My path didn't start with AI. It started with two years of enterprise Java/Spring Boot at Vrize in Bangalore. Real production systems for real clients, where a bad deploy meant angry users, not a failed notebook cell. That's where I learned to care about testing, CI/CD, and code that other people can maintain.
Then LLMs changed what software could do, and I wanted in, not as a spectator. So I moved to Berlin for an M.Sc. in Big Data & AI at SRH (graduating Sept 2026), where I also work as a Research Assistant building end-to-end RAG pipelines, ChromaDB retrieval, chunking and embedding tuning, and structured extraction.
Today I'm focused on LLM evaluation, retrieval, and GenAI features that survive contact with real users, and my master's thesis is an empirical study of verifier-guided LLM self-repair across three frontier models. The result is a rare combination: I build AI products with backend-engineer discipline: sandboxed execution, eval harnesses, streaming APIs, and Terraform-managed infrastructure. Prototypes are easy. Things that stay up are not.