Alok Rajasukumaran
Open to CTO, Senior Architect & Engineering Management roles
Work authorization: Indian citizen. Open to relocation across the Gulf, and to remote engagements globally.
Summary
Technology executive and AI architect with 11+ years across engineering leadership, software architecture, and applied AI. CTO at VAAS Intelligent Technology Services, leading an engineering team of up to 50 across an eight-figure portfolio of 100+ delivered products, and co-founder and CTO of Cliniqally Healthtech to July 2026, built to a 30-person team. Hired 200+ engineers over the last decade. TEDx speaker, 150+ stages, 2,000+ trained.
Experience
Technology strategy and architecture across AI, full-stack SaaS and mobile, for 100+ client projects in healthcare, retail, banking and enterprise.
Co-founded and led alongside the VAAS role.
Co-founded an AI healthtech startup and set its technology vision, architecture and roadmap, leading the engineering team and vendor partners across India and the UAE.
Advisory engagement, alongside the VAAS role.
Led digital transformation across a four-country operation, running a 25+ person IT function split between software and hardware in Oman, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and India.
Built enterprise systems for global clients: IoT platforms for an Australian telecom, ERP and internal apps for an auction group and a US financial-services firm, and internal AI/ML models.
Designed enterprise chatbots and internal applications for KPMG, wired into their core systems, built in Agile with Node.js, Angular, .NET and Azure.
Led a team building AI-powered chatbot platforms with ML and NLP, owning code quality, version management, and technical hiring.
Promoted twice in 31 months, from PHP Web Developer to Programmer to Lead Developer on the Innovation Team, delivering chatbots, voice skills, mobile apps and e-commerce serving 150,000+ daily visitors.
Skills
Education
C.V. Raman University · 2015 - 2018
Maharaja Engineering College (Anna University) · 2010 - 2014