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Sunil Rawat
Founder of Omniscience Corporation
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Sunil Rawat is a seasoned professional with a background in underwriting automation, capital management, risk management, and brute force machine learning. Currently serving as the Co-Founder and CEO of Omniscience Corporation, he has held key roles at companies like Nokia and Hewlett-Packard, showcasing expertise in IT operations, enterprise software, and cloud computing. Key highlights of his career include founding Omniscience Corporation and serving as the Chief Technology Officer at Crescendant.
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.
Omniscience Corporation provides underwriting automation and risk intelligence.
Raised $23,000,000.00 from RGAx, Guardian Life, Oriza Ventures, Toshi Otani and Asahi Media Lab Ventures.
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.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an edge-to-cloud company that uses comprehensive solutions to accelerate business outcomes.
Raised $1,350,000,000.00.
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.