Avaiarasi S

CTO

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India25 yrs 2 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • 26+ years of experience in AI/ML and IoT.
  • Expert in architecting end-to-end IoT solutions.
  • Proven track record in leading technology practices.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Telecom and IoT expert with a strong focus on AI/ML solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technology ManagementLeadershipProduct ManagementData ScienceAi/mlIot

Other Skills

CommunicationStakeholder ManagementProblem SolvingManagementDigital TransformationCustomer RequirementsTechnical UnderstandingProduct DevelopmentComputer ScienceSDN/NFV5GBig DataMicroservicesVoIPTelecom

About

26 + years of Experience in AI/ML, M2M/IoT, Big Data, DevOps, Telecom, Healthcare and Networking domain. Handled end to end M2M/IoT solutions using Synapt’s IoT frameworks for different verticals like Smart Metering, Smart Home, Oil and Gas etc. Conceptualize, strategize for building new technology Practice/CoE from scratch Handling workshops in AI/ML, IoT Setting up incubator Labs Proposal submission, Building Collaterals & Case Studies, Preparing deal sheet etc. Architecting the entire solution across verticals from Concept to Commercialization. Responsible for the road map and delivery of Synapt’s IoT frameworks/Platforms across IoT Value Chain. Conceptualized solution/framework as a Product and as Service. Positioned IoT solutions as a part of the Overall SI engagements in large accounts Responsible for the Storage domain project for a leading Data Storage customer. End to end product cycle (Product design to Product maintenance and support) experience. Involved in complete Service Creation life cycle for mobile operators from Requirements analysis to Customer Acceptance testing at the Customer Site. Responsible for the technical compliance of the Services in the Telcordia’s IN against the Customers Requirements (GSM Service Providers in APAC). Was responsible for the product design with Protocols like V5.x, MGCP, SIP in the Voice domain and other protocols like 802.1x, RSTP, VRRP etc. Handled the DSL and ADSL products from Design to field deployment. Extremely process oriented and was part of Process definition and improvement team for ISO implementation. Project Management experience including requirements analysis, estimations, Risk management and status tracking. Specialties: AI/ML, Microservices, IoT, DevOps, VoIP, Telecom, Networking Protocol development, Product and project management

Experience

25 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 7 mos
Current Experience

Kalgudi-digital

Chief Technology Officer

Oct 2024Present · 1 yr 7 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · Hybrid

Technology Management

Samunnati

2 roles

Vice President - Technology

Jan 2024Oct 2024 · 9 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Technology Architect

Jul 2022Dec 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

LeadershipCommunicationProduct ManagementStakeholder ManagementTechnical UnderstandingProduct Development+5

Productnation/ispirt

Volunteer

Nov 2022Nov 2023 · 1 yr · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · Remote

CommunicationCustomer Requirements

The agri collaboratory

Volunteer

Sep 2022Present · 3 yrs 8 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

CommunicationStakeholder ManagementProblem SolvingManagementDigital TransformationCustomer Requirements

Ericsson

Director Data Science - Global AI Accelerator (GAIA)

Jan 2021Jun 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

LeadershipCommunicationStakeholder ManagementTechnical UnderstandingProblem SolvingManagement+4

Prodapt

6 roles

AVP - Lab and Practice (AI/ML, SDN/NFV, 5G)

Jan 2020Dec 2020 · 11 mos

  • Responsible for building frameworks across AI/ML , SDN/NFV and 5G
  • Building Telco specific use cases and solutions enabling Digital Transformation
  • Collaborate with Academia for research needs.
LeadershipCommunicationProduct ManagementStakeholder ManagementTechnical UnderstandingProduct Development+5

Senior Director - NextGen Practice

Jan 2019Dec 2019 · 11 mos

  • Capacity building across Domain, Technology tools, frameworks in the areas of AI/ML, Big Data, IoT, 5G
  • Presales support for the NextGen offerings
  • Responsible for the delivery of NextGen projects
  • Enabling Industry Academia partnership
  • Responsible to setting up and maintaining the NextGen Lab
LeadershipCommunicationProduct ManagementStakeholder ManagementTechnical UnderstandingProduct Development+5

