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Deepak Arora

Deepak Arora

Delhi

Summary

Accomplished Sr Engineering Manager with a proven track record at American Express, emphasizing value-driven outcomes and pioneering enterprise-scale solutions and enhancing user productivity by 70% through innovative chatbot solutions. Expert in Python, Machine Learning, and Conversational AI, coupled with exceptional people leadership and stakeholder management skills. Spearheaded collaborative projects, significantly reducing helpdesk inquiries by 30%.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr Engineering Manager

American Express
06.2014 - Current

Conversational Chatbot for AXP Global Supply Management (GSM):

  • Enabled Amex users to check the latest status of Purchase Orders, Invoice lists, and Claim Vouchers.
  • Achieved a 30% reduction in GSM helpdesk inquiries.

Conversational Chatbot for AXP Finance:

  • Automated response generation, increasing user productivity with insights provided through graphs.
  • Contained over 50% of financial process inquiries within the bot.
  • Expanded to include FAQs, enhanced interfaces, and API queries for real-time responses.
  • Enabled mobile accessibility via Slack App, improving user experience.

Collaboration and Innovation:

  • Partnered with AIML teams to develop a chatbot for spend analytics using Cornerstone (Big Data, Yellowfin) and Machine Learning.
  • Provided data insights for data and NLP model development, establishing advanced query capabilities.
  • Adhered to governance models, monitoring model drift, and ensuring performance and accuracy with InfoSec and design guardrails.

Data Quality and Model Optimization:

  • Focused on data quality and enriched model-training data leveraging quantized Google BERT-based featurizer.
  • Optimized the number of entities and intents for improved performance.

Leadership and Management:

  • Led the GSM portfolio, managing applications across diverse tech stacks addressing Procure-to-Pay business functions.
  • Executed touchless invoice processing and payments through integrated systems.
  • Developed a strategy for a scalable GenAI-based Chatbot solution.

Impact Metrics:

  • Improved bot containment rate (FCR + Abandonment).
  • Enhanced first contact resolution rate.
  • Increased support staff productivity by 70%.
  • Analyzed and refined utterances into entities and intents.

New Initiatives:

  • Continued to identify and develop new use cases based on usage analysis.
  • Prioritized data quality improvement and support staff productivity enhancements.

Solutions Principal

Oracle
12.2007 - 06.2014
  • Leading a technology team to identify gaps in product capabilities and create comprehensive mappings. Utilizing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and integrating solutions through services and APIs to ensure seamless interoperability and enhanced product functionality.
  • Developed management dashboards and reports using OBIEE and BI Publisher to highlight usage metrics and value delivered. This provided stakeholders with insights into performance and outcomes, supporting informed decision-making and continuous improvement.

Lead Programmer

NTT Data (Intelligroup)
04.2006 - 10.2007
  • Migrated Oracle 11i financials localization modules, including reports and forms, to support the Oracle R12 release using D2K forms, XML, XSD, and RTF templates, along with creating deployment scripts.

Software Engineer

Satyam Computers Services (Tech Mahindra)
01.2004 - 04.2006

Developed technical documentation, wrote code with unit test cases, and provided post-production support in a 24x5 model for an Oracle EBS Order-to-Cash implementation project.

Education

Master of Computer Applications - Computer Science And Programming

C-DAC
Noida, India
08.2003

MBA - Finance

Faculty of Management Studies
Delhi, India
08.2013

Skills

  • Python
  • Machine Learning, TensorFlow, Pytorch
  • Conversational AI, Rasa Chatbot frameworks
  • Generative AI - LLMs, RAG
  • Microservices Architecture
  • DevOps, ChatOps, CICD
  • Java
  • System Architecture
  • Stakeholder Management
  • People Leadership
  • Scaled Agile Champion

Certification

  • AWS Solutions Architect Associate (C03)
  • American Express & Harvard New People Leader Program
  • American Express & Harvard Leadership Excellence Program
  • SAFe Program Consultant (SPC4.0/5.1)

Timeline

Sr Engineering Manager

American Express
06.2014 - Current

Solutions Principal

Oracle
12.2007 - 06.2014

Lead Programmer

NTT Data (Intelligroup)
04.2006 - 10.2007

Software Engineer

Satyam Computers Services (Tech Mahindra)
01.2004 - 04.2006

Master of Computer Applications - Computer Science And Programming

C-DAC

MBA - Finance

Faculty of Management Studies
Deepak Arora