Author: Shankar Kumarasamy

Digital leader and technology enthusiast with experience in varied functional areas specializing in mobility and cloud backend. Areas of specialization include: 1) Solutions architecture - Enterprise-scale solution consulting to determine major IT investments, 2) Technical architecture - End-to-end system and integration architecture including hardware and software, 3) Applications architecture - Multi-cloud native server-less application architecture, 4) Data architecture - Canonical data architecture and design including support to multi-tenancy data models, 5) Identity architecture - Different LoB identity management solutions involving SSO for customer 360 experience, 6) Security architecture - Eliminate digital risk by designing the flow of data between people, systems, and things with granular and only the needed access

Google’s AI Cloud – Key announcements at Google Cloud Next 2018

Google’s second edition of Google Cloud Next opened with some announcements on cloud platform. Google have made it clear on sticking to their commitment on AI first approach by adding AI to almost every product on their shelf. As a developer we have come across this common scenarios of “It works fine in my system … Continue reading Google’s AI Cloud – Key announcements at Google Cloud Next 2018 →

Yo Google, I wish you do this!

Voice assistant devices are increasingly becoming a common household gadget in US. It has something for every age group. Me, personally, having used google home for quite a sometime now, have always thought that these assistants can do something more. This is a combined thought on how it can impact an end user and how … Continue reading Yo Google, I wish you do this! →

Intelligent Elegant Mobile Solutions

Mobile applications are getting smarter every day. These smartness are result of the actions that are taken based on the information collected from the user. Actions of the user on the mobile application are gathered as data and sent to server. The analytical engine then decides what action to perform to more engage the user … Continue reading Intelligent Elegant Mobile Solutions →

Intelligent API’s to address the future of mobility and beyond

Access to data in today's world can be through variety of form factors. The same data is being presented to the user in variety of forms. The journey of user interface in computing started with CLI and now the most popular user interface is Touch. Soon gesture driven interface and natural language processing are going … Continue reading Intelligent API’s to address the future of mobility and beyond →

Google IO => AI, 2018

Last year at google IO 'AI first approach' was promoted by google, moving away from 'Mobile first approach'. Today's Google IO was a reflection of that. Google's path is 'AI must approach'. Less on products such as android or flutter or firebase or any usual google developer tools. All the product announcements, demos and solutions … Continue reading Google IO => AI, 2018 →

Increasing complexity with growing redundant data from IoT and smart devices

Emergence of Artificial Intelligence means processing of huge data sets. These data sets has to be stored in some disks or some persistence storage. The huge volume of data has to be processed by the data scientist or big data analyst to come up with an algorithm or model that yields a measurable outcome. What … Continue reading Increasing complexity with growing redundant data from IoT and smart devices →

Next in Android

Like the famous Netflix show - ‘My next guest needs no introduction’ every year around this time the next in android is a known surprise - ‘Next version of the android OS’. So this year its about ‘Android P’. Looking at the timeline from google on the rollout of this version, we can clearly understand … Continue reading Next in Android →

Data First and De-Centralization of mobility solutions

The future of mobility is about connected devices. And the connected devices should interact with each other seamlessly. It is not just device to user interaction. It is also about device to device interactions. Smart phones are a decade old now. The UX that the smart phones brought in with those devices are the reason … Continue reading Data First and De-Centralization of mobility solutions →

v(r)-Commerce – A complimenting commerce experience to e-Commerce

Earlier commerce began by exchanging one item for other. Later the basic of commerce became an act of selling and buying items through a standard means. This did not change for centuries now. It became a standard practice to use some common platform to sell or buy things. And this has made commerce a simple … Continue reading v(r)-Commerce – A complimenting commerce experience to e-Commerce →