About Me
Machine Learning Engineer, Technical Writer & Photographer
Hi, I'm Ganesh Raam
I lead two lives. On weekdays, I'm a machine learning engineer obsessed with AI, cloud innovation, and sharing what I learn. On weekends, I'm a landscape photographer chasing all 60+ U.S. national parks. Pick your pill—tech or trails—and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
What I Do
Technical Work
As a Machine Learning Engineer, I work with cutting-edge technologies like Amazon Bedrock, AWS services, and various ML frameworks. I focus on building production-ready ML systems that deliver real business value.
Career & Education
Spearheading cutting edge innovation and leading a high-impact engineering team at AWS, dedicated to driving research, development and delivering AI/ML, Generative AI solutions for AWS customers across Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), Healthcare and Life Sciences (HCLS), Financial Services and Insurance (FSI), Telecom, Media, Entertainment and Games (TMEGS). As part of the PACE (Prototyping and Cloud Engineering) team, I specialize in designing and developing Generative AI and emerging tech prototypes that enable customers to explore the art of the possible and achieve transformative outcomes.
Key Highlights:
- •Led 50+ prototypes impacting $700M in AWS business revenue across multiple industries (Retail/CPG, HCLS, FSI, TMEGS)
- •Co-developed AI-DLC (AI led Development Life Cycle) enabling 5-day prototype delivery using Generative AI and prompt engineering
- •Specialized in designing and developing Generative AI solutions for Healthcare, Financial Services, Retail, and Telecom sectors
- •Built full-stack, well-architected, scalable solutions enabling customers to explore transformative possibilities and achieve faster time-to-market
Executive Leadership
Executive Leadership program focused on Strategic Leadership, Leading Strategic Change Initiatives, Leading with Credibility, Strategic Decision Making and building high performance engineering teams.
Spearheaded multiple large-scale app modernization and cloud migration programs involving core web and mobile applications across the organization. Led and nurtured a diverse team of project managers, project leads, designers, QA, and DevOps engineers to ensure seamless implementation.
Key Highlights:
- •Launched a groundbreaking user application reaching 2M+ users, reducing dropouts by 88% and increasing renewable energy generation from 8% to 39%
- •Established and co-managed the Cloud Architecture Review Board (C-ARB) with product owners, solution architects, and portfolio directors
- •Led development of a market-facing product reducing decision-making cycles from 1 week to 3 seconds
- •Automated 18+ processes for faster time-to-market and eliminated hundreds of hours of decision cycles
Led enterprise-scale software development initiatives, partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver large-scale operating systems, implement Agile frameworks, and build custom SharePoint solutions. Focused on establishing QA best practices, streamlining development processes, and delivering solutions for financial services and utility sectors.
Key Highlights:
- •Partnered with SDETs, product managers, enterprise architects, and sales leaders to conceive, build, and launch a large-scale operating system
- •Championed Agile methodologies by establishing a repeatable, continuous process for efficient project delivery
- •Spearheaded creation of a custom feature-rich intranet portal for a major utility client with comprehensive disaster recovery guidelines
- •Analyzed business needs and developed UATs for oil trading, risk management, and futures/options applications
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science
Focused on Real Analysis, Complex Analysis, Graph Theory, Operation Research, Workflow Creation, Architectures, Data Modeling, and Full Stack development.
Skills & Expertise
Machine Learning & AI
Cloud & DevOps
Web Development
Product Management & Leadership
Certifications
AWS Certified AI Practitioner
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services
AWS Partner: Cloud Economics Accreditation
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
Microsoft
Certified SAFe® 5 Product Owner/Product Manager
Scaled Agile
Professional Scrum Master (PSM™)
Scrum.org
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services
ISTQB Certified Tester
International Software Testing Qualifications Board
Speaking Engagements
Building Brand Agents: Accelerating AdTech Innovation through AI-DLC
Presented how AWS and an Ad company partnered to reimagine advertising intelligence through the development of Brand Agents — autonomous AI systems that understand brand voice, audience context, and creative strategy. This session walks through the importance of prototyping through AI-DLC process that can be used to design, validate, and test this concept in under a week.
From Prototype to Impact: Accelerating Retail Innovation with the AI-Driven Lifecycle (AI DLC)
Retailers are racing to transform customer experiences, supply chains, and operations through Generative AI - but scaling from idea to production remains the hardest step. This session introduces the AI-Driven Life cycle (AI-DLC), an end to end framework built by AWS Prototyping and Cloud Engineering teams to bridge that gap.
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