Aarshad Devani
Guinness World Record Holder, Mentioned in Forbes & Your Story. Youngest to receive AI Leadership award from UNOO. Tech Speaker, Entrepreneur and AI Architect. Lead @ GDG Hyderabad
Hyderabad, India
aarshadd@outlook.com
Aarshad Dinesh Devani is a Senior AI Architect at Cobweb MENA FZ and a prominent community builder serving as the Lead for Google Developer Groups (GDG) Hyderabad. Specializing in full-stack AI and web development, Google Cloud architecture, and advanced generative AI workflows, he actively mentors developers and organizers across the region. A recognized voice in the tech community, Aarshad holds Special Observatory Status at the United Nations Observatory Organization, advising on AI for small business development. His accomplishments in AI leadership and community organizing - including setting a Guinness World Record for the largest Agentic AI hackathon - recently earned him a feature in Forbes India Magazine.
Senior AI Architect
Cobweb MENA FZ
- Designing production AI architectures across agentic systems, RAG pipelines, LLMs, and multi-model orchestration.
- Advising enterprise organisations on AI transformation strategy - model selection, agent orchestration, and developer enablement.
- Translating model capabilities into deployable systems with realistic cost, latency, and reliability profiles.
- Architecting production AI agent systems that automate operational workflows for enterprise clients.
Lead
Google Developer Groups Hyderabad
- Fostering Inclusive Ecosystem
- Scaling visibility of Companies via strategic & cultivated Partnerships
- Bridging gap between Local Developers and Companies
- Conducting Workshops, Meetups and Flagship Events
- Creating a pipeline of student developers and future community leaders
- Securing corporate sponsorships and venue partnerships with top Hyderabad tech firms
- Tripled the community active member base from 5,000 to 15,000+ developers within two years by orchestrating high-visibility flagship events (DevFest, Cloud Community Days) that garnered repeated coverage in leading national media houses.
- Elevated the chapter's profile by executing high-impact conferences that attracted significant press attention, resulting in multiple features in top-tier media publications highlighting community contributions to the Hyderabad tech ecosystem.
Senior Software Developer & Lead
Storable India Pvt. Ltd.
- Technical lead for a team of 8 engineers, driving AI implementation across Storable's web platform.
- Architected plug-and-play web widgets embedded on client websites, used by over 1M people daily with 83.9% client retention.
- Architected next-generation features for Storable's Voyager platform using ReactJS, NodeJS and GraphQL, increasing user engagement.
- Migrated deployment from a traditional approach to a cloud-agnostic Kubernetes platform on Amazon EKS with Terraform (internally "Yardmaster").
- Introduced Amazon SQS to scale data-sync for integrations across multiple products.
- Integrated features into Voyager, a website builder serving 4,000+ customers and generating approximately $1M MRR.
- Optimised application performance through profiling, debugging and code optimisation, achieving a 98% SEO score across Storable websites.
Software Engineer III
Blueyonder India Pvt. Ltd.
- Built supply-chain product features at enterprise scale across Luminate Portal and Luminate Control Tower.
- Served as Scrum Master for a 20-member team, facilitating sprint planning, stand-ups and retrospectives.
- Developed the Mission Control Dashboard, monitoring deployments and 10,000+ live servers processing over $1 billion in payments.
Software Developer II
Blueyonder India Pvt. Ltd.
- Translated high-fidelity designs into production user interfaces for the Luminate Portal using ReactJS.
- Onboarded and upgraded clients to the latest Luminate Platform, increasing platform adoption.
- Deployed and managed services using Azure Kubernetes Service.
Sr. Analyst III
Deloitte Support Services India Pvt. Ltd.
- Delivered client engineering work for US-based enterprise clients.
- Collaborated with external Microsoft consultants to integrate emerging technologies into existing systems.
Web and Mobile Application Developer
Deloitte Support Services India Pvt. Ltd.
- Led development of the Deloitte Confidential Information Protection Platform (DCIPP) across web and mobile using ReactJS and React Native.
- Re-architected the entire application in three months, reducing load times by 87% - from 15 seconds to 2 seconds.
Analyst III
Deloitte Support Services India Pvt. Ltd.
- Owned the 'Working Papers' module within Deloitte EMS (Engagement Management System), the firm's premier auditing platform.
- Recognised as a key developer on Deloitte EMS, a core component of the audit product suite.
Intern / Junior Software Engineer
XtreamIT India Pvt. Ltd.
- Developed web and mobile applications, including EMR365, a multi-platform application built for the BioAsia 2016 Conference.
- Built applications across UWP, Windows Phone 8 and ASP.NET MVC.
- Converted to a full-time engineering role at Deloitte following the engagement.
Master of Business Administration (I.T.)
Rabindranath Tagore University
Bachelors of Engineering - CSE
Muffakham Jah College of Engineering & Technology
Attendee · Oct 24, 2026