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Saran Mahadevan

@saranmahadevan

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Senior AI Architect leading enterprise GenAI RAG, agents, and data platforms on AWS.

India

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a role where I can lead enterprise GenAI (RAG + agents) and AWS data/BI platform engineering, turning ambiguous workflows into scalable architectures. I want to ship grounded, reliable AI products with strong retrieval, validation, and team ownership.

I’m a Senior AI Architect and product, data, and AI engineering leader with 15+ years building enterprise platforms—data engineering, BI/reporting, full-stack systems, and applied GenAI. I translate ambiguous workflow problems into scalable architectures, then ship practical AI/product capabilities in cloud environments.

My core focus is production GenAI systems: enterprise RAG with source-aware retrieval and grounded answers, multi-agent automation with tool-use patterns and human-in-the-loop review, and knowledge retrieval combining graph-based retrieval with embeddings. I’ve also delivered voice-to-structured data and multimodal form generation that converts voice, PDFs, photos, and hand-drawn inputs into submission-ready workflows.

I bring a strong data foundation across AWS data lakes, Spark/PySpark, SQL, NLP classification, predictive analytics, and analytics-ready modeling—supported by CI/CD automation for enterprise BI stacks. I enjoy leading teams and building the metadata, validation, and pipeline foundations that make AI dependable, auditable, and ready for real enterprise operations.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Product Dev Manager

Current

KloudGin

Apr 2024 - Present (2 years 3 months)

Led applied AI, BI, and platform engineering initiatives for an enterprise field service and asset management platform. Architected multi-source enterprise RAG, voice-to-structured workflow automation, a graph+embeddings knowledge layer, and multimodal survey/form generation using a low-code platform.

Enterprise RAG LLM Application Architecture Grounding Human In The Loop Vector Search Embeddings Python Glue EMR Athena Lambda Transcription CI CD Jenkins

Associate Architect

KloudGin

Mar 2021 - Mar 2024 (3 years)

Owned BI/reporting platform capabilities, including dashboard/report metadata and analytics workflows. Architected metadata version-control and environment-merge with incremental diff/merge and rule-based conflict resolution to preserve customer-specific customizations.

Analytics Engineering Environment Merge Incremental Diff Merge Conflict Resolution SQL Data Modeling

Senior Technical Lead

TEKsystems

Jun 2018 - Feb 2021 (2 years 8 months)

Led enterprise data engineering, machine learning, NLP, and BI automation workstreams for client engagements. Built AWS data lake ingestion/transform pipelines, predictive analytics feature pipelines, an NLP ticket intelligence solution, and CI/CD automation for Canon OBIEE deployments.

Data Engineering Machine Learning NLP Python Glue EMR Lambda Athena Data Ingestion data transformation Data Quality Feature Engineering Predictive Analytics Risk Scoring Forecasting Jenkins CI CD

Mobile IoT Product Engineer

Waygum, Inc.

Sep 2016 - Mar 2018 (1 year 6 months)

Led mobile application design and implementation for an industrial IoT platform used in manufacturing environments. Delivered remote asset monitoring workflows and mobile dashboards, and contributed to AI/ML concepts for predictive maintenance and recommended maintenance actions.

Industrial IoT Remote Monitoring Alerts and Trends Predictive Maintenance Mobile Application Developer

Co-Founder / Consultant

Entrepreneurship & Mobile Product Consulting

Apr 2014 - Aug 2016 (2 years 4 months)

Co-founded a startup and built the initial mobile MVP from scratch, supporting investor pitches and early funding/partner discussions. Delivered mobile MVPs across multiple domains and created an equity trading app with real-time market tracking, portfolio views, alerts, and charting workflows while leading small development/design teams.

MVP Development Pre Sales Client Delivery Implementation Planning Alerting

Consultant / Software Engineer

TEKsystems / Fcs Pvt. Ltd.

Jun 2011 - Apr 2014 (2 years 10 months)

Worked on enterprise BI/reporting, data warehousing, and mobile application projects for distribution and HVAC/R analytics clients. Developed BI/reporting solutions using SQL and Microsoft stack components and designed ETL workflows from heterogeneous sources, including building enterprise iOS apps connected to backend databases and reporting systems.

Enterprise BI Reporting SQL SSIS SSAS ETL Parameterized Reports CSV Excel SQL Server Oracle iOS Development

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Government College of Technology, Coimbatore

Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics & Communication Engineering

2007 - 2011

Grade: GPA 7.83/10

Completed a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communication Engineering at Government College of Technology, Coimbatore (2007–2011) with a GPA of 7.83/10.