A

Ariram Kandasamy

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India22 yrs 5 mos experience
AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Led 100+ engineers in global teams.
  • Drove AWS modernization for trading systems.
  • Spearheaded innovative AI initiatives.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and AdTech engineering leader with expertise in cloud platforms and AI-driven solutions.

Contact

Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipCloud PlatformsProduct ManagementEdge Computing

Other Skills

AWSAdvertising TechnologyAgile MethodologiesAgile MethodologyAlgorithmic ServicesAntBackup and RecoveryCI/CDCloud ComputingComplianceComputer VisionCore JavaData EngineeringDeep LearningDistributed Systems

About

Head of Engineering | Senior Director of Engineering | Site Leader | Product & Platform Leader Engineering executive with 22+ years of experience driving global engineering teams, building scalable platforms, and delivering product innovation across Finance, Retail, and Enterprise Software. 🔹 Current Role – JP Morgan Senior Director of Engineering & Site Leader – Self-Directed Investing (India) Leading 100+ engineers, architects, and leaders across India/U.S. Driving AWS platform modernization, scaling trading systems to support 4x growth in volumes. Leading GenAI & Agentic AI initiatives to improve developer productivity, platform intelligence, and AI-driven decision-making. Spearheading the Full Paid Lending initiative, enabling clients to earn additional income through equity lending. Heading CI/CD & QA transformation, cutting regression testing by 90% and strengthening platform reliability. 🔹 Previous Role – Amazon Head of Engineering – Just Walk Out (JWO) | Single Thread Leader – Amazon Ads Edge Computing Leadership: Built frameworks and services to deploy computer vision & deep learning models across edge and cloud inference targets. Optimized model building & porting for cost, latency, and throughput—powering cashier-less retail. Advertising Technology: Delivered IN-first platforms including Multi-Account Management, Amazon Pi (consumer insights), Case & Contact Manager, Sales Acceleration, and Video Ads Builder—scaled globally and critical to Ads revenue growth. Partnered with Product Managers, Researchers, and Senior Leaders to define vision, launch products, and scale innovation globally. 🔹 Earlier Experience Oracle – Architected OEM high-availability infrastructure & connectors, driving 40% growth in Enterprise Manager. MetricStream – Built GRC Platform team from zero to 90+, partnering with Deloitte, PwC, and KPMG to deliver enterprise compliance solutions. Computer Associates – Contributed to Autosys- a flagship enterprise platform driving multimillion-dollar revenue. Perot Systems (Dell) – Developed E-commerce cargo booking platform for DHL, digitizing logistics and streamlining operations. 🔹 Specialties Engineering Leadership | Product Management | Site Leadership | GenAI & Agentic AI | Edge Computing (Model Building & Porting) | Cloud Platforms (AWS) | Computer Vision | Advertising Technology | High-Availability Systems | CI/CD & QA Transformation | Data Engineering | GRC Platforms | Customer & Partner Engagement

Experience

Jpmorganchase

Senior Director of Engineering - Executive Director | Site Leader – Self-Directed Investing

Jun 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Leading the Self-Directed Investment India team as Site Leader, managing engineers, architects, and senior leaders across India and the U.S.
  • Driving GenAI initiatives and product innovation to improve developer efficiency, enhance platform intelligence, and deliver actionable insights.
  • Modernizing the SDI Platform on AWS, building scalable, secure, and resilient systems that supported 4x growth in trading volumes.
  • Spearheading the Full Paid Lending initiative, enabling clients to generate income from equity lending while ensuring compliance and scalability.
  • Defining site strategy and organizational design, building hiring pipelines, mentoring leadership talent, and fostering a culture of ownership and innovation.
  • Leading CI/CD and QA transformation, automating regression and deployment pipelines to strengthen product stability and release velocity.
AWSGenAICI/CDQA TransformationPlatform ModernizationEngineering Leadership+1

Amazon

3 roles

Head of Engineering - Just Walk Out Technology

Promoted

Sep 2022 – Jun 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Just Walk Out is a check-out-free retail experience powered by technology (vision and sensor AI) that allows shoppers to shop without checkout. Leading Just Walkout Infrastructure Organization that specializes in compute vision, edge computing, and distributed systems that powers Amazon JWO Tech.
  • Our team builds frameworks and services for building and deploying algorithmic services to multiple inference targets. Specialize in edge and cloud compute systems for optimizing deep learning inference for latency and cost, building large-scale, high-throughput distributed systems and services for running algorithms, core algorithms powered by compute vision, and deep learning.
  • As a senior manager, I lead multiple team builders to define, drive, and execute Just Walk Out's vision. Invent and ship software that directly impacts our end-customer experience.
  • Develop a team of highly motivated and talented builders who can collaborate with product managers, research managers, researchers, technical specialists, and principals across the company.
  • Set up the organization's priorities while balancing customer, stakeholder, and business needs.
  • Drive deep dives, business reviews, and quarterly reviews for the L8 and L10 audiences. Roadmap planning for AI and Edge org.
  • Demonstrated strong influence across the organization, leading cross-team initiatives and programs to continuously improve key JWO metrics and deliver on organizational goals.
  • Enabled Edge Computing JWO store in 2023 to 100+ 3P stores, across 4 countries.
Edge ComputingComputer VisionDistributed SystemsAlgorithmic ServicesEngineering Leadership

