// Senior AI/GenAI Engineer

Rama
Prashanth

Building intelligent systems that think, reason, and act.

10+ years architecting production-grade Conversational AI, Agentic AI, RAG pipelines, and Multi-Agent Systems across aviation, autonomous vehicles, robotics, and enterprise platforms. IEEE-published researcher. Building enterprise AI platforms in UAE

UAE ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ช IEEE Published 50+ Citations

About

I'm a Senior AI/GenAI Engineer with a decade of experience building systems that push the frontier of what's possible with AI, from warehouse robots to enterprise digital assistants.

My work spans Conversational AI, Agentic AI, RAG architectures, and Multi-Agent Systems, deployed across some of the most demanding domains: aviation, autonomous vehicles (Rivian/VW, Applied Intuition), precision agriculture robotics (Verdant Robotics), and warehouse automation (Berkshire Grey).

I care deeply about responsible AI, production-grade evaluation frameworks, and building systems that are both technically rigorous and genuinely useful to humans. My research on pedestrian intent prediction and human tracking has been cited 50+ times.

10+ Years Experience
5+ Industry Domains
50+ IEEE Citations
2 IEEE Publications

Experience

Senior AI Engineer

AI Consultant Abu Dhabi, UAE
Jan 2026 โ€“ Present
  • Architected enterprise-scale Conversational AI platform using LangGraph, LangChain, MCP, and Azure AI Foundry with multi-agent workflows, improving workflow completion by 40% and reducing human escalations by 30%.
  • Engineered production LLM pipelines and RAG architectures with hybrid retrieval, cross-encoder reranking, and AI guardrails, reducing hallucination rates by 35% at sub-200ms response latency.
  • Established enterprise AI governance and LLMOps frameworks: automated regression testing, semantic drift monitoring, CI/CD pipelines, achieving 99.9% uptime and 60% faster feature delivery.
LangGraph MCP Multi-Agent Azure AI Foundry RAG LLM Evaluation AI Guardrails

Senior Software Engineer, AI

Rivian & VW ยท Applied Intuition ยท Berkshire Grey California, USA
Aug 2023 โ€“ Dec 2025
  • Rivian/VW: Architected high-throughput EV telemetry platform (Go, Kafka, AWS EKS) processing 200+ Gbps across 10,000+ vehicles; built Conversational AI & RAG platform with GPT, LangChain, and Pinecone for natural-language fleet analytics.
  • Applied Intuition: Engineered autonomous vehicle simulation infrastructure reducing safety-validation cycles from 2 days to 4 hours; designed Agentic AI synthetic data generation platform expanding edge-case coverage by 40%.
  • Berkshire Grey: Led distributed robotics orchestration platform coordinating 1M+ daily warehouse operations (40% efficiency gain); productionized ML inference services at sub-100ms latency and 10,000+ predictions/second.
Autonomous Vehicles Robotics Go Python Kubernetes MLflow LangChain Kafka

Software Engineer, ML

Verdant Robotics California, USA
May 2021 โ€“ Jul 2023
  • Architected cloud-native robotics platform scaling fleet from 20 to 100+ active robots, reducing deployment cycles by 91%, enabling the infrastructure for the company's $15M Series A expansion.
  • Built 0-to-1 MLOps & AI platform with MLflow, Kubernetes, and TensorFlow, reducing model iteration cycles from weeks to 2 days at 99.5% production accuracy.
  • Deployed Agentic AI diagnostics platform analyzing 10M+ robot logs via RAG and LangChain, reducing mean-time-to-diagnose by 50% and cutting unplanned downtime by 35%.
MLOps RAG TensorFlow Kubernetes Elasticsearch AWS EKS

Senior Software Engineer

GrabbnGo Bengaluru, India
Aug 2017 โ€“ Dec 2018
  • Built high-volume payment processing platform (10,000+ TPS) improving checkout success from 87% to 95%, reducing transaction latency by 35% across 50+ retail integrations.
  • Designed enterprise data pipelines with Spark and Airflow, consolidating multi-unit data into a centralized analytics platform reducing reporting latency by 40%.
Python PostgreSQL Redis Spark Airflow

Software Engineer ยท Founding Engineer

Ninjacart Bengaluru, India
Jul 2013 โ€“ Jul 2017
  • As Founding Engineer, architected and scaled core ERP, Warehouse Management, Logistics, and Order Management platforms growing from zero to 100,000+ daily transactions supporting $100M+ annual revenue.
  • Designed ML-driven demand forecasting, route optimization, and IoT-enabled logistics systems, reducing delivery cycles by 30% and improving gross margins by 15%.
Founding Engineer Python MySQL Redis ML Forecasting

Skills

Agentic AI & Conversational AI

LangGraph LangChain MCP Multi-Agent Systems Conversational AI Agents Virtual Assistants HITL Tool Calling Agent Orchestration

LLMs & GenAI

RAG Architectures Prompt Engineering LLM Evaluation GPT Claude Gemini Llama AI Guardrails Structured Output

AI Architecture & Governance

AI Solution Architecture LLMOps Evaluation Frameworks Regression Testing Responsible AI Model Monitoring Semantic Drift Detection Governance & Risk

Cloud & MLOps

Azure AI Foundry AWS Bedrock Kubernetes Docker MLflow Kubeflow ArgoCD CI/CD SageMaker Terraform

Languages & Platforms

Python Go C++ TypeScript FastAPI PostgreSQL Redis Kafka Pinecone Weaviate Elasticsearch

Projects

Agentic AI

langgraph-research-agent

Autonomous multi-step research agent built with LangGraph. Plans a research strategy, fans out parallel web searches, extracts and synthesizes findings, and produces a cited markdown report without human intervention.

