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chanikya raj

@chanikyaraj

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Senior Full Stack AI Engineer building LLM RAG copilots at scale.

Zimbabwe

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to lead enterprise full-stack AI delivery—governed LLM/RAG copilots with strong observability, responsible AI controls, and secure microservices. I want to mentor teams and turn product needs into production-ready, measurable outcomes.

I’m a Senior Full Stack AI Engineer with 10+ years designing enterprise-scale AI applications, Python microservices, cloud/data platforms, and production automation across regulated environments. I build LLM-powered products—agentic workflows, copilots, knowledge-management systems, RAG pipelines, vector search, and evaluation workflows—so teams can ship reliable, measurable outcomes.

In my recent roles, I’ve led enterprise AI application platforms with governed deployment, retrieval workflows, audit logging, and human-in-the-loop review, while partnering across product, UI, engineering, data science, QA, security, and business stakeholders. I focus on responsible AI governance (RBAC, OAuth2/JWT boundaries, privacy/security controls), strong observability (logging, metrics, hallucination checks), and production readiness through CI/CD, Docker/Kubernetes, and mentoring through architecture and code reviews.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Full Stack AI Engineer

Current

CenterPoint Energy

Aug 2023 - Present (2 years 11 months)

Designed and built enterprise AI-powered applications using RAG pipelines, vector-search concepts, and LangChain/LangGraph-style orchestration. Architected governed backend microservices and built agentic/copilot-style workflows with evaluation and observability, deploying containerized services with security and responsible AI controls.

LLM Applications Vector Search Lang Chain LangGraph Microservices REST APIs Observability Docker Kubernetes Terraform CI CD RBAC JWT Audit Logging Prompt Injection Awareness Human In The Loop

MLOps Engineer - Full Stack AI

Mastercard

Aug 2020 - Apr 2023 (2 years 8 months)

Built regulated AI/ML workflow automation for document intelligence, model monitoring, controlled deployments, and supporting dashboards. Developed reusable backend services and evaluation/traceability mechanisms to support experimentation, monitoring, and reliability improvements across LLM/prompt workflows and structured outputs.

Document Classification Model Monitoring Structured Outputs Traceability CI CD Monitoring Dashboarding

Senior Python Developer - Full Stack

Albertsons

Oct 2018 - Jul 2020 (1 year 9 months)

Built Python, SQL, ETL, API, and reporting workflows for retail operational applications, data warehouse loads, inventory analytics, KPI dashboards, and recommendation inputs. Partnered with cross-functional teams to define technical requirements and supported reliable application releases, including dashboard and workflow screen integration and ongoing monitoring routines.

Python SQL ETL REST APIs KPIs Inventory Analytics Recommendation Inputs Data Validation Documentation Standards

Python / SQL Developer

SunTech Solutions

Aug 2016 - Jun 2018 (1 year 10 months)

Developed REST API services, SQL queries, reporting workflows, and Python automation scripts for enterprise financial systems. Implemented JWT/OAuth2-based access patterns and automated deployment pipelines using Jenkins and Docker to improve release reliability and operational support.

REST APIs SQL Python Automation Database Optimization JWT Jenkins Docker