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Applied AI Engineer · RAG, Agents & AI Evaluation

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Summary

Applied AI Engineer with an M.S. in Statistics who builds retrieval and agent systems and measures — with statistics, not vibes — whether they actually got better. Sole technical owner of a six-system civic-tech platform: built ASK NOHA, a hybrid RAG and knowledge-graph assistant over ~1,600 civic meetings orchestrated with LangGraph and exposed as governed tools through MCP with human-in-the-loop approval, backed by a versioned evaluation harness using bootstrap confidence intervals, ablation studies, and an LLM-as-judge calibrated against human labels. Also built a canonical public-record data platform spanning 1.7M+ profiles, administer the platform's infrastructure end to end (Vercel, Azure Container Apps, and a self-managed Linux server), and works below the API layer on GPU memory, quantization and local inference performance.

Technical Skills

Core Engineering
Python
Async Python
SQL
TypeScript
FastAPI
Flask
REST APIs
Pydantic
Docker
CI/CD
GitHub Actions
LLM Applications, Context & Agents
Prompt Engineering
Context Engineering
Structured Outputs
Function Calling
Tool Use
LangGraph
MCP (Model Context Protocol)
Agent Orchestration
Human-in-the-Loop Approval
Gemini
OpenAI
Claude
Retrieval & Knowledge Systems
RAG
KG-RAG
Hybrid Retrieval
BM25
Dense Retrieval
Reciprocal Rank Fusion
CrossEncoder Reranking
Knowledge Graphs
Neo4j
Entity Resolution
Weaviate
FAISS
AI Evaluation & Measurement
LLM Evaluation
Golden Datasets
Hard Negatives
Recall@K
MRR
Bootstrap Confidence Intervals
Ablation Studies
LLM-as-Judge
Cohen's Kappa
Regression Testing
Statistical Inference
AI Reliability, Security & Observability
Guardrails
Prompt-Injection Defense
Policy Enforcement
Evidence Sufficiency
Claim Validation
Authentication
Authorization
OpenTelemetry
Langfuse
Structured Logging
ML & Model Systems
PyTorch
TensorFlow Lite
Scikit-learn
Quantization
LoRA / QLoRA / PEFT
CUDA
GPU Profiling
Inference Benchmarking

Experience

Founding AI Engineer

OpGov.ai

An initiative of Lead for Earth (non-profit)

August 2025 - Present

San Francisco Bay Area

  • Took over as technical owner of the entire platform after the lead developer departed, growing ASK NOHA into an agentic system orchestrated with LangGraph and exposed as governed tools through an MCP server, with human-in-the-loop approval on sensitive actions and a policy layer enforcing autonomy boundaries
  • Developed a versioned evaluation harness with bootstrap confidence intervals on retrieval deltas, ablation studies, and an LLM-as-judge calibrated against human labels via Cohen's kappa — used as a release gate, not a report
  • Shipped four more production systems end to end: a publishing platform with a role-based permissions model I designed, a multi-channel campaign communications platform used in a real election, and a geospatial field operations dashboard used in a real campaign
  • Engineered a canonical MongoDB platform unifying 1.7M+ public-record profiles and ~4M historical participation records, reconciling a 734,457-record snapshot into 20,060 new profiles while isolating a single ambiguous identity for review
  • Administer the platform's infrastructure end to end — the public site on Vercel, the summarization service on Azure Container Apps, and everything else, including ASK NOHA's agent runtime and MCP server, on a Linux server I run myself
  • Own product design, system architecture, implementation, deployment and operations across the platform, coordinating a team of up to four including a remote developer
AI Engineer

OpGov.ai

January 2025 - August 2025

San Francisco Bay Area

  • Joined as the platform's AI engineer and built its first AI service: the meeting summarization microservice on Azure Container Apps, plus the transcript acquisition and ASR pipeline with Whisper fallback for meetings without published captions
  • Proposed and began building ASK NOHA, a hybrid RAG and knowledge-graph retrieval system over ~1,600 civic meetings, combining BM25, dense retrieval and Neo4j graph traversal with claim-level citation validation
Founding Technical Advisor