  • LangGraph state machine with self-correction loop
  • Parallel sub-question search via concurrent fan-out
  • Structured Pydantic output at every node
LangGraph LangChain GPT-4o FastAPI Pydantic v2
MCP

mcp-tools-hub

A collection of production-ready MCP (Model Context Protocol) tool servers for AI agents โ€” web search, HTTP fetch, file ops, SQLite queries, sandboxed code execution, and persistent agent memory.

  • 6 plug-and-play MCP servers built with FastMCP
  • Ready for Claude Desktop and any MCP-compatible agent
  • Input validation via Pydantic on every tool
MCP FastMCP Claude Desktop Pydantic v2 Python
RAG

rag-over-anything

Flexible RAG pipeline that ingests PDFs, web pages, markdown, and YouTube transcripts, indexes them with hybrid retrieval, and answers questions with cited responses. CLI and FastAPI interface included.

  • Hybrid retrieval: dense vector + BM25 with RRF fusion
  • Cross-encoder reranking for precision
  • Every claim traced back to its source chunk
RAG LangChain ChromaDB BM25 FastAPI
Multi-Agent

multi-agent-debate

LLM agents argue opposing sides of any topic across multiple rounds, then a judge agent scores both sides on factual accuracy, logic, and persuasiveness and declares a winner with reasoning.

  • Configurable rounds with rebuttal memory per agent
  • Structured judge verdict via Pydantic output schema
  • Rich terminal output for readable debate transcripts
Multi-Agent LangChain GPT-4o Pydantic v2 Rich
LLM Evaluation

llm-eval-kit

Lightweight evaluation toolkit for LLM applications. Measures faithfulness, answer relevance, context precision, and semantic drift. Runs as a pytest suite in CI and generates HTML reports with pass/fail verdicts.

  • Metrics built from scratch, no vendor eval API required
  • Semantic drift detection via embedding baseline comparison
  • Pytest integration with assert_metric() helpers
LLM Evaluation LLMOps sentence-transformers pytest Python
MLOps

mlops-starter

A minimal, complete MLOps setup wiring experiment tracking, model registry, containerized serving, automated validation, and CI/CD together. A ready-to-clone starting point for any production ML project.

  • MLflow tracking + model registry with promotion gates
  • FastAPI model server with Pydantic request/response schemas
  • GitHub Actions CI/CD: test, train, validate, deploy
MLflow Kubernetes Docker FastAPI GitHub Actions
Robotics / CV

AI4All

Hand gesture mimicking system and course notebooks built for the AI4ALL program at University of Maryland. Explores human-robot interaction through real-time gesture recognition.

Python OpenCV PyTorch ROS
Robotics / CV

NASA Swarmathon

Cooperative multi-robot system built for the NASA Swarmathon challenge. Robots collaboratively search and collect resources using swarm intelligence, SLAM, and autonomous navigation.

C++ Python ROS Arduino SLAM Gazebo
Computer Vision

Traffic Sign Recognition

Detects and classifies traffic signs from images using MSER feature extraction and an SVM classifier. Outputs bounding boxes around detected signs with class labels.

Python OpenCV SVM MSER
Computer Vision

Visual Odometry

Estimates the trajectory of a camera mounted inside a moving vehicle using sequential frame analysis. Compares a custom implementation against OpenCV's built-in visual odometry pipeline.

Python OpenCV
Computer Vision

Lucas-Kanade Template Tracker

Implements the Lucas-Kanade optical flow algorithm to track objects (car, human, vase) across video frames using template matching and iterative gradient descent.

Python OpenCV
Computer Vision

Underwater Buoy Detection

Continuously tracks three differently colored underwater buoys in real-time video using color segmentation and contour analysis in challenging underwater lighting conditions.

Python OpenCV
Computer Vision

Lane Detection

Detects and tracks road lanes from a camera mounted on an autonomous vehicle. Uses Hough transforms and sliding window analysis, with turn prediction from lane curvature.

Python OpenCV
Computer Vision

AR Tag Tracking

Detects and tracks AR tags in video frames and overlays 3D objects onto them in real time. Uses homography estimation and perspective projection for accurate augmented reality rendering.

Python OpenCV

Publications

IEEE IROS 2025

SeekNet: Improved Human Instance Segmentation and Tracking via Reinforcement Learning-Based Robot Relocation

Rama Prashanth et al. 50+ citations

Novel reinforcement learning approach to robot relocation for improved human instance segmentation and tracking, with applications in autonomous navigation, social robots, and human-robot interaction.

Reviewer: IEEE IROS 2020, 2025
IEEE ICRA 2023

EWareNet: Emotion Aware Pedestrian Intent Prediction and Adaptive Spatial Profile Fusion for Social Robot Navigation

Rama Prashanth et al.

Emotion-aware neural network for predicting pedestrian crossing intent, fusing appearance and behavioral cues for safer and more natural autonomous social robot navigation.

IEEE ICRA 2023

Education

M.S.

Robotics & Artificial Intelligence

University of Maryland, College Park
2019 โ€“ 2020
B.E.

Electronics & Communication Engineering

CEG, Anna University, Chennai
2009 โ€“ 2013

Certifications

Machine Learning Specialization
DeepLearning.AI
AI Engineer: LLMs, RAG & MLOps
Udemy
Model Context Protocol (MCP) & AI Agents
LinkedIn Learning
Generative AI & AI Agents
Databricks
AI Project Management
LinkedIn Learning

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