BASED IN AMSTERDAM // OPEN TO FORWARD DEPLOYED & ZERO-TO-ONE ARCHITECTURE

Raj Aramudan

Staff Software Engineer / Applied AI Architect / Forward Deployed Engineer / Zero to One
Most software is needlessly complicated because organizations are afraid to make simple decisions. I spend my time stripping away the noise and building systems that actually work. I engineer for commercial reality rather than procedural comfort. Over 15 years shipping from bare metal to distributed interfaces: authoring engines that powered 40,000+ production servers globally, rescuing enterprise delivery at ThoughtWorks, driving tier-one frontend and A/B platforms at Booking.com, and serving as the European systems SME and Tech Lead at ServiceNow.
15+
Years of Production Craft
From C++20 & raw protocols to distributed browser engines & agentic AI.
40,000+
Active Production Servers
Self-hosted engine deployments worldwide across 150,000+ installations.
2.7x
A11y Error Reduction
Cut screen reader detection false positives by ~73% at Booking.com.
Q3 '21
UTG Llama Award
Awarded for exceptional platform leadership and critical fixes at ServiceNow.
ACADEMIC & CORE PEDAGOGY

Vellore Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science · 2004 - 2009
Rigorous classical grounding in compiler design, relational database internals, automata theory, operating systems, distributed architectures, and discrete mathematics.

Linguistic Sovereignty & Polyglot Foundations

Tamil (Native) · English (Native / Bilingual)
Deep fluency in both classical philosophical traditions (Aram / அறம்) and global technical discourse. Uncompromising commitment to crisp communication and high-resolution documentation.

Research & Upcoming Publications

Independent Applied AI · Target: IEEE
Authoring formal papers on progressive logic distillation, compiling non-deterministic LLM reasoning traces into auditable deterministic edge bytecodes, and negative space prompt geometry.