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AI / ML Architect and Technology Leader with extensive global experience spanning software engineering, enterprise architecture, and AI-driven platform transformation. AWS Certified Solutions Architect , Machine Learning ( Stanford University ) and IBM Certified Generative AI Engineer, with deep hands-on expertise in ML , LLM Fine-Tuning, Agentic AI systems, RAG architectures, and Private-Cloud AI Platforms.

Proven track record of designing and delivering enterprise-grade AI solutions across regulated domains, enabling measurable business impact through secure, scalable, and cost-aware GenAI adoption. Strong advocate of open-source LLM ecosystems and fully owned inference infrastructures, enabling organisations to retain control over data, IP, and compliance while accelerating innovation.

CAREER PATH

Jan 2026

GenAI Architect

Agilisium Consulting (I) Pvt Ltd

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

  • Architected a full-stack AI-powered retrosynthesis platform for a top-10 Indian CRDMO, reducing synthesis route identification from weeks of manual analysis to under 5 minutes
  • Designed a 4-layer AI pipeline integrating AiZynthFinder MCTS (878,000 USPTO reactions), IBM RXN condition prediction, multi-objective Pareto optimisation, and Claude Sonnet generative AI
    Implemented real-time SSE streaming architecture enabling live pipeline visualisation across 4 AI layers simultaneously in the browser
  • Designed and built a Pareto ranking engine across 5 dimensions (yield, cost, steps, AI confidence, green score) with min-max normalisation and weighted multi-objective scoring
  • Integrated IBM RXN ML API for per-step yield and condition prediction with automated cascade yield calculation
  • Built a cost model integrating PubChem REST API and Sigma-Aldrich 2024 catalogue pricing with structural classification fallback tiers — computing raw material cost for any synthesis route at any target scale
  • Embedded a context-aware AI chemistry assistant (Claude Sonnet API) with full analysis context injection
Sep 2025 - Till Date

AI ML Architect & Head of AI Solutions

Kidde Global Solutions | Fire and Safety Products (Kedward Technologies )Hyderabad
  • Led end-to-end AI architecture and solutioning for a Product Safety Incident Classification (PSIC) platform to automatically assess severity of customer complaints across Smoke Detectors, CO Detectors, and Fire Extinguishers, reducing manual legal review effort.

    • Designed a batch inference AI pipeline to process large volumes of residential customer complaints and classify incidents into severity tiers (standard, escalation-risk, potential legal exposure) using LLM-based reasoning.

    • Architected an LLM-driven classification system leveraging hidden Chain-of-Thought (CoT) to infer latent risk signals without exposing reasoning artifacts, aligning with legal and compliance requirements.

    • Evaluated multiple pre-trained transformer and foundation models — including Gemma 3, Mistral, Llama 3.2, and gpt-oss:20b — across accuracy, reasoning depth, latency, and GPU memory footprint, selecting gpt-oss:20b for production deployment.

    • Implemented a private, on-prem-style LLM deployment using Ollama within an AWS private subnet, ensuring data residency, IP protection, and zero external data leakage.

    • Deployed the production inference stack on AWS g5.xlarge GPU instances using a Deep Learning AMI, optimizing for throughput, model load time, and batch processing efficiency

May 2025Sep 2025

AI Architect

ITProfound ( Chennai/Bengaluru )

  • STELLAW | AI-Powered Legal Research for Indian Jurisprudence

  • Directed the end-to-end AI architecture of STELLAW, an AI-powered legal consultation and research platform purpose-built for Indian jurisprudence, serving professional lawyers and legal researchers.
    • Designed and implemented a Retriever-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline by embedding frequently referenced Indian statutes, case laws, and legal doctrines into vector embeddings to enable high-precision semantic retrieval.

    • Architected a multi-model inference strategy, combining Phi-3 Mini for low-latency tasks with DeepSeek-R1 for complex legal reasoning and long-form judgment analysis.

    • Built a scalable FastAPI-based AI backend, integrated with Groq for accelerated inference on non-sensitive workflows.

    • Implemented agentic AI workflows using LangGraph to support advanced features such as judgment analysis, pleading assistance, and multi-step legal reasoning.

