ABOUT • TECHNOLOGY, SYSTEMS, PEOPLE
Experience in service of better decisions.
Technology strategist • Systems thinker • Mentor • Author
I write to explore how technology, particularly AI, systems thinking and leadership shape the decisions organisations make. Writing helps me refine ideas, share lessons learned and contribute to the broader technology community.
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1998
career in technology began
LTM
where I work today
ABOUT
Prasanna Srinivasa Varadhan
I have built the systems enterprises are now trying to leave, and I design what replaces them. I began as an engineer in 1998, among the first few in the world certified as a Microsoft Solution Developer, then built telecom platforms, led large delivery organisations and shaped the operating model for a business unit formed out of a major merger. That range lets me read an incumbent estate honestly and size the work truthfully, so modernisation starts from what is really there. Today I design AI-native, agentic target states, with deepest roots in industrial manufacturing and energy & utilities, and experience across automotive, high tech, telecom, retail, supply chain and travel. I have filed patents in predictive security incident management, co-authored whitepapers on applied enterprise AI, and mentored over ten architects, analysts and managers. I work at LTM.
Away from work I like open roads, my bike and rhythm. Riding is a good teacher: keep your balance, read the road ahead, and keep moving.
SECTORS
Industrial manufacturing • Energy & utilities, with automotive, high tech, telecom, retail, supply chain and travel.
CREDENTIALS
Certified Independent Director (IICA). Claude Certified Architect, Professional. Executive AI programmes from MIT, Harvard and Kellogg. Mathematics, University of Madras, 1998.
PERSPECTIVE
Before solving, decide what must be preserved.
A school-holiday encounter with an anthill taught me how I still approach architecture and design: separate the outcome from the prescribed solution, ask what should be preserved, and find the real issue before solving it. The stated problem is rarely the whole system.
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What are we trying to achieve? What should be preserved? What is the real issue? Then solve.
How I approach architecture and design
CONTRIBUTIONS
Research, invention, and notes built from practice.
FIVE CONNECTED FIELDS
Technology • AI Economics • Systems Thinking • Leadership • Mentoring
ONGOING INQUIRY
I write to clarify what I am learning about technology, economics, systems, leadership, and the craft of helping others grow.
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