Kochi, Kerala, India
Alok Rajasukumaran
AI Architect|
"I build software that solves problems people did not know they had."
01 — About
I'm a polyglot engineer and architect, and I've spent about ten years building across AI, mobile, cloud and full-stack web. These days I lead technology at VAAS Intelligent Technology Services and at Cliniqally Healthtech. Between the two I've shipped over 100 products for clients in India, the Gulf, Australia, Europe and the US, and I try to keep the work plain: fewer buzzwords, more things that actually ship and hold up. Somewhere along the way I also gave a TEDx talk, spoke on more than 150 stages, and trained over 2000 students.
02 — Where I've worked
CTO & AI Architect
· VAAS Intelligent Technology ServicesMay 2022 — Present · Kochi, India · Dubai, UAE · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · Muscat, Oman · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
I lead engineering and architecture here across AI, full-stack SaaS and mobile. That has meant more than 100 client projects across a wide mix of industries, and owning the tech strategy, building the team, and staying close to clients from first pitch through delivery.
Co-Founder & CTO
· Cliniqally HealthtechMay 2022 — Present · Bangalore, Karnataka, India · Dubai, United Arab Emirates
I drive the technology vision for an AI-powered healthcare startup: the architecture, the day-to-day development, and keeping the code quality high on products that have to be both scalable and secure. Alongside that I lead the team, manage vendors, and work across functions.
IT Advisor
· Al Adrak Trading & Contracting Co LLCJul 2024 — Mar 2025 · Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
I led digital transformation for the business: shaping the strategy, pushing for AI adoption where it made sense, improving UX and internal processes, and running IT audits so the spend actually paid off.
Consultant II — Data & AI
· NeudesicMar 2020 — May 2022 · Kochi, Kerala, India
I worked across a few large enterprises here. That included IoT systems for an Australian telecom, ERP and internal apps for an Australian auction group and a US financial-services firm, and some internal AI models built in-house at Neudesic.
Senior Software Engineer
· Orion Business InnovationJan 2019 — Mar 2020 · Kochi, Kerala, India
I designed and built chatbots and internal applications for a Big-4 firm, wiring them into their enterprise systems. It was an agile setup, mostly Node, Angular, .NET and Azure.
Staff Engineer — AI / Chatbots
· bitWise AcademySep 2017 — Jan 2019 · Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India · San Francisco, California, USA
I led a team building AI-powered chatbot platforms with ML and NLP. I owned the code quality and version management, and I also ran hiring for the technical roles.
Lead Developer → Programmer → PHP Developer
· Astro-Vision FutureTechFeb 2015 — Aug 2017 · Kochi, Kerala, India
I started here as a PHP developer and worked my way up to leading the Innovation Team. Over that time I built chatbots, voice skills, cross-platform mobile apps, and high-traffic e-commerce running around 1.5 lakh visitors a day.
03 — What I work with
Languages
AI & Conversational
Web & Frameworks
Mobile
Cloud & DevOps
Data
Certifications
- ▹IBM Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner
- ▹Data Science Foundations: Data Mining
- ▹Data Science & Analytics Career Paths: First Steps
- ▹Automate a business process using Microsoft Flow
- ▹Statistics Foundations: 1
- ▹Security in the Enterprise — Microsoft Virtual Academy
- ▹Data Structures & Algorithms — IIT Madras
Education
- Bachelor of Computer Application (BCA)C.V. Raman University2015 — 2018
- B.E, Computer Science & Engineering — courseworkMaharaja Engineering College (Anna University)2010 — 2014
Languages
04 — Selected work
30+ shipped projects across AI, mobile, and full-stack. Client names anonymized where under NDA.
AI, SaaS & Product — VAAS era
2020 — PresentDevakived HR Platform
2024Senior Architect & Lead Dev
An HR platform that follows an employee the whole way, from hiring to retirement.
