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Issue 01 · an introduction

Hi, I’m Neeraj.

I take ambiguous problems from zero to production AI systems — owned end-to-end, model to interface to infrastructure, with zero handoffs.

The engineer you hand the ambiguous, end-to-end problem to. I sit with it, run the technical discovery, decompose it, and ship the whole stack — retrieval, agents, evaluation, the streaming UI, and the infrastructure that runs it. Currently sole AI engineer at Landair Advisors, owning five production systems zero-to-one in NYC commercial real estate, where a hallucination costs real money. Depth where the problem is hard; range where shipping demands it. Based in Jersey City, NJ — targeting Forward Deployed Engineer roles.

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Issue 02

One engineer, the entire AI stack.

One person carrying a feature from the data layer to the pixels — so nothing gets lost in a handoff, because there isn't one.

“I’m the full vertical — retrieval, agents, evaluation, streaming UI, and the AWS pipeline that ships it. Fewer tickets. Faster iteration.”

Currently the sole AI engineer at Landair Advisors (NYC commercial real estate) — five production systems, zero-to-one. Open-source on the side: VIBETTER, Context Refinery, OmniContext, and the CRE Intelligence Platform. Previously Innovcentric (RAG, agents, ~60% hallucination cut) and Wipro NLP. Targeting Forward Deployed Engineer roles.

i.

Own it end-to-end.

From discovery to deployment to the 2 a.m. page — no handoffs, no excuses.

ii.

Sit with the problem first.

Technical discovery before code. Framing the right system is the hard part.

iii.

Ship systems, not demos.

Deployed, monitored, behind CI/CD — or it doesn't count.

iv.

Evaluation is the product.

If you can't measure it, you can't put it in front of a customer.

Outside the terminal

  • Photography
  • Gym
  • Gaming
  • Reading
  • Travel
  • Anime
  • Motorcycles
  • Cars
  • Building things end-to-end

Issue 04

History & stack.

Three roles, one habit — take a fuzzy AI problem, ship a system you can measure, then keep shipping. Here's the toolkit behind it.

Experience

  1. Applied AI Engineer — Owns 5 Production AI Systems

    2026 – Present

    Landair Advisors · New York, NY · On-site

    • Applied AI Engineer at a NYC commercial real-estate brokerage — inherited and own five production AI systems end-to-end on NYC property data (ACRIS, PLUTO, DOB, NY DOS)
    • Skiptracer — LLC-chain owner resolution via a NY DOS → ACRIS → IDI waterfall with confidence scoring; ≥95% owner + phone accuracy target. Python · Supabase · Claude Haiku
    • CompScope — Supabase database of 9,391+ comparable sales with PLUTO + ACRIS asset-type classification, powering broker deal analysis
    • BuyerScope — ranks buyers per asset type from ACRIS transfers + DOB permits into top-30 outreach lists; 2,456 scored, 109 Tier-A. Python · Supabase
    • P1 Generator — webhook MMS owner outreach: CallTools → Flask → Twilio MMS + Cloudflare R2 + SendGrid
    • Call Notes Worker — inbound-call transcription + scoring: CallTools audio → Whisper → GPT-4o → structured output. Node.js · Linode
    • ABV — agentic real-estate valuation tool on the same data stack, demoed to management and live at realestate-agentic.vercel.app
  2. AI Software Engineer — Full Lifecycle, Zero Handoffs

    Nov 2025 – Jun 2026

    Innovcentric LLC · Remote · USA

    • Owned the complete Gen AI strategy and implementation lifecycle for enterprise customer-experience platforms — technical discovery with product owners and operations managers, problem decomposition from ambiguous business needs into production AI architectures, pilot validation before full rollout, and post-deployment optimization — one engineer, model to interface to infrastructure, zero handoffs
    • Built a production-grade RAG pipeline (LangChain + ChromaDB + FastAPI + Pydantic) over 10,000+ pages of support documentation — PDF/DOCX ingestion, recursive chunking (512-token windows, 50-token overlap), OpenAI embeddings, and metadata filtering — delivering sub-2s semantic search for 100+ support agents and replacing manual document lookup entirely; benchmarked 4 chunking strategies and 3 embedding models to tune retrieval
    • Deployed an autonomous ReAct agent on GPT-4 function calling with MCP-style tool-use chains — knowledge retrieval, account-context lookup, multi-step reasoning, and sub-agents for specialized tasks — running 5–10 tool calls per query with self-correction loops, dual memory (conversation buffer + vector store), and Human-in-the-Loop escalation for billing-sensitive edge cases
    • Built the eval harness that proved it worked: RAGAS (faithfulness, relevance, hallucination scoring), LangSmith observability, drift monitoring that held the line through the GPT-4 → GPT-4o migration, and prompt versioning — cutting factual errors ~60% and codifying the results as repeatable deployment artifacts
    • Engineered 50+ prompt templates (chain-of-thought, few-shot, instruction tuning) with safety guardrails, prompt-injection defense, tone alignment, and a version-controlled lifecycle — reviewed and shipped like production code, not tuned ad hoc
    • Owned the full stack with zero handoffs: a streaming chat UI (real-time token rendering, accessible, mobile-responsive) in Vue 3/React + Tailwind, a FastAPI service layer with structured error handling and Redis caching, and Docker + Nginx + GitHub Actions CI/CD — shipped to production with zero-downtime deployments across environments
    • Designed the UX in Figma (WCAG 2.1 AA, component libraries, responsive breakpoints) and validated it with real users; ran white-glove delivery — L1–L2 support, weekly office hours, and stakeholder runbooks — backed by OpenTelemetry instrumentation, structured logging, and health checks
  3. Software Engineer — NLP, AI Tools & Full-Stack

