MAYURA - Forward Deployed Engineering Manager

I lead AI/ML engineering teams that don't just advise — they ship. For the past year, I've been embedded inside one of Canada's largest investment banks, driving production delivery of an AI-powered capital markets platform used by deal teams across M&A, equity, and debt transactions. My team coordinates across data engineers, ML engineers, and capital markets SMEs — bridging the gap between what frontier AI can do and what enterprise infrastructure actually supports.That gap is where I work best. Before banking, I spent 13 years delivering technical programs across financial services, healthtech, e-commerce, and government in Canada, USA ,UAE, and India. I've coordinated 4 concurrent scrum teams of 40+ engineers, run digital transformation programs for organisations like Dubai Police and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, and shipped AI-enabled workflows under tight regulatory and compliance constraints. What I bring to forward-deployed roles: Translating C-suite business problems into agentic system architecture Navigating data readiness, integration complexity, and state-management blockers that kill AI before it reaches production. Building engineering squads and setting code standards, review practices, and architectural benchmarks Balancing deep technical work with stakeholder alignment across product, engineering, and sales leadership Current focus: multi-agent orchestration, RAG pipelines, LLM-based document processing, and context engineering for enterprise AI systems. Open to engineering leadership roles in AI/ML deployment, forward-deployed engineering, and cloud-native AI delivery roles in Toronto or Bangalore or remote across Canada, USA & India. Best way to reach me: LinkedIn DM or md.canada86@gmail.com. Case study and recommendations in Featured below.