Little did Ramaswami know that two seemingly simple moments would shape his life: the day he wrote his first computer program, and the day he penned his first extempore poem. The thrill of building something from scratch awakened the technologist in him, while the curiosity to reflect on that very act sparked the writer within.

Over the past 20 years, both personas—the techie and the writer—have grown side by side, sometimes complementing each other, sometimes challenging one another. Today, Ramaswami is a seasoned technologist with over two decades of experience in software engineering. His career has been marked by deep work in data, AI, and system design, balanced by a persistent drive to explore ideas through writing and research.

He has published four books and authored over a dozen white papers and research publications in Data and AI. He is both a researcher and a practitioner, with a patent...