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Kodis Babu Janardhanan

Kodis Babu Janardhanan

Software Engineering
Bengaluru

Summary

Visionary and results-driven technology leader with 20+ years of global experience in driving architecture strategy, digital transformation, and product innovation across fintech, IoT, telecom, and SaaS domains. Proven record of incubating products from concept to scale, leading high-performance teams, and building cloud-native platforms. Adept at influencing executive stakeholders, scaling engineering organizations, and delivering multimillion-dollar initiatives with business impact. Currently an AI enthusiast with hands-on experience in AI technologies, actively learning and building creative projects through vibe coding.

Overview

32
32
years of professional experience
1995
1995
years of post-secondary education

Work History

CTO

Stealth Startup
01.2025 - Current

Working on Decentralized Identity platform using Block-chain, Crypto and AI. Architecting the entire product using multiple W3C standards using React Native, Typescript, NextJS, NodeJS and AWS services.

Senior Director

Arable
04.2024 - 12.2024
  • Handled AI model driven field insights for bunch of Agri clients such as Bayer, Corteva and Google.
  • Introduced business rules engine in the software stack for evaluating various alert kinds.
  • Involved in cost optimization for AWS resources and reduced monthly bills.
  • Architectured a alert sub-system for various alerts and mobile push notifications.

CTO

Zone.game
03.2021 - 06.2023
  • Bootstrapping Zone.game platform, a crypto GameFI platform for participants to play and win cryptos.
  • Introduced a few dozen games in the platform, released Zone tokens in Algorand block-chain and took the token trades in decentralized and centralized exchanges.
  • Also minted 10,000 NFTs on Algorand block-chain and sold it on the market place.

Director, Personal Investments

Fidelity Investments
07.2015 - 02.2021
  • Company Overview: Bangalore
  • Currently a Chapter Leader engaged in leading Wealth Management squads in India.
  • Focusing on Managed Solutions and Planning & Advice.
  • Leading ManagedAccountsdataplatformformultimillioncustomersandtheirportfolio'sworth several hundred billion dollars.
  • Driving AWS migration, Java Microservices development, Data insights and Analytics for Planning & Advice and data preparation for AI/ML models.
  • Instrumental in successfully transitioning 100+ roles from China to India for Wealth Management Tribe and setting up 20+ new squads in India.
  • Headed Architecture & Strategy for Personal Investing, India for 4 years and built strong architecture team and supported 500+ engineers in 3 locations in India.
  • Managed Platform Engineering team in India in enforcing best practices in adopting microservice framework and deployment.
  • Strong Agile skills and practice high performing leadership principles with efficient stake holder management, team management and vendor management for staff augmentation.
  • Owned the Outcome for Fidelity Rewards Management: Developing offers for lead generation, acquisition and new money; managing the entire technology for the program, vendor integration, production roll-out and support.
  • Digital Capability: Modernizing Fidelity's digital capability through cloud migration and micro-service architecture in the areas of money movement, acquisition and loyalty, and content management.
  • Modernizing User Experience: Modernizing Fidelity.com user experience in publisher content and heavily used dynamic pages in the area of Mutual Fund Research and Landing page through modern tech stack.
  • Training and re-skilling engineers with latest technologies in experience building, capability building and cloud deployment.
  • Heading public cloud migration of applications, modernizing digital capabilities through platform re-engineering using modern stack, enforcing mobile first strategy & responsive design for content delivery platform.
  • Organizing architecture review sessions to provide input to architecture team through framework analysis, design patterns and prototype specification.
  • Bangalore
  • Tech Stack: App Development: Java/J2EE, NodeJS, Angular, Microservices; Cloud Deployment: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins CI/CD; Analytics: Adobe Analytics, QlikSense, Alation

Senior Architect Consultant

Intel
12.2013 - 06.2015
  • Company Overview: through Aricent Technologies
  • Major Projects: (Refer annexure for details)
  • Wearables and Internet of Things, Client: Intel
  • Web Analytics Framework Using Big Data
  • Pocket Avatar Back-end, Client: Intel
  • Through Aricent Technologies

