Forward deployed engineer / AI systems / backend platforms

I build full-stack AI products from user-facing workflows to reliable backend platforms.

Software engineer with 7+ years across distributed systems, cloud-native backend infrastructure, LLM workflows, retrieval pipelines, evaluation systems, and customer-facing product iteration.

Production debugging

Workflow orchestration

RAG and evaluation

Kubernetes operations

Stakeholder-facing delivery

Operating mode

Useful where ambiguity meets implementation.

Ratnadeep works close to users and operations teams, then turns messy workflow problems into reliable backend systems. His work spans rapid feature iteration, production issue resolution, observability, deployment ownership, and AI-assisted automation that can be measured and improved.

The throughline is practical system design: asynchronous services, fault-tolerant orchestration, retries, idempotency, tracing, and infrastructure that keeps product teams moving after launch.

Experience

Backend, AI, and platform work across startups and scale.

Jan 2025 - Present Springboard

Software Engineer II

Owns distributed backend services, AI-assisted grading workflows, orchestration, observability, and production reliability.

Reduced grading latency and improved operational consistency by 30%.

Jan 2024 - Nov 2024 TarkaLabs

Technical Consultant

Built LLM workflows for document intake, summarization, classification, RAG, Text-to-SQL, and validation pipelines.

Added RAGAS evaluation, PII filtering, prompt safety checks, and workflow monitoring.

Jul 2023 - Dec 2023 Nagarro

Senior Software Engineer

Improved high-volume microservices supporting 80K+ daily active users with low-latency and reliability requirements.

Reduced cascading failures through service communication redesign and Saga patterns.

Jul 2021 - Jun 2023 Dentsu World Services

Software Engineer

Built Go-based event ingestion, AWS workloads, Airflow pipelines, external APIs, and webhook notifications.

Improved throughput, performance, cost efficiency, and production visibility.

Dec 2019 - Jul 2021 Cura Technologies

Software Engineer

Built healthcare backend APIs and led Kubernetes/EKS migration with Terraform-managed AWS infrastructure.

Created a custom Kubernetes operator for PostgreSQL provisioning, failover, and lifecycle operations.

Mar 2019 - Oct 2019 1024X Innovations

Founding Engineer

Established backend architecture, platform infrastructure, GKE deployment practices, and internal tooling for a 0 to 1 product.

Owned backend and infrastructure systems end-to-end in an early-stage environment.

Oct 2018 - Mar 2019 Tapchief

Product Engineer

Built backend integrations, APIs, Angular frontend workflows, and real-time communication features in a fast-paced startup environment.

Implemented resumable onboarding flows plus WebRTC video calling and Twilio-powered audio calling.

Selected projects

Agent systems, retrieval products, and developer tooling.

Stack

Systems fluency from model workflow to infrastructure.

Distributed systemsBackend architectureAI agentsLLM orchestrationRAGText-to-SQLGoPythonFastAPITypeScriptReactKubernetesAWSTerraformPostgreSQLRedisObservabilityWorkflow orchestration

Available for Tech Lead, senior backend, platform, and AI systems roles

Need someone who can talk to users, ship the workflow, and own the system after it goes live?