Ashwanth Kumar is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in Chennai with 15 years of experience building and scaling data-driven products and infrastructure across startups and public companies. He has led large distributed systems work—crawler and scheduler platforms, a 3+ billion HTML archive, and pipelines handling billions of records—while driving >$1M/year AWS savings through automation and Spot Instance strategies. As Principal Engineer at Indix and Avalara he shipped high-confidence product matching, automated tax-change detection workflows, and a no-code self-serve platform for researchers. He now builds signal-driven ad tech at ShelfRadar.ai and runs AK Labs to help teams move from 0→1 quickly through hands-on engineering, architecture, and delivery coaching. Known for pragmatic open-source tooling (see github.com/ashwanthkumar) and a knack for turning messy data problems into production-ready systems, he blends deep technical craft with product-focused thinking.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Sri Sankara Vidyalaya, East Tambaram
B. Tech Computer Science, B. Tech Computer Science at Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research Academy
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Ashwanth Kumar - Chief Technology Officer at ShelfRadar.ai