Director - NextGen Practice (AI/ML, Big Data, IoT, Microservices)

Oct 2017Dec 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Responsible for the Next Gen capability building in the mentioned areas
  • Engineer, Drive the required Frameworks/Enablers
  • Presales support and Support for Commercial Proposals
  • Market study on multiple verticals, across geographies, market share and money spend to effectively position the frameworks and solutions
CommunicationProduct ManagementStakeholder ManagementTechnical UnderstandingProduct DevelopmentProblem Solving+4

Director - IoT Practice (IoT, Big Data, AI/ML)

Promoted

Apr 2016Sep 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Concept to commercialisation of IoT Solutions.
  • Engineer, Drive the Synapt IoT and Big Data and ML Frameworks
  • Commercial Proposals for end to end IoT based solutions
  • Market study on multiple verticals, across geographies, market share and money spend to effectively position the frameworks and solutions
  • Setting up IoT and Data Science lab from scratch
  • Responsible for Packaging and delivering Solution offerings for the global sales team.
  • Organically built expertise within the organization in IoT and ML space.
  • Socializing IoT with Sales team and external industry leaders.
  • Handling Workshops in IoT and ML
  • Technical Solution and Presales for Microservices and SDN/NFV
  • Account handling in the domains like Emergency Services, Device testing and Web & Mobile App development
CommunicationProduct ManagementStakeholder ManagementTechnical UnderstandingProduct DevelopmentProblem Solving+4

Associate Director - IoT Practice

Apr 2015Mar 2016 · 11 mos

  •  Presales support, ideating, planning and delivery of IoT and Engineering projects.
  •  Architecting Technical Solutions for IoT use cases based on the business needs of the customer.
  •  Responsible for the Product Road-map of the in-house IoT frameworks
  •  Involved in defining the Big Data and Machine Learning use cases for different customers and verticals
  •  Responsible for the Synapt Big Data framework road-map.
CommunicationStakeholder ManagementTechnical UnderstandingProblem SolvingManagementDigital Transformation+1

Senior Project Manager

Jul 2014Mar 2015 · 8 mos

  • Responsible for the planning and delivery of IoT and Engineering Practice deliverables. Technical management of the teams for the In-house IoT frameworks and solutions.
  •  Responsible for the Synapt’s frameworks Product road map
  •  Presales support for IoT and DataCom projects
  •  Interfacing with customers for ideating the M2M/IoT use case based on their business needs.
  •  Responsible for Concept to commercialization of the Solutions
  •  Ensuring the quality of the platform deliveries and also for the Prodapt’s QMS requirements
  •  Planning and delivery of the Synapt’s 3 IoT frameworks/platforms.
  •  Responsible for the identification of hardware partners based on the use case need and supported interfaces like Zigbee, WiFi, BLE etc.

Free lance

Healthcare/IT Consultant

Dec 2012Jun 2014 · 1 yr 6 mos · Trenton, New Jersey

  • Responsible for transitioning the practice from old or paper record to the Certified EMR, selecting and installing the required systems, complete training for the transitions and day to day support.
  •  Responsible for migrating the data to the certified EHR
  •  Individual training and transition to the new system for each role.
  •  Customizing the templates and other features for the practice.
  •  Special training for achieving the Meaningful Use
  •  Assistance in attesting Meaningful use and PQRS with CMS

Telcordia technologies

Senior Project Manager, India

Oct 2007Jul 2010 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Responsible for the Technical Management of Service Creation development for Telcordia CvAS. The work includes estimation, planning, resource management, and technical management. Technical management with compliance to QMS is also the prime responsibility.
  •  Interfacing with the Programme Mgmt for all project needs including requirement analysis discussion, Status updates etc.
  •  Planning and developing of Services in the Telcordia’s CvAS to meet the generic specifications given by the leading service providers in the APAC. (Chunghwa Mobile, Aircel, Idea etc)
  •  Ensuring Quality of the software delivered by improving the test planning activities with System Testing as more focus.
  •  Acknowledged as best performer within Telcordia and a recipient of CEO Award (“Relentless Pursuit of Customer Satisfaction”) for the first ever full lifecycle project completely executed by Telcordia India Labs.

