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
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Oct 2012 — Jul 2018
Senior Solution Architect
Oman Data Park
Defined technology strategies, transformation roadmaps and enterprise consulting engagements for CXO and technical stakeholders.
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.
Jan 2010 — Jun 2010
Senior Consultant
Capgemini
Enterprise infrastructure consulting across global accounts.
Oct 2007 — Aug 2009
VMware Expert
CSC
Virtualization, migration and automation across global enterprise environments.
Sep 2004 — Oct 2007
Intel Server Lead Specialist
IBM
Server infrastructure and data centre operations at enterprise scale.
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.
2000 — 2003
B.Sc. Computer Science
S.R.M Arts & Science College
Computer Science foundations.
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