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Data and AI consulting leader with 20+ years designing, building, and delivering data platforms, cloud architectures, and enterprise integration solutions, with hands-on depth in modern generative and agentic AI systems. I own client relationships end-to-end—managing scope, stakeholders, and governance—while staying hands-on through architecture validation, prototyping, and implementation, and mentoring teams to build delivery capability across engagements. I combine executive-level advisory with direct, hands-on delivery across data platforms (Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data, Databricks, OneLake, lakehouse), cloud integration, and applied AI such as RAG/GraphRAG, agentic systems, tool use, AI evaluation, and governance.…Data and AI consulting leader with 20+ years designing, building, and delivering data platforms, cloud architectures, and enterprise integration solutions, with hands-on depth in modern generative and agentic AI systems. I own client relationships end-to-end—managing scope, stakeholders, and governance—while staying hands-on through architecture validation, prototyping, and implementation, and mentoring teams to build delivery capability across engagements. I combine executive-level advisory with direct, hands-on delivery across data platforms (Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data, Databricks, OneLake, lakehouse), cloud integration, and applied AI such as RAG/GraphRAG, agentic systems, tool use, AI evaluation, and governance.

Apurva Mody

AI Strategy Consultant, Architect, AI Engineer, +3

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Data and AI consulting leader with 20+ years designing, building, and delivering data platforms, cloud architectures, and enterprise integration solutions, with hands-on depth in modern generative and agentic AI systems. I own client relationships end-to-end—managing scope, stakeholders, and governance—while staying hands-on through architecture validation, prototyping, and implementation, and mentoring teams to build delivery capability across engagements. I combine executive-level advisory with direct, hands-on delivery across data platforms (Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data, Databricks, OneLake, lakehouse), cloud integration, and applied AI such as RAG/GraphRAG, agentic systems, tool use, AI evaluation, and governance.…Data and AI consulting leader with 20+ years designing, building, and delivering data platforms, cloud architectures, and enterprise integration solutions, with hands-on depth in modern generative and agentic AI systems. I own client relationships end-to-end—managing scope, stakeholders, and governance—while staying hands-on through architecture validation, prototyping, and implementation, and mentoring teams to build delivery capability across engagements. I combine executive-level advisory with direct, hands-on delivery across data platforms (Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data, Databricks, OneLake, lakehouse), cloud integration, and applied AI such as RAG/GraphRAG, agentic systems, tool use, AI evaluation, and governance.

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Data and AI consulting leader with 20+ years designing, building, and delivering data platforms, cloud architectures, and enterprise integration solutions, with hands-on depth in modern generative and agentic AI systems. I own client relationships end-to-end—managing scope, stakeholders, and governance—while staying hands-on through architecture validation, prototyping, and implementation, and mentoring teams to build delivery capability across engagements.

I combine executive-level advisory with direct, hands-on delivery across data platforms (Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data, Databricks, OneLake, lakehouse), cloud integration, and applied AI such as RAG/GraphRAG, agentic systems, tool use, AI evaluation, and governance.

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Work Experience

Principal Consultant — Applied AI Architecture at Independent Enterprise Data & AI Advisory

August 1, 2025 - Present

Established an independent enterprise architecture and AI advisory practice combining hands-on prototyping and delivery with executive-level strategy. Designed AI integration patterns across Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, and Azure data environments (OneLake, Fabric/warehouse) to connect generative/agentic AI with governed enterprise data and knowledge stores. Translated ambiguous business objectives into scoped, testable solution slices and advised on AI adoption strategy, enterprise architecture, and governance frameworks. Evaluated emerging AI platforms and tooling hands-on (Claude Code, RAGAS, LangChain, LlamaIndex) to improve engineering productivity and inform delivery accelerators.

Principal Program Manager — AI Strategy, Research & Customer Enablement at Microsoft

January 1, 2022 - July 31, 2025

Bridged Microsoft Research, product engineering, and enterprise customers by turning emerging AI capabilities and ambiguous customer problems into experiments, prototypes, and adoption paths. Partnered with Data & AI product teams to design and implement AI integration patterns using Microsoft Fabric, Azure AI Foundry, and Azure data environments including OneLake, Azure Databricks, and Fabric Data Warehouse. Owned discovery and solution shaping for GraphRAG across 30+ enterprise customers in 6+ industries, improving query accuracy and user satisfaction versus basic RAG. Assessed feasibility and mapped enterprise data and knowledge workflows into RAG, GraphRAG, multi-step reasoning, tool-use, and human-review patterns while addressing data quality, retrieval, security, and integration constraints. Designed model benchmarking workflows in Azure AI Foundry to compare retrieval quality and accuracy across OpenAI, Hugging Face models, and Anthropic models for evidence-based enterprise adop

Principal AI Leader / Principal Program Manager — AI Strategy, Research & Customer Enablement at Microsoft

January 1, 2022 - July 31, 2025

Bridged Microsoft Research, product engineering, and enterprise customers from 2022–2025, turning emerging AI capabilities into practical experiments, prototypes, and adoption paths. Partnered with Data & AI product teams to design and implement AI integration patterns using Microsoft Fabric, Azure AI Foundry, and Azure data environments, producing reusable accelerators and roadmap input from real customer evidence. Owned discovery and solution shaping for GraphRAG across 30+ customers in 6+ industries, improving query accuracy by 50%+ and user satisfaction by 2–3x versus basic RAG. Designed model benchmarking workflows in Azure AI Foundry to enable evidence-based AI adoption and advised customers on feasibility, retrieval/quality constraints, security, integration, and governance.

Principal Azure Solution Architect at Microsoft

January 1, 2019 - December 31, 2021

Led 50+ enterprise data and cloud transformation engagements across Azure, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments from discovery through execution. Architected enterprise data and AI platforms including Databricks lakehouse with Unity Catalog for centralized governance, access control, and lineage, integrating Databricks with Microsoft Fabric and OneLake to unify governed data. Planned stakeholder change management, cutover strategy, and risk/recovery. Led cross-functional teams across cloud, data, network, security/IAM, DevOps CI/CD, IaC, and MLOps, reviewing and validating designs to ensure production-ready delivery. Drove competitive wins versus AWS/GCP with partners such as Snowflake and Databricks, generating $2–15M in additional ARR in some multi-cloud accounts.

Principal Cloud Solution Architect — Data & AI at Microsoft

February 1, 2016 - December 31, 2018

Delivered 50+ enterprise architecture and modernization engagements across healthcare, financial services, and government, including regulated environments. Conducted discovery, architecture assessments, and solution workshops to convert legacy constraints and business goals into secure, governed cloud and data implementation paths. Designed and implemented enterprise data platforms balancing data quality, security, compliance, integration, and operational ownership.

Independent Technology & Consulting Leader

January 1, 2006 - December 31, 2015

Owned full lifecycle discovery, architecture, and delivery of enterprise data and cloud transformations as the single accountable leader from ambiguous client need through implementation. Managed a $50M+ portfolio across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and defense, resolving cross-functional priorities and delivery constraints. Directed large-scale program delivery of data warehousing and cloud transformation initiatives for Fortune 500 companies and the U.S. Department of Defense, from architecture through go-live.

PMO Manager, Outsourcing & Operations at IBM Global Services

January 1, 2003 - December 31, 2005

Managed service delivery and financial modeling across large-scale outsourced accounts with $250M–$750M annual revenue. Led financial planning for an $180M multi-year contract extension.