Aricent

Engineering Project Manager

May 2006Sep 2007 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Completely responsible for the Project and Technical Management of few IP DSLAM enhancement projects in the control card. The work includes estimation, planning, resource management, and technical management. Project management with compliance to QMS is also the prime responsibility.
  •  Interfacing with the customer for all project needs including requirement analysis discussion, estimation negotiation, Status updates etc.
  •  Ensuring Quality of the software delivered by improving the test planning activities with System Testing is more focus.

Midas communication technologies

Design Lead - R & D

May 2005Apr 2006 · 11 mos

  • Completely responsible for management of all ADSL products, which includes Software for all related products, Feature additions, bug fixes, R & D support for the Marketing and Customer support teams, giving compliances for the Tender requirements.
  • Responsible for providing requirements, integration and validation of EMS for all ADSL products
  • Complete Design of E1 device driver in Real time Linux
  • Involved as a Design Consultant for the Circuit Emulation Project.
  • Technology evaluation of IMS architecture for the next generation Midas products.
  •  Stabilized the ADSL software by closing all the field issues.
  •  Planning and developing the Product to meet the generic specifications of the ADSL products given by the leading service providers around the world. (BSNL, ETISALAT, OMNIOCOM etc)

Banyan networks

3 roles

Team Leader R & D.

Apr 2002May 2005 · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • Was responsible for the cascading of the DIAS units for support of more number of users.
  • Guided in MEGACO protocol design.
  • In charge of complete validation the stacked setup.
  • Responsible for the DIAS product support, which involves support for production, customer support and field support, planning of enhancements for the system, bug fixing and coordinating for different certifying tests of the product.
  • Responsible for the complete design of 802.1x protocol.
  • Provided active consultancy in the development of RSTP protocol.
  • Was involved as a three member team in evolving the next generation Access Network of Banyan Networks.
  • Technology Evaluation of Metro Ethernet networks.
  • Was responsible for the ADSL product and software.
  •  Complete support for the Access Network product DIAS from adding new features to handling of BSNL QA.
  •  Have rendered complete R & D support for the full Product deployment with Service Provider (BSNL)
  •  Introduced the Virtual Circuit design in our ethernet products after the technology evaluation of Metro Ethernet.

Senior Engineer R & D.

Apr 2000Mar 2002 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Was responsible the conformance testing of V5.2, system testing of the Voice subsystem and interoperability testing with different V5.2 exchanges.
  • Was involved in the product design of Voice over IP gateway and was responsible for the product.
  • Was a member of Process Improvement Group of the company for defining and improving the ISO processes.
  • Development of protocol stacks MGCP, SIP
  • Headed a team size 4 people to bring up various sections of the VoIP gateway.
  • Coordinated with the hardware team and the codec team for common interfaces.
  •  Design and development the VoIP protocols MGCP and SIP.
  •  The generic design for the VoIP protocols matched with the design of leading companies.
  •  Complete adherence to ISO process for the VoIP project

Engineer R & D.

Apr 1999Mar 2000 · 11 mos

  • Developed an application programming interface (API) for signaling protocol independent call processing for the product DIAS.
  • Was handling a 5 member software team for bringing up the voice portion of the DIAS using the V5.2 protocol.
  •  Made the V5.2 software to interoperate with many exchanges.
  •  Lead a team successfully and developed the Voice section of Banyan's Access Network

Indian institute of technology - ic&sr

Project Associate

Apr 1997Jun 1998 · 1 yr 2 mos · Chennai

  • Was involved in the implementation of Datalink and Network layer for the ISDN protocol.
  • Complete validation of the ISDN protocol stack with the Protocol analyzer
  • Full system validation ISDN TA and also was involved in the interoperability tests with different ISDN exchanges.
  •  Wrote the full conformance suite for ISDN protocol with a protocol analyzer K1297

Wapcos

Junior Engineer

Oct 1996Mar 1997 · 5 mos · Chennai Area, India

  •  Developed and Managed software for water and power

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science

Master of Science — Software Systems

Jan 2003Jan 2005

Bharathidasan University

B.E. — Computer Science

Jan 1992Jan 1996

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