Head of Engineering (Senior SDM) - Advertising Tech

Promoted

Jul 2021 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Head of Engineering IN Advertising Product development. Leading Tech org of Engineering Manager, Technical Program managers, Data Engineers, Principal Engineers, Full stack and Quality engineers.
  • Led Amazon's advertising technology team of 50+ for IN and emerging market places with team presence across IN and US. Conceptualized and launched several innovative products for the advertiser experience and ad insights in the Indian market and emerging markets: Amazon Advertising Manager (multi-account management), Amazon Pi (a retail insights platform), Amazon Ad Connect (a case and contact management product), and Video Creator. These products enabled our advertising revenues in India to reach hundreds of millions of dollars a year. These flywheel products drove Amazon's ad business in India and helped gain a large share of the Indian digital advertising market in 2021.
Advertising TechnologyProduct DevelopmentData EngineeringProduct ManagementEngineering Leadership

Software Development Manager - Advertising Tech

Jan 2018 – Jul 2021 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Leading IN Advertising Product development
Engineering LeadershipCloud Computing

Metricstream

2 roles

Head of Software Engineering - GRC Platform

Promoted

Jan 2017 – Dec 2017 · 11 mos

  • Head of Engineering for Zaplet Platform and Zaplet PS team. Develop the GRC App Store, drive innovation, and develop GRC products and solutions based on market requirements. Closely work with partners and customers to develop GRC products and applications end-to-end using Agile methodology.
  • Ideate, design, build, test, launch, and learn. Evaluate technical options and represent business requirements to the engineering organization through responses to the market requirement documents and detailed functional specifications.
  • Develop the engineering schedule and prototype build plan in coordination with the engineering extended teams and core team.
  • Head of Engineering for GRC products, work with Big 3 consulting companies to develop products and professional services across North America, Europe, and APAC.
  • Coordinate with the Product Management team, Sales & Marketing, Service, Operations, Quality, and Finance to bring the GRC product(s) to market.
  • Performing resource and product roadmap planning, cost management, and performance reviews for the organization.
  • Ensure scrum teams are able to resolve project issues, communicate status, and coordinate activities with peer teams across geographies. Teams are able to validate and manage project scope and are proficient in project planning, tracking, and reporting. Experience in agile development and coordinating release and sprint planning.
  • Hire, setup, and highly motivate engineers and lead a team of 60+ across platforms and professional services.
GRC ProductsAgile MethodologyEngineering Leadership

Software Development Manager - GRC Platform

Jul 2013 – Mar 2017 · 3 yrs 8 mos

J2EE Application DevelopmentCloud ComputingEngineering Leadership

Oracle corporation

2 roles

Principal Member Technical Staff

Apr 2011 – Jul 2013 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • High Availability Solution for Enterprise Manager Cloud Control - Design and manage Enterprise Manager Grid Control high availability, make it scalable, available and extensible. Design Standby setup for Enterprise manager. Solution for active / passive and active / active setup.
  • Additional Oracle Management Service -- Designed and developed application from scratch. Automated the process of configuring one or more Oracle Management service in their domain. This feature has intelligence to identity remote host, perform prereq operation and configure a managed server to the existing weblogic Enterprise manager domain. This improved customer experience, revenue and reduced service requests.
  • Backup and Recovery - Designed and implemented backup and recovery scenario for Enterprise Manager. Migration of setup from one OS to another OS. Written documentation for various recovery scenarios.
  • Oracle Management Service Configuration Assistant -- Manage, enhance and fix a standalone java tool for Enterprise Manager which configures the Weblogic domain, creates the required Weblogic managed servers and deploys the applications.
  • Enterprise Manager Agent resync - Designed and implemented agent resynchronization solution for agent. Resynchronize the agent with Oracle Management for agent which is recovered from backup, plugin missing or any other out of state.
  • Written release documents for Enterprise Manager high availability, adding additional Management service, backup and recovery, switchover and failure, agent resync
  • Work closely with Quality team for testing end to end application, writing automated test scripts. Train and help support team. Worked directly with big customers in resolving issues. Work with different integration team in design and implementing the project.
J2EE Application DevelopmentCloud ComputingEngineering Leadership

SMTS - Onsite Lead

Jan 2006 – Mar 2011 · 5 yrs 2 mos

  • Event Connector for Oracle Enterprise Manager - Analysis third party tools like Microsoft and HP. Design and develop connector for Enterprise manager to interact with event management tools. Send and receive alerts, trigger notification based on rules and perform actions.
  • Ticketing Connector for Oracle Enterprise Manager - Analysis ticketing system(BMC Remedy) and develop connector for enterprise manager to integrate. Create, edit, update and delete ticket based on rules and notification.
  • Change management console - Integrate change management server with Enterprise Manager through customization.
  • Design and Develop Client side GUI, Server side components and Change Management Connectors metadata (XMLs and XSLs). In order to configure the connector, add targets, monitor alerts and create notification rule.
High Availability SolutionsBackup and RecoveryEngineering Leadership

Ca technologies

Software Engineer

Aug 2004 – Dec 2005 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • End to end development of configuration module for Unicenter Job Command centre
  • Expose Autosys as webservice for third party application to invoke and use it.
J2EE Application Development

Perot systems

Software Associates

Jul 2003 – Jul 2004 · 1 yr

Education

Alliance Business School

EPGP — MBA - Lean Operations

Jan 2008 – Jan 2010

Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology

B.Tech — Electronics & Communications

Jan 1999 – Jan 2003

SBOA Matriculation Higher Secondary

1999

Jan 1990 – Jan 1999

Stackforce found 100+ more professionals with Engineering Leadership & Cloud Platforms

Explore similar profiles based on matching skills and experience