Ashwin V. Raman
About Ashwin V. Raman
Ashwin V. Raman is the Co-founder and CTO of Spine AI, having previously held positions at Amazon and Instacart. He has a background in software engineering with a focus on cloud services and artificial intelligence.
Work at Spine AI
Ashwin V. Raman serves as the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Spine AI, a position he has held since 2023. In this role, he is responsible for leading the technology strategy and overseeing product development. His expertise in software engineering and systems design contributes to the company's mission of advancing artificial intelligence solutions.
Previous Experience at Amazon
Ashwin V. Raman has extensive experience at Amazon, where he worked in various capacities. He served as a Software Development Engineer II for AWS Aurora from 2019 to 2021 in the Toronto, Canada Area. Prior to that, he held the same title for Alexa Speech for four months in 2019 and as a Software Development Engineer I for two years from 2017 to 2019. He also contributed to AWS Snowmobile for three months in 2016.
Career at Instacart
At Instacart, Ashwin held the position of Senior Software Engineer from 2021 to 2023. During his tenure, he played a critical role in the company's bot mitigation efforts and the development of an experimentation platform. His contributions helped enhance the platform's security and performance.
Educational Background
Ashwin V. Raman studied Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo, where he graduated with Distinction and earned a Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Honors. He also participated in the Global Exchange Program at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Additionally, he has studied at Y Combinator, gaining insights into startup development and innovation.
Patents and Innovations
Ashwin holds patents for optimizing data streaming performance in AWS Aurora MySQL and for dynamic language model loading in offline Alexa. These patents reflect his contributions to enhancing the efficiency and functionality of cloud services and voice recognition technologies.