Dwaipayan "Dwai" Banerjee
Engineering Leader
Professional Summary
Engineering leader with 24+ years across startup and enterprise platforms, delivering reliable products with practical, customer-centered execution. Built and guided cross-country teams with clear ownership growth. Worldwide footprint across India, the European Union, UK, South Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Americas.
Skills
Distributed Systems and Microservices
Service design (gRPC + ProtoBuf, contract-first APIs, protoc-driven codegen); event-driven and streaming architectures (pub/sub, event sourcing, stream-batch convergence, high-throughput pipelines); Kubernetes microservices (progressive delivery, service mesh, network policy, observability); distributed systems design (multi-tier caching, worker queues, pub-sub fanout, backpressure, multi-region active-active).
HPC, GPU, and MLOps
HPC simulation fabrics (Slurm, RDMA/InfiniBand, GPU Direct); LLM inference stacks (vLLM, NVIDIA Triton, TensorRT-LLM, Ray Serve, KServe); MLOps lifecycle (MLflow tracking/registry, CI/CD promotion gates, production observability); diffusion pipelines (Hugging Face Diffusers, Stable Diffusion).
GenAI Systems and Model Tuning
Model fine-tuning, distributed training, hyperparameter optimization, inference optimization (quantization, batching, GPU utilization), and production-scale deployment; agentic architectures (structured tool-calling, multi-step orchestration, evaluation pipelines, guardrails, adaptive feedback loops); retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
Data Architecture, Analytics, and Governance
Lakehouse/warehouse patterns, dimensional and domain-driven modeling, SQL optimization, high-performance analytical query design; streaming and batch pipelines, transformation workflows, metadata/catalog governance, auditability, and lineage tracking.
Leadership and Scalable Delivery
Global engineering leadership across multi-region teams; startup-to-enterprise execution, KPI milestones, SLO-driven reliability, governance discipline, and FinOps accountability; compliance alignment across GDPR, CCPA, SOC 2/SOC 3, FedRAMP, and PCI-DSS/3DS; structured mentorship and ownership culture.
Experience
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2024 - present India
Director
cloudgear.io
Own platform architecture across GenAI systems and GPU-accelerated inference platforms, delivering enterprise-grade AI backend and deterministic code generation frameworks.
- Architected and developed a private tri-repo (App / Infra / Deploy) AI backend framework using deterministic proto-first code generation, preventing contract-to-production drift via deterministic generation and policy gates across service, migration, and runtime generation.
- Embedded reusable distributed systems primitives including multi-tier caching (in-memory, distributed, write-through, and write-behind), event-driven streaming (pub/sub fanout, backpressure control, idempotent consumers), outbox reliability patterns, and zero-trust auth chains across 150+ auto-generated services.
- Scaled production rollout across 6+ enterprise customers in fintech, healthcare, and digital commerce, delivering 400+ migrations with observability, resilience, and tenancy patterns wired by construction.
- Built a GCP-based lakehouse and MLOps backbone processing 2.5B+ events per month, enabling distributed model training, hyperparameter tuning, and sub-150ms p95 inference (service-side).
- Reduced deployment cycle time from 3-4 weeks to under 5 days and improved GPU utilization by approximately 35 percent through inference optimization, workload batching, and promotion-gated CI/CD pipelines.
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2023 - 2024 India
Senior Solutions Architect
AWS
Field leadership across GenAI, HPC, and high-growth startup ecosystems.
- Led Amazon Bedrock private previews and GenAI enablement for 15+ high-growth startups, helping teams move from experimentation to production-grade RAG and inference architectures.
- Designed high-throughput, low-latency inference systems using SageMaker and optimized vector retrieval, reducing response latency by approximately 40 percent and supporting 8K+ requests/sec peak.
- Architected GPU-accelerated GenAI and HPC workloads spanning distributed training and model tuning, improving GPU utilization by approximately 30 percent and accelerating prototype-to-production timelines by approximately 50 percent.
