Chief Technology Officer
As chief technology officer, Raj drives SymphonyAI’s technology roadmap and execution. He leads the engineering team that builds the Eureka Gen AI platform, SymphonyAI’s award-winning data and AI platform that supports the rapid design, development, and deployment of enterprise-scale, vertical AI applications, and gen AI copilots. Raj’s team includes AI researchers and ML scientists working on cutting-edge predictive and generative AI models for high-value “vertical use cases” in critical industry sectors, including retail, CPG, financial services, manufacturing, enterprise IT, and media. Raj oversees the tooling and enforcement of enterprise security and privacy and is responsible for AI policies for SymphonyAI’s offerings. Previously, Raj was SymphonyAI’s SVP of Engineering and head of AI and machine learning. With almost 20 years of AI/ML engineering and research experience, Shukla also has extensive enterprise AI SaaS experience from his engineering leadership roles at Microsoft, where his successful 14-year career included leading global AI science and engineering organizations across Azure, Dynamics 365, MSR and the search and advertising divisions. At Microsoft, Raj helped PowerBI, Power Platform, and Dynamics365 grow into multi-billion-dollar businesses and market leaders in their categories and built some of the first generative AI copilots Microsoft announced in the enterprise domain. Raj has extensive experience in AI/ML across search, advertising, and enterprise AI and has built several successful AI SaaS products in both consumer and business domains. Raj holds a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Texas, Austin, and a bachelor of technology degree in computer science from IIT, Kanpur.