Ajay Cyril

• Lead a USD $30M+ ARR portfolio across AI-enabled public safety, connected homes, edge video, smart infrastructure and government digital platforms, with 25%+ YoY growth over five years.
• Built and scaled Hassantuk into the region's largest connected-home safety program: 90, 000+ deployments, 1.5M+ sensors/devices, government dispatch integration, cloud monitoring, field operations and recurring subscription economics.
• Led Dubai Police Smart Home Security from concept to 0-to-1 launch as the UAE's first connected edge video analytics / VSaaS offering integrated with Dubai Police, spanning cameras, edge gateway, cloud platform, mobile journeys, incident workflows, partner SLAs and subscription GTM.
• Defined cloud-edge product architecture across device onboarding, provisioning, OTA lifecycle, event pipelines, video verification, operator dashboards, API integrations and regulated public-sector workflows.
• Operationalized ML-based threat detection, edge analytics and camera-assisted anomaly workflows, reducing false alarms by 80% and improving emergency-response time by 60%.
• Direct a 10-member business team and coordinate a 300+ member national delivery ecosystem across technology partners, field operations, customer care, sales, device partners and public-sector entities.
• Drove AI-led segmentation and lifecycle campaigns with a USD ~$300K annual budget, delivering 25x ROAS, USD $7M+ incremental annual revenue and 20% retention improvement.

• Conceptualized and scaled Airtel XSafe from idea to national launch, reaching USD ~$4.8M equivalent within six months across 100, 000
cameras, 40, 000 homes and 23 Indian cities.
• Built the edge-to-cloud video AI product model: camera onboarding, AI event extraction, secure cloud storage, real-time alerts, device
health, mobile incident workflows, service assurance and city launch operations.
• Converted computer vision into subscription propositions across smart alerts, perimeter zoning, AI person detection, cloud storage,
tamper-proof footage and multi-user access; public launch: Airtel XSafe press release
• Reduced video analytics latency by 50% through edge inference and cloud orchestration patterns suited to low-bandwidth, distributed
environments.
• Led a 20+ member cross-functional team across AI engineering, cloud, product design, operations and GTM, reporting to the CEO of
Airtel Digital and driving 140% QoQ growth in early B2B AI analytics subscriptions.

Selected into Tata Administrative Services (TAS), Tata Group's premier leadership program; worked in the Tata Sons Group Technology Office, the holding-company strategy office for the USD $150B+ Tata Group.
• Defined new technology products and services for group companies across Industrial IoT, connected safety, smart cities, asset intelligence, edge hardware, logistics and hardware-enabled digital platforms.
• Conceptualized Tata Group's first edge hardware product with a joint task force, taking it from use-case definition and watch/wearable design through DFM/DFT, radio testing, range/coverage validation, pilots, manufacturing readiness and mass productization.
• Helped build India's first LoRa/LPWAN industrial safety wearable at scale, integrating sensors, industrial design, radio coverage, cloud analytics, dashboards and field workflows for factory-floor worker safety; media coverage: Times of India
• Took the product into GTM through Tata Communications, creating a connected industrial safety model combining LoRa/LPWAN networks, edge devices, gateways, cloud dashboards, field deployment and enterprise subscription packaging.
• Expanded the connected device ecosystem across LoRa/LPWAN, BLE, Wi-Fi, LiDAR-enabled devices, sensors, gateways, dashboards and cloud integrations for ports, factories, logistics and infrastructure operations.
• Scaled Tata Communications' Industrial IoT platform across 150, 000+ connected devices and a USD ~$2.4M equivalent portfolio baseline, covering worker safety, asset tracking, predictive maintenance, smart cities and real-time anomaly detection.
• Contributed to Tata Group digital transformation, cybersecurity and IP/innovation initiatives, including a group-wide program that doubled patent filings to 7, 000+ in two years.