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

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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

    Bachelor of Engineering
    National Institute of Technology, Durgapur
    Engineering

Certificates

  • TOGAF 9 Certified - The Open Group (2010)