I'm Ashish Baluja, a hands-on senior/principal backend and platform engineer with 16+ years building enterprise data platforms, ingestion pipelines, and document-centric automation. I specialize in turning ambiguous workflows into reliable APIs, deterministic data quality gates, and production-ready integrations that scale to 25-40k documents per day, while ensuring governance and robust operability. I lead with observability, CI/CD discipline, and cross-team collaboration. I recently introduced AI-assisted document automation using OpenAI/LLMs and retrieval patterns with deterministic guardrails, delivering measurable outcomes for customers like Apple, Meta, and Levi's, while reducing release defects and MTTR.…I'm Ashish Baluja, a hands-on senior/principal backend and platform engineer with 16+ years building enterprise data platforms, ingestion pipelines, and document-centric automation. I specialize in turning ambiguous workflows into reliable APIs, deterministic data quality gates, and production-ready integrations that scale to 25-40k documents per day, while ensuring governance and robust operability. I lead with observability, CI/CD discipline, and cross-team collaboration. I recently introduced AI-assisted document automation using OpenAI/LLMs and retrieval patterns with deterministic guardrails, delivering measurable outcomes for customers like Apple, Meta, and Levi's, while reducing release defects and MTTR.WWWW…