Kennedy Alade
Vp-software Engineering Principal - Ai Ml Tech Platform @PNC
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WORK HISTORY
Vp-software Engineering Principal - Ai Ml Tech Platform @PNC
Pittsburgh, PA, US
Executive AI Leadership & StrategyLead enterprise-wide AI/ML platform strategy, enabling secure, scalable, and compliant adoption of Generative AI, Agentic AI, and advanced analytics across regulated financial environments.Define and execute cloud AI foundations across AWS and Azure, covering networking, identity, security guardrails, governance, and automation.Serve as a key AI technology advisor to Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, Risk, and Product leadership, ensuring AI initiatives align with long-term business and regulatory objectives.Generative AI & Agentic AI EnablementPartner with Enterprise Architect and deliver enterprise GenAI platforms leveraging Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Azure Document Intelligence, Azure Content Safety, and multi-model support (GPT-4o, LLaMA-4, Nova, Mistral).Lead design and deployment of Agentic AI workflows, including orchestration, retrieval pipelines, prompt management, and secure inference patterns.Enable LLM experimentation-to-production pipelines, ensuring observability, performance monitoring, and cost governance.AI/ML Platform Engineering & MLOpsEstablish code, documentation, and operational standards to reduce friction between model development, validation, and deployment.Oversee AWS SageMaker Domains, MLflow, Model Registry, Feature Stores, Glue, Athena, S3, Kubernetes, and Databricks-based analytics platforms.Partner with MLOps teams to optimize model lifecycle management, CI/CD integration, infrastructure automation, and cost efficiency.Leadership & Organizational ImpactLead and mentor a 10-member AI and cloud engineering team, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and engineering excellence.Translate executive AI strategy into clear technical roadmaps, influencing funding, prioritization, and enterprise adoption decisions.Drive cloud adoption growth of 50%+ through Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation) and DevOps automation.
EDUCATION
Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University
Master of Business Administration - MBA
Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University
Master's degree, Management Information Systems
Dakota State University
MS, Analytics
MIT Sloan School of Management
Artificial Intelligence: Implication for Business Strategy
Colorado Technical University
Doctor's Degree, Computer Science - Big Data Analytics
Harvard University
FinTech
ABOUT KENNEDY ALADE
I am a well-seasoned and highly accomplished professional with a sizeable tenure. I have spent my experience accumulating knowledge and achieving set goals through delivering my best at every step of the way to provide optimal results. I firmly believe in establishing and maintaining the key partnerships and relationships that prove productive and allow for better performance.I am an established professional with an analytical mindset. I have well over 20 years of experience, along with an extremely successful and proven track record at handling multiple roles and massive projects without any delays. I am highly collaborative, and I can perform exceptionally well in teams as well as by myself. I thrive in fast-paced business environments and cherish a chance to self-manage things through my innate problem-solving skills. I possess verifiable leadership, interpersonal, and communication skills that allow me to put across my side of things with a crisp point to not only peers and colleagues but also the management. I am a remarkably successful mentor to my peers and colleagues, owing to my exceptional people\'s skills and have always given them the nudge in the right direction to go the extra mile. I am positively confident in my capability to deliver impeccable results through my dedication and ability to handle multiple roles, functions, and activities deftly under high-pressure environments.
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