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I help enterprise teams ship production GenAI: voice agents, agentic workflows, RAG, and the infrastructure to make them stick.
AI Specialization
built and shipped for
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About
I'm a senior forward-deployed engineer specializing in GenAI: voice agents, agentic workflows, RAG, and the infrastructure underneath. I ship in customer environments, with customer teams, against customer constraints, and I stay through the part where systems have to actually keep working.
For the last two years I've led platform-scale GenAI builds for a Fortune-5 healthcare buyer through TrueFoundry, with a signed engineering byline on the TrueFoundry blog for the memory layer I designed, TrueMem. Before that I was the founding tech lead at an AI startup. Toptal vetted me into the top 3% of engineers, AI specialization.
On the side, I wrote My Adventures with LLMs, the book I wish I'd had when I started. I was also a speaker at the Linux Foundation MCP Dev Summit Bengaluru (June 2026), talking about mcp-guardian.
Engagements
Feb 2024 to present · Remote (USA)
Dec 2022 to Jan 2024 · Remote (USA)
Aug 2020 to Aug 2021 · Bangalore, India
Selected case studies
Public retrospectives of platform-scale work at a Fortune-5 healthcare customer, signed bylines on GenAI infrastructure (TrueFoundry, Linux Foundation MCP Dev Summit), Toptal-led client builds shipping under real production load, and open-source projects you can read end-to-end.
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Forward Deployed Engineer · Direct client engagement 2025 to present Ongoing
An AI product-matching and ordering layer for a Latin American B2B hardware distributor. Fine-tuned multilingual E5 text embeddings, contrastively fine-tuned SigLIP-2 image…
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Lead engineer · Toptal engagement 2025 to present Ongoing
A SaaS that ingests a PDF and produces a structured, narrated course: personas, ABCD learning objectives, failure-mode analysis, a hierarchical outline, source-grounded…
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Senior Forward Deployed Engineer 2024 to present
A platform-based blueprint for cost-effective, production-grade voice agents: telephony, orchestration, LLM and TTS swaps, evaluation, and the unglamorous reliability work that…
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Senior Forward Deployed Engineer 2024 to present
Replacing a BERT plus LLaMA hybrid intent classifier in CVS Health's pharmacy IVR with a multi-vector retrieval pipeline on Qdrant: BM25 sparse retrieval, a fine-tuned dense…
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Senior FDE · Platform design and delivery 2025
A live product surface that lets any team browse 47+ Model Context Protocol servers, complete OAuth or API-key handshakes, and try every tool from the browser, without a local…
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Author · Maintainer · Speaker 2026
An MCP proxy that replaces hundreds of tool schemas with three meta-tools, cutting 160k+ startup tokens to 456 (a 99.7% reduction), and adds scoping, audit, and OAuth-aware…
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Senior Engineer · Architecture, design, build, ship 2025 to 2026
A persistent, two-tier (short-term + long-term) memory service for LLM applications. Distilled facts replace verbatim history, semantic retrieval surfaces what matters, and the…
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Senior engineer · Toptal engagement (CogenticAI) 2025
A production-grade NL-to-SQL agent built with Google ADK and FastAPI: a SQL Generator, an SQL Executor with retry-with-feedback, and a Response Generator orchestrated as a…
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Author · Maintainer 2024
An AI meeting and voice-agent platform (capture, transcribe, summarize, retrieve, and run live agents on top) built as a clean separation of a Python backend and a modern web…
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Author · Maintainer 2024
A complete RAG application built to be understood: ingestion, embeddings, retrieval, an evaluation harness, and a UI. Small enough to read, real enough to deploy.
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Publications
Featured writing
Building Scalable and Cost-Effective Voice Agents: A Platform-Based Blueprint
CVS Health Tech Blog
How to think about voice agents as a platform, separating telephony, LLM, TTS, and orchestration so a fleet of agents can ship without each one re-inventing the runtime.
TrueMem: Building a Model-Agnostic Memory Layer for AI
TrueFoundry engineering blog · byline
How I designed TrueMem, a two-tier (STM + LTM) persistent memory service for LLM applications, and why moving memory outside the model gives you vendor-portability for free.
Transforming Customer Interactions: Evolving IVR Systems for Enhanced Experiences
CVS Health Tech Blog
The migration path from rigid IVR menus to LLM-driven conversational flows, keeping integrations, observability, and compliance posture intact.
My Adventures with LLMs
Leanpub · book
A practitioner's walk-through of building LLMs from scratch in PyTorch, Transformers through DeepSeek, with a companion code repo for every chapter.
Open source
MCP infrastructure, RAG stacks, voice-agent platforms, devtools, and personal utilities. Repos I maintain or have meaningfully contributed to, all readable end-to-end.
MCP proxy that replaces hundreds of tool schemas with three meta-tools, a 99.7% startup-token reduction with scoping, audit, and OAuth-aware fan-out. Talk at Linux Foundation MCP Dev Summit Bengaluru, June 2026.
Python · MCP · FastAPI · asyncio · Docker
Companion code for the book *My Adventures with LLMs*. Transformers to DeepSeek in PyTorch, from scratch.
Python · PyTorch
Vite + React operator console for the AIME meeting-intelligence and voice-agent backend: meetings, calendar, integrations, secrets.
Vite · React · TypeScript · Tailwind· archived
AI meeting intelligence and voice agents: capture, transcript, structured summary, retrieval, and live agents on top. LiveKit Agents, LangGraph, FastAPI, Postgres.
Python · FastAPI · LiveKit Agents · LangGraph · Postgres· archived
Vite + React operator console for the Yukti RAG backend with a shadcn/Radix design system, OAuth, and RBAC.
Vite · React · TypeScript · Tailwind· archived
RAG-as-a-service backend with Unstructured.io and Docling ingestion, pgvector and Qdrant retrieval, LiteLLM gateway, FastAPI and ARQ workers, and a multi-LLM eval harness.
Python · FastAPI · pgvector · Qdrant · LiteLLM· archived
Self-hosting fork of attendee-labs/attendee with deployment hardening for meeting-bot workloads. See upstream for active development.
Python · Django· archived
PWA expense and income tracker for freelance sole-proprietors. Claude-powered OCR over invoices and FIRA certificates, live Google Sheets ledger, India-tax calculator (Sec 44ADA, new regime), all on Cloudflare Pages and R2.
React · Vite · Hono · Cloudflare Pages Functions · R2 · Claude Haiku
Open-source RAG framework I co-built at TrueFoundry. Production-ready primitives for ingestion, retrieval, and serving.
Python · LangChain · FastAPI· archived
Leadership & community
Contact
I take on a small number of forward-deployed engagements at a time. The fastest path is email or LinkedIn; Toptal is the cleanest contracting route.