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Innovative IT Leader AWS Certified Solutions Architect & IBM Certified Generative AI Engineering and Fine-Tuning Transformers Engineer, Driving Software Development, Architecture & AI Transformation. Visionary technology professional with over two decades of global experience spanning software development, system architecture, engineering leadership, and enterprise strategy. Proven success in revolutionizing business operations through Gen AI and Large Language Model (LLM) integration. A passionate AI evangelist, championing the shift towards open-source LLMs and fully owned private cloud infrastructures to foster scalable, secure, and ethically driven innovation in the Gen AI ecosystem.

CAREER PATH

May 2025Till date

Director - AI

ITProfound (AIfinity Research) , Chennai/Bengaluru

Founder & Tech Architect – https://www.stellaw.ai  an affiliate of AIfinity Research  https://aifinity.online  

Models @ HuggingFace https://huggingface.co/aifinitydigital

Github https://github.com/aifinityresearch

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/dharanibabu2025

Cloud Contributions https://medium.com/@dharanibabu_68045/a-free-video-conferencing-solution-on-amazon-cloud-b90f607326db

STELLAW - Pioneering Legal AI for Indian Jurisprudence

  • Leading the development of STELLAW, www.stellaw.ai, an AI-powered legal consultation platform tailored for Indian legal professionals
  • Involving Retriever-Augmented Generation (RAG)—embedding frequently referenced Indian laws into vectorized formats for efficient semantic retrieval
  • FastAPI stack integrated with Groq’s inference engine
  • LLMs like LLaMa 4 and DeepSeek 7B R1, advocating for sovereign, scalable Gen AI solutions
  • Leveraging Agentic AI Google A2A for Judgement Analysis & Pleading Features using fully owned PEFT LoRa fine tuned Phi3 Mini Model on AWS EC2 ( g4dn.xlarge ). Deployed with Ollama 
  • Leading a distributed team of full-stack and AI engineers across Chennai and Bengaluru in delivering next-gen legal tech solutions to empower India’s legal fraternity

CapitalMind - An LLM-Powered Research Engine for Institutional Investment Intelligence

  • CapitalMind: AI-native investment intelligence engine powered by a fine-tuned Small Language Model (LLM) that ingests and analyses over a decade of SEC 13F filings, IPO allocations, institutional holdings, and CIK/CUSIP-mapped data
  • It enables investment bankers, equity analysts, and capital markets teams to , Track fund flows, quarterly position shifts, and conviction changes across top-tier institutional investors (e.g., BlackRock, Citadel, Vanguard)
  • Accelerate pitchbook preparation, market mapping, and peer benchmarking by querying a natural-language interface.
  • CapitalMind is built by fine-tuning a Mistral-7B model using Unsloth for efficient low-rank adaptation (LoRA) fine-tuning on multi-year SEC filings (13F) data from https://www.sec.gov/data-research/sec-markets-data/form-13f-data-sets.
  • Orchestrations with LangChain and Agentic AI Implementation using LangGraph 
  • Privately hosted model on Ollama Server on AWS Private Cloud ( With g4dn.xlarge GPU with NVIDIA PyTorch Enabled AMI OS Image )

March 2022April 2025

SRE Architect & AI Lead & IPaaS

Standard Chartered Ventures ( Optimum Info Systems )Bangalore

InHouce CoPilot Solution :

  • Implemented the integration of Cline ( RooCode) with MCP server for .NET C# Code Base with Fully Owned DeepSeek R1 32B Model on AWS EC2 on Private Cloud ( GPU g4dn.xlarge ) with Ollama Server

InvoiceIQ

  • AI-Powered Supply Chain Financing Platform to improve productivity of Supply Chain Financing Chain , AWS Textract and AWS Comprehend for data extraction and anomaly detection from supplier invoices.
  • AWS SageMaker to predict optimal bank pairings based on invoice data, supplier history, and financing trends
  • Evaluation included Dell Bhoomi, MuleSoft and ws02
  • Lead the team to implement Inhouse IPaaS Solution top of Open Source ws02 which is based on Apache 2.0 license 
  • The IPaaS product enables low code solution  to integrate Client's ERP systems like SAP ECC, SAP S4 HANA , Oracle NetSuite, Salesforce
  • Implemented 100k Invoice processing from SAP systems using WS02' Micro Integrator 
    Ensured the Open Source Framework is Production Ready by fixing the vulnerabilities in the Apace . Enabled Containerization of the ws02 Micro Integrator to ECS Fargate specific to Client's Needs
  • Responsible for introducing Observability solutions to existing AWS ECS Fargate Services 
    Designed and implemented AWS X-Ray ( side car ) Solution to improve Observability 
March 2019March 2022

