Dhiraj Raikantiwar

From signal
to scale.

Data & AI transformation leader

Built through
experience.

16+ years across engineering, consulting, enterprise delivery, and leadership.

Experience across India, Singapore, and the United States shaped a practical leadership style: technically grounded, commercially aware, and built for complex organizations.

2023—NOW

Manager, Data Delivery

PetSmart

Enterprise delivery leadership across data products, platforms, and AI-assisted ways of working.

2021—2023

Data leadership progression

PetSmart

Four roles since joining, with expanding scope across commercial data and delivery.

2012—2021

Consulting & analytics leadership

InfoCepts

Cross-industry programs spanning financial services, media, and enterprise analytics.

2010—2011

Early engineering foundation

Persistent Systems

Built the technical grounding that still informs product and platform decisions.

Education & selected credentials
  • MBA, Organizational LeadershipEastern University · 2026 · GPA 3.88
  • BE, Computer EngineeringUniversity of Pune
  • Building Reliable Conversational Agents with GenieDatabricks Academy · 2026
  • Forward ProgramMcKinsey.org · 2025
  • Google Data Analytics · SAFe 5 PO/PM2022 · 2021
Strategy. Systems. Lasting change.

I turn complex data into trusted decisions and lasting capability.

Enterprise perspective.
A builder’s instinct.
India → Singapore → United States

Decisions that
change the business.

Enterprise work anonymized.

Customer risk intelligence

Wholesale banking · Singapore

Shaped the data and analytics capability behind a customer risk profile analyzer for wholesale banking in Singapore.

Inside the decision

My ownership

Led end-to-end product shaping and owned the data, analytics, and enablement work across an approximately 100-person cross-functional program.

The context

Risk signals lived across complex data and operating boundaries. Leaders needed a clearer, more consistent view of each customer before they could act with confidence.

The decision

Frame the work around the decisions relationship and risk teams needed to make, then organize the data product around those moments.

What changed

Created a shared path from fragmented signals to an actionable customer risk profile, aligning product, data, analytics, and business teams around one operating outcome.

  • End-to-end product shaping
  • Data and analytics ownership
  • ~100-person cross-functional program
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Strategy is only the start.

Strategy becomes real through the system around it. My leadership operating system moves from decision framing to durable capability.

01

Shape the decision

Start with the executive choice, the operating constraint, and the evidence required to move.

02

Build trust into the system

Make quality, governance, ownership, and explainability part of the product, from the start.

03

Orchestrate the change

Align product, engineering, analytics, and business teams around a shared sequence of outcomes.

04

Leave durable capability

Create platforms, practices, and leaders that keep improving after the initial transformation.

“The goal is not a smarter dashboard. It is a stronger decision, made repeatedly.”

I still
build.

Personal products that turn noisy information into a clear next decision.

Valora

From scattered inputs.
To a clearer property decision.

Property intelligence / Maharashtra-first

Property intelligence
from whatever you have.

Built to organize messy property inputs into sourced facts that a buyer can confirm before analysis begins. Maharashtra-first, with explicit evidence and risk boundaries.

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Worth it?A clearer answer before you buy.

Know the value.
Make the call.

A working AI deal advisor for marketplace listings. It turns a URL, image, or description into a value range, decision signals, and a practical negotiation starting point.

Decisions before
dashboards.

The Executive Series. Short, evidence-led briefings on the business choices behind data, AI, and market performance.

CREATIVE WORK

From experiment
to outcome.

Bringing language, music, imagery and motion into one coherent experience, connected by faith, family and care.

A grandmother and granddaughter in prayer, beneath the Hindi album title Man Mein Base Balaji.

THE FINISHED PROOF ARTIFACT

Man Mein
Base Balaji

मन में बसे बालाजी

Four songs and four cinematic devotional stories, connected by faith, family and care.

I directed, selected and edited the work, reviewing emotional intent and continuity as it came together.

Watch the album

What the experiment made visible

The connections between outputs need as much judgment as the outputs themselves. Clear roles, selection and review shaped the finished experience.

This demonstrates a completed creative workflow. Enterprise use requires its own evaluation of reliability, governance, cost and business value.

  1. 01 / Faith2:41

    Har Kadam Govinda

  2. 02 / A mother's love2:13

    Maiya Vakula

  3. 03 / Celebration2:27

    Aaj Saje Srinivas

  4. 04 / Devotion carried home2:23

    Man Mein Base Balaji

Presented by Dhiraj Raikantiwar.

Let’s turn your most complex data into an advantage.

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