Open to VP / Director roles

Narayanan "Nana" Satyamurthy

Technology Operations & Service Delivery·Engineering Leadership·AI Transformation

18+ years running enterprise platforms and global delivery teams at Bayer, Cognizant, JP Morgan Chase and CVS Health — and a hands-on builder of production AI voice platforms.

18+ yrsenterprise IT operations & delivery leadership
$750M+digital platform run 24×7 across 23 countries (Bayer)
96h → 90mmean time to restore, with zero repeat major incidents
400+engineers guided through an org-wide SAFe transformation
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I run technology operations at enterprise scale, and I build with AI myself.

At Bayer I led global 24×7 operations for FieldView, a $750M+ digital farming platform in 23 countries: mean time to restore dropped from 96 hours to 90 minutes, SLA compliance rose from 40% to 85%, and I helped steer 400+ engineers through Bayer's SAFe transformation. Before that I led a 104-person global delivery organization at Cognizant, and India technology integration through the Bear Stearns, Washington Mutual and Bank of New York transactions at JP Morgan Chase. Today I lead service delivery for 42+ enterprise platforms at CVS Health.

Since 2025 I've also built AI products end to end, as founder of KnoxCalls LLC: four AI platforms in production, for home services, restaurants, recruiting and fraud protection, with four more in development. Building them keeps my AI judgment grounded in what actually ships, and that's what I bring to AI transformation inside an enterprise.

Target roles
VP / Director — Technology Operations, Service Delivery, Engineering
Industries
Healthcare, AgTech, Retail & eCommerce, Banking
Frameworks
ITIL v4 · SAFe · SRE · Cloud FinOps
Based in
Knoxville, TN
Education
B.Sc. Electronics (dual major, Electronics & MIS)

18+ years of enterprise delivery

Platforms, people and P&L at scale, across healthcare, agtech, retail and banking.

CVS
CVS Health — Remote, Knoxville TN Nov 2024 – Present
Sr. Service Delivery Manager (Contract) – Applications Support
  • End-to-end infrastructure and application service delivery for 42+ enterprise Tier 1/2 platforms, including call center IVR infrastructure
  • Sustained 98%+ SLA compliance with executive-level reporting on platform health, risk and delivery performance
  • Migrated 14 applications from MSPs to in-house teams (~4 weeks per app), cutting delivery costs ~20%
  • Built internal LLM tooling that auto-updates runbooks from ServiceNow tickets and RCAs; deployed Teams-integrated self-serve chatbots
BAY
Bayer Crop Science — Remote, Knoxville TN Aug 2022 – Jun 2024
Senior Engineering Manager – Application & Infrastructure Operations
  • Led global 24×7 operations for FieldView, Bayer's $750M+ digital farming platform — 23 countries, 400+ microservices, 99.9% availability
  • Reduced MTTR from 96 hours to 90 minutes with zero repeat major incidents; raised SLA compliance from 40% to 85% Better Because of You award
  • Core member of the working group that led Bayer's org-wide SAFe transformation, guiding Application Support and 400+ engineers across multiple Agile Release Trains Better Because of You award
  • Cut operational disruptions 60% during critical planting and harvest seasons through an infrastructure reliability strategy
  • Cloud FinOps: right-sizing and auto-scaling cut EC2/ELB spend ~30%; RI/Savings Plans coverage to 70%+ cut baseline compute costs 35%
CTS
Cognizant Technology Solutions — South Plainfield, NJ Oct 2015 – Aug 2022
Associate Service Delivery Director – App Dev & Maintenance
  • Led a 104-person global team (US, Poland, India) delivering for Fortune 500 ecommerce and retail clients Best Service Delivery Award
  • Grew account revenue from $9M to $13M TCV; supported $2B+ in holiday retail revenue with zero Sev-1 incidents
  • Led a 6-week infrastructure transition for a major consumer electronics retailer; reduced outages 60%
  • Built an enterprise cloud cost-tagging taxonomy (100% spend attribution across 40+ apps) and a FinOps show-back framework that surfaced $500K+ in annualized savings
JPM
JP Morgan Chase — Bangalore, India Jan 2006 – Jun 2012
Assistant Vice President – Global Technology & Infrastructure
  • Led India technology integration for the Bear Stearns, Washington Mutual and Bank of New York transactions Global Partnership Award
  • Led Identity & Access Management for the Investment Bank and Commercial Bank; managed 42+ professionals
  • Led an 84% automation of a ~$20M paper-to-electronic process transformation
  • Drove a 300%+ increase in the India operations footprint; automation delivered 36 FTE in efficiency gains

AI products I've built end to end

Designed, built and operated as sole founder and engineer. Each one taught me something about running AI in production that a vendor demo doesn't.

In production

4 platforms
KC
KnoxCalls NightWatch
After-hours answering for home services · knoxcalls.com

Outcome: an AI voice agent triages after-hours calls for HVAC, plumbing and electrical businesses, pages on-call technicians for emergencies until someone acknowledges, and logs routine leads to a CRM.

How: real-time emergency classification, an escalation loop over SMS and voice, and a full observability stack with SLO-based alerting, run at 98%+ SLA.

VapiTwilioGPT-4oSupabaseGrafana Cloud
Vo
Voco
AI phone ordering for restaurants · voco.goldenkall.com

Outcome: handles up to 20 concurrent calls, recognizes repeat callers and routes orders to the kitchen with no staff involvement.

