From reading code to running programs.
I started on the engineering side of the table, as a Systems Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services, then across contract and associate engineering roles at NTT DATA, Aspire Systems, and Cognizant. That background is still the lens I manage programs through: I read a roadmap the way I used to read a codebase: dependencies first, risk second, everything else after.
The shift into program leadership started at UBS as an Authorized Officer, then deepened through Temus and EPAM, where I ran governance for an AUD 2–3M, 45+ person integration program end to end. Today, at Purands, I own the roadmap for an AI-driven customer engagement platform, translating strategy into shipped releases for enterprise and mid-market clients.
Alongside delivery, I completed an MBA at Singapore Management University (Dean's Lister, Executive Leadership Committee), the NUS Future Leader Programme, and Microsoft Azure Fundamentals, and I'm currently in IIT Madras's Professional Program in Agentic AI and Applications.
I still build. Prototypes, side projects and the occasional agent. Partly to stay close to what I'm asking engineering teams for, partly because some problems are easier shown than specified. Most of it is on GitHub.
- Program holds the strategy.
- Product holds the value.
- Project holds the execution.
- The shared center is alignment.
Where program, product and project meet.
Program, product and project aren't three stages in a sequence. They are three overlapping concerns, and each one holds something the other two need: program holds the strategy, product holds the value, project holds the execution.
Where all three overlap is a single shared center. That overlap is what alignment actually means: strategy, value and execution pointing the same way at the same time. It isn't a fourth discipline, and it isn't a phase you reach and then leave.
Alignment is the outcome: the thing the work produces when the three are held together, and the first thing to disappear when any one of them is managed in isolation. I built this to make that spatially obvious: rotate it and the three volumes stay separate, but the center only exists while all three still overlap.