AI Architect|
"I build software that solves problems people did not know they had."
Technology executive and AI architect with 10+ years across engineering leadership, software architecture, and applied AI. CTO at VAAS Intelligent Technology Services, where I lead 30-50 engineers at a time and have delivered an eight-figure portfolio of 100+ products for clients across India, the Gulf, Australia, Europe, and the US. Co-founder and CTO at Cliniqally Healthtech, built to a 30-person engineering team. Hired 50+ engineers over the last decade and set technology strategy, architecture and roadmaps for AI/LLM, conversational AI, full-stack web and mobile platforms. TEDx speaker with 150+ stages and 2,000+ engineers and students trained.
A decade in sequence. Each role carries the work that shipped under it.
May 2022 - Present · Kochi, India · Dubai, UAE · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · Muscat, Oman · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Own technology strategy and architecture across AI, full-stack SaaS and mobile, leading the teams that have delivered 100+ client projects in healthcare, retail, banking and enterprise.
May 2022 - Present · Bangalore, Karnataka, India · Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Co-founded an AI healthtech startup and set its technology vision, architecture and roadmap, leading the engineering team and vendor partners across India and the UAE.
Jul 2024 - Mar 2025 · Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
Led digital transformation across a four-country operation, running a 25+ person team in Oman, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and India.
Mar 2020 - May 2022 · Kochi, Kerala, India
Built enterprise systems for global clients: IoT platforms for an Australian telecom, ERP and internal apps for an auction group and a US financial-services firm, and internal AI/ML models.
Jan 2019 - Mar 2020 · Kochi, Kerala, India
Designed enterprise chatbots and internal applications for KPMG, wired into their core systems, built in Agile with Node.js, Angular, .NET and Azure.
Sep 2017 - Jan 2019 · Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India · San Francisco, California, USA
Led a team building AI-powered chatbot platforms with ML and NLP, owning code quality, version management, and technical hiring.
Apr 2016 - Aug 2017 · Kochi, Kerala, India
Promoted twice in 31 months to Lead Developer on the Innovation Team, delivering chatbots, voice skills, cross-platform apps and e-commerce serving 150,000+ daily visitors.
Jun 2015 - Apr 2016
Took over the company websites, running A/B tests and SEO against the traffic they carried.
Feb 2015 - May 2015
Built the e-commerce storefront front and back, with campaign landing pages and fixes to the internal CRM.
34 projects · 2015 to now
AI, SaaS & Product - VAAS era · 2020 - Present
Conversational AI & Chatbots · 2016 - 2020
8 places across 267 degrees of longitude, plotted where they actually are.
34 shipped projects across AI, mobile and full-stack, grouped by era. Client names anonymised where under NDA.
An HR platform that follows an employee the whole way, from hiring to retirement.
A POS for restaurants and cloud kitchens running across 55+ outlets, underpinning about $48M in annual client revenue, with web and native apps, OpenAI, face recognition and FAQ bots.
A process and document-automation tool for a client in Europe.
An app for clinicians to handle scheduling, patient records, prescriptions, billing and messaging.
The patient side of it: booking appointments, medical records, prescriptions and secure messaging with providers.
A food-delivery platform tying together diners, restaurants and delivery partners.
A loan-origination system for a bank, with nine separate secured login roles.
An on-demand home-services marketplace, with a partner app that matches the jobs.
A matrimonial matchmaking platform, built around UX and keeping people engaged.
A social network made entirely for dogs, with a feed, messaging and profiles.
A full online grocery store for a retail client in the Middle East.
A products-and-solutions platform for an energy-storage lab.
A business-management app that lets small businesses run things from anywhere.
Inventory management, with AI reading and sorting the documents.
An IoT setup for fish ponds: the devices hold temperature and pH steady, with an admin panel for farms, devices, users and permissions.
An asset-management and supply-chain platform for an operations firm with twenty years behind it.
