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AI Architect & Engineering Leader

DEEPAK
KUSHWAHA

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9+

Years Experience

20+

Products Shipped

35+

Team Members Led

100M+

Users Served

Selected Work

AI PRODUCT  ·  May 2024 – Present

The Branding Club

AI-powered brand intelligence platform — GPT-4 integrations, RAG pipelines, and multi-tenant SaaS architecture.

GPT-4RAGNext.jsDjangoPineconeAWS
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SAAS PLATFORM  ·  Dec 2023 – Jun 2024

Ceodekho

Executive discovery and intelligence platform for Indian startups. Full-stack architecture, advanced search, recommendation engine.

ReactPythonElasticsearchPostgreSQLKafka
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MARKETPLACE  ·  May 2022 – Dec 2023

Turno

Electric vehicle marketplace platform. Scaled to millions of users with Kubernetes orchestration and real-time bidding engine.

ReactDjangoKubernetesRedisPostgreSQLAWS
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AI & Engineering Expertise

Built for the AI Era

LLM Integration

GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, Mistral, LLaMA

RAG Pipelines

Vector DBs (Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector), LangChain, LlamaIndex

Eval & Observability

LangSmith, Helicone, Braintrust

AI Infrastructure

vLLM, token optimization, fine-tuning

Full-Stack

React, Next.js, Django, Python, TypeScript

Cloud & DevOps

AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, Docker, CI/CD

Responsible AI

Bias auditing, PII handling, EU AI Act

Latest Thoughts

Mar 28, 2025

Building RAG Pipelines at Scale: Lessons from Production

What nobody tells you about retrieval-augmented generation when you move from prototype to production: chunking strategies, re-ranking, and eval loops that actually catch regressions.

Feb 14, 2025

AI-Native Product Architecture: Beyond the ChatGPT Wrapper

A framework for building products where AI is the core — not a feature bolted on. Covering LLM routing, fallback chains, observability, and cost control at scale.

Jan 5, 2025

Engineering Leadership in Remote-First Indian Startups

Nine years of hard-won lessons on building high-performing distributed teams — hiring for ownership, async-first culture, and why velocity is a lagging indicator.

Mock Interviews

Ready to Level Up Your Interview Game?

A focused 60-minute 1:1 session with Deepak — covering the topics that actually show up in senior engineering and AI architect interviews.

  • System Design
  • DSA & Algorithms
  • AI / ML Concepts
  • Behavioral & Leadership
  • Written Feedback Report
Free

limited slots  ·  60 minutes  ·  1:1 with Deepak

Open to Opportunities

Let’s Build Something Exceptional

Available for contract, full-time, and advisory roles in AI architecture and engineering leadership.