Araf Hamid is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with over 25 years of experience architecting mission-critical, cloud-native systems for enterprises and government agencies. He has a rare track record spanning distributed computing, pioneering SIEM and high-speed event correlation, low-code/cloud GRC platforms, and modern microservices/DevSecOps/Kubernetes architectures. As founder and CTO at multiple startups and now leading Equipmate AI, he blends hands-on engineering with product strategy to deliver predictive, physics-driven decision intelligence for industrial clients. Araf mentors engineers through Elastic Engineering programs and workshops for organizations like Dell and Reliance, reflecting his passion for hands-on training and design thinking. Beyond engineering, he pursues deep interests in relativity, quantum physics, and evolutionary biology, which inform his systems-thinking approach to complex technical problems.
11 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Kerala
Java 23, SpringBoot 3.4.1 Examples using Deep Learning 4 Java & LangChain4J for Generative AI using ChatGPT LLM, RAG and other open source LLMs. Sentiment Analysis, Application Context based ChatBots. Custom Data Handling. LLMs - GPT 3.5 / 4o, Gemini Pro 1.5, Claude 3, Llama 3.1, Phi-3, Gemma 2, Falcon 3, Qwen 2.5, Mistral Nemo, Wizard Math
Contributions:70 PRs, 244 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 3 months
Microservice: Java 17, 23, SpringBoot 3.5.4, & Jakarta EE 10. NFRs - Spring AOP, Exception, Logging, Micrometer, Open Telemetry, Crypto, AES Encryption for DB Passwords, and Spring Security, JWT, KeyCloak, Alpine/Alpaquita Multi-Architecture Containers, Kubernetes, Swagger API Docs.
Contributions:54 PRs, 232 pushes, 5 branches in 11 months
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