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Srini Ramakichenane
Program leadership · Enterprise AI · Digital transformation

Srini Ramakichenane

Program and technology leader with 25 years across banking, payments, telco and retail in Asia Pacific, the last 15 leading programs for Fortune 500 companies. Now applying the same delivery discipline to governed AI in production.

APAC program leadershipUSD 3.2B Daimler transformationAWS and Microsoft AI certifiedAuthor and course creator
Program leadership · Enterprise AI · Digital transformation

Large technology programs, delivered. Now with AI that people can trust.

Twenty-five years in technology, the last 15 leading programs across banking, payments, telco and retail in Asia Pacific. Today I design and run governed AI in production, and share what works through demos, books and a free course.

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Agentic Enterprise Command Center

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The model recommends; rules and humans decide.

AECC runs governed AI workflows for regulated industries such as banking. Every run shows its evidence, the model's reasoning, policy checks, a human approval step, cost control and an audit trail.

  1. Evidence is retrieved
  2. The model reasons over it
  3. Policy checks run in code
  4. A human approves or declines
  5. Cost and audit trail are recorded
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Academic demos

Live, no login

Agentic AI

Facility booking agent

An agent books a sports court for four friends within budget, asks before it pays, and explains each step and safety check.

Machine learning

Scam message checker

A model trained in a classroom notebook scores a message and shows its reasons. Claude adds a guarded second opinion.

Computer vision · in development

Image classification

A recycling-sorter lab: students train a model on photos, see where it goes wrong, and fix it with better data.

03

Central Architecture

Article on LinkedIn

CentralArchitecture: one governed foundation for a portfolio of native apps

CentralArchitecture brings the recurring infrastructure of mobile products into one reusable platform: secure storage, privacy, access control, content distribution, monetization and intelligent processing.

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Mobile apps

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DocuPal: Document Helper

Plain-language answers about contracts, medical letters and bank statements.

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Study Center Cert Prep

Certification practice with mock exams, explained answers and flashcards.

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Mobile games

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Neuronia

Brain training across four zones of games.

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BreakTime: Word Play

Five calm word games, with read aloud and no timer.

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Books

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The Agentic Enterprise

Strategy, Transformation, and Governance in the Age of AI

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The Autonomous Enterprise

Simulation, Digital Twins, and Trust Infrastructure

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Building with Claude: An Absolute Beginner's Handbook

Real software with Claude, no coding background

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Building with Claude: AI-Native Software Engineering

Architecture, Product Lifecycle, Production Operations

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AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) Study Guide

All five exam domains in plain English

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Microsoft Exam AB-100 Complete Study Guide

Agentic AI Business Solutions Architect

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YouTube course

Agentic AI with Srini

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Full course · free

AI Governance for Agentic Enterprises

12 modules and 36 lectures on governing AI that acts on its own, through one running example. No coding needed.

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Certifications

AI, cloud, data and delivery

CertificationIssuerYear
AWS Certified AI Business StrategistAWS2026
AWS Certified AI PractitionerAWS2026
Microsoft Certified: AI Transformation LeaderMicrosoft2026
Microsoft Certified: AI Business ProfessionalMicrosoft2026
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)Microsoft2024
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Fundamentals (CRM)Microsoft2024
SnowPro CoreSnowflake2024
Certified ScrumMaster · Certified Scrum Product OwnerScrum Alliance2020
Program Management (Agile)National University of Singapore2020

In progress: IAPP AIGP (AI governance) · Microsoft AB-100 Agentic AI Business Solutions Architect

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Career

Program and delivery leader with a techno-functional background: 25 years across banking, payments, telco, retail and the public sector, the last 15 leading programs for Fortune 500 companies in Asia Pacific. I work where business process meets technology: requirements and solution design, integration, data migration, cutover and adoption, and now governed AI in production.

25years in technology
USD 3.2BDaimler transformation, APAC lead
1.3Mcustomers migrated under MAS
+220%payments turnover, Singtel
+34%revenue growth, Bose APAC

Experience

2026 – now

Enterprise AI Architect

Independent practice, Singapore

Designed and built AECC, a governed multi-agent platform on Amazon Bedrock and Microsoft Foundry; a serverless AI gateway routing across 12 model APIs with failover and cost control; an AI-native delivery practice shipping iOS apps.

2020 – 2026

APAC Program Lead

Infosys, Singapore

Led the APAC region of Daimler AG's USD 3.2B IT transformation: 191 data centers into 9 global sites, 82 platforms and 1,000+ applications to hybrid cloud, 600+ staff moved to a new operating model. Johnson Controls private-cloud move, USD 750K under budget.

2018 – 2020

Head of Digital Office & IT Business Partner, APAC

Bose Corporation, Singapore

Integrated SAP, Dynamics 365 CRM, Magento, Kinaxis and Power BI across 62 stores and 12 offices; POS rollout to 40+ stores; digital adoption behind 34% year-on-year revenue growth and a 30% cost reduction.

2014 – 2017

Senior Manager, Payment Projects

Singtel, Singapore

Delivered Singtel Group's first PCI-DSS payments hub (turnover up 220% in year two), the Dash wallet, and the MAS-mandated migration of 1.3M customers on time.

2011 – 2014

AVP, Project Management

Euronet Worldwide (Pure Commerce)

Acquiring and payment gateways for 6 banks with EMV and card-scheme certification; 500+ merchant outlets including Changi Airport; ran PCI-DSS end to end.

2000 – 2011

Earlier career

NEC Asia · Comwerks · Edenred · Temasek Polytechnic

National ID and biometric programs, government portals, a 12-country loyalty program, lecturing at Temasek Polytechnic, and software engineering in Java, .NET and SQL.

Functional depth

  • Payments, cards and digital wallets
  • Banking and MAS-regulated delivery
  • Telco BSS/OSS and omnichannel
  • Retail, POS and e-commerce
  • ERP, CRM and supply chain
  • Government ID and biometrics

Technical depth

  • AI platformsAmazon Bedrock and AgentCore, Microsoft Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Copilot Studio
  • Enterprise appsSAP ECC and S/4HANA, Dynamics 365 CRM, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Magento, Kinaxis
  • Cloud and migrationAWS, Azure, hybrid cloud, AWS Cloud Migration Factory
  • Data and BISnowflake, Databricks, Power BI
  • GovernanceNIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, MAS TRM, PCI-DSS, PDPA
  • DeliveryAgile, SAFe, ITIL, TOGAF, PMO

Education

MBA, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, 2014 · M.Sc. Computer Science, Bharathidasan University, 1999

Open to program director, head of delivery and PMO, senior IT leadership and AI teaching roles.