CEO & CTO

Latchiya Software Systems Pvt. Ltd.
03.2006 - 11.2013
  • Established the company as the founder & CEO focusing on mobile value added services products.
  • Spearheaded 35+ members covering Development, Testing, Engineering Support, Marketing, Human Resource Teams for application development.
  • Major Projects/ Products: (Refer annexure for details)
  • E-Classroomz.com
  • Platform Architect: Mobile Coupons, Mobile Flyers, 2-Way Messaging, Missed Call Campaign, Asset Tracking, Social Media Campaign, Mobile Quiz, Mobile Money, SMS Banking, Cloud Telephony based IVR Solution, Mobile Contest (SMS/Social Media), Voice Broadcast Campaign.
  • Mobile Application Architect: Mobile Coupon and Ticket Redemption Kiosk, Mobile Call/SMS Listener, Mobile Bus Ticket Booking, Mobile Portfolio Tracker.
  • Associated with several companies across the geography and delivered the following products- m-REACH, Dial4Loyalty, Social Media Campaigns using Facebook App, Voice Broadcast, Asset Tracking, x-Ads, ReserveGuru, m-Broker, m-Banking.

Senior Staff Engineer

Motorola
05.2005 - 02.2006
  • Headed the next generation MMS Research team and developed mobile blogging applications.
  • Developed the service's mobile application client across different mobile platforms, worked with several protocols as well as took a lead role in defining and developing the service's open API for third party developers.

Senior Engineer

Qualcomm Inc.
04.1996 - 05.2005
  • Company Overview: San Diego
  • Major Projects: (Refer annexure for details)
  • Building Universal Transceiver Module for CDMA2000 & UMTS.
  • Enabling Receiving Diversity in the CDMA Phone in IS-95B, CDMA2000, 1x-EVDO.
  • Building Infrastructure for High Speed Wireless Internet Access using CDMA IS-856.
  • Building a Communication Manager (CM) for Wireless Net Broadcast Service.
  • Building Enhanced Services Controller (ESC) Framework based on TINA for Wireless Data Services in CDMA Infrastructure.
  • Developed 'Common Software' for all Infrastructure Sub-Systems.
  • Developed a Data Service Loader (DSL) for CDMA Infrastructure.
  • San Diego

Research Assistant/Programmer

Casts Lab, USL
08.1994 - 12.1995

Research Assistant

USL, Department of Mechanical Engineering
08.1993 - 07.1994

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

University of Louisiana
Lafayette, LA

Master of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

University of Louisiana, Lafayette
Lafayette, LA

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

Thiagarajar College of Engineering

Skills

🧠 AI & Agentic AI:- Agentic AI, LangChain, CrewAI, Llama, Claude-Code, OpenAI API, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Embeddings, Prompt Engineering

Patents

  • Method and Apparatus for optimizing search rate and finger assignment rate in CDMA Networks, Invented Method and Apparatus for optimizing search rate and finger assignment rate in CDMA Networks., Qualcomm
  • Trade Secret to Qualcomm, Presented a Trade Secret to Qualcomm by enhancing the algorithm used in the above patent.

Timeline

CTO

Stealth Startup
01.2025 - Current

Senior Director

Arable
04.2024 - 12.2024

CTO

Zone.game
03.2021 - 06.2023

Director, Personal Investments

Fidelity Investments
07.2015 - 02.2021

Senior Architect Consultant

Intel
12.2013 - 06.2015

CEO & CTO

Latchiya Software Systems Pvt. Ltd.
03.2006 - 11.2013

Senior Staff Engineer

Motorola
05.2005 - 02.2006

Senior Engineer

Qualcomm Inc.
04.1996 - 05.2005

Research Assistant/Programmer

Casts Lab, USL
08.1994 - 12.1995

Research Assistant

USL, Department of Mechanical Engineering
08.1993 - 07.1994

Master of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

University of Louisiana, Lafayette

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

Thiagarajar College of Engineering

Master of Science - Computer Science

University of Louisiana
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