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)
- Tech & Data Strategy
- Gen AI / LLM / AI Agents
- Enterprise AI Platforms
- Complex Program Delivery

How my professional career has evolved over the last 2 decades?

Here are some of my popular articles on Data & AI
Building Your AI Foundation: A Strategic Roadmap to Establishing an AI Center of Excellence (AI CoE)
How do you move from random acts of AI to a powerful, integrated strategy? AI CoE is your organization’s central nervous system for all things AI—a dedicated team responsible for developing strategy, setting standards, and enabling AI effectively, and at scale.
Operationalizing AI Excellence: Processes, Tools, and Talent Strategy for AI CoE
This article outlines the key processes, tools, and talent strategies necessary to operationalize AI excellence and drive tangible business value from your CoE.
We’ll break down the operationalization into 5 key areas.
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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