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Hi, I’m Chandra Shekhar, a software engineer with 5+ years of experience in full-stack development and AI solutions for financial services and higher education. I specialize in designing and deploying LLM-powered AI agents using OpenAI, LangChain, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and I’ve built automation and chatbot solutions that improve customer service, student support, and data workflows. I excel at integrating systems through RESTful APIs, OAuth 2.0, and cloud services, and I’ve deployed Java and Spring Boot apps on AWS. I enjoy collaborating with stakeholders in pre-sales, onboarding, and solution delivery, and I have strong experience building data pipelines with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and cloud storage. I’m proficient in JavaScript and modern web technologies and thrive in Agile, DevOps environments.…Hi, I’m Chandra Shekhar, a software engineer with 5+ years of experience in full-stack development and AI solutions for financial services and higher education. I specialize in designing and deploying LLM-powered AI agents using OpenAI, LangChain, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and I’ve built automation and chatbot solutions that improve customer service, student support, and data workflows. I excel at integrating systems through RESTful APIs, OAuth 2.0, and cloud services, and I’ve deployed Java and Spring Boot apps on AWS. I enjoy collaborating with stakeholders in pre-sales, onboarding, and solution delivery, and I have strong experience building data pipelines with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and cloud storage. I’m proficient in JavaScript and modern web technologies and thrive in Agile, DevOps environments.

Chandra Shekhar

Full Stack Developer, AI Developer, Front-End Developer, +2

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Hi, I’m Chandra Shekhar, a software engineer with 5+ years of experience in full-stack development and AI solutions for financial services and higher education. I specialize in designing and deploying LLM-powered AI agents using OpenAI, LangChain, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and I’ve built automation and chatbot solutions that improve customer service, student support, and data workflows. I excel at integrating systems through RESTful APIs, OAuth 2.0, and cloud services, and I’ve deployed Java and Spring Boot apps on AWS. I enjoy collaborating with stakeholders in pre-sales, onboarding, and solution delivery, and I have strong experience building data pipelines with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and cloud storage. I’m proficient in JavaScript and modern web technologies and thrive in Agile, DevOps environments.…Hi, I’m Chandra Shekhar, a software engineer with 5+ years of experience in full-stack development and AI solutions for financial services and higher education. I specialize in designing and deploying LLM-powered AI agents using OpenAI, LangChain, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and I’ve built automation and chatbot solutions that improve customer service, student support, and data workflows. I excel at integrating systems through RESTful APIs, OAuth 2.0, and cloud services, and I’ve deployed Java and Spring Boot apps on AWS. I enjoy collaborating with stakeholders in pre-sales, onboarding, and solution delivery, and I have strong experience building data pipelines with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and cloud storage. I’m proficient in JavaScript and modern web technologies and thrive in Agile, DevOps environments.

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Hi, I’m Chandra Shekhar, a software engineer with 5+ years of experience in full-stack development and AI solutions for financial services and higher education. I specialize in designing and deploying LLM-powered AI agents using OpenAI, LangChain, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and I’ve built automation and chatbot solutions that improve customer service, student support, and data workflows.

I excel at integrating systems through RESTful APIs, OAuth 2.0, and cloud services, and I’ve deployed Java and Spring Boot apps on AWS. I enjoy collaborating with stakeholders in pre-sales, onboarding, and solution delivery, and I have strong experience building data pipelines with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and cloud storage. I’m proficient in JavaScript and modern web technologies and thrive in Agile, DevOps environments.

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Work Experience

AI Developer at West Tennessee Consulting

January 1, 2025 - Present

Architected multi-agent systems capable of autonomous task planning, tool usage, and iterative self-correction for improved reliability and reasoning. Built secure enterprise RAG workflows with document ingestion pipelines, chunking strategies, metadata enrichment, and automated embedding generation. Implemented role-based access, token-protected endpoints, and compliance-oriented data handling across all AI integrations. Fine-tuned domain-specific models for legal, financial, healthcare, and HR use cases; conducted benchmarking across GPT-4, Gemini, Claude, and open-source LLMs for cost/performance trade-offs.

AI Software Developer at University of Louisiana at Lafayette

September 1, 2023 - December 1, 2024

Developed AI-powered chatbots for admissions, course registration, and academic deadlines, integrated into the Ellucian dashboard and Moodle. Analyzed academic performance data to predict dropout risks and recommended real-time interventions. Engineered automated lecture transcription and real-time translation with OpenAI Whisper. Built AI tools to detect academic misconduct (plagiarism, contract cheating, exam fraud) improving detection accuracy and reducing faculty workload. Enabled data-driven insights for program updates and labor market alignment; deployed within AWS and secure ecosystems.

Software Developer at Infosys

October 1, 2021 - August 1, 2023

Drove front-end and back-end development across React.js/Redux and Node.js with Kafka and RabbitMQ for asynchronous messaging. Designed microservices using Java Spring Boot and RESTful APIs; implemented OAuth 2.0 and JWT-based security. Worked with SQL Server and MongoDB, optimized queries and indexing, and contributed to CI/CD pipelines with GitLab. Built internal tools and dashboards, automated data extraction workflows, and ensured code quality through unit tests and peer reviews.

Software Engineer at Cyberaegis

August 1, 2020 - September 1, 2021

Developed serverless data processing pipelines on AWS (Lambda, S3, CloudWatch), implemented web scraping (BeautifulSoup) and Google Sheets API integrations, and scheduled cron jobs for data workflows. Built robust data extraction, transformation, and reporting components and collaborated across cross-functional teams to deliver scalable solutions.