Vineet Joy Pulikkottil

R & d Manager @Schneider Electric

Boston, MA, US

Manage a globally distributed R&D group (US, Canada, Colombia, India) focused on AI-driven edge-to-cloud innovation for industrial automation; scaled headcount from 15 → 55 in two years.•Set technical direction and execute the roadmap: ran 10+ customer pilots, launched three commercial offers, and cut concept-to-prototype time by 50 %(12 → 6 months).•Forecast, allocate, and track a US$ 4.5M annual R&D budget, ensuring every project remains on scope, on schedule, and within budget.•Establish engineering standards aligned with Schneider Electric’s SDL, quality, and cybersecurity policies, and lead quarterly Kaizen cycles to continuously evolve processes in response to shifting business priorities.•Unified a fragmented build-and-deploy workflow into a GitHub Actions pipeline to Azure Landing Zone, integrating Coverity, SonarQube, and Black Duck (BDBA/BDH) scans to ensure zero high-risk code quality issues and accelerate deployment speed.

Vellore Institute of Technology

Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Instrumentaion

MIT Sloan School of Management

Master's degree, Engineering Management