Nikhil A.

About Nikhil A.

I build and scale AI-first, cloud-native SaaS platforms.With 15.5+ years in distributed systems and enterprise product engineering, I currently serve as AVP – Product Engineering & Architecture at Deloitte GPS Studio, leading architecture strategy and AI engineering across a $50M+ portfolio of enterprise products.My focus is at the intersection of cloud and applied AI — designing multi-tenant platforms on AWS/GCP (EKS/GKE), evolving microservices architectures, and embedding production-grade LLM, RAG, and MLOps capabilities into real business systems.Across platforms like Prism, Pallium, and RegExplorer, I’ve driven measurable outcomes:$150K+ annual cloud savings, 80%+ AI performance improvements, 35% legacy uplift, and validated scale for thousands of concurrent users.I lead and mentor architecture and engineering teams (~100+ engineers), setting technical direction, governance standards, and modernization roadmaps — while staying hands-on with PoCs, RAG pipelines, Kubernetes tuning, cost optimization, and distributed system design.I’m passionate about building resilient, secure, cost-efficient platforms that turn AI innovation into scalable, real-world impact.

Experience

1. Associate Vice President

   Deloitte

   Jun 2025 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   I have been serving as AVP – Product Engineering & Architecture, leading the end-to-end architecture vision, AI engineering strategy, and platform modernization for the Prism product suite—including HealthPrism, GivePrism, PeoplePrism, and Candidate360. I modernized the suite on GCP/GKE and Snowflake, introduced enterprise-grade AI capabilities (LLMs, RAG, agentic orchestration), delivered ~80% AI performance improvement, and reduced cloud spend by $150K+/year through targeted optimization. I guided the design of multi-tenant SaaS architectures, RBAC and security patterns, performance engineering to support concurrent users, and the shift to standardized CI/CD using GitHub Actions and ArgoCD.In this role, I also lead the GPS Studio(~100 practitioners) Architecture Team(~6 practitioners), driving reference architectures, solution governance, engineering maturity, AI adoption frameworks, and architectural due diligence across the full product portfolio—while remaining hands-on with PoCs, AI pipelines, Kubernetes optimization, and strategic cloud architecture decisions.

Education

• Don Bosco Academy, Patna

  Matriculation, Science, English, Mathematics, Computer Application

  1993 — 2005

• Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

  Master of Science (M.S.) Work Integrated, Software Engineering

  2010 — 2014

• St Dominic Savios

  Intermediate, Science, Maths

  2005 — 2007

• Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra

  Bachelor of Computer Application (BCA), Computer Science

  2007 — 2010

• Manipal University Jaipur

  Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence