Now building retrieval tools for engineering teams
I build reliable systems and useful AI
Backend and machine learning engineer. I turn messy data and big ideas into products that work on day one and on day one thousand.
Open to senior roles and consulting
About
A little about me
I am an engineer who likes the whole stack: data pipelines, APIs and the interfaces on top. I care about clear code, honest metrics and shipping.
Based in
Bengaluru, India
Currently
Building retrieval tools for engineering teams
Stack
- Python
- TypeScript
- Go
- PostgreSQL
- Kubernetes
- PyTorch
- AWS
- Redis
- Kafka
- Years in production
- 7+
- Requests served a day
- 40M
Expertise
What I bring to a team
LLM applications
Retrieval, evaluation and guardrails for AI features people trust.
Data pipelines
Batch and streaming pipelines that are tested, typed and observable.
Distributed systems
Services that stay fast and correct at forty million requests a day.
Cloud infrastructure
Kubernetes, Terraform and sensible cost controls on AWS.
Observability
Metrics, traces and alerts that wake the right person, rarely.
Security
Threat models, least privilege and secrets that stay secret.
Projects
Things I have shipped
Client work, side projects and things I built to learn.
- AI tool
Codebase search
Semantic search over a million files with answers that cite their sources.
- Python
- pgvector
- FastAPI
- Data platform
Event pipeline
A streaming pipeline that moved analytics from next-day to near real time.
- Kafka
- Flink
- Go
- Open source
Eval harness
A small library for testing LLM features like any other code.
- Python
- pytest
Experience
Where I have built things
Senior Software Engineer · AI infrastructure startup
Mar 2023 - Present
Lead the retrieval platform behind the product's AI features: indexing, ranking and evaluation.
- Python
- Kubernetes
- PyTorch
Software Engineer · Logistics company
Jan 2020 - Feb 2023
Built the routing and tracking services that handle forty million requests a day.
- Go
- Kafka
- PostgreSQL
Data Engineer · Fintech company
Jul 2018 - Dec 2019
Moved reporting from spreadsheets to a tested, scheduled pipeline.
- Python
- Airflow
- SQL
Kind words
What colleagues say
“Dev turned our flaky AI demo into a feature customers rely on every day.”
Meghna T.CTO “His evaluation harness changed how our whole team ships ML features.”
Farah N.ML lead
“Calm in incidents and careful in design reviews. The person you want on call.”
Arvind S.Staff engineer “Explains complex systems so clearly that product managers ask him to.”
Gautam R.Product manager
Contact
Let's build something useful
Hiring for an AI or platform role, or need help with a system that has to scale? Let's talk.