Zahir Shaikh.

Zahir Shaikh

AI Architect & Agentic AI leader with 15+ years of hands-on engineering depth across Agentic AI, Generative AI, RPA, and enterprise integration. Proven track record scaling PoCs into Automation & AI Centers of Excellence across two enterprise organizations.

• Pune, India
• +91 9158922786
• zahir.kadar.shaikh@gmail.com

Master's of Computer Science

Savitribai Phule Pune University, Maharashtra, India · Full-Time

Bachelor of Computer Science

Savitribai Phule Pune University, Maharashtra, India · Full-Time

AI LLM Technology Architect - Agentic AI Solutions

Accenture, Pune, MH

• Hands-on technical architect and de facto COE lead for Agentic AI solutions, personally designing state machine-driven multi-agent orchestration and decision flows
• Built enterprise-scale Agentic AI systems for Digital Insights & Sales (DIS), recognized with the Accenture Excellence Award (2026)
• Owns technology evaluation and rapid prototyping across Microsoft (Azure AI Foundry, Agent Framework) and AWS
• Architected domain-based LLM and LoRA routing patterns with event-driven agent orchestration; deployed containerized Generative AI pipelines across private cloud and Azure
• Implemented HMAC-based authentication and Azure Identity for Microsoft Agent-based AI systems

Solution Lead - Generative AI Applications / Digital Transformation

T-Systems ICT Pvt Ltd, Pune, MH

• Established and led the Generative AI / Agentic AI capability (COE) at T-Systems, owning strategy, prototyping, and enterprise-scale delivery
• Designed, prototyped, and delivered the AI Operator, scaled into a production product: AI Innovation Award (2024) and Certificate of Appreciation (2024)
• Defined enterprise AI/automation roadmap and governance standards across finance and telecom domains
• Drove partner-led innovation with Microsoft and Azure platform teams, scaling PoCs into 20-30% efficiency gains

Intelligent Automation Architect

Conneqt Business Solutions, Mumbai

• Technical architect within the enterprise RPA COE for finance and telecom back-office operations
• Led automation discovery and built PoCs using RPA tools, Power BI, Python, Azure APIs, and Google Vision API

Solution Architect - Automation Anywhere

Bangalore

• Designed scalable RPA architectures using Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism for high-volume document processing with IQ Bot
• Defined RPA COE governance and vendor relationships with Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism

Technical Lead

Nuance, Pune

• Led development of enterprise applications integrating ASP.NET with Salesforce; managed teams delivering ASP.NET, SQL Server, Oracle, and ETL pipeline solutions

Senior Associate Consultant

SAS R&D, Pune

• Developed and integrated ASP.NET applications with SAS Marketing Operations using REST APIs and custom web services

Senior Technology Specialist

Simplify Healthcare, Pune

• Designed scalable ASP.NET MVC applications and provided technical leadership for enterprise solution development

Technical Analyst

Ignify

• ASP.NET/SQL Server e-commerce development