Dhayal Ram

AI Solution Architect · Cloud-Native Builder

Bengaluru, India · dhayalram.k@gmail.com

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Summary

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.

Experience

Technical Specialist · Nokia

2024 — Present

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

  • Acting AI Solution Architect — designing AI-powered solutions for telecom-scale systems
  • Cloud-native services and AI-assisted engineering workflows on AWS
  • Continuous upskilling: React Native, AI/ML and Azure certifications (2024–2025)

Lead Software Engineer · Informatica

2022 — 2023

Led backend engineering on enterprise data-management products.

  • Joined as Lead Software Engineer for enterprise-scale data platform work

Senior SE II → Lead Software Engineer · DealerSocket | Solera

2020 — 2022

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

  • Promoted from Senior Software Engineer II to Lead Software Engineer within 12 months
  • Multiple Star Performer awards (2021)

Software Engineer · Sage Intacct

2019 — 2020

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

  • LiveWire Award (2019)
  • Backend services for cloud financial management (PHP/MySQL)

Software Engineer → Technical Lead · Educational Initiatives

2016 — 2019

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

  • Three promotions in three years: Software Engineer → Senior → Technical Lead
  • Assessment and learning platform backends (PHP, MySQL, MongoDB)

R&D Engineer · Valued Epistemics

2014 — 2016

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

  • Individual Performer recognition (2015)

Skills

Cloud & Serverless: AWS, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3 + CloudFront, API Gateway, Bedrock

Backend: Node.js, TypeScript, Python, REST & event-driven APIs

Frontend: React, React Native, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Three.js

AI Engineering: Claude / LLM apps, RAG, Agent workflows, Prompt design

Education

Master of Computer Applications (MCA) · Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT)

2011 — 2014

B.Com (Computer Applications) · Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT)

2008 — 2011

Certifications

  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (Amazon Web Services, 2023)
  • React Native (NobleProg, 2025)
  • AI Agents Fundamentals (Hugging Face, 2025)
  • Azure AI Fundamentals: Azure Machine Learning Fundamentals (Skillsoft, 2024)
  • Fundamentals of AI & ML: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Skillsoft, 2024)

Languages

English · Tamil · Sourashtra