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Dr. Kamal Pandey

Professional profile

Experience & appointments

A structured record of enterprise architecture, Applied AI, business applications, and digital workplace leadership across global organizations.

Professional appointments

February 2021 – Present

Orange County / Los Angeles, CA

Rivian Automotive Inc.

  • Sr. Staff Applied AI Engineer — Enterprise Applied AI

  • Solutions Architect — Enterprise Applied AI & Software Engineering

  • Staff Software Engineer — Digital Workplace & Automation

    Feb 2021 – Sep 2022

Measured outcomes (22)
  • Partnered with CIO/CPO as technical architect for a major enterprise AI program.
  • Led Rivian–Volkswagen JV digital transformation (Foundry-style AI).
  • Architected 50+ agentic AI systems using Gemini and Claude → throughput +75%.
  • Paint defect detection: accuracy 40% → 98% (computer vision / PyTorch).
  • MLOps (Terraform + Vertex AI): deployment time −70%; ~30ms inference latency.
  • $6M+ direct savings via license rationalization.
  • Unified agentic workflows across Workday, SAP, SharePoint, Slack, and Salesforce.
  • Led a major annual Digital Workplace program; 33% productivity boost.
  • Migrated 20,000 users from M365 to Google Workspace + Gemini → $12M annual cost reduction.
  • 15,000+ manual hours eliminated annually via autonomous AI portfolio.
  • 1000+ applications delivered on Microsoft + Google Cloud.
  • 5,000+ SharePoint sites, 16,000+ OneDrives, 7,000 sites migrated.
  • Employee onboarding automation: 250 employees/week.
  • Network re-engineering: incidents reduced 90%.
  • $1.2M modern intranet built.
  • App rationalization: $700K operational savings.
  • RPA (UiPath): lifecycle time reduced 78%.
  • 1000+ petabytes migrated; 16 legacy apps retired.
  • 20+ Design Thinking sessions facilitated.
  • Custom Glean connectors: collaboration +40%.
  • 400+ Power Platform apps modernized to AppScript/AppSheet.
  • EHS + COVID management app: recognized by CPO.

2020–2021

New Jersey

Samsung SDS America & Krish Service Group

  • Solutions Consulting Architect

Measured outcomes (10)
  • 50+ production-grade AI applications deployed globally.
  • ML anomaly detection: false alerts −45%; MTTR halved.
  • Infrastructure optimization: solution delivery 40% faster.
  • CI/CD (Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, GitLab): release cycles +89%.
  • Global team ~15 engineers; $1.3M project budget.
  • $800K saved consolidating 3 platforms + 7 workplace tools.
  • Led M365/Teams/SharePoint migrations for Marsh & McLennan.
  • 60% YoY business growth through partnerships & BD.
  • Brity RPA + Nexledger blockchain product development.
  • AWS cloud rollout and configuration for Samsung SDS products.

August 2015 – October 2019

Akron, OH

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

  • Sr. Architect — Digital Workplace, M365, Future of Work

  • SharePoint Architect — Microsoft M365 & SharePoint

Measured outcomes (12)
  • $600K annually saved — modern workplace for 65,000 associates + 11,000 contractors globally.
  • “GO” multilingual intranet; deprecated legacy Tridion CMS → $500K direct savings; Office 365 ROI +56%.
  • $400K annual savings + 40% productivity via enterprise Teams chatbot.
  • $1M SharePoint + Tridion CMS migration (transit authority).
  • Goodyear.com chatbot: $2.3M revenue; 17% conversion.
  • 23 custom Angular/React/TypeScript apps integrating SAP + Power BI → $800K annual savings.
  • Modernized 89% B2B apps + 100% workplace tools.
  • 69% EMEA ad sales automated → sales collaboration +56%.
  • 16-language intranet metadata/navigation (jQuery, JS, Bootstrap).
  • Lotus Notes + SharePoint migrations at enterprise scale.
  • Training: 24 sessions, 7 countries, 9 departments → 150% ROI YoY.
  • 100+ custom web parts and SAP/Oracle integrations.

March 2012 – July 2015

India & USA

Larsen & Toubro Infotech (LTI / LTIMindtree)

  • Project Lead

    2013–2015

  • Senior Software Engineer

    2012–2013

Measured outcomes (10)
  • Consultant for HBO, Viacom, Warner Bros, WSP Global (~$5M projects).
  • Won $1.5M contract — blended digital content + intranet solution.
  • Automated 69.35% of Viacom Ad Sales and Nickelodeon processes.
  • Viacom Ad Sales site: +30% sales; +56% sales collaboration.
  • Data input redundancy −30%; reporting time −90%.
  • New site development time −80% via reusable templates.
  • Process automation: due diligence efficiency +45%.
  • Completed project 2 weeks ahead of schedule.
  • Best Performing Project Award — E8759 Microsoft Support Project (Sep 19, 2014).
  • Valuable Contribution Award — SharePoint/HBO team technical contribution.

December 2011 – March 2012

Sydney, Australia

Singtel Optus Pty Limited

  • Consultant

Measured outcomes (1)
  • Enterprise collaboration and cloud workplace consulting.

May 2010 – December 2011

India, Singapore, Australia

HCL Technologies Ltd

  • Lead Engineer, Enterprise Content Management

Measured outcomes (4)
  • Enterprise search for Commonwealth Bank (55K associates) → adoption +37%.
  • 50,000+ SharePoint sites migrated for SGX, Commonwealth Bank, Fonterra, CITI.
  • Won $1.5M business process automation project (Tyco).
  • R&D Innovation Award (2011).

February 2008 – April 2010

Chennai, India

IBM / Shriram Value Services

  • Senior Software Engineer

Measured outcomes (1)
  • Enterprise software engineering and solution delivery.

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