platform spanning 5 business units — accelerating time-to-delivery by 25% and cutting release lead times from 16 to 7 weeks.
  • Spearheaded org-level Knowledge Graphs to automate KTLO triage maintenance, freeing up bandwidth for 50+ support engineers in mission-critical projects.
  • Managed product strategy for 4 Cerner healthcare-data verticals, shipping 4 major features & 15+ enhancements across 8 agile sprints, building a $20M ARR portfolio.
  • Facilitated strategic initiatives for 9 enterprise-level document intelligence solutions, leading a 16-member team through scoping and delivery—triggering the acquisition of 42 international clients.
  • Contributed to critical phases of the ML life-cycle across 4 core OCI verticals (Speech, Video, Language, Document) impacting 27K global customers and enhancing annual retention by 18%.
Research Scientist
Rakuten
Aug 2018 – Jan 2019
  • Developed an Object Detection Model using YOLOv3 to detect and localize antenna pole structures from video feed data.
  • Obtained a model confidence score of 0.84 alongside an IOU of 0.72, successfully deploying the infrastructure model to GCP.
  • Demonstrated ownership of telecom infrastructure monitoring, eliminating 90% of manual field-inspection costs and generating a 2.4× revenue-growth KPI for the business unit.
Software Dev Engineer
Cisco
  • Developed predictive-analytics forecasting network equipment failures for Webex — +78% uptime, preventing global outages, and saving $1.8M annually.
  • Built Deep Reinforcement Learning models for fault tolerance in Smart Routers, alongside an online anomaly detection framework operating at 98.4% accuracy.
Research Fellow
Microsoft
  • Built a real-time Brain-Computer Interface to extract and classify target stimulus from EEG signals.
  • Performed real-time systems integration with a NAO humanoid robot, utilizing the Choregraphe framework for ADHD and motor-activity healthcare therapy.
06 · Toolkit

The consulting & engineering toolkit.

Bridging deep technical science with executive management, finance, and enterprise strategy.

🖥️ AI & Engineering Stack

PythonPyTorch / TensorFlowLangGraph / CrewAIAnthropic MCPAWS Bedrock / SageMakerNeo4jDocker / K8sMegatron-LMQLoRAGCP / Azure

📈 Strategy & Analysis

Strategic PlanningMarket ResearchGo-to-Market (GTM)TAM / SAM / SOMCompetitive AnalysisM&A Due DiligenceSynergies AssessmentBusiness Analytics

💰 Finance & Valuation

P&L ManagementFinancial Modeling (DCF/LBO)SaaS Unit EconomicsPricing StrategyZero-Based Budgeting (ZBB)ROI AnalysisCapEx/OpEx Optimization

🎯 Product Strategy

Product Lifecycle MgmtRoadmappingVision CraftingLaunch StrategyPlatform StrategyProduct AnalyticsOKR / KPI Development

🤖 AI / ML Product

GenAI & LLM ProductizationMLOpsData GovernanceFeature-Store RoadmapAI Safety & GuardrailsExperimentationAgentic RAG

⚙️ Operations & Delivery

Agile / Scrum / KanbanLean Six Sigma (DMAIC)SIPOC MappingKaizenRoot Cause Analysis (RCA)Jira / Confluence / Asana
07 · Leadership Philosophy

How I lead and decide.

Start from the true problem

Great strategy comes from uncovering the real challenge behind the stated one. I frame ambiguity into structured, testable hypotheses before committing resources or writing a single line of code.

Decide with data, act with conviction

Rational, evidence-based decision-making under uncertainty is the core of the craft. I pair quantitative rigor and financial modeling with the judgment to move decisively when the data points the way.

Build people, not just products

Mentoring 51+ engineers and running cross-functional recognition programs taught me that durable results come from teams that grow. I invest heavily in talent, continuous coaching, and a culture of path-breaking work.

Optimize for what endures

I care about the long-term scalability of a solution and lasting organizational change. I design systems that lower infrastructure costs, increase capital efficiency, and deliver results that endure long after a project concludes.

08 · Education

Grounded in business & engineering.

STEM MBA
The Ohio State University — Fisher College of Business
Concentrations: Finance · Product Management · Strategy
Aug 2025 – Apr 2027 · Columbus, Ohio
Fisher Leadership FellowGraduate AssistantGPA 3.9/4.0GRE 336GMAT-FE 685
M.E. & B.E., Computer Science
BITS Pilani
Rajasthan, India · Integrated dual degree
CS Dept Rank 1CGPA 9.6/10
09 · Distinctions

A record of excellence.

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Amazon Employee of the Quarter ×4
Recognized across Prime Video, Music & Kindle globally.
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Oracle Inventor Ninja Award
Rewarded amongst 5,000 employees for AI patents.
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Rank 1 of 1,000,000 — 12th Board
99.2%, State Rank 1, West Bengal. Swami Vivekananda Award.
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12+ Global Paper Presentations
Delivered talks at Amazon ACVC, AMLC, and CSS conferences.
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Amazon Hackathon '22 Champion
1st Prize among 300+ employees + Think Big Award.
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KVPY Scholar · Top-1% Olympiads
National Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry & Mathematics.
10 · Direct Inquiries

Let's build strategy that endures.

Whether it's an AI product strategy, a rigorous go-to-market plan, or a multi-million dollar consulting engagement — I'd welcome the conversation.

✉️ basumallick.2@osu.edu in LinkedIn GitHub