Shailesh Pendkar

About Shailesh Pendkar

Technology executive with 24+ years of experience leading enterprise AI, GenAI, and data platforms across lifesciences, healthcare, insurance, and regulated industries. Proven track record of defining AI/GenAI platformstrategy, building reusable enterprise capabilities, and operationalizing platforms at scale with strong governance,security, and cost controls.Known for a product and platform mindset, translating emerging technologies LLMs, foundation models, NLP,advanced analytics into production-grade platforms that enable business teams to rapidly deliver value while meetingregulatory and compliance requirements. Experienced leader of global, cross-functional teams operating in complexmatrix organizations.

Experience

1. Head Analytics Systems & Ai Architecture

   Roche

   Dec 2021 — Present · Pune, IN

   Lead enterprise analytics, data, and AI platform capabilities, enabling secure and reusable AI adoption across global healthcare and diagnostics product teams.Established self-service analytics and data processing workspaces, enabling product teams to independently build scalable, AI-ready data pipelines using standardized patterns.Shaped Unified Data Hub and Data Fabric initiatives, integrating data lakes and data hubs into a governed ecosystem supporting advanced analytics and future GenAI use cases.Owned Data Landscape Integration (DLI) as a centralized metadata and semantic foundation, enabling lineage, interoperability, and lifecycle governance using FAIR-aligned principles.Implemented platform governance and FinOps controls, delivering $1.2M annual cloud cost savings and preventing additional spend through proactive optimization.Championed a product mindset supporting PoCs and MVPs, defining architectural guardrails and qualification criteria to successfully scale enterprise platforms.Built and led a high-performing architecture team at Roche Pune, enabling the successful delivery ofmission-critical Data and Analytics products. Partnered closely with enterprise stakeholders on large-scale Roche wide initiatives, including the Data Platform, Data Fabric, and Reference Architecture for Data Integration.

Education

• Osmania University, Hyderabad

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics, Physics and Electronics

• Osmania University

  Master of Computer Applications - MCA, Computer Software Engineering

Skills

• Integration
• Aix
• Shell Scripting
• Datastage
• Cloud Applications
• Data Warehousing
• Troubleshooting
• Sql
• Backup & Recovery Systems
• Teradata
• System Architecture
• Data Integration
• Amazon S3
• Etl
• Data Quality
• Enterprise Architecture
• Database Design
• Load Balancing
• Db2
• Amazon Rds
• Hadoop
• Laravel
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Pos Solutions
• Data Warehouse Architecture
• Data Migration
• Ibm Watson
• Amazon Redshift
• Amazon Vpc
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Devops
• Mapreduce
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Informatica
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Big Data