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  1. kumi_da · · focus · HN ↗
    Location: Bengaluru, India Remote: Yes (flexible on EU/Gulf/US-overlap hours); on-site/hybrid also works Willing to relocate: Yes - UAE, KSA, EU, UK, ANZ, SG. Available at short notice

    Technologies: Python, Java, Spring Boot, FastAPI | LangGraph, LangSmith, MCP, RAG, NL2SQL, MLflow, Kubeflow | Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, ArgoCD, Istio, Kyverno, NVIDIA GPU Operator, Volcano | MySQL, PostgreSQL&#x2F;PgVector, MongoDB, ClickHouse | OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, Lucene | Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, GitHub Actions Résumé&#x2F;CV: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kumida.xyz&#x2F;resume" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kumida.xyz&#x2F;resume GitHub: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kumiDa" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kumiDa Email: kayrahul@gmail.com

    Senior Software Engineer &#x2F; Tech Lead, 7+ years at Visa. I&#x27;ve built and run each layer of an AI platform in production: the agent layer, the retrieval and data systems under it, and the Kubernetes and GPU infrastructure under that.

    Now: leading a production LangGraph multi-agent system for enterprise analysts - orchestration, hybrid BM25 + pgvector retrieval, NL2SQL with a validation layer over generated SQL, ingestion from 15+ sources, and a held-out eval set scored every release. I own architecture and interface contracts across several engineering pods.

    Before: self-managed Kubernetes across 900+ nodes (networking, policy, GitOps), GPU node pools with Volcano scheduling for the internal ML platform, an org-wide OpenSearch cluster, and self-service CI&#x2F;CD and secrets platforms adopted by 50+ teams.

    I lean toward reliability over novelty: deterministic paths where they suffice, observability before it&#x27;s needed, build-vs-buy decided on operational cost. Open source: contributions to CPython, pytest and Trino; co-organiser of BangPypers.

    Looking for senior&#x2F;staff roles in AI platform, agentic systems, or platform&#x2F;infrastructure engineering.

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