Raja Narravulla

Raja Narravulla

AI Engineering Manager
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE)

About Me

Enterprise AI Architect and AI Engineering Manager with 18+ years of experience in AI development, solution architecture, and enterprise programme delivery. 4+ years of hands-on Generative AI and Agentic AI
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Experience

Manager — Enterprise Applications & AI

Trojan Construction & Holding Group | Abu Dhabi, UAE
May 2025 - Present · 1 year 2 months

Leading the Enterprise Digital Factory for a diversified conglomerate with ~10,000+ employees.
Established AI Wing within IT; designed, built, and delivered 10+ production Agentic AI solutions within 12 months.
Architected LLMOps framework (Copilot Studio, Power Automate, Azure AI); deployed self-hosted LLM stack for data-sovereign workloads.
Built RAG solutions and intelligent workflows using N8N, Pinecone, Supabase, OpenAI, Airtable, and Apify.
Delivery Manager for core Business Management & Transactions System (BMS) — outsourced to a large corporate vendor; managing SLAs, change requests, escalations, and strategic roadmap alignment.
Acting as bridge across vendor teams, internal developers, network support, and executive stakeholders.
Leading cross-functional engineering team (.NET, React, Node.js, Java, Python, Camunda), driving DevOps maturity and governance frameworks.
Portfolio ownership: legacy systems, Azure cloud platforms, COTS applications; driving ERP transformation programme.
Managing multiple external vendors — contracts, performance reviews, change control, and escalation paths.

Manager — Enterprise Applications & AI

Trojan Construction & Holding Group, Abu Dhabi, UAE
May 2025 - Present · 1 year 2 months

Established AI Wing within IT, Architected LLMOps framework, Built RAG solutions and intelligent workflows, Delivery Manager for core Business Management & Transactions System, Leading cross-functional engineering team, Portfolio ownership of legacy systems, Azure cloud platforms, COTS applications, Managing multiple external vendors

Associate Director — AI Products, Data & Analytics

Trusting Social | Bangalore, India
Sep 2019 - Apr 2025 · 5 years 7 months

Spearheaded Gen-AI product development — RAG agents achieving 6x scale, 80% faster resolution, +20% CSAT.
Architected telecom credit scoring platform for 600M subscribers; CDR-based address verification reducing BGV from days to seconds.
Built document processing pipelines, semantic search, and knowledge base chatbots using Cohere, pgvector, and Supabase.
Full budget ownership for staffing, infrastructure, and tooling across multiple AI product lines.
Built and managed Data & Analytics discipline from ground up — team structure, hiring, delivery governance.
Achieved ISO 27001 certification; led data centre migration during pandemic with zero downtime.

Associate Director — AI Products, Data & Analytics

Trusting Social, Bangalore, India
Sep 2019 - Apr 2025 · 5 years 7 months

Spearheaded Gen-AI product development, Architected telecom credit scoring platform, Built document processing pipelines, Programme & Team Management, Full budget ownership, Built and managed Data & Analytics discipline, Achieved ISO 27001 certification

Program Manager — Data & Analytics

Equifax India | Bangalore
Apr 2016 - Sep 2019 · 3 years 5 months

Directed large-scale analytics programmes — Fraud Indexes and Propensity Models achieving 30% improvement in risk assessment.
Real-time Tableau dashboards processing 1.4 billion retail records monthly; delivered on time and within budget.
Cloud migration programme (SAS/SQL → GCP Python/Spark) — 40% processing speed improvement.
Managed vendor and partner relationships across data sourcing, tooling, and delivery.

Program Manager — Data & Analytics

Equifax India, Bangalore
Apr 2016 - Sep 2019 · 3 years 5 months

Directed large-scale analytics programmes, Real-time Tableau dashboards processing 1.4 billion retail records monthly, Cloud migration programme, Managed vendor and partner relationships

PMO Lead / Project Delivery Manager

Petrofac | Dubai, UAE
Jul 2007 - Apr 2015 · 7 years 9 months

Established IT-PMO framework for a large Oil & Gas organisation; progressed from Software Engineer to PMO Lead.
Deployed Microsoft ePM suite — reduced project delivery timelines by 50%.
Managed multi-vendor IT projects across infrastructure, enterprise applications, and emerging technology.
Innovation Awards: 2014, 2017, 2018 — Cloud and Blockchain initiatives.

PMO Lead / Project Delivery Manager

Petrofac, Dubai, UAE
Jul 2007 - Apr 2015 · 7 years 9 months

Established IT-PMO framework, Deployed Microsoft ePM suite, Managed multi-vendor IT projects, Received Innovation Awards in 2014, 2017, 2018

IT Project Manager

Etisalat UAE

IT Project Manager

Vision Technologies | Sharjah

Web Developer

Cyber Gear | Dubai

Software Developer

Blackapple Solutions | UK

Skills

Python Azure Flask Docker ISO 27001 Node.js React TOGAF Agentic AI LLMOps RAG Pipelines Power Automate Programme Delivery Vendor Management Copilot Studio Azure AI Teams PMP GCP Architect Data Engineer ML Engineer FastAPI GCP Agile/Scrum PMO Setup Stakeholder Management CrewAI AutoGen LangChain QLoRA PEFT Ollama vLLM LiteLLM Qdrant Open WebUI N8N Outlook Pinecone Supabase Agile Scrum OpenAI Airtable Apify Camunda .NET Java Cohere SQL Spark Kafka Airflow Pandas Angular Tableau Power BI
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