Associate Vice President - Technology Function - CTO Office Joined - 2020
Share a moment when Iris’s values were truly lived?A moment when Iris’s values truly came alive was the focus on delivering value to clients in the conception and launch of our AI-assisted SDLC accelerator in early 2024. The mission was entrusted to our distinguished technologist, Mohit Mehrotra. Here, we leveraged AI to enforce an engineering discipline across the software development lifecycle. Our accelerator was able to create requirements – often the most neglected phase – design and engineer systems in a way that many other teams would struggle to build and engineer in a given time frame.
We faced some skepticism initially, but we didn’t give up – after about a year, clients loved our product and realized the tremendous amount of value in building it. So, by the time the market caught up in Q3-24, Iris had already built a mature solution addressing concerns clients were only beginning to see. It was a defining example of client centricity, collaboration, entrepreneurship, and true ownership in action.
We also formed the GenAI Academy within the CTO Office, handpicking and upskilling engineers into polyglot AI specialists through a rigorous learning program.
How has Iris helped shape your personal or professional growth?My growth has been a two-stage journey: first earning credibility by walking the paths others paved and then using that credibility to create impact by paving new paths for others. The shift from individual achievement to enabling collective success has been the most rewarding part of my Iris journey. I look up to my boss, Ravi Thiagarajan (Iris’s CTO), as a mentor, a coach. He is always a glass-half-empty person.
What advice would you give to future Irisians?Good things come to those who believe. Better to those who are patient. The best to those who don’t give up.
