01 — About
Building AI That
Ships at Scale
AI Engineer with 6+ years building production-grade LLM applications, agentic RAG systems, and autonomous agent workflows across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Currently at Wells Fargo shipping LLM integrations processing 50K+ daily records, RAG pipelines, and LLMOps infrastructure that cut token costs by 35%.
Tech Stack
LLMs & Agents
RAG & Vector
Cloud & Infra
DevOps & IaC
Backend & APIs
Observability
02 — Experience
Where I've
Made Impact
Wells Fargo
AI Engineer
Feb 2024 — Present
Charlotte, NC
- ▸LLM integrations (Claude + OpenAI) classifying 50K+ daily records with 85%+ accuracy, cutting manual review by 60%
- ▸RAG pipelines over internal knowledge sources — 40% reduction in hallucination rates
- ▸Secure AI microservices (FastAPI, OAuth2, EKS) for 3+ autonomous agent workflows, saving 40 hrs/week
- ▸LLM observability with OpenTelemetry + Splunk APM across 12+ services — 50% lower MTTR, identified $80K+ avoidable token spend
- ▸35% LLM API cost reduction via prompt compression, caching, model selection, and fallback routing
- ▸AIOps self-healing pipelines: incident response from 30 min → 8 min, prevented 15+ outages/year
Fluidra
AI Infrastructure Engineer
Jan 2023 — Dec 2023
Carlsbad, CA
- ▸AWS infrastructure for AI/ML workloads (EC2, ASG, S3, Lambda, EKS, CloudFront)
- ▸IaC with Terraform, Ansible, Boto3, CDK, and Serverless Framework
- ▸Intelligent monitoring and alerting — ~60% reduction in false alerts
- ▸CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions across all environments
- ▸AWS cost optimization via right-sizing, unused resource cleanup, and IAM governance
Ericsson
DevOps Engineer
Jan 2019 — May 2022
India
- ▸CI/CD with Jenkins, Spinnaker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Puppet on GCP
- ▸Reusable Terraform modules for GCP and Azure infrastructure
- ▸Observability automation with Python, Ansible, New Relic, Sumo Logic, and PagerDuty
Auburn University at Montgomery
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Aug 2022 — Dec 2022
Montgomery, AL
- ▸Lab sessions, office hours, and grading for CS coursework
- ▸Mentored students on algorithms and software development fundamentals
03 — Projects
Things I've
Built
WhatsApp Personal AI Agent
Personal AI Assistant
Autonomous personal AI via WhatsApp using Twilio, FastAPI, LangChain, LangGraph, Claude, and OpenAI. Multi-model orchestration with MCP connectors, CrewAI multi-agent planning, and RAG over personal knowledge with vector embeddings.
Cross-Border Investment & Tax Intelligence · Solo Build
DesiVest
Full-stack fintech SaaS for 4.5M+ US-based NRIs — the only tool unifying US and Indian brokerage portfolios into a single dual-currency dashboard. Deterministic Sell Simulator answers "if I sell today, what do I keep after both countries' taxes?" — computing US STCG/LTCG/NIIT, Indian §111A/§112A, and DTAA treaty relief with hold-longer suggestions, backed by 70+ regression tests at 100% branch coverage. Direct broker integrations via MCP + OAuth 2.1 (Robinhood, Zerodha Kite) with Fernet-encrypted token storage and a code-enforced read-only whitelist.
04 — Contact
Let's Build
Together
Open to AI engineering roles, consulting, and interesting projects. I respond within 24 hours.
koukuntlarakesh2@gmail.comRakesh Reddy Koukuntla · AI Engineer · 2026