Neil Harwani — Founder HSOPC & TechAndTrain

• Infographic CV — August 2026

Neil Harwani.

Founder Director, Harwani Systems OPC Pvt. Ltd. (HSOPC) & TechAndTrain.com
Associate Professor of Practice, Narayana Business School
Formerly Senior Manager (Associate Director), PwC India · Solutions Architect, Liferay · VP Engineering, Decimal Point Analytics
+91-9712965877
Gandhinagar, Gujarat · India
Neil Harwani
Systems & visualization practitioner turned founder — building academics, product engineering and open-source consulting across Liferay/DXP, GenAI & Agentic AI, and enterprise architecture, on the back of 19 years across BFSI, government and regulator ecosystems.
19+Yrs Industry Experience
12+Yrs Part-time Academia
60+Enterprise Clients Served
7Masters / PGDM Degrees
30+Talks, Teaching & FDP Engagements
20K+TPM Scaled in Production

Experience

2021 — Present

Founder Director · Harwani Systems OPC (HSOPC) & TechAndTrain.com

Academics, product engineering & open-source consulting; freemium workshops on open source and security; 12 yrs of part-time MBA/PGDM teaching folded into the venture.

Aug 2025 — 2026

Senior Manager (Associate Director) · PwC India

Advisory and Consulting — Liferay, GenAI & Enterprise Architecture; practice building, delivery and presales for the Intelligent Digital Enterprise line.

Mar — Aug 2025

VP — Engineering · Decimal Point Analytics

Led EazyData, InfoPulse, EcoPulse & AI Scraper; delivered an Agentic AI platform (LangGraph / Microsoft AutoGen) for US Small Business Administration lending.

2021 — 2025

Solutions Architect · Liferay India Pvt. Ltd.

DXP & Customer Experience for regulators, government banks, BFSI & utilities across ROW / India / APAC / EMEA; led a 5–7 member architecture team with zero attrition.

2006 — 2021

Developer to Solution Architect · CIGNEX Datamatics, IBM, L&T Infotech, Wipro, Mphasis, Tech Mahindra

15 years spanning programming, technical leadership, presales and project management across ECM, portals, search & BPM for BFSI and enterprise clients.

Academia & Speaking

  • Associate Professor of Practice, Narayana Business School (2026–Present).
  • Long-running visiting faculty (2014–Present), PDEU, Nirma University, B K School of Business Management (Gujarat University) and other institutes.
  • Guest sessions at IIT Gandhinagar, IIT Jodhpur, Manipal Jaipur.
  • Recent: cyber-forensics & agentic-AI briefings for law-enforcement audiences (2024–26) including CAG.

Key Accomplishments

  • Scaled applications to 20,000+ TPM on 200+ cores in production.
  • Multi-year, multi-million-dollar regulator & BFSI programs.
  • 16 certifications incl. IISc, IIT Nagpur, NSUT, UPES, ITIL.
  • Expert in Java/Liferay performance tuning (Glowroot, JProfiler).

Affiliations & Reach

Life member, AIMA · OWASP · CSI; Member, IEEE; past member, Liferay DevOps CoE.
Delivered across India, APAC/J, US, MEA & Europe — onsite work in the US, Ghana & Japan.

Ideas on Innovation around Technology. We Thrive On Ideas. We are Learner Centered, Open Source & Digital Focused.