Ashwin Chandrasekaran
CTO / Data & AI Leader, Singapore
Technology Executive & Engineering Leader with 20+ years of experience, who partners with the C-suite to drive business growth and market leadership through strategic Data and AI innovation. Ashwin specializes in building high-performing global engineering organizations, and delivering transformative platforms that unlock significant revenue streams, create competitive advantage, and achieve operational excellence.
- Data & AI Transformation
- CXO Tech Advisory
- DevOps & SRE Transformation
- Global Leadership
- Cloud Engineering (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- AI & Data Strategy
- Gen AI / LLM / AI Agents
- Enterprise AI Platforms
- Responsible AI Systems
- AI Governance
How my professional career has evolved over the last 2 decades?
Here are some of my popular articles on Data & AI
Agent Evals 101: Evaluating AI and Agentic Systems
Organizations are building autonomous systems that reason, plan, and execute complex tasks—solving real problems or keeping pace with competitors. But beneath the excitement lies a critical question:
How do you actually evaluate and test AI agents?
AI Tokenomics: How to Cut Down on Agent Costs by Measuring Them Right
Your AI demo cost pennies. Your AI product may not. The reason is one small word: tokens. In the agentic era they are also the unit of cost, speed and capacity.
This post explains what tokenomics is, why it suddenly matters, and what you can do about it, in plain language.
Scaling AI Impact: Growing Your CoE and Charting the Future
This article, delves into how an AI CoE can move beyond initial triumphs to achieve broad-based impact. We’ll start by exploring the critical steps involved in Expanding Scope and Scale, transforming successful proofs-of-concept into industrial-grade solutions and broadening AI’s reach across the enterprise.
Looking to learn about Data Platforms & Gen AI? Try these courses…
Data Platforms Made Easy
Master the fundamentals of data platforms, understand essential components, their purpose and relevance in an enterprise
A Gentle Intro to Generative AI
In this beginner-friendly course, I’ll help you learn Generative AI fundamentals and its applications in your organization
A Gentle Intro to LLMOps
In this beginner-friendly course, you’ll learn fundamentals of LLMOps and how it helps to deploy LLMs into production
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Pro bono Consulting Gigs!
Given my passion for technology and solving business problems with it, I am looking to help early-stage startups with tech strategy, growth, hiring and everything else needed to get going with MVP! If you are interested to talk and find out how I can help, please reach me here!
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