Petpin AI

Advisory engagement with a pre-funding founder

February 2024 - August 2024

San Francisco, CA

  • Turned a founder's early pet-wearable concept into a defined product — shaping requirements, scoping technical feasibility on constrained hardware, and designing the end-to-end system architecture across device, sensing, connectivity and cloud
  • Built working prototypes on Raspberry Pi with the Pi AI Camera, running YOLO-based on-device object detection to automatically capture meaningful moments rather than recording continuously
  • Developed Python pipelines for real-time ingestion, preprocessing and TensorFlow Lite inference under strict device memory, battery and latency constraints
  • Built React dashboards visualizing live telemetry, behavioral signals, device health and model outputs from connected hardware
Founder

R P Era

Sole proprietorship · team of 4–5

August 2018 - August 2023

India

  • Founded and ran a five-line 3D-printing and laser-engraving business spanning workshops, hardware sales, repair services, imported machine distribution and custom manufacturing, managing a team of 4–5
  • Built the business's first customer-analytics workflow after inbound volume from IndiaMART reached hundreds of leads per day, moving from manual spreadsheets to Python-based analysis to identify which segments and channels actually converted
  • Established the India import channel for Ortur desktop laser engravers, handling supplier relationship, import logistics, pricing and downstream distribution
  • Delivered 100+ customer projects across engineering, dental and corporate custom-gift work, translating vague requirements into specifications, production plans, estimates and finished parts
Teaching Associate, Statistics

CSU East Bay

August 2024 - December 2024

Hayward, CA

  • Taught probability, statistical inference, hypothesis testing and sampling to a cohort of 22 students through structured lessons and applied examples
  • Designed lectures, exercises and assessments connecting statistical concepts to real analytical questions
  • Explained quantitative methods to students with varied mathematical backgrounds, strengthening communication with non-specialist audiences

Key Projects

Evidence-Grounded Civic Intelligence Platform (ASK NOHA)

Hybrid RAG, knowledge-graph and agent retrieval over ~1,600 civic meetings — orchestrated with LangGraph, exposed as governed tools through MCP, with human approval on sensitive actions.

Impact: Agentic retrieval with governed tools and enforced abstention

AI Evaluation & Regression Harness

Versioned harness with bootstrap confidence intervals on retrieval deltas, ablation studies, and an LLM-as-judge calibrated against human labels via Cohen's kappa.

Impact: Statistical rigor as a release gate, not a report

Multi-County Public Records Data Platform

Unified 1.7M+ profiles and ~4M historical records from incompatible county schemas into canonical profile, election and longitudinal-history models.

Impact: 20,060 new profiles reconciled, 1 ambiguous identity isolated

Geospatial Field Operations Dashboard

Live field dashboard over a structured voter database — GPS tracking, nearest-neighbor search over 2dsphere-indexed GeoJSON, and optimized multi-stop routing via the Google Routes API.

Impact: Live dashboard used in a real campaign

Pet POV Wearable — Edge AI Device

A founder's early concept turned into a working prototype: a wearable capturing point-of-view video with on-device YOLO object detection on Raspberry Pi, plus multimodal emotion inference.

Impact: 0→1 hardware + edge AI product, concept to working prototype

MCP × A2A Hackathon — Multimodal Agent System

Multimodal autonomous agent system for complex task automation, built against the Model Context Protocol and agent-to-agent communication.

Impact: 3rd Prize

Education

M.S. Statistics, Data Science Concentration

California State University, East Bay

2023 - 2025

GPA: 3.9 · Heebok Park Scholarship

Data Science concentration with focus on statistical modeling, machine learning, and applied analytics.

B.E. Mechanical Engineering

University of Mumbai

2014 - 2018

Awards

3rd Prize — MCP × A2A Hackathon

Built a multimodal autonomous agent system for complex task automation, using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and agent-to-agent (A2A) communication.

Heebok Park Scholarship

Awarded during the M.S. Statistics program at CSU East Bay.