George Vetticaden

VP, Global Solutions Architecture

Cohere

Jul 2026 - Current (2 months)

Leading the global Solutions Architecture organization at Cohere — the team that turns frontier AI into real, deployed outcomes for the world's most demanding enterprises. We help customers own and control their AI: deployed in their environment, governed to their standards, and built deep into their domain. Building and scaling a world-class SA org across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and APAC.

Founder & Principal Consultant

Agentic Mindset Consulting

Jun 2025 - Current (1 year 3 months)

Enterprise AI agent consulting — strategy, architecture, and hands-on implementation. We help organizations build, deploy, and scale production AI agents. Our methodology — the Agent Development Lifecycle — is a battle-tested framework for building agents that work in production, not just demos. 20+ years building streaming data platforms (Hortonworks, Cloudera — Kafka, Flink) combined with enterprise AI agent platform development (Sema4.ai). 52+ multi-agent systems built. 300 enterprise customers served. → https://agenticmindset.ai/

VP of Products, AI Agents

Semaai

Mar 2024 - May 2025 (1 year 3 months)

As VP of Products at Sema4.ai, I lead the strategic vision and product development for our Enterprise AI Agent Platform, empowering organizations to build, deploy, and manage intelligent agents that transform complex work into autonomous processes. My portfolio includes Sema4.ai Studio, a groundbreaking development environment where business users create agents in minutes using natural language; our Agent Server runtime environment that powers AI Agents with secure enterprise deployment capabilities; andour innovative Document Intelligence solution that revolutionizes document processing through multi-modal AI and autonomous Worker Agents. I'm passionate about democratizing AI by making it accessible to business users while maintaining ente

Personal goal pursuit

Career Break

Jul 2023 - Mar 2024 (9 months)

Spending 2023 Summer with family and then exploring emerging tech landscapes, particularly the burgeoning AI ecosystem.

Vice President of Product Management for the Data-In-Motion (DIM) Business Unit

Cloudera

Jan 2019 - Jul 2023 (4 years 7 months)

George Vetticaden is Vice President of Product Management for the Data-In-Motion (DIM) business unit at Cloudera. In this role, he is responsible for the strategic vision and concerted delivery across all the products within the Cloudera Data Flow (CDF) product suite including Cloudera Edge Data Management (CEM) powered by MiNifi, Cloudera Flow Management (CFM) powered by Apache NiFi, Cloudera Stream Processing (CSP) powered by Kafka/Streams Replication Manager/Streams Messaging Manager and Cloudera Stream Analytics (CSA) powered by Apache Flink.

Vice President, Product Management, Emerging Products

Hortonworks

Jun 2016 - Aug 2018 (2 years 3 months)

George Vetticaden is Vice President of Product Management within Emerging Products at Hortonworks. In this role, he is responsible for the strategic vision and concerted delivery across all the products within Emerging Products including Hortonworks DataFlow (HDF) that includes Nifi, Storm, Kafka, Streaming Analytics Manager, Schema Registry as well as solutions built on top of the platform including CyberSecurity/Metron. Over the last 5 years at Hortonworks, George has spent a lot of time in field with enterprise customers helping them build big data solutions on top of Hadoop. In his previous role at Hortonworks, George was the Director of Solutions Engineering where he led a team of 15 Big Data Senior Solution Architects helping large

Committer, Apache Metron

The Apache Software Foundation

Dec 2015 - May 2019 (3 years 6 months)

Apache Metron is a next generation cyber security analytics framework/application using Big Data distributed technologies like Hadoop, Storm, HBase and SOLR.

Principal & Senior Product Manager for CyberSecurity Suite (Apache Metron, Cyber Analytics)

Hortonworks

Dec 2015 - Jun 2016 (7 months)

Center of Excellence (COE) Principal Architect

Hortonworks

Jul 2015 - Jul 2016 (1 year 1 month)

Working on key strategic projects at Hortonworks including: 1. Hortonworks Community Connection: http://hortonworks.com/community/ 2. CyberSecurity with Apache Metron / OpenSoc: http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/MetronProposal

Technical Director of Solutions Engineering, Chief Architect

Hortonworks

Nov 2012 - Nov 2015 (3 years 1 month)

I lead a team of 12+ rockstar Senior Solution Architects who are not only thought leaders in the Big Data space but have an incredible wealth of experience helping large enterprise customers from use case inception, design, architecture, to implementation of use cases monetizing data with Hadoop. I'm have become a trusted adviser for ISV and SI partners and the largest fortune 100 customers in the North Central Region helping them solve big data challenges by architecting solutions with the use of Hadoop and other open source technologies. I'm a firm believer in solution selling and providing value to customers by mapping use case requirements to enterprise grade solutions with best practices and reference architectures around developin

Enterprise Architect

VMware vFabric Cloud Application Platform

May 2011 - Nov 2012 (1 year 7 months)

Over the last year, I have been a solutions architect on VMware’s Sales Engineering team within their cloud application platform division: vFabric (http://www.vmware.com/products/application-platform/vfabric/overview.html). I work directly with the largest companies in the midwest across industries helping shape their next generation application architecture and building out virtualized, lean, elastically scalable, low latent enterprise apps.

Application Architect Consultant

Express Scripts

Aug 2009 - May 2011 (1 year 10 months)

Part of the Application Engineering team whose responsibilities include the following: 1.) Perform proof of concepts (POCs) for emerging technologies and toolsets to determine if they provide value and efficiency for the development community at Express Scripts. This included a POC engagement to evaluate and select an ESB/SOA solution. The final selection was Mule. 2.) Identify, educate and enforce common technology standards including Web, SOA and Middleware standards across the Express Scripts Java development community. Standards covered technologies such as mule, spring, hibernate, security, transaction management, monitoring tools and testing. 3.) Participate in high-level design JAD sessions at the inception of all new proj

Chief Architect & Co-Founder

eScreeningz LLC

Aug 2008 - Aug 2013 (5 years 1 month)

Started the company in 2008 with two other investors which provides services to IT technical consulting companies to assess the technical strength of Java and Big Data/Hadoop candidates. This service provides one of the best and most accurate technical assessments of a candidate’s skill level in 11 categories including HDFS Hadoop, MapReduce Hadoop, HIve, Core Java, Architecture, Object Oriented Design, Spring, Testing, and others. eScreeningz is powered by AWS services including: EC2, ELB, Route 53, BeanStalk and RDS. eScreeningz is currently operating with a customer base in the United States, Central and South America, Europe, Middle East, India and Canada.

Technical Lead Consultant

Monsanto

Aug 2008 - Aug 2009 (1 year 1 month)

Led a team of 5 Java developers and 4 ETL/Data Warehouse developers in an agile development environment. Responsibilities included code review, architectural and functional design, and performance enhancements. Built a testing framework for Kettle ETL transformations and jobs using open source frameworks such as Unitils, DbUnit, Velocity templating and Maven. The testing tool generates junit source code from xml configurations through the use of custom Maven plugins. The tool has been adopted by Monsanto to be used as a testing tool across all data warehouse teams

Technical Lead Consultant

Mastercard

Jan 2005 - Aug 2008 (3 years 8 months)

Designed and implemented an extremely complex set of security requirements related to row level security (what records a user has access to see) and access rights (what Crud operation a user can perform on a record). The complete design and implementation utilized the Acegi Spring framework (Acl Service), Hibernate Filters, Spring AOP, Java 5 annotations and materialized views.

Senior Software Engineer

Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis

Mar 2004 - Mar 2005 (1 year 1 month)

Software Engineer

Convergys

Jan 2002 - Jan 2004 (2 years 1 month)

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