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Ashish Modi

@ashishmodi

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Senior full-stack engineer shipping end-to-end AI/RAG products—backend, mobile, and admin—built for production quality.

India

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to build end-to-end AI products in production—RAG/LLMs with evaluation and cost-aware routing—while owning backend, mobile, and admin experiences, backed by strong CI/CD, security, and observability.

I’m a senior full-stack engineer with 10+ years across Python, FastAPI, and financial data platforms. I now ship production AI systems end-to-end—backend, mobile (Flutter), and admin web—while keeping reliability and code-review discipline central to how I work.

I architect AI platforms that perform in the real world. I’m the architect of a live B2B AI tutoring platform on Google Play, delivering a hybrid RAG answer engine with multilingual support and a 99% user-satisfaction score.

I build evaluation and routing mechanisms that make AI practical: I created a reproducible LLM evaluation framework (quality + latency + cost) and used cost-aware model routing to send each subject/language slice to the cheapest model that clears the quality bar.

Beyond AI, I’ve delivered high-throughput, production-grade systems for trading and automation—real-time ETF pricing with Kafka + AsyncIO, connectivity for 20+ trading clients and 30+ exchanges, and migrations that improved resilience and reduced manual effort. I leverage AI-assisted development tools to double delivery velocity without sacrificing testability, CI/CD, or observability.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Engineer, RAG/LLM

Current

SmartCherry AI LLP

Jun 2025 - Present (1 year 1 month)

Architecting and shipping a live B2B AI tutoring platform with hybrid (meaning + keyword) search over subject-specific knowledge bases and multilingual LLM generation routed via Groq. Building the FastAPI/PostgreSQL backend and Flutter/React clients, including evaluation-driven model routing and multi-tenant, white-label admin dashboards.

RAG Hybrid Search Faiss BM25 LLM GROQ fastAPI PostgreSQL SQLModel Alembic Azure Functions Azure Key Vault Azure App Insights Flutter React TypeScript CI CD

Hybrid Senior Software Engineer

Broadridge Trading and Connectivity Solutions (BTCS)

Apr 2021 - Jun 2025 (4 years 2 months)

Engineered a real-time ETF pricing engine in Python using Kafka and AsyncIO to compute intraday fund values from live market feeds. Delivered trading data pipelines and exchange connectivity for 20+ clients and 30+ exchanges, including the ABN AMRO Fidessa to ULNET migration.

Python Kafka AsyncIO NumPy Pandas Trading Systems Data Pipelines

On-site Lead Engineer, Python Automation

Johnson Controls

Jun 2019 - Apr 2021 (1 year 10 months)

Led migration of a legacy ducted-system application onto a modern platform. Built Python automation scripts and API utilities for the HVAC/building-automation product line.

Python Scripting API Development Platform Migration

On-site Associate Technology Consultant

Cognizant Technologies

Dec 2015 - Jun 2019 (3 years 6 months)

Built a Python Reference Data module supporting MiFID II regulatory upgrade and Brexit trading-entity migration with zero downtime. Also led a Solaris to Linux platform migration, and implemented Python automation for order routing, interest lists, deployments, and monitoring.

Python Trading Systems MiFID II Platform Migration Linux Routing Automation Monitoring