- Partnerships with Cloud Providers , Research Labs, and open-source communities
- Strategic roadmap creation across generative AI initiatives
Dharani Babu
AI Evangelist | AWS | IPaaS | ML | Open Source Advocate
SUMMARY
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++