Zürich · Switzerland · Available 2026

AI, product & engineering leader, building what comes next.

Board Director & Tech Advisor · Chief AI Officer · Head of AI Enablement & CoE · Fractional / Interim CTO · Product & Engineering Operator

Fifteen years across Amazon Lab126, Swiss finance and venture-backed startups. Today: independent board director and tech advisor to founders and boards on AI, CTO & Partner at thirty3, and co-initiator of AI Hub Switzerland. Still hands-on in product, code, architecture and delivery, not just the boardroom.

I decide what to build, build it myself when it counts, and lead the teams who build it at scale.

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Selected institutions & clients

Amazon Lab126UCLAUBSCredit SuisseJulius BaerIWG plcNZZthirty3 AGAI Hub SwitzerlandSwisspreneur

§ 01 · Profile

Fifteen years building, leading and advising on AI.

Built voice AI for Alexa at Amazon Lab126. Took cloud and big data into Switzerland's largest banks: UBS, Credit Suisse and Julius Baer. Founded and exited Anamii, personally building the AI-powered wellness platform alongside a tiny team and growing it to 3,000+ users during COVID. Today, Co-founder, CTO & Partner at thirty3, leading AI strategy and delivery for clients from venture-backed startups and scale-ups to unicorns, SMEs and global corporates.

Three companies founded. 100+ people led across engineering, design and AI teams in Switzerland, India, Poland and the US, from Amazon and Anamii to Vicara and thirty3. 55+ AI products shipped across 10+ industries. A U.S. citizen of Indian heritage based in Zürich, with a UCLA MSc in data science and machine learning, and a multicultural lens on how AI teams actually get built. From Alexa-scale customer-serving systems at Amazon Lab126 to Swiss-bank cloud transformations, fifteen years designing, reviewing and rebuilding production platforms that have to work under real load.

§ 02 · Practice

Four ways to engage.

How to work with me

Chief AI Officer, Fractional CTO & product leadership

Chief AI Officer (CAIO), Head of AI Enablement & Centre of Excellence, or Fractional / Interim CTO / CPTO for scale-ups, SMEs and corporates that need senior AI authority without a full-time hire. Setting strategy, owning the AI product roadmap and prioritisation (what gets built, what gets cut), building the CoE, hiring, architecture and delivery cadence. Hands-on where it counts: architecture reviews, platform reviews of complex production systems, prototyping and unblocking the team, not just slides.

Tech & AI due diligence

Independent assessments for M&A, fundraising and foundation grants, plus product and roadmap review alongside standalone system architecture and platform reviews of complex production systems: recommendations and modernisation plans for where they'll break at scale, what to refactor and what to rebuild. Recent work: SwissFoundations, Seedling Foundation, Malaica and early-stage AI startups.

AI strategy, GenAI delivery & modern rebuilds

AI Opportunity Sprints, use-case selection and product scoping, roadmaps and end-to-end production builds via thirty3, with me in the architecture and code alongside the team. When the existing platform can't carry what's next, we also take on full modern rebuilds of complex, scalable production systems. 55+ AI products shipped, ~32 days average to pilot.

Board, advisory & speaking

Independent board director, advisory board member, technical advisor, bringing a product lens to AI bets and roadmap trade-offs, plus keynotes, panels and moderation across Swiss and international stages.

§ 03 · Now

What I'm building.

Since 2022 · Operating role

thirty3 AG

A global AI innovation studio that co-creates with teams to turn ambition into outcomes. With the thirty3 team we've shipped 55+ AI solutions in production across 10+ industries, for clients ranging from venture-backed startups and scale-ups to unicorns, SMEs and global corporates, including regulatory copilots, demand forecasting, knowledge agents, virtual try-on, customer intelligence and beyond. Work is built on Google Cloud and Azure under enterprise data-governance and zero-data-retention standards. Alongside AI product delivery, we also take on system architecture reviews and modern rebuilds of complex, scalable production platforms.

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Since 2026 · Co-initiator

AI Hub Switzerland

A nation-wide, non-commercial initiative to close the AI adoption gap and future-proof Swiss SMEs. We bring together business, academia and the public sector, including ZHAW, SwissMem, ETH Zürich, Kanton Zürich and Technopark, to provide trusted expertise, neutral coordination and long-term capability building, strengthening competitiveness, workforce readiness and digital sovereignty.

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§ 04 · Point of view

Where the world is headed.

The shifts I'm watching, and what they mean for leaders deciding how AI changes what they build, sell and operate.

P/01

Sell the work, not the tool.

AI is shifting value from selling software to delivering completed outcomes. The durable layer is workflow ownership, delivery design and outcome-based pricing, not model access. The product is the outcome.

P/02

Domain depth is the new moat.

As model and token costs collapse, thin wrappers die. What survives is deep integration into a real workflow: the operational logic, the data plane, the messy edges only operators understand.

P/03

AI changes backends, not just interfaces.

Enterprises are moving from human-speed systems to agent-speed workloads. Existing APIs, orchestration and infra weren't built for recursive, high-concurrency AI activity. Treating AI as a UI layer underestimates the rebuild required underneath.

P/04

Expertise itself becomes a product.

AI doesn't just automate tasks; it lets expertise be packaged, scaled and sold like software. The winning operating models redesign the human-plus-machine split deliberately, not as an afterthought.

§ 05 · Stage

Keynotes, panels, podcasts.

Keynotes and moderation on AI strategy, responsible AI, and emerging tech across industries. Two-year Swisspreneur podcast host. Co-lead of Wine'n'Ventures.

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