Professional Summary

Seasoned Technology Leader with 25+ years driving digital transformation, enterprise architecture, and AI-driven product engineering. Founder of Rubenz.org, creating enterprise AI tools for model training and deployment. Proven expertise managing distributed teams, building scalable platforms, and designing high-performance systems across Real Estate, Finance, Healthcare, Telecom, and SaaS industries. Champion of architecture-led development, process optimization, and intelligent automation.

Featured Projects & Ventures

Rubenz.org • Founder (2025-Present)
Building integrated AI platform for enterprise data fine-tuning, model deployment, and workflow orchestration. Designed systems for data ingestion, labeling, vector embedding, and automated deployment pipelines. Researching domain-specific model adaptation for private enterprise environments.
Universal LLM Trainer
github.com/rubengerad/llm
Flexible open-source AI model trainer supporting fine-tuning of LLMs with structured datasets. Enables domain-specific adaptation of open models for internal enterprise applications.
PDME - Prompt Driven Model Engineering
github.com/rubengerad/pdme
Framework translating text prompts into software architecture blueprints. Created first N8N workflow training models on Hugging Face, adopted unofficially by N8N project for AI-driven workflow generation. Integrates N8N for defining flows, generating applications from flow and Figma templates. Expected to be unique and transformative at release.

Education

M.S. Information Technology
Don Bosco University
2017
M.A. English Literature
Madurai Kamaraj University
2005
B.Tech (Discontinued)
Aptech / Open University of BC, Canada

Certifications

IIM Kozhikode
Management Development Program (Business Intelligence), 2010
Brainbench Roles
IT Manager • Systems Architect • SQA Specialist • Telecom Specialist
Top Global Rankings
CORBA (#1) • UML • Data Warehousing • Software Quality Assurance

Leadership Roles

Chief Technology Officer
Sep 2020 - May 2025
The Setters Agency • New York, USA
Technology partner for agencies in the US and focusing mainly in healthcare & wellness. Architected and delivered scalable marketing and ecommerce platforms (WordPress, WooCommerce integrations). Responsible for technincal evaluation, product development, billing and outsourcing. Resigned to focus on design and development of AI Products.
Chief Technology Officer
Feb 2024 - June 2024
Zora Software Pvt. Ltd. • Technopark, India
Established Hutch Systems ODC under new subsidiary Zora Software Pvt Ltd. Helped to navigate startup challenges, identify office space in technopark and assisted in the setup, transition from Canadian team to building up and recruitment of the offshore development team. Designed and documented existing apps and software. Lead the initial product architecture in .NET and next-generation app development for transport and logistics sector.
Chief Technology Officer
Mar 2021 - Sep 2022
Voyage Real Estate • Remote
I was hired to build a world class product & engineering team from ground up for PropTech startup. Designed Voyage Real Estate App (React Native) using microservice architecture with AWS ECS and S3. Implemented ML-based image classification using PyTorch. Managed $1B+ in off-market property assets and helped build dashboards for integration with other systems. Pioneered short sprints with weekly Agile deliverables.

Selected Experience Highlights

Technology Officer
Feb 2018 - Mar 2020
Techforce Australia
Designed and implemented multi-tenant work order management system using Google Cloud Apps for clients including Lendlease and HFC. Built live job allocation dashboards, contractor portals, and approval systems with real-time location tracking and boots-on-ground job tracker.
Managing Director
Jan 2017 - Dec 2018
EcoConvergence • Solar Micro Industry
Developed affordable solar solutions and partnered with NEP for grid-tie inverter integration. Pioneered scalable solutions providing affordable living by reducing expense of going solar.
Senior Technical Architect
Nov 2015 - Dec 2016
Envestnet India Pvt. Ltd.
Integrated fiduciary account systems (MassMutual, Yodlee) into Envestnet's Finaconnect platform. Designed and deployed DocuSign-based digital onboarding for over $5B client accounts. Enhanced security features and authorization services for retirement investments platform.
Principal Architect
Dec 2014 - Jul 2015
Attinad Software Pvt. Ltd.
Managed Kaplan's global projects and trained teams on Progressive Function Point estimation. Authored TOGAF-based architecture and process assets. Created standard Process Assets for enterprise projects.
Senior Technical Architect
Feb 2013 - Feb 2014
Sonata Software Ltd. • UK & India
Defined EA guidelines and automated Java project scaffolding for Pepsico UK. Worked on E-Commerce architecture for Thomson Airlines & Cruise. Set up Java Practice Guidelines with Maven archetype and automated quality control.
Technical Architect
May 2010 - Feb 2013
Virtusa Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
Lead & mentor Salesforce Cloud Practice and designed ETL and portal solutions. Headed British Telecom's offshore architecture and quality initiatives (150+ engineers). Built and managed Open Source CoE for ECM Practice. Designed custom data loader application for native force.com ETL functionality.

Interests & Activities

AI Research • Generative Design • CAD & CAM (3D Printing) • Guitarist • Church Events & Choir • Open-Source Development

PORTFOLIO & DOCUMENTATION

Core Expertise

Architecture
TOGAF MDA SOA REST API Microservices Kubernetes Docker SaaS
AI/ML & Tools
PyTorch TensorFlow Pandas Matplotlib Model Fine-tuning N8N GitHub Copilot
Cloud Platforms
AWS Google Cloud Salesforce Force.com Spring Boot VMWare
Languages
Java Python C++ C# PHP JavaScript TypeScript
Frontend
React Angular React Native HTML5 CSS3 Bootstrap