Sudhansu Sekhar Panigrahy
Senior Director @Visa
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Director @Visa
Bellevue, WA, US
Built and currently lead Visa’s Generative AI Incubations team from the ground up; setting vision, strategy, and roadmap for high-impact AI investments.Spearheading the incubation and development of multiple AI-powered platforms:Architecting an agentic platform to automate SDLC workflows, transforming how AI agents become teammates by helping deliver a set of requirements end to end unattended! Developing a generative AI-powered assistant for enterprise marketers, aimed at enabling compliant, on-brand content creation and actionable campaign insights.Building an AI-based financial assistant to provide chat-driven spend analysis and actionable transaction insights for Visa cardholders.Scaling and mentoring a world-class engineering and product team; fostering innovation, rapid prototyping, and continuous learning.Championing cross-functional delivery with product, design, and data science; enabling future adoption and reuse of AI solutions across Visa business units.Evangelizing GenAI best practices and driving technology standardization across the company.
EDUCATION
National Institute of technology, Jamshedpur
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science
Khalikote Junior College
12th, Science
SKILLS
ABOUT SUDHANSU SEKHAR PANIGRAHY
I am a hands-on Engineering Leader and Senior Director with 15+ years of experience driving high-impact, AI-powered product innovation at scale. My expertise lies in building and scaling world-class engineering teams, incubating 0→1 initiatives, and blending technical depth with product strategy to create transformative business value.Currently, I lead Visa’s Generative AI Incubations team, where I am spearheading the development of multiple pioneering initiatives, including:An enterprise agentic AI coding platform that acts as a digital engineering teammate, autonomously planning, generating, testing, and refining code to deliver production-ready outcomes at scale.A generative AI marketing assistant aimed at empowering enterprise marketers with brand-safe content generation and deep campaign insights.An AI-powered financial assistant for consumers, focused on delivering actionable analytics and conversational spending recaps from transaction data.A generative AI Agent Hub designed to help VCA teams analyze VisaNet-scale data through intelligent agents that deliver trusted insights, automated benchmarking, and decision-ready analytics at enterprise scalePreviously, I led engineering teams at Microsoft responsible for core Copilot and AI features in Edge, Bing, and Shopping, including large-scale price history, price tracking, and conversational shopping solutions—impacting millions of users worldwide.I thrive in cross-functional, fast-paced environments, love building high-trust teams, and am passionate about using GenAI to unlock new possibilities in product and business.Always open to connecting with fellow tech leaders, innovators, and teams building the future of intelligent products.
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