Surya Rao Rayarao
SS&C Technologies, Lead Software Engineer
Kansas City, Kansas, United States
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Surya Rao Rayarao is a Lead Software Engineer at SS&C Technologies, where he leads engineering for the RICC/TRAC retirement-plan platform, a system managing over $1B in assets under management across 4,000+ retirement plans. He holds Senior Member grade in IEEE and has served as a judge or peer reviewer at 15+ technical venues, including an ACM SIGKDD-affiliated review and formally-refereed academic peer review (ICCASEET2025, with signed conflict-of-interest and ethics attestations). His talks draw on hands-on experience building and operating fintech infrastructure at scale, leading engineering teams, and evaluating technical work as a competition judge and peer reviewer.
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From Java to AI: Modernizing Enterprise Systems with Machine Learning
Java has been the backbone of enterprise software for decades — but in today's world, AI and Machine Learning are redefining what enterprise systems can do. The question is: how do you bridge the two?
In this session, Surya Rao Rayarao — Lead Software Engineer at SS&C Technologies, IEEE Senior Member, and MS Data Science graduate (UT Austin) — draws on 20+ years of Java and enterprise engineering experience to show you exactly how to evolve modern Java applications with AI/ML capabilities, without a full rewrite.
Key takeaways:
• The evolution of Java enterprise systems: from J2EE to AI-ready architectures
• Practical patterns for embedding ML pipelines into Spring Boot and Java microservices
• Real-world FinTech examples: using AI to solve complex financial data challenges in Java-based systems
• How to expose ML models as REST APIs and integrate them with existing Java backends
• Career insights for Java engineers looking to evolve into AI/ML-integrated roles
Whether you're a Java developer curious about AI, a tech lead navigating modernization, or an architect designing next-gen systems, this talk delivers actionable strategies grounded in 20+ years of real production Java experience.
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