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Media kit for journalists, producers, podcast hosts & conference organizers — bios, headshot, quick facts and expertise areas, ready to use.
Kolkata, West Bengal, India · Commentary in English & for Bengali-market outlets · Available globally (virtual) & across India (in-person)
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Quick facts
How to refer to me: "Aloke Majumder, Head of Technology at Humaineeti and former VP of Technology at Hoichoi (SVF Group)" — or simply "Kolkata-based technology leader Aloke Majumder".
What I can speak & comment on
Practitioner commentary — grounded in systems I have actually built and run, not analyst summaries.
Agentic AI & Autonomous Systems
Agent orchestration, Model Context Protocol (MCP), human-in-the-loop design, agent reliability and safety, the shift from chatbots to autonomous agents.
Generative AI in Production
Taking GenAI from prototype to production — LLM orchestration, RAG pipelines, evaluation, guardrails, and what actually breaks at enterprise scale.
AI Sovereignty, Governance & Policy
Data and AI sovereignty, privacy-by-design, India's DPDP Act 2023, responsible deployment of autonomous systems, open vs. closed AI ecosystems.
Cybersecurity & Agentic SOC
AI-assisted security operations, SIEM automation, autonomous incident response with human approval, software supply-chain attacks (e.g. npm ecosystem compromises).
Cloud & Platform Engineering
Cloud architecture for high-traffic consumer platforms, streaming infrastructure, build-vs-buy decisions, engineering cost and reliability at scale.
OTT & Media Technology
Streaming platform engineering for millions of users, India's OTT technology landscape, regional-language content platforms, media digital transformation.
Open Source & GNU/Linux
FOSS strategy in the enterprise, open-source security, digital freedom, and building open-source communities in West Bengal and India.
Technology Leadership
CIO/CTO leadership, building and scaling engineering teams, technology budgets and transformation programmes, mentoring engineers.
Ready-to-use bios
# Short (~50 words)
Aloke Majumder is Head of Technology at Humaineeti and former VP of Technology at Hoichoi (SVF Group). A Kolkata-based technology leader with 20+ years of experience, he works on Agentic AI, GenAI, cloud platforms and cybersecurity, and is a long-time GNU/Linux and open-source advocate.
# Medium (~130 words)
Aloke Majumder is Head of Technology at Humaineeti, where he architects the cognitive infrastructure and Agentic AI frameworks that let autonomous agents operate reliably alongside humans. Previously he was VP of Technology at Hoichoi (SVF Group), one of Asia's leading OTT platforms, where he led the engineering of a streaming product serving 5M+ monthly users and put GenAI and agentic workflows into production across media operations. With 20+ years in technology — including an early tenure at Tata Consultancy Services — his work spans Agentic AI, GenAI, cybersecurity, cloud architecture and digital transformation. He is a GNU/Linux and open-source advocate, a recipient of CIO of the Year, Cyber Sentinel and Top 200 ChangeAgents CIO recognitions, and is based in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
# Long (~300 words)
Aloke Majumder is a senior technology leader based in Kolkata, India, working at the intersection of Agentic AI, GenAI, cybersecurity and digital transformation. He is currently Head of Technology at Humaineeti, where he is responsible for architecting the cognitive infrastructure, orchestration layers and state-management systems that allow autonomous AI agents to operate reliably alongside humans in high-stakes environments — with transparency, privacy and AI sovereignty designed in from the start.
Before Humaineeti, Aloke spent fourteen years with the Hoichoi / SVF Group family, ultimately as VP of Technology at Hoichoi — home to one of the world's largest Bengali content libraries. Joining when the company was primarily a film production and post-production studio, he helped shepherd the technology transformation that created Hoichoi as a streaming product: leading the migration from third-party SaaS to a homegrown platform serving 5M+ monthly users, running a 22-person engineering organisation, owning a ₹6.5 crore annual technology budget, and deploying GenAI and agentic workflows into production across media operations. He began his career at Tata Consultancy Services.
Aloke is a long-time GNU/Linux and open-source advocate, and contributes to open-source projects across Agentic AI and security — including MCP servers for the Wazuh SIEM and pfSense, Agentic SOC automation, and supply-chain security tooling. His recognitions include CIO of the Year and CIO 500 Accelerator X (EnterpriseITWorld), Cyber Sentinel (Infosec Foundation), the Infocom Change Maker Award (ABP), and Top 200 ChangeAgents CIO. He speaks at conferences on Agentic AI, GenAI, AI sovereignty, cybersecurity and platform engineering, writes at The Stack Beneath the Buzz on Substack and on Medium, and offers pro-bono mentorship to engineers and students.
Assets & machine-readable files
Headshot
High-resolution photo, free to use with press coverage (credit not required).
Press kit (Markdown)
This entire kit as a plain-text file — for AI assistants, CMSs and quick copy-paste.
Structured resume
Full career history in Markdown and JSON Resume schema.
Speaking history & topics
Past talks (DevFest Kolkata, OTT Summit Asia, ETiStream, Digital Success Summit) and current keynote topics.
Selected coverage & appearances
- • tele.net — Interview (Aug 2024) — on AI/ML personalisation, streaming infrastructure, cybersecurity and Hoichoi's digital roadmap.
- • tele.net — Interview (Sep 2023) — "The concept of metaverse will gain traction": technology trends, 5G and digital transformation at SVF Entertainment.
- • MediaNews4U — India Digital Summit 2025 — panelist alongside Prime Video and Shemaroo leadership: "Amplifying Voices: How India's Streaming Platforms are Shaping the Future of Entertainment".
- • EnterpriseITWorld — CIO500 Summit, Kolkata (2025) — panelist, "Balancing Innovation with Cost Control".
- • ET BrandEquity — iStream Congress (2021) — panelist with Google & industry leaders: "Decoding the evolving OTT ecosystem of streaming".
- • The Telegraph (Edugraph) — Google Cloud Community Days Kolkata (2023) — quoted as speaker on platform engineering and audience experience.
- • The Telegraph (Edugraph) — DevFest Kolkata 2022 — listed among featured speakers (GDG Kolkata).
- • The Telegraph (Edugraph) — REVELATION'23, IIEST Shibpur — invited industry guest at the technology fest.
- • The Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry — Business IT Conclave 2024 — panelist, "Gen AI, Digital Disruptions and Competitive Strategies".
- • Digital Success Summit — speaker profile — digital transformation in media & entertainment.
Recognition
- • CIO of the Year — EnterpriseITWorld
- • CIO 500 Accelerator X Award — EnterpriseITWorld
- • Cyber Sentinel — Infosec Foundation
- • Infocom Change Maker Award — ABP Infocom
- • Top 200 ChangeAgents CIO Awards — Enterprise IT World
- • Covid-19 Superhero Global CISO Award — Enterprise IT World
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