Lohitashwa Thyagaraj

Lohitashwa Thyagaraj has extensive work experience in the technology field. Lohitashwa is currently serving as the Chief Technology Officer at mea, a global tech company specializing in providing SaaS solutions for the Insurance domain. In this role, they are focused on solving the challenges of slow, manual, and costly submission processing through the use of AI.

Prior to their current position, Lohitashwa worked at IBM India Limited from 2019 to 2022. Lohitashwa held the role of Cloud Architect for the IBM Red Hat CoE team. In this role, they shaped the mission of the team, recruited members, and provided deep technical leadership. Lohitashwa also created solutions leveraging Red Hat technologies for multiple client engagements, resulting in multi-million dollar revenue for IBM. Notably, they played a key role in creating a Red Hat-based fully managed Private Compute as a Service (PCaaS) offering, which aligned with IBM's strategic direction for Hybrid Multicloud and generated significant value for clients.

Before joining IBM India Limited, Lohitashwa worked at IBM India Private Limited, starting in 2004. In their various roles, they served as a DevOps and Automation Architect, focusing on enriching automation and cognitive computing to maximize service quality and reduce costs. Lohitashwa also held positions as an STSM & Master Inventor and as an Advisory Software Engineer, contributing to the architecture and development of WebSphere Cloud, WebSphere JMS, and IBM MQ.

Overall, Lohitashwa Thyagaraj has a successful track record in technical leadership, solution development, and innovation, with a strong focus on leveraging cutting-edge technologies to drive business growth and deliver value to clients.

Lohitashwa Thyagaraj holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from M.S.Ramaiah Institute of Technology. Before that, they attended Shesadripurma Boys High School. In terms of certifications, they obtained the following additional qualifications: Reliable Google Cloud Infrastructure: Design and Process from Qwiklabs in January 2022, Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals from Microsoft in June 2021, and AWS Academy Graduate - AWS Academy Cloud Architecting from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in May 2021.