Rishikesh – AI agent development, Python, OpenAI, experts in Lemon.io

Rishikesh

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AI Engineer|Senior

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.

11 years of commercial experience in
AI
Machine learning
Scientific research
AI software
Software development
AI platform
Main technologies
AI agent development
6 years
Python
7 years
OpenAI
4.5 years
LangChain
3 years
LLM
5 years
Vector Databases
3 years
LLM evaluation
6 years
Additional skills
Vertex AI
Snowflake
RAG
Tensorflow
Java
Apache Spark
Data Science
PyTorch
DocumentDB
Docker
Spring Boot
Microsoft Azure
Amazon EC2
AWS
Amazon SNS
Amazon RDS
Amazon S3
AWS Lambda
Spring
Amazon CloudFront
Machine learning
CI/CD
PySpark
GPU
Pinecone
Fine-tuning
SQL
Multi-agent systems architecture
Multi-Agent Systems
AI telemetry
OpenAI API
Claude API
Mistral LLM
AI deployment
AI agent orchestration
ElasticSearch
Kubernetes
Terraform
GCP
NumPy
Nvidia GPU
vLLM
NoSQL
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Experience Highlights

Founding Engineer - Staff AI Engineer
Jan 2025 - Ongoing1 year 6 months
Project Overview

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.

Responsibilities:
  • 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.
Project Tech stack:
AI agent development
RAG
OpenAI
LLM evaluation
AWS
Machine learning
AI agent orchestration
AI deployment
AI telemetry
Multi-Agent Systems
Multi-agent systems architecture
ElasticSearch
Vector Databases
OpenAI API
Claude API
Mistral LLM
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
May 2024 - Jan 20258 months
Project Overview

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.

Responsibilities:
  • 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.
Project Tech stack:
Python
Snowflake
Vertex AI
AWS
GCP
Kubernetes
Terraform
NumPy
PyTorch
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Feb 2019 - May 20245 years 3 months
Project Overview

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.

Responsibilities:
  • 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.
Project Tech stack:
Python
LangChain
Tensorflow
OpenAI
RAG
PySpark
PyTorch
Pinecone
SQL
GPU
Fine-tuning
Nvidia GPU
vLLM
Domain Technical Lead / Java Developer
Oct 2015 - May 20171 year 6 months
Project Overview

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.

Responsibilities:
  • 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.
Project Tech stack:
Java
Spring Boot
Microsoft Azure
Docker
DocumentDB
NoSQL

Education

2018
Artificial Intelligence - First Class Honors
MSc Computer Science (Negotiated Learning)
2015
Computer Engineering
Bachelor’s Degree - Distinction

Languages

English
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