Assistant Vice President - SRE Transformation

DBS Bank Ltd , Hyderabad
  • Solution Architect cum Technical Manager for CAPE
  • Architecting & Leading cutting-edge Capacity Planning Engine ( CAPE ) initiative for 8500+ VMs of DBS Bank 
  • Expertise in implementing Machine Learning Algorithms and models - namingly Facebook's fbprophet , Linear Regression for advance forecasting of required Infra Utilization 
  • Degradation detection using  Shewhart - Montgomery control charts algorithm
April 2018March 2019

Assistant Vice President -Technical Manager

DBS Bank Ltd , Hyderabad
  • Technical Manager for 20+ mil SG Mobile Banking replatform from KONY to native iOS/Android mobile banking application designed with rich UI/UX experience
  • Implementation  3DS ( 3D secure ) , Faster Payment System  , eStatement enhancements , IAM product integration
  • Ownership of TDD , BDD , DevOPS and Test Automation ( coverage 78%)
March 2017April 2018

Assistant Vice President -Release Manager

DBS Bank Ltd , Hyderabad
  • Responsible for Capacity Planning for new LifeStyle2.0 CARDS+ CAT1 Mobile Application Platform 
  • Responsible for Application and Infra Deployment Readiness
Jan 2015March 2017

SME / Solution Architect

Helius Technologies, Singapore ( For DBS Bank )
  • Forex Time Deposit , 1FA for low and medium risk transactions
  • Solution Architect for Implementation of "6- tier" and "3-tier " Zero Down Time resiliency projects for HK & SG Mobile Banking
May 2014 Dec 2014

Project Manager

JP Morgan Chase , Chennai ( for TCS)
  • Project manager for Cards Remodeling project 
  • Responsible for deliverables on developments on ETL , SORs , Integration 
Dec 2013May 2014

Technical Architect

LLoyds TSB Bank , Manchester ( for TCS)
  • Responsible for reverse engineering approach to re-engineer front end applications of Branch IT platform ;De-compilers , porting legacy VC++ 2.0 to .NET framework 
  • IBM MQ Client Code migration to .NET framework
Feb 2012Dec 2013

Technical Lead

JPMorgan Chase , London ( for TCS )
  • Maintenance /enhancement of Repo Trading Platform- GTRepo - Fixed
    Income Prime Brokerage division 
  • 24x7 L2-L3 support for  settlement systems flow of high worth , sensitive trades 
  • End to end orchestration for Decommission 
Sep 2010 Feb 2012

Technical Manager

Alcatel - Lucent Enterprise, Chennai - Strasbourg
  • Solution Architect cum Technical Manager  for  implementing Remote IP . Remote IP helps removing requirement of Public IPs in the customer premises , which was erstwhile required by all Alcatel Business partners. DTMF based SSH tunneling solution for service connectivity to remote PBX systems
  • Responsible for L3 maintenance of OXO product line, solutioning of new enhancements - MyIC mobile development 
  • Full EMEA ownership with L2 & business partners 
April 2007 Sep 2010

Technical Lead

Alcatel - Lucent Enterprise, Chennai
  • Tech lead for PIMPhony(softphone) , Omni PCX Management Console , TAPI and Open Telephony Server , Static and dynamic memory
    management initiatives
  • Ensuring adherence to SLAs on maintenance defects
April 2006April 2007

Senior Software Engineer

Alcatel - Lucent Enterprise, Chennai
  • Enhancement  of OmniPCX Management Console ,Open
    Telephony Server and TAPI for soft phone interface with PBX.
  • Development for backward compatibility aspects using gSoap services
    and conversion of FTP / wininet into HTTP/ WinHTTP protocol
  • Usage of DevPartner Visual Studio for memory leaks detection 
Dec 2004 April 2006

Software Engineer - Grade B

Alcatel - Lucent Enterprise, Chennai
  • Developer for OmniPCX Management Console - on Windows MFC , Win32 , FTP & TCP 
  • Won "FIRST CENTURY" award for having fixed first 100 defects  
May 2004 Dec 2004

Software Engineer

Sify Limited , Chennai
  • Design and development of Remote Monitoring WMI Server , developed
    using TCP/Win32 API 
  • Custom Multithreaded Threadpool - custom Message Queue  - Pollers 
June 2003Dec 2003

Software Engineer

IM Insight Software , Chennai
  • Development of SHOUTCAST stream server (proxy server on TCP - Win32/MFC  )which is a CRM product for voice broadcast over net.
Jan 2001June 2003

Programmer

Sparc Infolabs, Chennai
  • Programmer for engineering automation project - GeoCAD, Geometric
    & trigonometric solutions and coding
  • Extensive use of algebra & trigonometry combined with Device Context programming on Visual C++

Education

June 1994May 1998

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering

University of Madras