Rishikesh
From Ireland (UTC+1)
Rishikesh – AI agent development, Python, OpenAI
Rishikesh is a senior AI engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in multi-agent systems, RAG pipelines, and production-grade LLM solutions. He has led the architecture and delivery of agentic platforms, hybrid retrieval systems, and evaluation frameworks across startup and enterprise environments. He brings advanced expertise in Python, orchestration, fine-tuning, and MLOps, along with strong communication and leadership skills. His approach consistently connects technical decisions with business impact and operational constraints.
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Founding Engineer - Staff AI Engineer
An AI infrastructure platform focused on workflow automation, search systems, agent harnesses, and multi-agent orchestration. The product supported advanced AI workloads and automation use cases, with the project backed by participation in the AWS GAIA program and a multi-million-euro funding round.
- Designed and built the Workflow Miner Agent, the company's keystone product, which autonomously discovered automatable business processes and captured them as reusable Arazzo blueprints.
- Architected an open-source AI agent meta-framework underpinning many Jentic agents.
- Built RAG-based semantic search over thousands of OpenAPI specifications, combining dense and sparse retrieval with reranking.
- Designed and built the evaluation harness used across all AI systems for deterministic and non-deterministic grading.
- Built the core import pipeline for ingesting, cleaning, validating, and self-healing large OpenAPI specifications at scale.
- Led developer advocacy, mentored engineers and interns, and served on the final hiring panel.
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
An ML and AI platform supporting personalized recommendations, churn prediction, and demand forecasting for a large fashion rental marketplace. The product helped improve customer personalization and demand planning across a catalogue of more than one million items, with a focus on scalable machine learning systems and reliable model delivery.
- Rebuilt the two-tower personalised style recommender end-to-end, including model architecture, feature engineering, and user-preference representations.
- Validated the recommender via A/B testing with measurable CTR improvement.
- Consolidated model-serving infrastructure from AWS, GCP, and Rackspace onto a single GCP stack and improved performance SLAs.
- Redesigned the ML evaluation framework to surface actionable insights into recommendation quality.
- Built a churn prediction system using causal analysis, Shapley-based feature attribution, tree-extraction rule mining, and user clustering.
- Built an anomaly detection system to flag bad actors using behavioural signals, time-series features, and unsupervised clustering.
- Built a multi-signal demand forecasting model and a pricing model balancing revenue with profitability.
- Served on the hiring interview panel.
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
An AI and data platform supporting multi-agent orchestration, large-scale entity matching, LLM fine-tuning on GPU clusters, and RAG-based QA systems. The product also included full-stack software engineering capabilities for enterprise data management and integration.
- Built a system translating free-text queries into complex canonical queries.
- Maintained GPU clusters and ran extensive fine-tuning of open-weight models using LoRA/PEFT with automated synthetic data generation.
- Migrated monolithic model serving to Vertex AI, resolving critical crashes during traffic spikes.
- Built PySpark pipelines mapping database schema columns to business entities at large scale for M&A data consolidation.
- Created a RAG chatbot over internal documents using LangChain and Pinecone with source attribution.
- Built a two-phase BERT/RoBERTa QA system for product manuals with a feedback-driven fine-tuning loop.
- Built a PySpark recommender that won 2nd prize in a global company-wide hackathon.
- Built reusable synthetic data generation pipelines and an evaluation pipeline to benchmark non-deterministic GenAI models.
- Served on the hiring interview panel.
Domain Technical Lead / Java Developer
An enterprise software engineering environment supporting full-stack development, API design, system architecture, and infrastructure engineering. The work covered a broad range of software engineering challenges across application and platform layers.
- Led a 5 member team in the design, development, and deployment of a European Banking application with an existing 3 million user base.
- Re-engineered the applications as RESTful APIs using Java Spring Boot, Microsoft Azure Services, Redis Cache and deployed them on Docker containers for fault tolerance and scalability.
- Designed the NoSQL database using Microsoft DocumentDB for storage and retrieval of application data with millisecond latency and push-button scalability.
- Designed event-driven APIs using service bus and message queues.
- Monitored and cleaned the code regularly for the team and ensured that different components worked and communicated seamlessly.
- Presented design solutions to clients on a weekly basis and communicated design considerations clearly and efficiently.