Technical Lead and AI Engineer with 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years building production-grade Generative AI, Agentic AI, and RAG systems. Experienced in Python, FastAPI, LangGraph/LangChain, distributed systems, AWS, Kubernetes, vector databases, LLM evaluation, guardrails, observability, and scalable enterprise architectures. Currently focused on building reliable AI systems that move from prototype to production and deliver measurable business value.

SELVAMANI GOVINDARAJ

Technical Lead and AI Engineer with 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years building production-grade Generative AI, Agentic AI, and RAG systems. Experienced in Python, FastAPI, LangGraph/LangChain, distributed systems, AWS, Kubernetes, vector databases, LLM evaluation, guardrails, observability, and scalable enterprise architectures. Currently focused on building reliable AI systems that move from prototype to production and deliver measurable business value.

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Technical Lead and AI Engineer with 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years building production-grade Generative AI, Agentic AI, and RAG systems. Experienced in Python, FastAPI, LangGraph/LangChain, distributed systems, AWS, Kubernetes, vector databases, LLM evaluation, guardrails, observability, and scalable enterprise architectures. Currently focused on building reliable AI systems that move from prototype to production and deliver measurable business value.

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Work Experience

Technical Lead at JkTech
June 1, 2023 - Present
Designed and deployed production-grade Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems for financial document intelligence, including hierarchical chunking, metadata-driven retrieval, reranking, deduplication, and contextual chunk expansion to improve grounding quality and token efficiency. Built agentic financial validation workflows for cross-version document comparison using fuzzy matching and guardrail-enforced validation to reduce hallucinated inconsistencies. Implemented stateful AI agent frameworks with episodic/semantic memory and LangSmith observability for adaptive reasoning and end-to-end traceability. Directed GenAI strategy for a Private Asset Management Platform, including an enterprise RAG solution for financial documents (Rent Roll, Appraisal) using Weaviate that reduced manual review time by 40%. Established a formal RAG evaluation framework reducing downstream issues and regression cycles by 50%. Improved backend performance via Backend-for-Frontend APIs (200% performanc
Senior Software Engineer at EXL Service
November 1, 2020 - May 31, 2023
Spearheaded a serverless risk scoring system for fleet insurance, reducing costs by 20% and increasing throughput by 100%. Architected an MPC Data Sharing platform enabling secure data collaboration for five insurance clients. Streamlined AWS CI/CD pipelines, decreasing deployment time by 15% and supporting adoption across seven subsequent projects.
Senior Software Engineer at Photon Interactive Pvt Ltd
July 1, 2018 - October 31, 2020
Implemented PagerDuty incident management to reduce critical incidents by 40% and improve reliability. Mentored production support engineers and resolved finance service issues, reducing customer support tickets by 95%.
Software Engineer at Ebrain technologies
May 1, 2016 - June 30, 2018
Developed and deployed Dockerized Angular applications, achieving a cost reduction of $5,000.

Education

B.E. at Anna University, MIT Campus, Chennai
January 1, 2016 - April 1, 2016

Qualifications

AI Fundamentals and Machine Learning Specialisation
January 11, 2030 - August 25, 2026

Industry Experience

Financial Services, Software & Internet, Professional Services, Computers & Electronics