About

Aravind (Ara) Ramalingam is a cognitive solution expert and the Founder & CEO of Whirldata Inc, providing Artificial Intelligence solutions across various sectors such as consumer devices, industrial equipment, financial, healthcare, and pharma. With over 20 years of multi-industry experience, Ara has led teams in building intelligent solutions involving machine learning and neural networks, E-commerce applications, IT consulting, building biotech applications, hosted software product development, and B2B and B2C solution deployments. Ara is a technical architect with extensive professional services experience in selecting, designing, and implementing cost-effective cognitive solutions. He is a natural team player and is recognized for improving client relationships and delivering timely solutions. Ara is a proven leader with the ability to learn new technology, succeed in high-pressure situations, and manage onsite & offshore development teams. He possesses excellent analytical, creative, and problem-solving skills and has a passion for serving customers. Ara's specializations include Python & TensorFlow, Chatbots & Virtual Assistants (Amazon Echo, Google Home), IoT, Industrial IoT, Big data platforms, and Analytics stacks (Qlik, PowerBI, Grafana). He has experience in integrating various platforms to provide cost-effective solutions. Ara is also proficient in technologies such as Hybris, ATG, Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL Server, MS Access, DB2, JBoss, WebSphere Application Server, Swing, JSP, J2EE, Struts, Java, PHP, Visual Basic, C, COBOL, Pascal, FORTRAN, and Ruby on Rails. Prior to founding Whirldata, Ara was the CEO & Principal Architect at Citrisys Solutions, where he specialized in integrating E-commerce applications, IT consulting solution deployments, and mobile commerce applications. He has also worked as a Director at Citrisys Solutions - UK, where he customized and deployed E-commerce solutions based on ATG. Ara holds an MS in Computer Science from American University and a BE in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Madras. With 24.04 years of relevant experience, Ara is an expert in SQL, Senior Software Engineering, PHP, AWS, Ruby, Big Data, Web, Javascript, ML, Tensorflow, Neural Networks, MySQL, Python, Java, Integration, and Mobile technologies.