    Aug 2021 – Jul 2023

    Wipro Ltd. · Hyderabad, India

    • Built and deployed an AI-powered code-review assistant (Python + OpenAI Codex) with custom prompt engineering for logic-error and code-smell detection — cutting PR merge cycles 25% and adopted by 30+ engineers
    • Designed an NLP ticket-routing pipeline (Scikit-learn + HuggingFace BERT, Pandas, NumPy) hitting 91% accuracy on 5,000+ tickets/month and reducing manual triage 40%; delivered a conversational AI chatbot with intent detection, FAQ automation, conversation memory, and escalation logic across 3 enterprise portals — 40% fewer repetitive queries for 10,000+ users
    • Built and maintained enterprise React applications at 99.5% production SLA — interactive components, form validation, Chart.js dashboards, and Lighthouse/code-splitting performance work; created a reusable component library that accelerated delivery ~30% and led a jQuery → React SPA migration for 45% faster page loads
    • Engineered event-driven REST and GraphQL services (Java + Python, PostgreSQL + SQLAlchemy + Alembic) with query optimization across tables of 5M+ records (~55% faster); trained supervised ML models (Random Forest, Logistic Regression, Gradient Boosting) with automated hyperparameter tuning and cross-validation, and resolved 200+ defects across 4 release cycles

Stack

Seven domains, end to end — the tools I reach for to take an AI problem from prototype to production.

Forward-Deployed Delivery

01
End-to-End Gen AI OwnershipZero-to-One Production DeploymentTechnical Discovery & ScopingProblem DecompositionAmbiguity NavigationPilot → ProductionStakeholder CommunicationWhite-Glove Onboarding · L1–L2Runbooks · Office HoursPost-Deployment Optimization

LLM Systems

02
GPT-4 / 4oClaude Sonnet 4.5 / OpusGemini (2M context)Llama 3 / Mistral (Ollama)Prompt Engineering · VersioningStructured Outputs · JSON ModeStreaming · SSEFunction / Tool CallingSFT · LoRA / QLoRAToken & Cost Optimization

Retrieval & RAG

03
LangChainLlamaIndexChromaDBPinecone · FAISSpgvector · WeaviateHybrid (BM25 + Dense + RRF)Cross-Encoder Re-rankingSemantic / Recursive ChunkingAgentic RAGDocument Ingestion Pipelines

Agents & Orchestration

04
ReAct · Plan-and-ExecuteLangGraphMulti-Agent SystemsMCP · FastMCP 3.0Sub-Agents · Tool RegistryMemory (buffer + vector)Human-in-the-LoopDSPyasyncio · Event-DrivenWorkflow State Machines

Evaluation & Observability

05
RAGAS · DeepEvalLangSmith · AgentOpsArize PhoenixLLM-as-JudgeHallucination DetectionFaithfulness ScoringDrift MonitoringSafety GuardrailsPrompt Injection DefenseOpenTelemetry

Machine Learning & NLP

06
HuggingFace TransformersScikit-learnTensorFlow · PyTorchText Classification · NERSummarizationTransfer LearningCNNs · ResNetGrad-CAMPandas · NumPyMLOps

Frontend & AI UX

07
React 18/19 · Next.js 16TypeScriptVue.js 3 · Vue FlowTailwind CSS v4Streaming Chat UIsServer Components · RSCWCAG 2.1 AAFramer MotionTauri v2 · LeafletFigma · Lighthouse

Backend & Infrastructure

08
Python · FastAPI · PydanticNode.js · NestJSJava · GraphQL · WebSocketsPostgreSQL · Prisma · SupabaseMongoDB · RedisDocker · Docker ComposeAWS (EC2 / S3 / Lambda / ECS)Vercel · GitHub ActionsNginx · MicroservicesHealth Checks · Structured Logging
Education
M.S. Computer ScienceNew Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)2023 – Dec 2025
B.Tech. Computer Science & EngineeringJNTUH — Hyderabad, India2018 – 2022
OPT / STEM extension eligible

Issue 06

Have a problem worth solving?

Open to full-time AI roles, and always up for a good problem. Drop me a line — I usually reply same day.
Primary channel
rondlanbr@gmail.com

Open to Forward Deployed roles · Jersey City, NJ