Executive profile
Vivek RP
Senior Technology Leader · AI Enablement · Enterprise Architecture
Cincinnati, Ohio
Senior technology executive with 24+ years leading enterprise software, mobile platforms, and digital transformation across retail, logistics, and telecom. I combine boardroom-scale program leadership with hands-on engineering — from SAP-integrated mobile fleets at Fortune 500 scale to autonomous systems built in my personal lab. Today I focus on AI enablement and cloud optimization at global enterprise scale, while maintaining a long-running portfolio of independent projects in robotics, embedded systems, RTK navigation, and edge AI. That dual lens — executive delivery and builder’s curiosity — is how I evaluate technology bets, mentor teams, and ship outcomes that last.
Leadership
How I lead technology organizations
Enterprise transformation
Envision and execute technology roadmaps that align architecture, portfolio investment, and business process change — from omnichannel retail to logistics at global scale.
AI enablement with judgment
Bridge the gap between AI hype and production value. Hands-on experience with edge AI, agentic workflows, and ML fundamentals informs how I guide enterprise adoption responsibly.
Builder-leader credibility
Teams trust leaders who have debugged serial ports at midnight. My personal lab work — Mobimower autonomy, Jetson edge stacks, RTK GPS — keeps technical intuition current.
Cross-functional delivery
Track record leading mobile, integration, BI, and platform teams across Infosys, SPI, Macy’s, Bon-Ton, Cintas, UST, and UPS without losing sight of the operator on the ground.
Personal engineering
Independent R&D portfolio
A decade of documented hands-on work — autonomy, edge AI, mobility, and embedded systems. This is the evidence behind the executive narrative: I still build, measure, and ship.
Mobimower
Modular autonomy retrofit for a commercial 48V zero-turn mower — RTK GPS, externalized control plane, Android/phone-based operator UI, NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano edge AI (YOLO, Whisper, SLM), and safety override architecture.
Engineering projects
Hands-on builds beyond Mobimower — e-bike and paramotor experiments, AI-assisted firmware, OpenCV pipelines, power systems, and home automation.
General writing
Non-engineering posts — health and wellness, travel, nutrition, and personal reflection.
Selected milestones
From the lab notebook
Mower controls externalized
Control plane moved off dedicated VX hardware; NRF serial reliability and heartbeat architecture.
2026Jetson Orin + multi-model edge AI
YOLO, Whisper, Piper, and TinyLlama on Orin Nano with tuned agentic latency (~4s).
2022First centimeter-level RTK fix
Months of field iteration — RTCM corrections, Arduino bridge, NMEA pipeline validated.
202348V Li-ion battery retrofit
150AH system, surge analysis, 130 lb vs 260 lb — tripled usable range.
Education
Academic foundation
MBA
Purdue University — Krannert School of Management · 2010 — 2012
Graduated with distinction · Beta Gamma Sigma · Golden Key
B.E., Electrical Engineering
Jabalpur Engineering College · 1996 — 2000
Graduated with academic honors
Credentials
Continuous learning
Machine Learning Specialization
DeepLearning.AI & Stanford University (Coursera) · Mar 2026
Technical depth
Philosophy
Executive + engineer
I believe senior technology leadership requires two proofs: outcomes at organizational scale, and continued fluency at the workbench. Personal projects are not a side hobby — they are how I stress-test ideas about autonomy, AI, and systems integration before recommending them in the enterprise. This site documents that work independently of any employer. Views and projects here represent personal research and publicly discussable engineering only.
Personal engineering portfolio. Not affiliated with or endorsed by any employer. Employer-related work is not represented on this site.