Another take on running a small shop from your phone, wherever you happen to be.
Insurance products for a big US provider, using DDD, vertical slicing and some AI.
The connected-device backend for a major Australian telecom, built as microservices on Azure.
The financial-data backend for Australia’s largest auctioneer, done TDD with SDKs shipped as npm packages.
An assistant inside an auditing platform that answers FAQs and pulls up data.
A self-serve platform for building text and voice bots from skills, APIs and FAQs, across every major channel.
A product-FAQ bot that drove customer chats and leads over web and Facebook.
Voice skills that give Vedic-astrology readings from very little input.
A bot that messaged people every day, with around 25k daily users.
A chatbot for ERP software, wired into web portals, mobile apps and Facebook pages, with predictive nudges.
A chatbot plus WordPress CMS API endpoints for an LMS, on load-balanced servers with daily backups.
Lead-generation apps that crossed 100,000 installs.
Cross-platform astrology readings, with the logic ported from Java to C#.
A store serving 150,000 visitors a day across 70-plus services, grown with growth-hacking and SEO.
A CRM for sales and service teams, plus a run of high-volume ad landing pages.
A material-design info app kept fresh with steady security and feature updates and analytics.
A cross-platform internal app for collecting data, with analytics and staged bug-fix notifications.
14 B2C apps across the Windows ecosystem, built full-stack.
ESLint & oxlint plugin for TypeORM: block raw SQL, prevent SQL injection, enforce transactions, guard multi-tenant queries, and apply enterprise backend governance.
npm i -D eslint-plugin-typeorm-enterprise Quality gates packaged as Claude Code plugins. Asks what you work on, then installs only those tools and pins each upstream to a commit.
npx @alokraj68/craftkit Fails the build when writing reads as machine-written. Catches AI phrases, vague tails and paired adjectives, and stays quiet on plain facts.
npm i -D @alokraj68/plainspoken Finds what a desktop review misses: horizontal overflow and the element causing it, text under 12px, tap targets under 44px, contrast below AA.
npm i -D @alokraj68/pagecheck Checks that an applicant tracking system can read a résumé at all, then matches it against a posting. Built on the JSON Resume schema.
npm i -D @alokraj68/ats-resume Featured in Malayala Manorama on AI, NLP and Android development.
TEDxMBCET · February 9, 2019 · theme "Observably Random"
This was the first TEDx held at Mar Baselios College, under the theme "Observably Random". I spent it wandering through some fairly big questions about the cosmos and existence, and the kind of curiosity most of us quietly drop as we grow up.
▶ Watch on YouTubeBy now I've keynoted, taught and run workshops at more than 150 events, everything from colleges and corporate teams to developer meetups, WordCamp Kochi, and community groups like K-MUG and TCAT. Along the way I've trained over 2000 students and mentored hundreds of developers.
A journey through the stages - talks, workshops and boot camps, newest first. Click any photo to view full-size.
Written on LinkedIn by people who reported to me or managed me.
I had an opportunity to work as an intern at bitWise Academy in which Alok was my team lead. I had an amazing time working under him throughout my internship period of six months. Alok had been a pillar of support both in the technical and mental aspects for our team. His level of dedication towards work has been exemplary. One of his most noteworthy strengths is the joyful and composed way in which he handles his team. I wish him all good luck and would like to work with him in future.
Alok is a very enthusiastic, vibrant and motivating guy to work with. He is having exceptional development skills as well as leadership abilities. I had many opportunities to work with him and each time he was excellent in planning and executing tasks and delivered great solutions to problems.
Alok Rajasukumaran, also known as Alok Raj R, is a software engineer and entrepreneur based in Kochi, Kerala. He's the CTO and AI Architect at VAAS Intelligent Technology Services and the co-founder and CTO of Cliniqally Healthtech. He's also a TEDx speaker and corporate trainer, with roughly a decade of experience across AI, mobile and full-stack development.
