Summary
Ramanan Ravikumar is a Chief Architect and backend engineer with over a decade of experience building data-driven products and scalable systems across startups. He combines practical expertise in Go and Python with a strong background in big data, NLP and machine learning—having built high-throughput event pipelines, production NLP classifiers, and personalization engines processing millions of users. His work spans the stack from ETL and Spark to Elasticsearch, Airflow and cloud ops on Azure/AWS, and he has applied ML for security at Deepfence using semantic-patching concepts. A mentor and hands-on technical leader, he has repeatedly turned research-grade models into reliable, deployed services and led architecture for product teams. Based in Chennai, he brings a pragmatic blend of data engineering, applied ML, and security-aware backend architecture to fast-moving startups.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Software Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Software Engineering at Vellore Institute of Technology
English, Tamil