Pramod M Nair
Sr Principal SDE II and Head of the Data & Integration COE at Softobiz
Enterprise Data & AI leader who turns integration, platforms, and AI into board-ready operating capability — building COEs, budgets, and ~30-person teams that ship.
Kochi · remote OK
Target roles
- CIO
- CDO
- Chief AI Officer
Experience
Scale, depth, and reliability.
Now
Scale and ownership
Softobiz
Sr Principal SDE II and Head of the Data & Integration COE at Softobiz. Owns the COE budget. Leads a ~30+ person organization, with about 15 direct reports.
Path
Architecture depth
After the Air Force
About 21 years in enterprise Data & AI architecture: from database ownership into platforms, integration, and delivery that have to run.
Earlier
Mission-grade reliability
Indian Air Force
Ex-Indian Air Force Principal DBA. Those years were operational: governance, uptime, and ownership of the data. Availability and correctness were the job.
Leadership focus
The operating model.
Data & AI COEs
A center of excellence earns its budget when it owns the platform, the integration, and the spend. Otherwise it sits beside the business.
Platforms and integration
Prefer platforms that retire repeated project work. Technical debt stays a risk the COE can see.
Responsible AI
Adoption stays tied to data quality, security, and a named owner. A demo is not a capability.
Expertise
Career strengths.
Data architecture
Models and platforms that keep enterprise data consistent, from source systems to the people who use them.
Cloud
Data and integration platforms on the cloud, clear to the teams who run them and the people who fund them.
ERP / Dynamics 365
Data and integration for Microsoft Dynamics 365 and broader ERP, where the process and the data model agree.
Workato
Integration with Workato, so processes move without a pile of one-off scripts.
Agentic AI & RAG
Agentic workflows and retrieval grounded in enterprise data, tied to systems of record.
US / AU pre-sales
Pre-sales with teams in the United States and Australia. The architecture is clear before a build starts.
Certifications
On the record.
Oracle AI Vector Search
Writing
Recent writing on LinkedIn.
The Enterprise Wall Reality Check
On taking an AI project from pilot to production.
Sydney CXO meet
Notes from a CXO meet at Stonecutters Ridge Golf Club in Sydney.
The Data Alchemy
Why “data is the new oil” is the wrong metaphor.
Contact
For hiring managers.
Hiring for CIO, CDO, or Chief AI Officer (or equivalent Data & AI leadership)? Reach out — Kochi or remote.