Vivek Agarwal

Technology Leader| NLP | Digital Clinical Trials| Real-World Data| SaaS

Westborough, MA, US

About

A leader of cross-functional global teams with over 20 years of full stack enterprise software development experience. My responsibilities include leadership, commitment, technical and architectural designing along with code reviews, mentoring, coaching, budgeting, and coordinating various scrum teams. Outcome-oriented track record of delivering outstanding technology products that meet business results. I am proficient in architecting novel development and convert ideas into the product. I work on presenting, delivering and building relationships via support to the customers, vendors and partners. I have led the teams to deliver exceptional results in enterprise SaaS and PaaS, micro-services development, Python, Java, .NET/C#, JSON, REST APIs, Web Socket, React as web development framework, Jetty, PostgreSQL, NoSQL Elastic search, AWS cloud Gateway APIs, Cloud Volumes, Messaging Queues, and Jenkins. I have used Machine learning (tensor flow) to predict the remaining useful life of components along with many other innovations.

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Work experience

  1. March 2022 – present

    ConcertAI

    Vice President, Head of Software Development
  2. August 2020 – February 2022

    ConcertAI

    Senior Director of Software Engineering
  3. February 2019 – August 2020

    Concerto HealthAI

    Director of Software Engineering
    While driving innovation, cutting edge experience with digital clinical trials, CDISC ODM for clinical studies, eConsent, EMR to EDC exchange over FHIR server for both structured and unstructured datasets, CDISC SDTM analysis. AI model-based patient e-screening, enrollment, CRF generation and submission to EDC along with study updates to the sponsor. Leading a global technical team in building an enterprise cloud-deployed SaaS platform with a flexible micro-services based architecture. - Analytic services are based upon Python Django and Flask based framework. - RedShift as data warehouse for analytical services Leading a distributed DevOps/CloudOps team to deploy SaaS application stack - AWS EKS, ElasticSearch, AWS RedShift, RDS Postgres, Glue as an ETL pipeline service orchestration, SageMaker, AWS Batch, Splunk etc. - CI/CD pipeline "One Touch" deployments with Jenkins, automation with Terraform, Ansible along with Lambda. NLP based Clinical Trial Services: AI/NLP-based Information Extraction for clinical candidate selection: - Platform-agnostic Cloud-based application development (Kubernetes, containers, micro-services) - NLP services to extract entities, relations, assertions, and map entity to canonical medical taxonomies. - Combined approach for clinical information extraction (rule-based and traditional ML) with Databricks/EMR. Workflows for Bio-informatics: - Digitalize component-based study workbench for data analysis, concept code and target code list mapping. - Enables bioinformaticians to rapidly prototype and analyze their omics data using it as a library. Leveraging RWD Oncology datasets from ASCO to optimize biopharma research portfolio and drug development along with looking into AI driven Clinical development.
  4. January 2004 – January 2019

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise

    Senior Software Development Manager, Master Technologist
    Along with technical occupation, I am managing global scrum teams of software developers and quality engineers spread across multiple locations in the US and India in an agile environment. I am considered accountable for the interactions with the Program and Product Management along with vertical and horizontal hierarchical customers. I am currently architecting Micro Services based software-defined infrastructure application in Java, JSON, REST API, Web Sockets, PostgreSQL, Providers, React, High Chart, and Cloud volumes. I also provide development support to various deal exceptions from field to motivate and help business and accounts team. Few highlights of my career and creations. Firstly, I architected, designed, and developed a 3rd party data migration tool for data movement Secondly, I co-invented Smart SAN technology and created the interfaces to create target driven peer zones along with end-device registrations and in-band diagnostics. Thirdly, my prized masterpiece, Fabric Services Automation. Lastly, working on Software Defined Infrastructure Micro Services which will show case my full stack software development experience and expertise.
  5. January 2003 – January 2004

    CoreLogic

    Sr. Software Engineer
    Formerly First Indian Corporation Private Limited The interesting role was to develop C#/ ASP.NET/SQL based US Title insurance application.

Education

  1. 2023 – 2023

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Professional Certification, Applied Data Science
  2. 2000 – 2002

    Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management Gwalior

    M.Tech, Information Technology
  3. 1996 – 2000

    Institute of Engineering & Technology, Bareilly

    BTech, EE