EDR POS
2023Senior Architect & Lead Dev
A POS for restaurants and cloud kitchens built for millions of users, with web and native apps, OpenAI, face recognition and FAQ bots.
Omni
2023Senior Frontend Dev
A process and document-automation tool for a client in Europe.
Cliniqally — Doctor App
2022Senior Architect & Lead Dev
An app for clinicians to handle scheduling, patient records, prescriptions, billing and messaging.
Cliniqally — Patient App
2022Senior Backend Dev
The patient side of it: booking appointments, medical records, prescriptions and secure messaging with providers.
Eat & Drink
2021Principal Full-Stack Dev
A food-delivery platform tying together diners, restaurants and delivery partners.
Thazhayil Loan App
2022Senior Angular Dev
A loan-origination system for a bank, with nine separate secured login roles.
OH Yes — Home Solutions & Partner
2021Senior Architect & Lead Dev
An on-demand home-services marketplace, with a partner app that matches the jobs.
ConnectingVows
2022Senior Architect & Dev
A matrimonial matchmaking platform, built around UX and keeping people engaged.
PatchPets
2020Senior Dev
A social network made entirely for dogs, with a feed, messaging and profiles.
Online grocery — Saudi
2020Senior Architect & Lead Dev
A full online grocery store for a retail client in the Middle East.
Energy 24/7
2021Senior Angular Dev
A products-and-solutions platform for an energy-storage lab.
Appum
2020Senior Architect & Angular Dev
A business-management app that lets small businesses run things from anywhere.
Inventory Portal
2021Senior Architect & Angular Dev
Inventory management, with AI reading and sorting the documents.
Budmore
2023Senior Architect & Lead Dev
An IoT setup for fish ponds: the devices hold temperature and pH steady, with an admin panel for farms, devices, users and permissions.
Energensol
2021Senior Architect & Dev
An asset-management and supply-chain platform for an operations firm with twenty years behind it.
Local Shoppy
2020Senior Architect & Angular Dev
Another take on running a small shop from your phone, wherever you happen to be.
Insurance platform — US
2021Senior Full-Stack Dev
Insurance products for a big US provider, using DDD, vertical slicing and some AI.
IoT backend framework — Australia
2020Senior Backend Dev
The connected-device backend for a major Australian telecom, built as microservices on Azure.
Sales & financial backend — Australia
2020Senior Backend Dev
The financial-data backend for Australia’s largest auctioneer, done TDD with SDKs shipped as npm packages.
Conversational AI & Chatbots
2016 — 2020Chatbot for a Big-4 auditing firm
2019Senior Architect & Dev
An assistant inside an auditing platform that answers FAQs and pulls up data.
Multi-tenant chatbot platform
2017Senior Dev & Team Lead
A self-serve platform for building text and voice bots from skills, APIs and FAQs, across every major channel.
Chatbot for an FMCG brand
2017Senior Dev
A product-FAQ bot that drove customer chats and leads over web and Facebook.
Google & Alexa astrology skills
2017Senior Dev
Voice skills that give Vedic-astrology readings from very little input.
Vedic astrology chatbot
2016Senior Dev
A bot that messaged people every day, with around 25k daily users.
ERP chatbot
2018Senior Dev
A chatbot for ERP software, wired into web portals, mobile apps and Facebook pages, with predictive nudges.
LMS chatbot & CMS platform
2018Senior Web Dev / Architect
A chatbot plus WordPress CMS API endpoints for an LMS, on load-balanced servers with daily backups.
Mobile & Web foundations
2015 — 2017Biorhythm apps — iOS & Android
2016Senior Mobile Dev
Lead-generation apps that crossed 1 lakh installs.
Xamarin astrology app
2016Senior C# Dev
Cross-platform astrology readings, with the logic ported from Java to C#.
Astrology e-commerce portal
2015Senior PHP Dev
A store doing 1.5 lakh visitors a day across 70-plus services, grown with growth-hacking and SEO.
