OPEN TO AI / ML / LLM ENGINEERING ROLES · DEC 2026

I build AI systems that prove they work.

AI Engineer and M.S. Artificial Intelligence candidate at the University at Buffalo. I build production LLM systems across post-training, RAG, agents, evals, model serving, observability, and MLOps.

4deployed AI systems
2research tracks
245regression tests
2publications
About

I care about what happens after the AI demo works.

My work sits between applied ML, LLM engineering, and production systems. I fine-tune models, build retrieval and agent pipelines, design evaluation sets, instrument failures, and ship the serving and observability layers around them. The recurring theme is simple: an AI feature should be measurable, auditable, and useful outside a notebook.

LLM SystemsRAGAgentsEvaluationModel ServingMLOpsAI Safety
University at Buffalo, SUNY - M.S. Artificial IntelligenceAug 2025 - Dec 2026
JNTU - B.Tech Computer Science & EngineeringDec 2021 - May 2025
Experience

Shipping AI in the real world.

Industry work across enterprise GenAI, RAG, agent workflows, APIs, data pipelines, evaluation, deployment, and production debugging.

Aug 2026 - Present
Remote

AI Engineer

Globant

Generative AILLMsREST APIsEvaluationProduction AI

Building enterprise Generative AI services grounded in client data, taking LLM features from prototype through evaluation, REST API integration, testing, production debugging, and deployment in a peer-reviewed codebase.

Sep 2024 - Jul 2025
Hyderabad, India

Software Engineer

PwC

PythonLangGraphRAGSQLETLMulti-Agent

Shipped Python/LangChain/LangGraph RAG and multi-agent workflows for enterprise clients, cutting manual knowledge-retrieval effort by ~30%; built Python/SQL ETL and validation pipelines across 10K+ records.

Research

Research that connects models to evidence.

ChessAssistLens

Jan 2026 - Present · Prof. Kenneth W. Regan

Comparing a Regan-inspired statistical human-move model, Qwen3-8B, and Maia-3 on identical chess positions using Stockfish MultiPV, legal-move likelihood scoring, and controlled engine substitutions.

Paired source-game bootstrap: 2,000 resamples; Maia-derived signals +0.047 AUC (95% CI +0.040 to +0.054).
Open research demo

Security & Privacy in Physical AI

Aug 2026 - Present · Prof. Haipeng Cai

Systematizing failure modes of LLM/VLM-driven Physical AI across prompt/tool attacks, adversarial perception, leakage, and unsafe physical-world actions.

Prototyping an LLM-assisted vulnerability-repair loop that localizes flaws, proposes patches, and regression-tests fixes in a sandbox.
Selected systems

Not mockups. Systems with failure modes.

Four projects deliberately chosen to show different layers of AI engineering: post-training and retrieval, forward-deployed decision systems, agent orchestration, and production MLOps.

01 / 04

OpsVerse

Fine-tuned LLM + hybrid RAG + eval-gated serving

Fine-tuned Qwen3-4B with QLoRA/SFT/DPO and built hybrid BGE+BM25 retrieval with RRF/cross-encoder reranking and grounded citations. Releases are gated by automated evals rather than intuition.

0.705MRR@10
1,914graded judgments
~6×lower cost / response
Qwen3-4BTRL/PEFTQLoRADPOBGEBM25RRFQdrantvLLMLangfuse
DOCS
BGE + BM25
RRF
RERANK
CITATIONS
ANSWER
●retrieval.eval → PASS
●citation.grounding → PASS
●serving.cost → -6x
02 / 04

AxonFDE

Decision intelligence with explicit human control

A cold-chain decision-intelligence system that fuses minute-level telemetry, orders, and shipping documents, predicts cargo breaches early, reconciles conflicting records, and keeps every consequential action behind a human approval gate.

49 minmedian lead time
23/23conflicts caught
4.92 sdecision cycle
LangGraphFastAPIPostgreSQLRedisOpenTelemetryGuardrailsHuman-in-the-loop
SENSORS
PREDICT
RISK
APPROVE
ACTION
AUDIT
●breach.lead_time → 49m
●approval.policy → 0 violations
●audit.chain → verified
03 / 04

Pro2Pro

Checkpointed multi-agent product pipeline

A LangGraph workflow that takes a problem from discovery through design and build, integrates MCP tools, checkpoints state, requires human approval before action, and traces cost and behavior across the agent graph.

78evaluation tests
MCPtool integration
HITLapproval gate
LangGraphMCPClaudeAmazon BedrockLangSmithLogfireStructured Tool Use
DISCOVER
SUPERVISOR
PLAN
TOOLS
HUMAN GATE
BUILD
●checkpoint.state → durable
●human.approval → required
●agent.evals → 78
04 / 04

FIFA2026MLOps

Forecasting system with automated MLOps

An automated forecasting pipeline combining Elo ratings, gradient boosting, and Monte Carlo simulation, with Airflow orchestration, MLflow experiment tracking, Dockerized deployment, tracing, and drift monitoring.

Elo + GBMforecast stack
MLflowmodel lineage
Evidentlydrift monitor
XGBoostAirflowMLflowDockerEvidentlyOpenTelemetryGitHub Actions
DATA
TRAIN
MLFLOW
DEPLOY
TRACE
DRIFT
●pipeline.schedule → active
●model.lineage → tracked
●drift.monitor → armed
Technical surface area

The stack behind the systems.

Core engineering

PythonC++SQLTypeScriptFastAPIREST APIs

LLMs & post-training

PyTorchTransformersQwenTRLPEFTQLoRA/LoRASFTDPO

Retrieval

RAGBGEBM25RRFCross-encoder rerankingQdrant

Agents

LangGraphLangChainMCPTool callingStructured outputsHuman-in-the-loop

Evaluation & reliability

Benchmark designRegression testingPaired bootstrapGuardrailsRed teamingLangfuse

Serving & MLOps

vLLMDockerKubernetesAWSAirflowMLflowOpenTelemetryEvidentlyCI/CD
Let’s talk

Building AI that has to work?

I’m looking for full-time AI/ML/LLM engineering, applied AI, agent, research-engineering, forward-deployed, and ML systems opportunities starting around my December 2026 graduation.