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About

Aravind Raghunathan

Chief Technology Officer & Advisor — AI, Cloud & Cybersecurity

Chennai, India

Twenty-three years turning emerging technology into something that survives contact with real organizations — enterprises and governments betting on AI, cloud, and security systems that have to hold up under load.

I've worked across banks, hospital systems, telecom networks, government departments, and manufacturing plants — ten-odd countries in all. If there's one thing that carried across all of it, it's that the technology usually isn't what makes a project hard. People and processes are.

As Chief Technology Officer, I've built AI products and the engineering teams behind them across multiple regions — real deadlines, real budgets, real consequences when something failed. That's the background I bring to the enterprises and government bodies I advise today.

My current work centers on AI-first initiatives and modernizing cloud and cyber defense. I'm also paying attention to quantum computing, mainly because so much of what I've built rests on cryptography that assumes a level of difficulty quantum machines are expected to erode.

235+ projects. 37 industry awards. 6 government partnerships. Those are the headline numbers, but the measure I care about is how much of that work is still running today.

Career

12 roles · 2000 — present

Career timeline

Now

Oct 2025 — Present

Head of Artificial Intelligence

Murugappa Group

India

Leading enterprise AI strategy, AI-native infrastructure, semiconductor process intelligence and private edge computing — turning next-generation AI systems into governed, measurable business transformation at group scale.

  • Conceptualised and launched an agentic AI loan origination system for India's second-largest NBFC in nine months, owning it from business case to production
  • Built the delivery team from the ground up — AI, backend, frontend, data and QA — with no dependency on large proprietary platforms
  • Led a semiconductor digital twin for offline process simulation across Wafer Saw, Die Bond, Wire Bond and Package Saw
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  1. Oct 2025 — Present

    Head of Artificial Intelligence

    Murugappa Group

    Leading enterprise AI strategy, AI-native infrastructure, semiconductor process intelligence and private edge computing — turning next-generation AI systems into governed, measurable business transformation at group scale.

  2. Feb 2025 — Sep 2025

    Chief Technology Officer / Technology Advisor

    Hermes Semiconductor

    Led next-generation AI, quantum computing and semiconductor-driven architecture initiatives, aligning advanced technical execution with business transformation.

  3. Jul 2022 — Feb 2025

    Chief Technology Officer / Chief AI Officer

    Netcon Group / Yavar.ai

    Owned global AI, cloud, enterprise platform and managed services portfolios — strategy, solution architecture, delivery excellence and executive stakeholder engagement.

  4. Aug 2020 — Jul 2022

    Solution Architect — Consultant

    Symbiosis

    Techno-commercial consultant in the Advanced Services Division, supporting enterprise tenders, digital transformation and strategic solution design.

  5. Jul 2018 — Aug 2020

    Chief Technology Officer

    Digital Nexus LLC

    Led ICT transformation, cloud service provider strategy and managed service modernisation, helping enterprises across finance, government and education migrate and modernise.

  6. Oct 2012 — Jul 2018

    Senior Solution Architect

    Oman Data Park

    Defined technology strategies, transformation roadmaps and enterprise consulting engagements for CXO and technical stakeholders.

  7. Jun 2010 — Oct 2012

    Technical Architect → Senior Virtualization Architect

    VMware

    Deep virtualization and enterprise infrastructure work that became the foundation for everything later — the years spent understanding how large systems actually behave under load.

  8. Jan 2010 — Jun 2010

    Senior Consultant

    Capgemini

    Enterprise infrastructure consulting across global accounts.

  9. Oct 2007 — Aug 2009

    VMware Expert

    CSC

    Virtualization, migration and automation across global enterprise environments.

  10. Sep 2004 — Oct 2007

    Intel Server Lead Specialist

    IBM

    Server infrastructure and data centre operations at enterprise scale.

  11. Dec 2003 — Sep 2004

    Technical Support — Dell

    Sutherland Technologies

    Where it started. Front-line technical support, and the habit of debugging other people's systems.

  12. 2000 — 2003

    B.Sc. Computer Science

    S.R.M Arts & Science College

    Computer Science foundations.

Certifications & credentials

Vertex AI
Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator
VMware Certified Professional
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
ITIL Foundation V3
Fortinet NSE 2 Associate
VCE Certified Associate — Converged Infrastructure
Veeam Sales Professional (VMSP)

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