Dwaipayan "Dwai" Banerjee

Engineering Leader

Professional Summary

Engineering leader with 24+ years across enterprise platforms, products, solutions and startups. Built and guided cross-country teams with clear ownership growth across India, the EU, UK, South Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Americas.

Skills

#Distributed Systems & Microservices
gRPC/ProtoBuf, contract-first APIs, event-driven streaming, Kubernetes, GitOps, observability, PKI/HSM/TLS.
#HPC, GPU, GenAI & Agentic Systems
Slurm, Torque, LSF, RDMA/InfiniBand, NVIDIA Blackwell, Hopper, Ampere, NVIDIA Triton, TensorRT-LLM, Ray Serve, KServe, PyTorch, ONNX, ChromaDB, pipecat, MLflow, LoRA/QLoRA, DPO, RAG, evals Blaxel, Agent Harness Systems, policy as code, Modal, UnslothAI, Runpod.
#Cloud
GCP, Azure, AWS, GKE, AKS, EKS, Red Hat OpenShift, High Fidelity HPC and GPU Accelerated Grids, SageMaker, Azure ML, Vertex AI.
#Data Architecture
Lakehouse/warehouse, dimensional modeling, metadata governance, lineage.
#Languages
Golang, Python, Bash.
#Leadership
OKRs/KPIs, SLOs, Compliance & Controls frameworks - GDPR/ CCPA/ SOC2/ SOC3/ FedRAMP/ PCI-DSS/ 3DS, FinOps.

Experience

  • 2024 - present

    India

    Director
    CLOUDGEAR
    GenAI platform and GPU inference systems.
    • Proto first backend with policy gated generation.
    • Scaled roll out to 11+ enterprise and startup customers.
  • 2023 - 2024

    India

    Senior Solutions Architect
    AWS
    GenAI, HPC, and high-growth startup enablement.
    • Led Bedrock previews for 15+ startups to production RAG.
    • Designed low-latency inference with SageMaker and vector retrieval.
  • 2020 - 2023

    India

    Senior Principal Software Engineer
    Citrix Systems
    Principal leadership on Citrix DaaS across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
    • Built zero-trust control-plane in Go for portfolio generating $2B annually.
    • Delivered Terraform Enterprise + OPA/Gatekeeper governance frameworks.
  • 2018 - 2020

    India

    Principal Architect
    Philips Healthcare
    Led architecture for Health Suite on-prem/hybrid platform roll out.
  • 2017 - 2018

    The Netherlands & EU

    Senior Solution Director
    HCL Technologies
    European solution leadership across verticals.
  • 2016 - 2017

    The Netherlands and the USA

    Cloud Solution Architect
    Microsoft
    Built Azure open-source HPC/GPU automation and enablement for NVIDIA vGPU.
  • 2015 - 2015

    The Netherlands

    Principal, Solution Architecture
    Exact Software
    Led ERP modernization prototypes and architecture roadmap.
  • 2013 - 2015

    The Netherlands, Africa

    Senior Consultant
    Enable-U
    Scaled integration and governance solutions across Benelux, EU institutions, and Africa.
  • 2011 - 2013

    The Netherlands

    Domain Solution Architect
    Canon Europa
    Led Canon Unity integration and data transformation across EMEA.
  • 2009 - 2011

    The Netherlands, Switzerland

    Technical Architect
    TMNS
    Product architecture and enterprise integration consulting across EU clients.
  • 2007 - 2009

    India, UK, Malaysia

    Technical Architect
    HCL Technologies
    Architecture leadership in SOA governance and platform virtualization.
  • 2006 - 2007

    Bengaluru, India

    Senior Member Technical Staff
    Oracle
    Contributor to Oracle SOA Suite and Fusion Middleware integration engines.
  • 2003 - 2006

    India, Switzerland, UK, Barbados

    Engineer
    IBM
    Delivered WebSphere/MQ integration, DR, and security architecture programs.
  • 2001 - 2003

    India

    C++/Web Developer
    Various
    Built distributed logistics and messaging systems in C++/EJB stacks for UK and Japan customers.

Education

  • 1997 - 2001

    Durgapur, India

    B.E
    NIT, Durgapur
    Engineering

Certificates

  • TOGAF 9 Certified - The Open Group (2010)