Giridhar Rao Apparusu

• Built Auris - A SaaS platform for Social Listening, Consumer Insights using AI
• Helped raise $.5 million seed funding,
• Built a team of talented bright engineers from tier.1 institutes
• Architected and delivered a modern (serverless, NodeJS, AngularJS) cloud native SaaS platform on AWS
• Evangelized AWS Sagemaker ML platform in its early days in India because Auris was a heavy user of Sagemaker during their Beta program

Responsible for -

• Raised $.25 million seed funding to build SEOAssist - A SaaS product to democratize SEO for SMB segment
• Built a high performance team of engineers from tier.1 institutes to build a scalable platform when hosting on Cloud was still a fancy term
• Sold it to GenY Medium Labs to incubate Auris - https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/info-tech/geny-buys-tailcurrent/article8682529.ece

Was responsible for delivery of a spectrum of software solutions -

• In various capacities - (Programmer, Researcher, Senior Design Engineer, Professional services consultant, Senior Consultant, Director)
• To bluechip customers like BT, EY, Nike, Watson Wyatt, GSK
• Industries (Telecom, Pharma, Consulting)
• Spectrum of programming languages (C, C++, Java, C#.NET, PHP, COBOL, CICS)
• Application servers (Weblogic, JBoSS)
• Webservers (Apache, Tomcat, IIS)
• Databases (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL)
• Front end (ASP, JSP, JSF, ASPX)