Ravi is an out of the box thinker.

He was a pioneer and created the first interactive multimedia CD-ROM based on Indian fables in 1995. 

In 1997 he was among the 13 team members selected to be trained on Designing instructions for Singapore Defense Forces. 

Later, he went on to lead the multimedia team at Jasubhai Digital Media and was part of the team that created media products including the magazines CHIP and Digit. 

Ravi completed his MBA in Strategic HR from ITM, Kharghar and worked for the IT major Infosys for over a decade. He headed the CoE for HR transformation services and later the solution design of Digital Marketing at Infosys BPM. 

Ravi holds a defensive patent for inventing a method for verifying digital documents. This method is now implemented as part of Digilocker, an initiative of Digital India. 

While working at Infosys, Ravi also wrote, directed and made the First full length animated feature film in the world.The film was released in 2020 on Netflix and won over 20 international and national recognitions. And became a milestone in Indian Cinema.

Ravi was the delivery head for AI4Bharat. AI4Bharat is a research lab at IIT Madras which works on developing open-source datasets, tools, models and applications for Indian languages.

He stays in Bangalore with his wife and two children. His range of interests include yoga, alternative medicine, Vedanta and music. 

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Related: How the first Sanskrit Animated Movie got made.