08/02/2026 updated

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Lead AI Engineer | LLM & Agentic Systems, RAG | AWS, Azure, GCP | 10+ years experience

NASHIK, India
Only remote
B.Tech Computer Science, Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune (2011-2015)
NASHIK, India
Only remote
B.Tech Computer Science, Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune (2011-2015)

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About me

I help enterprises and scaleups turn AI prototypes into secure, production-grade systems - and leave their teams confident to run them. Lead AI Engineer with 10+ years in enterprise software, now shipping LLM, RAG and agentic features into production across AWS, Azure and GCP.

RAGOpenAIJava (Programming Language)Amazon Web ServicesComputer VisionTest AutomationMicrosoft AzureCloud EngineeringDevOpsElasticsearchPython (Programming Language)PostgreSQLMachine LearningMongoDBNatural Language ProcessingNeo4jNode.jsOAuthSoftware ArchitectureRedisPrometheusAzure Machine LearningSolution ArchitectureTypeScriptDatadogGoogle Cloud.NET CoreLarge Language ModelsGrafanaMulti-Agent SystemsPrompt EngineeringGenerative AIFastAPIKubernetesApache KafkaGraphQLDockerJenkinsMicroservices
Lead AI Engineer and software architect with 10+ years building enterprise systems, the last few focused on shipping LLM and agentic features into production. I build advanced AI prototypes on AWS, Azure and GCP, turn them into secure, scalable production architectures, and work directly with product and customers to take an idea through to a deployed feature. Strong domain background in billing, CRM and telecom/utility platforms, plus enterprise construction software.
Core practice: AI prototyping through to production architecture; RAG and agentic AI systems (context engineering, ontology design, evaluation); multi-cloud AI deployment across AWS, Azure and GCP; enterprise security, compliance and data governance for AI; LLM observability and evaluation (tracing, RAG triad scoring, regression testing); information-architecture-led UI/UX for AI surfaces and generative interfaces.
Languages: Python, Java, C# / .NET, TypeScript, Node.js, JavaScript
AI / LLM engineering: Generative AI, Agentic AI, OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, Mistral, Ollama, RAG, agentic retrieval, multi-agent systems, generative UI, browser-use automation, prompt and context engineering, custom orchestration
Cloud: AWS (ECS, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, OpenSearch), Azure (AKS, App Service, Azure OpenAI, Cognitive Services), GCP (Cloud Run, Vertex AI, Agent Builder)
Vector and search: pgvector, Chroma, Qdrant, Azure AI Search, AWS OpenSearch
Voice and speech: Whisper, Google Speech, Azure Speech, ElevenLabs, Sarvam, custom voice cloning
Computer vision: OpenCV, YOLO
Data: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Neo4j (Cypher / graph), Redis
DevOps and infra: Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD (Jenkins, Azure DevOps), Kafka, RabbitMQ
Security and governance: JWT, OAuth, OIDC, RBAC, Black Duck (SCA), data governance
Observability and evaluation: Phoenix, Ragas, RAG triad evaluation, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog
Backend and APIs: NestJS, Express, FastAPI, REST, GraphQL, microservices, event-driven
Enterprise platforms: Salesforce integration, CPQ systems, enterprise billing and CRM
AI-augmented development: Claude Code, Cursor, Augment, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot

Experience

Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2025

Languages

EnglishFluentHindiFluent

Project history

Lead AI Engineer

RIB Software

Internet & IT

1000-5000 team member

Enterprise platforms for the global construction industry - leading AI architecture and applied-AI work over structured enterprise data.
Built the Generative UI feature for RIB Omni - an LLM-driven interface that composes and renders UI in response to user intent instead of fixed screens.
Designed an AI automation harness that drives real UI and application flows for end-to-end testing and repeatable task automation.
Architected agentic retrieval over enterprise construction data: multi-step planning, tool selection and context management to ground LLM output in domain truth.
Built backend automation services that replace manual enterprise workflows with event-driven, agent-triggered pipelines.
Stood up LLM observability and evaluation with Phoenix and Ragas - tracing and RAG triad scoring (context relevance, groundedness, answer relevance) to catch regressions before release.
Led information-architecture-driven UI/UX: structured domain content and navigation models so AI surfaces stay legible at enterprise scale.
Turn advanced AI prototypes into secure, scalable production architectures integrated into the enterprise product.
Lead a team of 5 engineers; run discovery with product and stakeholders and translate requirements into designs and engineering plans.

Lead Backend & RAG Engineer (Independent Consulting)

Aureus

Internet & IT

Independent consulting engagement, delivered remotely.
Built backend services for an AI-powered video analysis product, deployed to production.
Delivered an embeddable SDK with RAG functionality and RBAC for secure client integration.

Senior Software Engineer

Tech9

Internet & IT

250-500 team member

Remote engagement from Pune, India.
Built AI-powered feedback-analysis systems (Node.js + LLM integrations) processing 10,000+ records per minute in production.
Designed event-driven architectures for real-time data processing and notifications.
Implemented JWT and OAuth authentication for embedding AI components into enterprise systems.
Migrated services to AWS, achieving millisecond response times and ~40% performance improvement.

Lead Software Developer

Hansen Technologies

Internet & IT

1000-5000 team member

Enterprise billing and CRM platforms for telecom, utility and pay-TV providers across 80+ countries. Promoted from Senior Software Engineer.
Designed a Redis caching layer that cut data-retrieval time from 10 seconds to milliseconds.
Led integration between Salesforce, AWS and a CPQ system using C#/.NET and JavaScript.
Optimized PostgreSQL and MongoDB queries, increasing throughput ~150% via indexing and query restructuring.
Overhauled the CI/CD pipeline with Docker and Jenkins, reducing production errors by 57%.
Mentored junior engineers and led architecture decisions for billing-system features.

Software Engineer

Sigma Systems

Internet & IT

250-500 team member

Sigma Systems was acquired by Hansen Technologies in 2020.
Built backend services for enterprise telecom and utility billing software (Java, JBoss, C#/.NET) for five years, continuing through the Hansen acquisition and merger.

Certificates

Spec-Driven Development with GitHub Spec Kit

LinkedIn

2026

Neo4j Certified Professional

Neo4j

2025

Cypher Fundamentals

Neo4j

2025

Vector Indexes & Unstructured Data

Neo4j

2025

OpenTelemetry Certified Associate (LFS148)

Linux Foundation

2025

Salesforce Platform Developer I

Salesforce

2024

MongoDB Certification

MongoDB

2021


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