Vineet Shukla

Driving technological innovation, AI/ML-powered solutions, and IT excellence in the renewable energy sector.

• Technology Leadership & Strategy: Define and execute the company’s technological vision, ensuring Mahindra Teqo remains at the forefront of innovation in a rapidly evolving industry.
• Product Innovation & Growth: Spearheaded the launch of four new products (two more WIP) with a current footprint of ~2 GW capacity, leveraging deep market research and cross-functional collaboration to set new industry benchmarks.
• AI/ML & GenAI-Driven Transformation: Designed and deployed state-of-the-art ML, AI, and GenAI-powered solutions at scale, revolutionizing renewable energy analytics, asset management, and operational efficiency.
• IT & Digital Transformation: Oversee IT operations for Mahindra Teqo and the Renewables Businesses, ensuring seamless technology integration, robust infrastructure, cybersecurity, and high availability of mission-critical systems.
• Innovation & Impact: Foster a culture of continuous innovation by driving cutting-edge solutions that enhance business processes, optimize efficiency, and create measurable impact.

Built a high-impact data ecosystem, driving business transformation and industry recognition.

• Built a Data-Driven Ecosystem: Established a startup-style data organization from scratch, growing a team of 50+ experts (Data Engineering, Data Science, Product Management, and Engineering). Led 25+ projects across 13 businesses, delivering a measurable impact of ₹160 Cr.
• Recognized as a Top Leader: Honored by Anand Mahindra and Anish Shah as a Mahindra Future Shapers (MFS) Leader, earning a place among the most elite leadership group in the company—paving the way to my role as CTO.
• Culture & Community Building: Fostered a data-driven culture across the Mahindra Group, accelerating business transformation. Built a thriving community of 1,600+ members across multiple companies, embedding data as a core driver of decision-making.
• Industry Influence & Thought Leadership: Represented Mahindra on global stages—presenting at Gartner International Events, Google Conferences, and other leading forums. Recognized among India’s Top 100 Leaders, shaping the future of AI and data in the industry.

Built and scaled a world-class AI/ML practice, driving $200M+ impact in the healthcare industry.

• Built AI/ML CoE from Scratch: Established a startup-style AI/ML & Data Science practice within UHG, scaling it across four locations in India (Hyderabad, Bangalore, Noida, Gurgaon) and partnering with the top four business units.
• Enterprise-Scale AI Innovation: Led the team to deploy multiple ML models in production, creating economies of scale for ML, MLOps, and AI practices, positioning it as a world-class AI/ML powerhouse within UHG.
• Business Impact & Consulting: Acted as a trusted AI/ML consultant, delivering $200M+ in business impact while embracing failures as learning opportunities to refine strategies.
• Patents & Thought Leadership: Fostered a culture of innovation, resulting in 34 patents, the highest within the organization. Personally authored and co-authored 4 patents in AI/ML applications.
• Rapid Career Growth: Promoted from Director to Senior Director within just 2 years, recognizing my leadership, business impact, and technical excellence.

Delivered groundbreaking AI, data science, and multimedia solutions, driving innovation and measurable business impact.

• End-to-End Solution Delivery: Designed and implemented multimedia solutions, embedded applications, and Android-based products, often single-handedly and at scale, ensuring seamless user experiences.
• Founding Member – Data Science at Motorola Mobility: Pioneered Motorola’s state-of-the-art recommender system, driving enhanced personalization and user engagement. After Google’s acquisition, expanded product workstreams in collaboration with teams in the Bay Area.
• AI & Engineering Leadership: Envisioned and led the development of a first-of-its-kind AI-driven product (2014-2015) that mined user opinions across channels, delivering actionable insights to sales, marketing, strategy, product, and engineering teams.
• Big Data & Analytics Innovation: Built cutting-edge analytical solutions leveraging BigQuery, MapReduce, Hadoop/Hive, R, NLP, Tableau, and advanced machine learning techniques—many of which were successfully deployed and commercialized.
• Global Collaboration & Impact: Partnered with cross-functional stakeholders worldwide, driving data-driven decision-making and innovation across the organization.
• Award-Winning Excellence: Recognized with multiple prestigious awards, including Hackathon winner and runner-up honors across multiple years.

• Worked on Embedded System and drivers department
• Built embedded software of mobile phones
• Used Java and C at advanced level

• Built Software for Xray Machines using Java, C and Corba
• Got International exposure