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CTO and Architecture Consultant @ Start Up | Applied AI, AI Systems Architecture

About

I am a technology leader with 20+ years of experience building and scaling cloud-native, AI-driven platforms across fintech, retail, and supply chain domains. My focus is on translating complex business objectives into scalable, reliable engineering outcomes, balancing speed, cost, and long-term sustainability. Across my career, I’ve worked with early-stage startups through global enterprises, consistently delivering measurable impact: AI-First Platforms: Led LLM-based initiatives that generated $5M+ in incremental revenue and contributed to 20+ patent filings. Scalable SaaS Architecture: Designed and migrated platforms to microservices and Kubernetes, enabling 100× customer growth and 10× scale-up within a year. Operational Excellence: Achieved 100% SLA adherence and improved NPS by 20+ points through proactive, AI-driven incident management. Engineering Leadership: Built and scaled teams from 50 to 160 engineers, increased test coverage from 40% to 90%, reduced QA defects by 50%, and cut production issues by 90%. Cost & Efficiency: Optimized infrastructure and data platforms to deliver ~30% lower cloud spend while improving system performance. What I bring to organizations: Executive Technology Leadership: Partnering with CXOs and boards to align technology strategy with business growth. AI & Cloud Depth: Hands-on expertise across AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, multi-tenant SaaS, and LLM-driven platforms. People & Org Building: Hiring, mentoring, and scaling high-performing engineering teams with a strong focus on career growth and succession. I thrive in high-growth, outcome-driven environments where technology must scale alongside business ambition. Whether accelerating startups to market or modernizing enterprise platforms, I focus on results that drive revenue, reliability, and customer trust.

Location

Bhubaneshwar

AI stack

cursor

github copilot

replit

claudecode

AssemblyAI

OpenAI Agents SDK

Work experience

CTO consultant at start up, Oct 2024 - Present · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Advised on strategies for predictable application development, ensuring high-quality deliverables. • Defined technology roadmap aligning with client's business vision and growth objectives. • Translated business needs into actionable technical solutions, bridging the gap between business and technology. • Recommended scalable architectural frameworks and tools to optimize processes and accelerate project timelines.

Senior Director of Engineering at HighRadius, May 2021 - Dec 2024 · 3 yrs 8 mos, Bhubaneswar, • Led a team of 100+ engineers to build a secured scalable Autonomous Product, achieving 50% defect reduction in a low code platform. • Redesigned and delivered low code platform for 100% productivity improvement • Built patent pending LLM based model for new revenue • Reduced cloud cost by 30% by DB optimization, using Kubernetes

Platform Architect at Start ups, Nov 2018 - May 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Building platform and product from scratch

Director Product Development at Ace Turtle Services Ltd, Jan 2017 - Sep 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Built AI platform for Omni-channel. Re-engineered Inventory management System to reduce number of production issues by 80 percent and performance improvement

Head of Engineering at Analyttica Datalab Pvt. Ltd., Jan 2016 - Dec 2016 · 1 yr, Bengaluru Area, India, Built multiple products on the platform Building performance and Scalability Defining service API

AVP Product Development and Architecture / Chief Architect at Analyttica Datalab Pvt. Ltd., Apr 2013 - Dec 2015 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Building complex, disruptive product in analytics Building maintanable, manageble performant system Translating business idea to technology Building A+ team Making strategic technology choices Create operational efficiency by re-usability Building highly maintainable and extendable product so that 80 percent client change requests are promoted in next sprint Building well performing and scalable SaaS product

Education

Master of Engineering, System Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

BE, Electrical Engineering, Veer Surendra Sai University Of Technology ( Formerly UCE ), Burla

Public links

medium: https://medium.com/@parsuram

github: https://github.com/parsuram