Raja Sekhar Kommu

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India28 yrs 9 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 29 years of experience in diverse industries.
  • Founded and scaled ApnaComplex, a leading SaaS platform.
  • Expert in leveraging AI for healthcare transformation.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Healthcare and SaaS entrepreneur with a strong focus on AI-driven solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cancer GenomicsMachine LearningEntrepreneurshipSoftware As A Service (saas)

Other Skills

Molecular DiagnosticsDigital PathologyAIMLNatural Language Processing (NLP)Enterprise ArchitectureLarge Scale SystemsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Digital TransformationSoftware DevelopmentBusiness PlanningLarge Scale Change ManagementDigital StrategyDistributed SystemsBioinformaticsProgram Management

About

I am an entrepreneur with over 29 years of experience divided between corporate and startups spanning Banking, Finance, Insurance, Real Estate Tech, Healthcare, Genomics, Age/Longevity Tech and eWaste Management. At present I wear multiple hats - Owner of Jio ArogyAI (Jio Health) Business that consolidates all digital health entities in Reliance Group with a focus on AI transformation, CTO of Karkinos Healthcare and Business Head of Cancer Diagnostics and Research Labs at Karkinos. Experience of starting up and running technology products business within India, working with Fortune 100 companies across the globe driving large business transformation projects, and architecting platforms for scale is what I bring to the table. Working on leveraging AI to transform healthcare at country scale by creating high precision and high recall neurosymbolic AI systems that improve healthcare accessibility by decoupling healthcare expertise from hralthcare delivery location. Have created the blueprint for Karkinos Technology Platform that can support population scale Distributed Cancer Network in wide variety of edge cases, separates Oncology Care Knowledge from Oncology Care Delivery with Interoperability - with data at its core to be leveraged by AI/ML. Built a high performance team from scratch in middle of pandemic that laid foundations for building the Karkinos Tech Platform. With a shoestring budget, I have built ApnaComplex, created a successful brand used by thousands of housing societies and lakhs of home owners and residents across the country - which has been acquired by NestAway in Dec 2019 and later on by ANAROCK in Jan 2021. Through Wipro Technologies, I worked with marquee organizations such as American Express, Credit Suisse, Key Bank, The Hartford Insurance in key techno-managerial roles and roles with P&L responsibility. I was part of Enterprise Architecture Review Boards for several several Clients of Wipro and part of Center for Advanced Technologies. Known for: Principles centered leadership, Crisis management, Very strong innovation mindset, Excellent understanding of Technology, Architecting highly scalable systems, Being hands-on Programmer, Putting together very high performing cross functional teams, Significantly improving CSAT and NPS, Being highly trustworthy, and Having a Never Give Up attitude! Reach out for: Mentoring for young startups, Bouncing off New startup opportunities, Reviewing Product Architectures, Discussing about growing under constraints - all on a pro bono basis.

Experience

28 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
12 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
5 yrs 3 mos
Current Experience

Apnacomplex

3 roles

Co-founder and Chairman of Advisory Board

Feb 2021Nov 2021 · 9 mos

Co-founder and Chairman

Jul 2020Jan 2021 · 6 mos

Co-founder and CEO

Apr 2010Jul 2020 · 10 yrs 3 mos

  • Founded ApnaComplex.com in April 2010.
  • Using technology innovatively to solve day-to-day problems of thousands of housing societies in India.
  • Being a founder treasurer of my housing society and experiencing innumerable challenges in managing the affairs of housing society, started ApnaComplex.com in April 2010. Objective was to create a platform that solves problems of Housing Societies in all aspects.
  • From a one member team, today ApnaComplex makes Apartment Community Living a pleasure for thousands of housing societies and lakhs of home owners and residents in 80+ cities across India.
  • Navigated the organization on continuous growth with a shoestring budget. Have built a strong culture of frugality and innovation with resource constraints.
  • ApnaComplex continues to be the innovation leader to set the trends for rest of the industry and makes disproportionate impact on the industry relative its team size.
  • Was responsible for everything in the organization. ApnaComplex is acquired by NestAway in Dec 2019 giving an exit to early investors in multiples of their investment.
Software as a Service (SaaS)Enterprise ArchitectureEntrepreneurshipAmazon Web Services (AWS)Large Scale Systems

Karkinos healthcare

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer

Feb 2021Present · 5 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • Karkinos aims to improve cancer patient outcomes by establishing a Distributed Cancer Care Network - integrated with help of cutting-edge technology.
  • I have created the blueprint for Karkinos Technology Platform that can support Distributed Cancer Network, separates Oncology Care Knowledge from Oncology Care Delivery - with data at its core.
  • Have established openEHR standards based clinical information models for 6 common forms of Cancer. Established architectural and design principles to ensure healthcare data that's collected and generated is structurally and semantically interoperable. Leveraged openEHR for health data at rest and FHIR for data in motion. Conceptualized the process of applying NLP on unstructured clinical notes to convert into structured data and generate useful insights (retrospective analysis). Trained on an India-specific corpus of around 845K Clinical records of about 40K patients, In addition, I also led the implementation of other relatively smaller AI/ML based interventions for duplicate patient record detection from patient demographic data, risk prediction from risk assessment questionnaires, Cancer Classification, Coverage and Nuclei segmentation from whole slide images to aid the pathologists of our labs.
  • Conceptualized and established process of gathering lab data, imaging data and digital pathology data to cloud to build a 360 degree view of patients in a longitudinal timeline.
  • Established blueprint for cloud based genomic pipeline processing for analyzing geneomic sequencing data thats generated from Illumina Novaseq and Nextseq machines for whole genome sequencing and targeted panel sequencing.
  • I also lead the country's most advanced Molecular Diagnostics and Research Labs.
Molecular DiagnosticsCancer GenomicsDigital PathologyAIMLNatural Language Processing (NLP)Machine Learning+2

Wipro technologies

5 roles

Delivery Head

Apr 2008Apr 2010 · 2 yrs

  • Managed delivery for a large and strategic US based Insurance organization - includes SLA based application maintenance, large migration programs and strategic development & consulting projects.
  • Responsible for Customer Satisfaction, Employee Satisfaction and P&L of the account.

Delivery Manager

Promoted

Jan 2005Mar 2008 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Managed delivery for a Business Insurance and Specialty Insurance segments of a P&C Insurer - includes SLA based application maintenance, large migration programs, application development and consulting projects.
  • Responsible for Customer Satisfaction, Employee Satisfaction and P&L of the account.

Architect & Consultant

May 2002Dec 2004 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Was involved with American Express as a part of thier IT Architecture Group promoting Open Source, conceiving, architecting and implementing several enterprise class Reusable Components/Frameworks, Websphere Migration Standards and Guidelines, Reviewing architectures of several projects
  • Was involved with US banking major as a process and project management consultant to streamline an SLA based outsourcing engagement.

Onsite Coordinator

Promoted

Mar 2000Apr 2002 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Was working with American Express as a onsite coordinator managing, designing and developing self servicing Credit Card Portal.

Sr. Software Engineer / Tech Lead

Mar 1997Feb 2000 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Education

Harvard Medical School

HMX Pro – Genetics Essentials / Sequencing Technologies / Cancer Genomics and Precision Oncology

Jun 2022Aug 2022

Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Masters in Engineering — Computer Science

Jan 1995Jan 1997

ILSS - India Leaders for Social Sector

ILSS Leadership Program

Aug 2021Dec 2021

GrowthX®

Jan 2020Jan 2020

Andhra University

Bachelor of Engineering — Electronics and Communication

Jan 1990Jan 1994

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