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Prem Moola

CTO | Head of Data & AI Platforms | AI Infrastructure | Enterprise Architecture | Ex-Goldman Sachs | BNY Mellon

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Executive Profile

Technology executive with 20+ years of experience building enterprise AI platforms, modernizing data systems, and leading engineering transformation across financial services, SaaS, and media. Combines executive leadership with deep technical credibility across AI platform architecture, cloud-native infrastructure, distributed data systems, developer platforms, and large-scale engineering delivery. Strong fit for CTO, Head of Data & AI, and enterprise AI platform leadership roles requiring platform strategy, technical depth, operating rigor, and measurable business impact. Known for reducing infrastructure cost by 80%, improving reconciliation efficiency by 40%, accelerating time-to-insight by 70%, and scaling global engineering organizations across complex regulated environments. Brings a track record of translating architecture decisions into operating leverage, modernization outcomes, and enterprise adoption.

Core Competencies

AI Platform Architecture
Head of Data and AI Strategy
Agentic AI Systems
LLM Infrastructure and RAG
Data Engineering Platforms
Cloud-Native Architecture
Distributed Data Systems
Engineering Leadership
Selected Impact
Reduced infrastructure cost by 80% at Alteon
Reduced reconciliation time by 40% at BNY Mellon
Reduced time-to-insight by 70% via conversational analytics
Reduced operational cost by 75% at Goldman Sachs

Professional Experience

Srasta.ai (www.srasta.ai)
Founder / CTO
Dec 2025 - Present

Building a private enterprise AI platform focused on secure AI adoption, agent orchestration, developer productivity, and governed tool execution.

  • Built a private enterprise AI platform for regulated environments, combining secure inference, RAG, governed tooling, observability, and policy-aware execution to support production AI adoption
  • Designed infrastructure for multi-agent collaboration, tool orchestration, and AI-native developer workflows aimed at improving enterprise engineering productivity
  • Established an architecture for security-sensitive organizations that need controlled AI adoption without exposing data, prompts, or execution context to third-party services
  • Shaped the platform around private deployment models, auditability, and governed access patterns required by enterprises adopting AI in regulated environments
  • Integrated retrieval, execution, and feedback loops into a cohesive platform model that supports both developer productivity and enterprise control
Diggt (www.diggt.cloud)
Founder & CTO
Aug 2025 - Present

Building an AI-native SaaS product company across productivity, property operations, and workforce management.

  • Built and launched multiple SaaS products including Diggt Habit, Surelease, and Shyftly across distinct operating domains and operating models
  • Established shared cloud-native platform components, deployment patterns, and reusable services to accelerate delivery and reduce duplication across products
  • Integrated agent-assisted workflows, automation patterns, and AI-native product experiences to improve usability, operating efficiency, and product differentiation
  • Led product architecture, infrastructure, engineering execution, and technical direction across multiple products as founder and technical operator
  • Created a common technical foundation spanning application architecture, cloud operations, release patterns, and shared services across the product portfolio
  • Balanced founder-led product iteration with platform discipline, enabling faster product launches without fragmenting the underlying technical stack
BNY Mellon
Senior Director, Alternatives Data
Sep 2024 - Jul 2025
  • Defined enterprise Alternatives Data Strategy, aligning platform modernization with compliance, operating efficiency, and business priorities
  • Led modernization of the alternatives data platform, improving scalability, consistency, lineage, and downstream reporting quality
  • Standardized ingestion from multiple accounting engines into a unified schema and data model, reducing reconciliation time by 40%
  • Delivered conversational analytics capabilities on top of governed enterprise data, reducing time-to-insight by 70% for business users
  • Introduced MCP-based agentic AI workflows for data validation and analytics use cases, extending AI from experimentation into enterprise operations
  • Strengthened the platform foundation for alternatives reporting by improving data quality controls, schema consistency, and operational reliability across upstream sources
  • Connected data strategy, platform modernization, and AI-enabled access patterns into a more usable operating model for business and analytics teams
Third Summit / Alteon.io
Vice President of Engineering
Mar 2021 - Jan 2024
  • Directed engineering for a cloud SaaS platform supporting professional media workflows, high-volume media pipelines, and enterprise customers
  • Reduced infrastructure costs by 80% through architecture optimization, cloud efficiency improvements, and vendor renegotiation, materially improving operating leverage
  • Maintained 99.99% uptime across pipelines and infrastructure supporting global customers and demanding production workloads
  • Integrated with Adobe, Final Cut Pro, and DaVinci Resolve, reducing editorial turnaround time by 50%
  • Helped drive $8M ARR through camera-to-cloud partnerships and workflow integrations with strategic ecosystem partners
  • Led engineering across platform reliability, workflow integrations, delivery execution, and customer-facing product capabilities in a fast-moving SaaS environment
  • Improved the technical and operational foundation needed to support enterprise customers with demanding performance, reliability, and workflow requirements
CAT Technology
Vice President of Engineering
Nov 2017 - Mar 2020
  • Built private cloud infrastructure using VMware and Docker, reducing hosting spend and improving scalability
  • Designed distributed analytics platforms using Hadoop, Spark, HDFS, and Elasticsearch for enterprise data processing and analytics workloads
  • Increased deployment velocity 5x through SDLC standardization, CI/CD automation, and engineering workflow improvements
  • Led a 40-member engineering organization across onshore and offshore teams
  • Established a more scalable engineering operating model by aligning platform engineering, delivery processes, and infrastructure automation
Goldman Sachs
Vice President, Engineering
Sep 2004 - May 2017
  • Managed a 46-node Sybase IQ cluster and reduced operational costs by 75%
  • Built enterprise data platforms using Hadoop, Spark, and MemSQL for analytics, large-scale reporting, and regulatory workflows
  • Delivered high-volume, low-latency systems supporting global trading and risk operations
  • Directed regulatory technology supporting CFTC, ESMA, JFSA, NSD, and Canada reporting requirements
  • Combined large-scale data engineering, regulatory execution, and operational reliability to support critical front-office and reporting workloads
  • Built a strong foundation in enterprise architecture, distributed systems, and regulated data platforms within a global financial institution

Education

MS, Computer Science | Fairleigh Dickinson University

BS, Computer Science Engineering | University of Madras