Sunil Rawat

Founder of Omniscience Corporation

Palo Alto, California

Overview

Work Experience

  • Co-Founder, CEO

    2014 - Current

    • Fundraising from venture, family office and strategic investors. • Built supercomputer-scale AI Risk Management products for highly regulated industries, securing numerous patents, trademarks, and scientific publications. • Focus on automating workflows embedded into the fundamental business structure of target industries, thereby creating hundreds of millions in annual value for customers. • Closed TCV deals of over $150m with top global insurers, banks, and Dept. of Homeland Security. • Led R&D and product management of Underwriting Automation, Document AI, CCAR, IFRS17, Global Traveler Assessment, Mobile Trajectory, Wildfire Modeling, and Investment Portfolio Construction products.

  • Chief Technology Officer

    2001 - 2014

    • Developed practices in Platform Engineering, Capacity Planning, Performance Engineering, Datacenter Services, Mission Critical IT Operations, VDI, Security, Disaster Recovery, and Business Continuity. • Secured and delivered $[redacted] in new business from HP, Verizon, Cisco, Nokia, Federal Reserve, and AT&T. Created competitive strategy, channel partner strategy, RFP responses, joint ventures, deal structure, IP licensing. • Hired and developed key Engineering and Service Delivery staff. • Built and scaled internet-scale platforms that continue to serve hundreds of millions of global users as traffic grew 100,000%. • Personally led high profile, long term customer engagements including Hewlett Packard summarized below

  • Senior Consulting Architect

    2013 - 2014

    • Big data and applied artificial intelligence systems which encompass trillions of data points across spatiotemporal, device telemetry, CRM, sales, social, clickstream, product usage, and open data. • Enterprise and carrier grade NFV and SDN including building custom CDN’s. • Continental and planetary scale computing platforms with hundreds of millions of end users, millions of SKU’s, trillions of transactions per month.

  • Senior Consultant

    2011 - 2013

    - Manage engineering, architecture and operations for global CDN, DNS, and other common services, in the Cloud Computing Operations and Delivery organization supporting Nokia-Microsoft Bing-Yahoo-Here Maps, Ovi App Store, Music, Xpress Browser, Messaging, Single Sign On, and Windows Phone launches. - WAN architecture and management for Microsoft Bing - Nokia Maps partnership.

  • HP.com Operations Manager

    2007 - 2011

    - Managed platform engineering, capacity planning, scalability, automation, release management, security, advanced monitoring, log management, and analytics for HP.com as it scaled 100,000%. - Drove multi-year technology refresh initiatives for every layer of infrastructure (server, OS, firewall, load balancer, router, SAN storage, middleware, database, virtualization), latency mitigation projects, in-region hosting, high availability, load balancing, geographic redundancy, disaster 
recovery, and CDN initiatives for HP.com.

  • E-Business Infrastructure Architect and Capacity Planning Manager

    2004 - 2007

    Created and ran capacity planning Center of Excellence for global E-Business IT unit. Co-managed performance and availability analytics team in France, China and India.

  • Java and Windows Platform Lead

    2002 - 2004

    Architected, built and ran shared Java, .NET, database, and content hosting platforms with automated release management, 6x-active infrastructure.

  • Web Database Consultant

    2000 - 2002

    - Reverse engineering application software, re-engineering for scalability. - Vendor technical and business evaluations and negotiations for CDN, bandwidth management, content management systems, middleware, etc.

  • Chief Technology Officer, Co-Founder

    1999 - 2000

    • Created business plans, secured investments, hired board and key staff, and managed development of DRM software, ad-based diallers, and customer portal. • Negotiated spectrum rights and contracts with Indian government agencies (TRAI, DoT), telcos, and equipment vendors.

  • Software Engineer

    1998 - 1999

    • Led full lifecycle of pioneering high performance webapps for GE and Evergreen Group, garnering rare 5 star ratings from GE. • Secured executive sponsorship and created technology standards and code libraries for new Web Applications Business group, allowing 
company to capitalize early on market for enterprise web application adoption.

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