Senior Architect · GenAI · FinTech

Engineering the
next layer of
enterprise AI.

I bring over 17 years of cross-functional leadership across Capital Markets and enterprise automation, with a recent emphasis on shaping governance frameworks for Generative AI within the financial technology sector.

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  "research": "Gen AI + Enterprise Systems",
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GENAI QUALITY ENGINEERING FINTECH AGENTIC AI RESEARCH DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
// PROFILE

ABOUT

I build at the intersection of enterprise engineering, Quality Engineering, Capital Markets and AI.

My career has evolved from software engineering and automation into architecture, transformation and AI-enabled engineering. My professional focus includes Capital Markets Technology, Quality Engineering and enterprise delivery.

Today, I focus on GenAI, agentic engineering, intelligent quality practices and the governance needed to make emerging AI useful in production — not just impressive in a demo.

Alongside industry work, I am pursuing an MBA in FinTech through BITS Pilani WILP and developing applied research around controllable AI systems, including Dynamic Inference-Time Knowledge Isolation (DIKI).

ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURECAPITAL MARKETSGENAIQUALITY ENGINEERINGFINTECHAI RESEARCH
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EXPERIENCE

swarup@career:~$
$ load_career --all --format=timeline
Initializing career data...
Found enterprise roles across technology & financial services
Sorting by relevance...
$ load_role --id cognizant --focus ai-qe
▸ AI / QE / CAPITAL MARKETS
2008 · PRESENT

COGNIZANT

Senior Architect · GenAI · Quality Engineering

  • Working on enterprise Quality Engineering and AI/GenAI transformation.
  • Working across capital-markets technology and complex financial-services delivery.
  • Connecting automation, architecture, GenAI and engineering governance.
GENAIQEARCHITECTURECAPITAL MARKETS
2020 · PRESENT

INDEPENDENT RESEARCHER

Generative AI · Small Language Models

  • Progressed through engineering and automation to pivot into independent research, focusing on SLM architecture, compression, and domain-specific fine-tuning.
  • Built and evolved evaluation frameworks and quality practices tailored for generative AI reliability and efficiency.
GENAI SLM FINE-TUNING MODEL EVALUATION PROMPT OPTIMIZATION AI AUTOMATION
01

GenAI & Agentic AI

LLMs, RAG, AI agents, MCP-style orchestration, AI-assisted engineering and enterprise adoption patterns.

LLM · RAG · Agents · MCP · GenAI
02

Quality Engineering

Enterprise test strategy, automation architecture, CI/CD quality gates, intelligent testing and QE transformation.

QE · Automation · CI/CD · Architecture
03

FinTech & Capital Markets

Technology and engineering experience across financial-services platforms, with current academic work in FinTech.

FinTech · BFS · Capital Markets
04

Research & Innovation

Applied research connecting emerging AI techniques with practical enterprise engineering and governance challenges.

Research · AI Governance · IP · Writing

Ideas that move from concept to system.

Selected professional and research themes. Where a project or result is not publicly documented, the site describes it as a research direction or concept rather than a verified production deployment.

02
ENTERPRISE · AI + QE

AI-Driven Quality Engineering

Exploring how GenAI, agentic workflows and intelligent automation can transform software testing, defect analysis, test design and engineering productivity in regulated enterprise environments.

GenAI · QE · Agents · Automation
03
INNOVATION · ENGINEERING

Enterprise AI Knowledge & Routing

Architectural concepts for routing enterprise knowledge and AI capabilities across tools, teams and delivery workflows while preserving governance and contextual relevance.

RAG · Knowledge Routing · Governance
04
IP · INVENTION

AI & Engineering Inventions

Innovation work spanning AI-assisted engineering and runtime reliability, including invention disclosures developed through enterprise technology initiatives.

Innovation · IP · AI Engineering

Research with an engineering bias.

My research interests focus on making AI systems more controllable, explainable and useful in real-world enterprise settings.

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DIKI

Dynamic Inference-Time Knowledge Isolation — reversible, selective knowledge suppression at inference time.

AI SYSTEMS

AI + QE

Agentic and GenAI approaches for software quality, testing, engineering productivity and governance.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

FinTech

Academic exploration of digital financial ecosystems, business models and public digital infrastructure.

BITS PILANI WILP

Credentials that travel.

Verified certifications and professional learning shown on my public LinkedIn profile.

AWSAWS

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Issued Jun 2022 · Amazon Web Services

AWSAWS

Migration Ambassador Foundations (Business)

Issued Sep 2022 · Amazon Web Services

GoogleGOOGLE

Generative AI for Business Leaders

Issued Jul 2025 · Expires Sep 2026

GitHubGITHUB

GitHub Foundations

Issued Mar 2025 · Expires Mar 2028

Google CloudGOOGLE CLOUD

Cloud Digital Leader

Issued Jul 2022 · Public profile shows Jul 2025 expiry

Microsoft AzureMICROSOFT

AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

Microsoft · credential listed publicly

ISBINDIAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Certificate Course in Entrepreneurship

Indian School of Business

Scrum AllianceSCRUM ALLIANCE

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Scrum Alliance

OracleORACLE

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2022 Foundations Associate

Oracle

NIESBUDNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP

EDP on How to Start Your Own Business

Issued Sep 2021 · NIESBUD

A record of recognition.

Recognition recorded on my public LinkedIn profile — kept separate from professional certifications.

2025
E-CORNELL UNIVERSITY

E-Cornell Emerging Leaders

Leadership recognition listed on my public professional profile.

2018
COGNIZANT

10 Years Service Award

Long-service recognition from Cognizant.

2016
COGNIZANT

Star Performer Award

Performance recognition recorded on the public profile.

2015
COGNIZANT

Innovator Award

Innovation recognition recorded on the public profile.

2014
COGNIZANT

Innovation Champion

Innovation recognition recorded on the public profile.

2013
COGNIZANT

Idea Champion 2013

Idea and innovation recognition recorded on the public profile.

2012
COGNIZANT

Idea Champion Award

Idea and innovation recognition recorded on the public profile.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPIEEETechnical community & professional engagement
Enterprise AI will not be won by models alone. It will be won by the engineering systems, quality practices and governance that make those models trustworthy.
— Swarup Roy · Technology & AI Engineering

Ideas in public.
Systems in practice.

Writing about enterprise AI, software quality, governance, FinTech, product strategy and the changing role of engineers.

LATEST · MAR 2026

The Enterprise Nervous System: A Governance Model for Agentic AI

Governance for autonomous AI through policy grounding, continuous telemetry, human escalation and behavior-level control.

Read on Medium ↗
SELECTED WRITING

Token Is the New Compute

Why token consumption changes the way AI systems need to be designed, measured and scaled.

Read article ↗
SELECTED WRITING

Beyond the Black Box: 7-Layer Testing Model

A proposed engineering model for testing and observing agentic AI systems beyond conventional software QA.

Read article ↗
SELECTED WRITING

Rethinking RAG: Why OKF Could Be the Next Step

Exploring structured, connected enterprise knowledge as an alternative lens to chunk-first retrieval.

Read article ↗
SELECTED WRITING

AI Is Writing the Code. Most Developers Can’t Read It.

Why engineering depth becomes more valuable when AI can generate increasingly sophisticated software.

Read article ↗

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