How: menu import from a photo in under 60 seconds (GPT-4o Vision), Square and Toast POS integration, and subscription-plus-usage billing.

Retell AIGPT-4o VisionSquare / ToastStripe
JobQual
AI screening agent for recruiting agencies · jobqual.goldenkall.com

Outcome: runs inbound and outbound screening calls, scores candidates against per-role rubrics, books interviews and syncs to the ATS.

How: embedding-based matching with a GPT-4o reranker, encrypted PII, do-not-call enforcement and Greenhouse integration; 353 backend tests green.

Embeddings + rerankerpgvectorVapiGreenhouse
CS
CallSentry
Scam protection for older adults and their families

Outcome: analyzes live calls and texts for fraud patterns (urgency, gift-card requests, impersonation) and alerts family members the moment a threat appears.

How: streaming speech-to-text plus an LLM threat classifier, with a native Android app that intercepts live calls.

WhisperGPT-4o-miniAndroid (Kotlin)

In development

4 products and tools
Cx
crosst
Multi-tenant AI outbound dialer

What: outbound calling campaigns where each tenant switches on the Skills and premium Add-ons it needs.

How: built on Dograh, the open-source voice-agent platform, so telephony, speech-to-text and voice providers stay swappable instead of locked to one vendor.

DograhMulti-provider voiceMulti-tenant
Ri
Ringer
Persona-driven AI receptionist

What: answers calls as the owner's stand-in, while a companion Builder Agent runs coaching calls with the owner to deepen the persona over time.

How: layered prompt composition, voiceprint recognition for returning callers, and vector search over the owner's knowledge.

Voice AIVector search
HireMe
Personal job-search tool

What: pulls listings from ATS boards into one feed, scores fit against a CV with an LLM, and drafts tailored application materials.

LLM fit scoringATS aggregation
ma
manas
Cognitive exercise app

What: structured cognitive-training exercises with progress tracking. Early stage.

In development

Hearth: the thinking behind my current R&D

Hearth is caregiver coordination for adult children of aging parents: an honest weekly picture of how a parent is doing, built from a commodity sensor kit in the home. It isn't a product yet. What's worth showing is how it's being built.

A thesis, not a feature list

AI reasoning will become a commodity; accountability won't. So the loop that acts on or reports about a person stays deliberately simple (a calibrated estimator, declarative rules, an audit trace), and "why did it do that?" always has a short answer. Frontier models work at the edges: understanding speech, narrating traces, writing the weekly summary. It makes no clinical claims; every sentence traces back to what was sensed.

AI models with defined roles

Each model has a job and written limits on what it may change.

  • Architectrequirements & design
  • Orchestratorplans, dispatches, reviews
  • Implementercode, only against a written spec
  • Documenterrunbooks & summaries

Discipline you can audit

One ledger holds every decision and its rationale. Assumptions are listed so they can be tested and killed, and every session ends with a clean handoff.

60+working sessions
160+logged decisions
~700automated tests

It's the same operating model I'd bring to AI adoption on an enterprise team: clear roles, written decisions, audit trails, and a human accountable for every change.

A field instrument for spider-web research

Hardware meets biology: a low-cost field instrument co-invented with a postdoctoral researcher.

Field-Deployable, Self-Calibrating Vibration Analysis System for Spider Web Characterization

Co-invented with Dr. Bharat Parthasarathy (SSSIHL, India) · Prototype built and field-validated

Spider-web vibration research normally relies on lab-bound laser vibrometers costing tens of thousands of dollars. This instrument takes comparable measurements in the field at about 1/100th of the cost, from off-the-shelf parts in a novel configuration.

  • Hardware: ESP32 + MPU6050 accelerometer + vibration motor, with independent sensor and exciter modules for spatial frequency mapping across a web
  • Self-calibrating: real-time environmental baselining, orientation compensation and noise filtering; runs from a smartphone over its own Wi-Fi, with no laptop or internet
  • Status: patent counsel completed a formal patentability search; the project isn't being pursued for filing and remains an internally validated prototype

Where I add value

Operations leadership first, with enough hands-on AI and cloud depth to lead the teams doing the work.

Service Delivery & Operations

  • ITIL v4 service management — incident, problem, change
  • SRE practices and major-incident management
  • SLA / OKR design and executive reporting
  • MSP transitions and vendor management
  • SAFe and Agile at scale

AI & LLM

  • LLM applications on OpenAI and Anthropic (Claude) models
  • RAG, embeddings and LLM rerankers — e.g. GPT-4o reranker in JobQual
  • Vision OCR — e.g. GPT-4o Vision menu import in Voco
  • Speech-to-text — Whisper, Deepgram
  • Multi-model, spec-driven agentic development

Voice & Telephony

  • Voice-agent platforms — Vapi, Retell AI, Dograh
  • Telephony — Twilio, SignalWire
  • Text-to-speech — ElevenLabs, Cartesia
  • Call center IVR infrastructure

Cloud, Platform & FinOps

  • AWS; multi-cloud monitoring
  • Cloud FinOps — cost tagging, right-sizing, RI / Savings Plans
  • Multi-tenant SaaS architecture — Supabase, row-level security
  • Docker and CI/CD

Observability & ITSM

  • ServiceNow ITSM
  • Datadog, AppDynamics, Splunk, ELK
  • Grafana Cloud — Prometheus, Loki
  • Jira / Confluence

Let's talk

Open to VP / Director roles in technology operations, service delivery and engineering, and to senior AI engineering roles. Also open to consulting and partnership conversations around my AI products.