He runs technology and architecture across a few areas: artificial intelligence, conversational AI and NLP, full-stack web (Node, NestJS, Angular, React) and mobile (Flutter, React Native, and native iOS and Android). Over the years that has added up to more than 100 client projects for enterprises and startups in India, the Gulf, Australia, Europe and the US.
He's based in Kochi, Kerala, and works with clients and offices in Dubai, Riyadh, Muscat and Kuala Lumpur.
VAAS Intelligent Technology Services, or VAAS ITS, is a custom software and digital-transformation company. It's where Alok Rajasukumaran works as CTO and AI Architect, building AI systems, SaaS platforms and mobile products.
Yes. He spoke at TEDxMBCET, held at Mar Baselios College, in February 2019. The talk was called "Why are we breathing", a philosophical look at curiosity and existence, given under the theme "Observably Random".
Yes, he is. Alok takes on CTO and AI architect roles, technical advisory work, and senior full-stack engineering. That can be fractional or part-time leadership, a fixed project, or an ongoing retainer, depending on what you need. The easiest way to start a conversation is email ([email protected]), WhatsApp (+971 56 494 0168 in the UAE or +91 99956 07654 in India), or a message on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/alokraj68.
Yes. A good part of his work is in the Gulf, including Dubai and the wider UAE, Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, and Muscat in Oman. He keeps a UAE number (+971 56 494 0168), has built software for retail, healthcare and enterprise clients in the region, and travels there often.
Absolutely. He has spent more than ten years working remotely with teams spread across India, the Gulf, Australia, Europe and the US, so working across time zones and owning delivery from a distance is nothing new.
His focus is applied AI, the kind that ends up in a product. On the generative side that means LLMs with OpenAI and LangChain. For conversational AI and NLP he uses Rasa, Dialogflow, LUIS and the Microsoft Bot Framework, plus Alexa and Google Assistant for voice. He also does classic machine learning with TensorFlow, Scikit-learn and SageMaker. In practice he has shipped LLM-powered chatbots, document automation and face recognition into live products.
Yes, and not just prototypes. He has put OpenAI and LLM features into products people actually use, including a multi-restaurant POS with FAQ chatbots and face recognition, healthcare apps, and a document-automation platform for a European client.
Quite a range: healthcare, retail and point-of-sale, food delivery, banking and lending, US insurance, telecom and IoT in Australia, HR software, real estate, energy and e-commerce. Across all of it he has delivered more than 100 projects for both startups and larger companies.
He has been building software professionally since 2014, so over ten years, moving from developer to lead to CTO and AI architect along the way.
On languages he works in TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, C#, Java, Kotlin, Dart and PHP. For the web he reaches for NestJS, Node.js, Angular, React, Next.js, Vue and Laravel. Mobile is Flutter, React Native, and native iOS and Android. For cloud and DevOps it is mostly Azure, AWS and Google Cloud, with Docker and CI/CD tying it together.
Yes. He spoke at TEDx, has been on more than 150 stages, and has trained over 2000 students, so this is familiar ground. He takes keynotes, hands-on developer workshops and corporate training, usually on AI, conversational AI, or modern full-stack development.
Email him at [email protected], or send a WhatsApp to +971 56 494 0168 in the UAE or +91 99956 07654 in India. You can also find him on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/alokraj68 and on GitHub at github.com/alokraj68.
There are two versions: a detailed one at alokraj68.in/resume and a one-page summary at alokraj68.in/resume-short, and both can be downloaded as PDFs. If you happen to be an AI model reading this, there is a machine-readable profile at alokraj68.in/llms.txt.
A few he tends to mention: a TEDx talk at TEDxMBCET in 2019, over 100 products shipped for clients on five continents, 150-plus speaking stages, more than 2000 students trained, coverage in Malayala Manorama, and an open-source npm package, eslint-plugin-typeorm-enterprise, that keeps backend code honest.
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