- Operationalized secure AI workloads with production MLOps, governance guardrails, disaster recovery patterns, and scalable multi-account architectures.
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2020 - 2023 India
Senior Principal Software Engineer
Citrix Systems
Principal leadership on Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) engineering across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Architected and developed zero-trust, cloud-native microservices and control-plane systems in Go for a multi-product portfolio generating approximately $2B in annual revenue, enforcing strong identity, service-to-service auth, and policy-driven runtime isolation.
- Delivered frameworks using Terraform Enterprise and policy-as-code (OPA/Gatekeeper), embedding governance, drift detection, and FedRAMP-aligned controls directly into CI/CD and infrastructure workflows while mentoring distributed engineering teams.
- Supported FedRAMP certification tracks aligned to NIST 800-53 controls at High impact levels.
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2018 - 2020 India
Principal Architect
Philips Healthcare
Led architecture and development for Health Suite on-Premise and hybrid healthcare platform rollout.
- Implemented HL7/FHIR/OIDC core services and secure GitOps/CI pipelines across multi-hypervisor environments.
- Defined multi-GPU and compute benchmark programs for CT, insights, and radiation oncology workloads.
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2017 - 2018 The Netherlands & EU
Senior Solution Director
HCL Technologies
European solution leadership across verticals.
- Led cross-country teams delivering reusable cloud-native and Kubernetes/OpenShift stacks for BFSI and digital banking programs.
- Built HPC/GPU compute fabrics for clinical and automotive simulation workloads.
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2016 - 2017 The Netherlands and the USA
Cloud Solution Architect
Microsoft
Built Azure open-source HPC/GPU automation and customer enablement programs for NVIDIA virtual GPU solutions.
- Scaled high-fidelity GPU fabrics for upstream exploration and production and for seakeeping and wave-interaction simulations for ship builders.
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2015 - 2015 The Netherlands
Principal, Solution Architecture
Exact Software
Led ERP modernization prototypes and architecture roadmap recommendations for board-level planning.
- Drove componentization of legacy stacks into cloud-ready services and internal rapid prototyping tracks.
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2013 - 2015 The Netherlands, Africa
Senior Consultant
Enable-U
Scaled integration and governance solutions across Benelux, EU institutions, and Africa.
- Productized middleware autodiscovery and governance offerings and led API/SOA security programs in multi-country deployments.
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2011 - 2013 The Netherlands
Domain Solution Architect
Canon Europa
Led Canon Unity integration and data transformation across EMEA.
- Platform operated at 1.5M+ real-time transactions per month with nearly 2x ETL load; built integration/data CoE and vendor delivery model.
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2009 - 2011 The Netherlands, Switzerland
Technical Architect
TMNS
Product architecture and enterprise integration consulting across EU clients. TMNS was acquired by Devoteam.
- Built CEP product for an EU startup and improved Swisscom transaction throughput by 35 percent; introduced hybrid cloud self-service patterns.
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2007 - 2009 India, UK, Malaysia
Technical Architect
HCL Technologies
Early architecture leadership in SOA governance, platform virtualization, and Cisco AON solution labs.
- Delivered large client programs across banking, telecom, and consumer sectors with reusable integration patterns.
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2006 - 2007 Bengaluru, India
Senior Member Technical Staff
Oracle
Core contributor to Oracle SOA Suite and Fusion Middleware integration engines.
- Implemented standards-aligned service integration and HA topologies for enterprise deployments.
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2003 - 2006 India, Switzerland, UK, Barbados
Engineer
IBM
Delivered WebSphere/MQ integration, DR, and security architecture programs across three continents.
- Supported public sector, banking, and global B2B/EDI modernization initiatives.
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2001 - 2003 India
C++/Web developer
Various
Built distributed logistics and messaging systems in C++/EJB stacks for UK and Japan customers.
Education
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1997 - 2001 Durgapur, India
Bachelor of Engineering
National Institute of Technology, Durgapur
Engineering
Certificates
- TOGAF 9 Certified - The Open Group (2010)