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Megha Ukkali

@meghaukkali

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I build reliable RAG and event-driven backend applications.

India

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What I'm looking for

I'm seeking an AI Engineer role focused on building reliable LLM-powered applications, spanning retrieval, agent orchestration, evaluation, automated data pipelines, and deployment.

I've built enterprise backend systems at Maersk and Chatham Financial, and I now apply that foundation to reliable LLM-powered applications. At Maersk, I implemented features for the T-One Smart Flow Optimizer, coordinating terminal operations through event-driven microservices.

I built Kafka and RabbitMQ workflows that consume real-time IoT events and trigger container-to-vessel routing, while adding Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Grafana observability for scheduling failures. I also deployed microservices to Kubernetes with GitHub Actions CI/CD.

At Chatham Financial, I created and maintained services for valuing and pricing financial derivatives, optimized a schedule-filling bulk update from six seconds to three, and delivered full-stack features with ASP.NET Core, React, TypeScript, SQL Server, Redis, and RabbitMQ.

I've also built agentic RAG, multi-agent research, and multi-turn document assistant systems using Python, LangChain, LangGraph, FastAPI, OpenSearch, FAISS, RAGAS, Airflow, AWS, and Docker. I'm looking to build dependable AI products grounded in strong retrieval, orchestration, evaluation, and deployment practices.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Software Engineer

Maersk

May 2025 - Feb 2026 (9 months)

Implemented features for T-One Smart Flow Optimizer, an event-driven microservices platform for terminal operations, minimizing vessel bay congestion and coordinating truck/RTG movement. Implemented real-time event-driven workflows using Kafka and RabbitMQ to consume IoT events and trigger downstream routing.

Kafka RabbitMQ Elasticsearch Kibana Grafana Kubernetes Azure GitHub Actions Microservices Event Driven Architecture

Software Developer

Chatham Financial

Jun 2021 - Aug 2024 (3 years 2 months)

Optimized bulk update for schedule filling process using temporary tables, reducing execution time from 6s to 3s (50% improvement).
• Developed RESTful web services and to consume web services for transferring data between applications.
• Continued working remotely from India on a contract basis through Velocity Global from August 2023 due to U.S. visa expiration.

C#C# .NET Core C# .NET SQL Gitlab CI CD Pipelines Microservices xUnit NSubstitute MySQL React TypeScript NodeJS RabbitMQ Redis REST APIs Docker

Software Developer Intern

Egen

Oct 2020 - Jun 2021 (8 months)

Developed applications with Java 1.8, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Microservices, Hibernate, REST API, SQL, AWS
(EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, SNS), Docker, JUnit.
• Designed and developed Spring RESTful webservices, hosted on an AWS EC2 instance, using SNS for notifications;
wrote unit tests using JUnit.

Spring Boot Spring MVC Hibernate AWS Junit REST APIs

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Saint Joseph's University

Jan 2020 - May 2020 (4 months)

Assisted with grading assignments, teaching, conducting open labs and holding office hours to help students.

Java Data Structures Algorithms

Assistant System Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services

Dec 2016 - May 2018 (1 year 5 months)

Developed the Insight Data Management application for London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), used to track
real-time security threats.
• Wrote SQL queries, stored procedures, and triggers to persist, modify, retrieve, and delete data and implemented the
persistence layer using Hibernate for object-relational mapping.

Java JDBC Spring Framework Hibernate MySQL CI CD Pipelines

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Saint Joseph's University

Master of Science, Computer Science

2019 - 2020

Grade: 3.97/4.0

Activities and societies: Honoured by Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the International Computer Science Honor Society, USA. Recepient of Computer Science Graduate Award(Gold Medal), Saint Joseph’s University, USA, Class of 2020.

Pursued a Master of Science in Computer Science with a GPA of 3.97/4.0, graduating in 2020.

Computer Science Graduate Award(Gold Medal), Saint Joseph’s University, USA, Class of 2020.
• Honoured by Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the International Computer Science Honor Society, USA.
• Honoured by Alpha Epsilon Lambda National Graduate Honor Society, USA.