    • Established data privacy–aware architecture, routing sensitive legal analysis to privately hosted models while allowing non-sensitive queries to leverage managed inference.

  • CapitalMind | LLM-Powered Capital Markets Research Engine

    • Architected CapitalMind, an AI-native investment intelligence platform enabling investment bankers, equity analysts, and capital markets teams to analyze institutional behavior using natural-language queries.

    • Designed a domain-specific LLM fine-tuning pipeline, training a DeepSeek-R1:14B model using 5+ years of SEC Form 13F filings, IPO allocation data, and institution-mapped financial datasets.

    • Implemented LLM orchestration and agent-based workflows using LangChain and LangGraph to support multi-step analytical reasoning.

    • Enabled advanced analytics such as fund flow tracking, quarterly position shifts, and peer benchmarking across major institutional investors (e.g., BlackRock, Citadel, Vanguard).

    • Deployed a privately hosted LLM inference stack using Ollama on AWS private cloud infrastructure, leveraging g4dn.xlarge GPU instances with NVIDIA PyTorch–enabled AMIs to ensure data confidentiality and predictable inference latency.

    • Balanced model size, cost, latency, and accuracy, opting for a fine-tuned small model over larger foundation models to optimize institutional-scale usage economics.

March 2022April 2025

SRE Architect ,Lead AI & IPaaS

Standard Chartered Ventures , Bangalore

InHouse CoPilot Solution

  • Architected and deployed an in-house AI Copilot for enterprise .NET / C# codebases, enabling secure, context-aware developer assistance without reliance on external SaaS tools.

  • Integrated Cline (RooCode) with an internal MCP Server, enabling structured and controlled context exchange between IDE tooling and backend LLM services.

  • Deployed a privately hosted LLaMA 3.2 70B model for deep cross-file code understanding and architectural reasoning, ensuring full source-code confidentiality and IP protection.

  • Implemented the LLM serving layer using Ollama on AWS EC2 private cloud infrastructure, optimizing inference through quantization and GPU-aware deployment strategies.

  • Designed the solution to operate entirely within a private network boundary, with no external API calls, aligning with enterprise security and compliance requirements.

  • Enabled internal engineering teams to perform contextual code search, refactoring suggestions, and architectural Q&A over large C# codebases, improving developer productivity while maintaining organizational control over models and data.

March 2019March 2022

Assistant Vice President - SRE Transformation

DBS Bank Ltd , Hyderabad

ML Engineer | Systems Analytics Lead - Capacity Planning & Forecasting 

Large Retail Banking Platform | On-Prem Data Centers

  • Led the design of an ML-driven Capacity Planning Engine (CAPE) to determine optimal infrastructure capacity for ~8,500 Linux servers supporting a high-traffic retail banking mobile application with ~6,000 concurrent user sessions per second.

  • Formulated the problem as a statistical modeling and what-if simulation exercise, enabling infrastructure teams to assess whether existing CPU and memory resources could sustain 2×–3× traffic surges during peak events such as seasonal and holiday sales.

  • Aggregated and aligned hourly peak user traffic metrics with corresponding CPU and memory utilization across a one-year historical window, creating a clean analytical dataset for capacity modeling.

  • Modeled the relationship between user traffic (independent variable) and CPU/memory utilization (dependent variables) using Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) linear regression, producing an interpretable relationship of the form y = mx + c for capacity extrapolation.

  • Evaluated linear regression implementations using scikit-learn and statsmodels, selecting statsmodels OLS for its statistical interpretability, confidence intervals, and diagnostic outputs.

  • Built time-series forecasts for user traffic and infrastructure utilization to enable forward-looking what-if simulations under peak and stress conditions.

  • Prototyped equivalent traffic-to-resource utilization models in PyTorch, experimenting with gradient-based linear and non-linear formulations, and compared results against OLS to validate model simplicity versus predictive stability.

  • Validated model reliability using p-values, R², residual analysis, and train/test splits, ensuring statistical soundness before using predictions to inform infrastructure scaling and procurement decisions.

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 

Education

June 1994May 1998

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering

University of Madras