Gartner Expert

Haritha Khandabattu

VP Analyst

Haritha Khandabattu is a Senior Director Analyst helping AI leaders, CIOs, software engineering leaders, and other C-suite executives globally to build and execute strategies across Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, and Leadership. She guides organisations on the strategic, organisational, and technological dimensions of using AI as a catalyst for growth.

Prior to joining Gartner, Haritha held executive leadership roles in the banking, retail, and automotive sectors. Her cross-industry experience brings a pragmatic and strategic lens to driving innovation and leading at scale in complex environments.

Previous experience

Lead the company build payment solutions for Public transport and Banking & Financial services. Helped in M&A of a payment solution provider. Structured & delivered strategic insights to support Ximedes. Lead, mentored and supported a highly effective team of passionate engineers & engineering managers fostering a high-performance culture. Helped existing and potential clients in their Digital Transformations. Helped to pivot Kotlin. Helped teams to build reactive monitoring systems.

Professional background

ING, Director of Engineering (IT Area Lead) , 3 years

Ximedes, Head of Software Development, 1 years

Cognizant, Senior technology consultant, 4 years

Areas of coverage
  • AI Vision, Strategy and Innovation

  • Software Engineering Technologies and AI Solutions

  • Software Engineering Leadership

  • Implement AI Engineering Platforms to Enable and Expand Adoption of AI-Building Capabilities

  • Formalize Roles and Teams for AI Engineering

Education

Engineering in Information Technology

MBA in International Finance

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Top Issues That I Help Clients Address

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Artifical Intelligence strategy

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AI - Augmented Software Engineering, AI Engineering

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AI strategy, Buy Build AI, AI tech stack, Value, AI ROI