Ashwin Ramaswami has built a career in software engineering, election security, and technology law and policy research. Ashwin Run is Ashwin's freelance consulting company around full-stack software development, cloud architecture, and technology law and policy.
Ashwin has worked on projects across all three major clouds: AWS, Azure, and GCP. Ashwin also holds a TS/SCI clearance and an AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certification.
Previously, Ashwin has worked at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Sequoia Capital, and Schmidt Futures. He holds a B.S. in computer science from Stanford University and J.D. from Georgetown Law.
🚀 Blazing fast times
Quick turnaround times for getting your product out of the door -- including quality assurance with automated testing.
📦 The whole stack
We deliver an architectural plan and development resources for the entire stack of your system, whether it is a website, mobile app, or data processing pipeline.
📇 Legal and policy insights
We can help you understand the latest issues in the tech legal and policy landscape, and how they may affect your own organization's work.
☁️ Building on the cloud
We can design solutions for you on Amazon Web Services, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, using Terraform to automate infrastructure provisioning.
📝 Clear and concise documentation
We can help you create or improve technical documentation to help improve the lifecycle and usability of your product.
🔓 Enhanced security
We can run security audits and offer suggestions to make your system more secure, including systems on the cloud.
🚨 Open source
We can help you leverage the power of open source in your own systems, whether that is by using existing open source tools or managing the open sourcing process of key components of your system.
✍🏽 Media content services
We can distill current technical, legal, and policy concepts into easy-to-understand content such as briefs, white papers, and graphics.
📈 Bootstrapping startups
We provide a foundation for sustainable growth for startups or nonprofit organizations by helping you create a sound and secure technical platform.
Clients and Case Studies
The Linux Foundation
Technical writing, marketing support, and research reports on various topics around open source software, OSS security, and policy.
Nooks
Improved scalability for the video-calling platform of the startup Nooks. Set up a CI/CD pipeline and infrastructure with Google App Engine, Google Cloud Build, and Google Kubernetes Engine.
Pulsar
Architected and implemented a distributed system for aggregating industrial sensor data for the startup Pulsar, using AWS Lambda, React, and Cassandra on AWS.
Skiff
Set up CI pipelines, developer infrastructure, and developed features for the end-to-end encrypted document collaboration platform Skiff. Used React, Express, Salesforce Heroku.
Eventive
Architected and implemented a system for ingesting and serving video content for the startup Eventive, with DRM protection, using Azure Media Services. Managed compliance processes and formulated policies for cybersecurity. Built using React, Express stack.
The Stanford Daily
Ashwin served as the first CTO of the Stanford Daily, where he set up WordPress instances and maintained plugins both for the main website and the archives website. These sites scaled to high volume, including hundreds of thousands of users per month.
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