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RAG & Agentic AI Engineer2026
  • 3+yrs shipping AI
  • 9.6GPA · Master’s in AI

Hey, I’m Karan.I build RAG systems & AI agents.

Built, evaluated, and handed over so your team can run it without me.

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RAG system

EdgarBrief
Grounded retrieval over a corpus of SEC 10-K filings.

Ask about SEC filings in plain language. Every answer cites the passage it came from, and it tells you when the filings can't answer the question.

Retrieval pipeline

query
semanticlexical
RRF fusion
cited answer
Hybrid retrieval
pgvector semantic search and Postgres full-text, fused with RRF.
Grounded by design
Every claim cites a passage. When the filings don't back it up, it says so instead of guessing.
Structure-aware chunking
Heading-anchored, token-bounded, 10-K tables kept whole.

Python · FastAPI · LangGraph · PydanticAI · pgvector · RAGAS · Gemini

Agentic SaaS

RFP Bid Manager
Construction bids, from RFP upload to a named recommendation.

An agent for owner's reps running construction bids. It reads the RFP, pulls scattered contractor questions into one table, and recommends a vendor.

Bid pipeline

PDF · Excel · Word
extraction
normalized bids
memo
Mixed-format ingest
PDF, Excel and Word in; table-aware text out.
Comparable by construction
Every vendor's pricing normalized into one shared set of sections.
Degrades honestly
Rule-based parsing and scoring keep working when the model can't.

Next.js · FastAPI · LangGraph · Gemini · pdfplumber · ReportLab

Open demoPrivate repo

Also built

A wider sample of the work, built alongside the RAG projects and all public: an agent skill, clinical NER, EEG classification, generative image models, and time-series RUL.

Projects

Stack

LLM & GenAI
RAGLangChainLangGraphPydanticAILLMs (Llama, Mistral, GPT-4)Hugging FaceClaude Agent SkillsPrompt & context engineeringGemini APIRAGASChromaFAISSOllama
ML & Deep Learning
PyTorchTransformersBERT/BioBERTTensorFlow/KerasCNNs (ResNet)VAEsAttention (CBAM, self-attention)Mixture Density Networksscikit-learnXGBoostRandom ForestSHAPSignal processing (CWT scalograms, PSD)NumPyPandas
Serving & Infra
FastAPIDockerStreamlitKubernetesAzureGitHub ActionsGitJupyter
Databases
FAISSChromapgvectorPostgreSQLMongoDBMySQLInfluxDB (time-series)
Languages
PythonJavaScript (React/Node)TypeScriptSQLJavaBash

About me

I’m Karan, a RAG and agentic AI engineer. I help teams get unstuck from their own documents. I work calm and methodical. I’d rather spend a few days finding the right approach than rush a wrong one into production. And I don’t think AI replaces people. It’s more like a sharp kid that takes you word for word: genuinely useful when you’re clear with it, a liability when you’re not. So I keep a human in the loop and hand over systems a team can actually run. Off the clock, it’s the gym and coffee, in that order.

Useful information gets stuck, and once you notice it you see it everywhere. It’s buried in a policy document no one can find, or it lives only in the head of the one person who actually knows how things work. When they’re out, everyone waits. When they leave, the knowledge goes with them. I grew up around this in India, where a lot still runs on paper and manual sign-offs, but it shows up everywhere, whether that’s a courtroom or a corner shop. That’s what I build against: RAG systems that pull the right answer out of the mess and cite where it came from, and agents that take the slow, manual document work off people’s plates.

Based in Pune, India· Available for freelance & contract work

Testimonials

I’ve enjoyed working with Karan for 1.5 years, and his dedication and positive attitude amaze me.
Edwin YeongAmdocs

Background

  1. 2026FreelanceNow

    April 2026 – Now

    RAG, agents & AI workflows

    Building RAG systems, AI agents, and AI workflows for clients. I take each one from scoping through evals to a handover the team can run without me.

    Independent · Pune

    LangGraphevalshandoveragent guardrails
  2. 2025Foundations

    Jan 2025 – Present

    Master’s in AI

    Going under the hood of the models: architecture, how they actually work, and how to modify them. Deep learning and data science, studied while I ship.

    M.S. Ramaiah Univ. · GPA 9.6

    LLM architectureTransformersdeep learningdata science
  3. 2022Retrieval

    July 2022 – Jan 2025

    RAG in production

    Shipped RAG that held up with real users: hybrid search plus a query-rephrasing step that fixed multi-turn context loss.

    Software Developer · Amdocs · Pune

    RAGLangChainFAISSBM25 hybridAZ-900AI-900DP-900
  4. 2022Pipelines

    Jan 2022 – June 2022

    Real-time data pipelines

    Made streaming sensor data trustworthy: telemetry from 1,000+ industrial sensors, ingested and monitored live.

    Project Intern · Sisai · Pune

    IIoTInfluxDBZ-score detection
  5. 2018Signals

    Aug 2018 – July 2022

    Hardware & signals

    Led the electronics team at Vegapod, a student hyperloop project, on control systems.

    B.Tech ECE · MIT-WPU · Pune

    hyperloopcontrol systemsDSP

Available for freelance & contract

Let’s talk.

Tell me what’s slowing your team down, and we’ll figure out where AI can actually help.

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