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Venkatesh Ramaswamy

CTO

San Jose, California, United States22 yrs 6 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Expert in cloud computing and AI technologies.
  • Proven track record in managing large teams and projects.
  • Strong focus on results and team dynamics.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and AI expert with extensive experience in Fintech and Software Engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingGenerative AiMachine LearningSoftware Engineering

Other Skills

AI OpsAgile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)Conversational AIDistributed SystemsEnterprise ArchitectureGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)IntegrationJavaLarge Language Model Operations (LLMOps)Large Language Models (LLM)LinuxPerlSOAScalability

About

Technologist at heart with a strong focus on a results-oriented approach, and a people person. I believe in taking care of people, and the projects follow. Many years of experience dealing with large off-shore teams, completely at ease with upper and executive management, experience with mission-critical and time-sensitive projects impacting real-time payments. *Mission statements*: o Move things at light speed in organizations when things sometimes move at a snail's pace. o Working with totally abstract ideas and shaping them into reality. o Crisp, clear and candid communication at all times. o Fail, but fail fast. Never hesitate to accept failures and learn. o Understand people and their behaviors. Specialties: Enterprise Software, Cloud Computing, Off-shore development, 4+1 architecture views, Domain Object Models (DOMs), Multi-threaded/processing architectures, Language-agnostic software design, Process and Enterprise monitoring, ISO 8583, external vendor integrations, Real-time payments (ACH, Credit Card, Debit Card) processing and settlements, FP&A and payments reconciliation, Merchant Risk architecture, Customer resolutions/Dispute arbitration, Large data/volume integrations via ETL

Experience

Prosper marketplace

VP of Engineering

Mar 2023Present · 3 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Engineering focussed on MLOps, AIOps, GenAI, Conversational AI, back-end, front-end, Data + Quality, Android, iOS, Mobile frameworks (react-native) and foundational teams.
  • Heavily invested in Cloud Tech (AWS, GCP).
  • Scalable risk-decisioning systems.
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)Cloud ComputingAmazon Web Services (AWS)Generative AIConversational AILarge Language Models (LLM)+2

Mensajeros urbanos

Chief Technology Officer

Aug 2021Mar 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

  • Managed Product, Engineering and DevOps across South America: responsible for vision, strategy, execution, mergers and fund-raising.
  • Machine Learning for real-time driver matching, fraud detection, real-time routing, map-based location tracking, CNN-based document onboarding.
  • Re-launched the Android and iOS app built in react-native.
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)Cloud ComputingAmazon Web Services (AWS)Machine Learning

Sharechat

VP of Engineering

Apr 2019Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

  • Building tech-powered, business-driven teams with focus on People, Engineering and everything in between.
  • Back-end, Front-end (Mobile, web, mweb), Platform, Infra/DevOps, Data Platform, Architecture, IT. Started teams started from scratch and scaled others 10x. Tech stack: Kotlin, Swift, Flutter, Java, Golang on AWS/GCP powered by k8s.
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)Cloud ComputingAmazon Web Services (AWS)Software Engineering

Ebay

4 roles

Director Of Engineering

Promoted

Mar 2018Apr 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Responsible for the Checkout Platform team: Shopping Cart, Order Platform, Checkout back-end -- basically the most critical components for the site to be usable.

Senior Engineering Manager

Feb 2015Feb 2018 · 3 yrs

  • Focusing on People, Code and Process. (in that order).
  • Agility of a startup in an enterprise company.

Engineering Manager 2

Mar 2012Mar 2015 · 3 yrs

  • Back end integration services for 1 year.
  • Back end integration and payment services for 1 year.
  • Back end integration, payments and loyalty related services for 1 year.

Quality Engineering Manager

Feb 2011Feb 2012 · 1 yr

  • -All front-end and back-end integration services.

Paypal

2 roles

Staff Software Engineer

Mar 2009Feb 2011 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • o Architect-ed, designed, co-developed, delivered and supported a Merchant Risk platform that saved PayPal ~3 bps loss savings over the year (~$20M at that time).
  • o From a design concept to production in rapid time, leading a brand new team in Scottsdale, AZ which also included a new vendor integration.
  • o Worked extensively with the ETL team to define the business logic for extractions and transformations.
  • o Lead and designed an API integration project with eBay to allow the access of the Resolutions platform via SOA.
  • o This supported eBay's launch of the Resolutions platform in US and UK.
  • o Lead a team of 9 developers to launch eBay's EU Resolutions initiative via another set of tightly-coupled SOA services and APIs.

Sr. Software Engineer

Nov 2006Mar 2009 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • o San Jose lead for a team of developers working in Chennai.
  • o Expert-level understanding of Debit Card processing, transaction model and reconciliation.
  • o Master-level understanding of ACH and Credit Card processing.
  • o Enhanced the framework to allow for processing via the STAR network.
  • o Designed, presented and developed generic framework for vendor file processing to make vendor integration seamless.
  • o Responsible for day to day working and maintenance of various external facing services with First Data, STAR and other networks.
  • o Focussed on educating, mentoring, working alongside and growing my Chennai support folks.

Epic systems corp.

Team Leader, R&D

Jun 2003Oct 2006 · 3 yrs 4 mos

  • o One of the youngest managers in the company after just 2 years and one of the most technology-oriented group in the company.
  • o Joined the specialized projects team to work on innovative and quick time-to-market products.
  • o Creator of an innovate set of programming interfaces that was used by multiple teams throughout the company and thoroughly appreciated.
  • o This soon lead to the formulation of a full-fledged team, for which I was appointed the manager in about 6 months.
  • o Lead numerous projects through complete life cycles, planning, QA test case validations, handling customer escalations, budget planning, contractual negotiations with third parties, interactions with legal, etc.
  • o Presented for two consecutive years at the yearly User Group Meeting in front of 300+ invitees from all over the country.
  • o Mentored, reviewed and provided constructive feedback to my direct reports.
  • o Traveled to numerous client sites that included some of the biggest HMOs and Hospitals to meet with the executive staff there.
  • o Kept it "human".

Education

Indiana University Bloomington

M.S. — Computer Science

Jan 2001Jan 2003

Vivekanand Education Society's Institute Of Technology

Bachelors — Computer Science

Jan 1997Jan 2001

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