Internal CRM & landing platform
2015PHP Dev
A CRM for sales and service teams, plus a run of high-volume ad landing pages.
Daily Info Android app
2018Senior Android Dev
A material-design info app kept fresh with steady security and feature updates and analytics.
Ionic data-collection app
2016Senior Ionic Dev
A cross-platform internal app for collecting data, with analytics and staged bug-fix notifications.
Windows Phone / Windows 8 apps
2014App Developer
14 B2C apps across the Windows ecosystem, built full-stack.
05 — Open source
100+ repos on GitHub ↗eslint-plugin-typeorm-enterprise
Enterprise ESLint rules for TypeORM / NestJS backends — blocks raw SQL and enforces backend governance.
npm i -D eslint-plugin-typeorm-enterprise 06 — In the press
07 — Speaking
"Why are we breathing"
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.
Selected stages
08 — On stage & in the field
A journey through the stages — talks, workshops and boot camps, newest first. Click any photo to view full-size.
De Paul Institute (DIST) — DELIGHT'24 Expert Talk Series
· 1 photoAugmenta
· 12 photosKochi Tech Summit — Kerala Startup Mission
· 1 photoHeera College of Engineering, Nedumangad
· 3 photosJyothi Engineering College — K-MUG Academia
· 2 photosMEA Engineering College, Perinthalmanna
· 5 photosMES College of Engineering, Kuttippuram — Bootcamp Campus Meet 2019 (IEDC)
· 17 photosMEA Engineering College — Xtrinia 1.0 (IEEE Student Branch)
· 1 photoTKM Institute of Technology, Kollam — insight: UI/UX for Android (2-day workshop, IEDC)
· 3 photosTEDxMBCET — "Why are we breathing?" (theme: Observably Random)
· 1 photoMES College of Engineering, Kuttippuram — Inspiria'18: "Mobile UI/UX Design" workshop (IEDC)
· 2 photosHeera College — Fab Lab interaction
· 1 photoK-MUG TechDay — "MS Flow, ML.NET & Bot", B-HUB Co-learn, Trivandrum
· 1 photoK-MUG TechDay — "Get ready for Ionic 4!", Orion Innovation, Kochi
· 1 photoGEC Sreekrishnapuram, Palakkad — K-MUG Academia × INVENTO'18: Bots, NLP & LUIS (4 sessions)
· 6 photosMar Baselios — Simulated Reality talk
· 13 photosTKM College of Engineering — "Android Programming" (MCA expert talk)
· 9 photosMOBConf Tech Talks S1E11 — KSUM Technopark, Trivandrum
· 6 photosK-MUG TechDay 2017 — Chatbots session, Lulu Cyber Park
· 4 photos— What people say
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.
— FAQ
Who is Alok Rajasukumaran?
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.
What does Alok Rajasukumaran do?
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.
Where is Alok Rajasukumaran based?
He's based in Kochi, Kerala, and works with clients and offices in Dubai, Riyadh, Muscat and Kuala Lumpur.
What is VAAS Intelligent Technology Services?
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.
Did Alok Rajasukumaran give a TEDx talk?
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".
Is Alok Rajasukumaran available for hire?
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.
Does Alok Rajasukumaran work with clients in Dubai and the UAE?
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.
Can Alok Rajasukumaran work remotely?
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.
What AI and generative-AI technologies does Alok specialise in?
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.
Has Alok Rajasukumaran built production LLM or GenAI systems?
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.
What industries has Alok Rajasukumaran worked in?
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.
How many years of experience does Alok Rajasukumaran have?
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.
What is Alok Rajasukumaran's technology stack?
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.
Does Alok Rajasukumaran take speaking, workshop or corporate-training engagements?
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.
How do I contact or hire Alok Rajasukumaran?
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.
Where can I find Alok Rajasukumaran's resume?
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.
What are Alok Rajasukumaran's most notable achievements?
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.
09 — Contact
Let's build something.
Got a problem worth solving, a role to fill, or an idea to ship? Reach out.