AI Solution Architect · Cloud-Native Builder

Hi, I'm Dhayal Ram

I thrive on crafting solutions that don't just tick the technical boxes — they empower the people using them.

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About

Builder first, engineer always

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I architect AI solutions at Nokia in Bengaluru — built on 11+ years of shipping software, from PHP backends in my early days to cloud-native AWS systems and AI-powered products today. I thrive on crafting solutions that don't just tick the technical boxes but also empower the teams using them. This site is my corner of the internet: my work, my writing, my experiments.

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11+

Years building software

4×

Performance awards

∞

Curiosity

Toolbox

What I work with

Cloud & Serverless

AWSLambdaDynamoDBS3 + CloudFrontAPI GatewayBedrock

Backend

Node.jsTypeScriptPythonREST & event-driven APIs

Frontend

ReactReact NativeNext.jsTailwind CSSThree.js

AI Engineering

Claude / LLM appsRAGAgent workflowsPrompt design

Journey

The road so far

  1. 2024 — Present

    Technical Specialist @ Nokia

    Building telecom-scale software at Nokia, Bengaluru — cloud-native services with AI woven into the workflow.

  2. 2022 — 2023

    Lead Software Engineer @ Informatica

    Led backend engineering on enterprise data-management products.

  3. 2020 — 2022

    Senior SE II → Lead Software Engineer @ DealerSocket | Solera

    Automotive SaaS platform engineering — promoted to Lead within a year.

  4. 2019 — 2020

    Software Engineer @ Sage Intacct

    Cloud financial-management platform — earned the LiveWire Award (2019).

  5. 2016 — 2019

    Software Engineer → Technical Lead @ Educational Initiatives

    Ed-tech assessment platforms — grew from engineer to Technical Lead in under three years.

  6. 2014 — 2016

    R&D Engineer @ Valued Epistemics

    First role out of VIT — research and development on early products.

Selected work

Featured projects

Weaverbird

2026

My own product — a property-management SaaS for villa & short-term-rental hosts (think Airbnb operators): overlap-proof booking calendars, Razorpay payments, guest tracking, and revenue analytics. Live in production with real paying customers.

React + TypeScriptFastAPIPostgreSQLRazorpayAWS

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CodeRelay

2026

AI-powered project and task management platform. Generates acceptance criteria, execution plans, and agent-ready prompts from a one-line task summary using AWS Bedrock.

Next.jsAWS BedrockDynamoDBAI Agents

⌥ View on GitHub

dhayalram.com

2026

This website — a fully static, 3D personal site with a markdown blog engine and a local AI writing studio. Deployed on S3 + CloudFront for pennies a month.

Next.jsThree.jsS3 + CloudFrontServerless

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Writing

Latest from the blog

11 min readSeries: Quant Engineering · Part 4

Your Options Data Probably Only Has the Front Week — Audit Before You Trust

Many retail-accessible options datasets contain each contract's final days only. The audit that detects it, and the feasibility classifier that tells you which strategies your data can honestly answer.

#quant#backtesting#market-data#options#nifty
5 min readSeries: AWS from Zero · Part 1130

AWS CLI command history from zero: purpose, boundaries, and first CLI inventory

Build an accurate mental model of AWS CLI command history, identify its control and data planes, and run a read-only discovery command.

#aws#cli#cli-foundations#history#service-orientation
5 min readSeries: AWS from Zero · Part 1129

AWS CLI configuration: List with the AWS CLI

Use `aws configure list` to inspect list, then shape the response with a verified query without hiding pagination or errors.

#aws#cli#cli-foundations#configure#command-lab
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Contact

Let's build something worth talking about

Open to interesting roles, collaborations, and good conversations about cloud, AI, and shipping products.

dhayalram.k@gmail.comGitHub