Varghese Cottagiri
Chief Architect & CEO at AmberNovaAI
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolVarghese Cottagiri is a seasoned technology executive and architect who has spent his career building enterprise-grade banking and financial systems, now leading AmberNovaAI as Chief Architect & CEO. With over two decades of industry experience and a decade in senior engineering leadership roles, he progressed through product, architecture, and VP-level positions at Zafin, shaping next-generation product and engineering strategies. He combines deep hands-on software systems expertise (M.S. in Software Systems) with proven ability to scale teams and translate complex banking requirements into robust, production-ready platforms. Based in Ottawa, Varghese pairs founder-level vision with pragmatic delivery, having moved from product owner to C-suite across long tenures that reflect sustained impact and institutional knowledge. An understated strength is his continuity across the full product lifecycle—from early design and development to enterprise deployment—making him effective at bridging technical, product, and business priorities.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceBachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering at University of MadrasHigh School, High School at Model Tech HSS
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Github Skills (44)
messaging-system10
messaging10
pulsar10
apache10
queuing10
minishift10
event-streaming10
pubsub10
apache-pulsar10
streaming10
jkube9
development-tools9
cardano9
maven9
maintenance8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
vcottagiri/pulsar
Jul 2020 - Aug 2020
Apache Pulsar - distributed pub-sub messaging system
Contributions:9 pushes, 10 branches in 29 days
pulsarmessaging-systemstreamsstreamingapache
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