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Hire Sanjay J. - Forward Deployed Engineer

Forward Deployed Engineer

12+ years
san francisco, california, united states
Google

About sanjay

A creative problem solver and fast learner who works well in a team; bringing enthusiasm, fresh ideas and valuable experience in Large Language Models, RAG Systems, API Development, Data Engineering and Cloud Infrastructure

Key Skills

amazon web servicesapache sparkartificial intelligenceartificial neural networksasp.netasp.net web apiautomated software testingbiomedical engineeringc (programming language)c#c++cloud infrastructurecode reviewconvolutional neural networkscustomer service+44 more

Experience

Forward Deployed Engineer

Current

Google

Forward Deployed Ai Engineer

Qurrent

Partnered directly with customers to translate business workflows into production-grade agentic AI systems and iterating rapidly from prototype to launch, acting as the primary technical communicator for both technical and non-technical stakeholders - Built end-to-end conversational agents that collected user inputs across text + images, validated/structured data, and automated downstream decisioning and handoffs to external stakeholders - Implemented autonomous web-based automation using Playwright to complete critical workflows in third-party partner portals when APIs were unavailable (form filling, configuration, verification) - Designed lead ingestion and enrichment pipelines that fetched data from external sources, normalized it into structured fields, computed propensity-to-buy scoring, and routed prioritized leads to human sales teams - Created internal tooling to coordinate multi-agent workflows, manage state, and enforce guardrails/retries across long-running, multi-step tasks - Built observability and debugging capabilities for agent execution (step-level traces, decision explanations, failure surfacing), improving reliability and enabling customer-friendly transparency - Deployed and operated systems on Google Cloud (compute/storage), selecting and integrating best-fit foundation models per use case (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini) with cost/latency/quality tradeoff analysis

Lead Ai Solutions Engineer

Ryght Ai

* Leveraged Generative AI to build applications accelerating clinical research: complex medical writing copilots, medical text chatbots, and dynamic NER pipelines * Acted as Lead on Customer Engineering team, liaising directly with biotech/pharma customers to gather requirements and build products fit for their use-case * Implemented RAG applications using LangChain, LlamaIndex and vector stores like ChromaDb and PostgreSQL Pgvector to construct accurate and reliable clinical research copilots * Implemented cutting edge techniques and datastores to chunk, embed, store and retrieve data with high accuracy and flexibility on model selection; Knowledge Graphs, RAPTOR, StructRAG, Contextual Retrieval * Developed highly resilient data pipelines capable of large throughput using Dagster as an orchestration tool in concert with Kubernetes to manage scale * Deployed applications using Helm charts with Kubernetes on Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure

Education

Uc San Diego Jacobs School Of Engineering

Master Of Science

Uc San Diego Jacobs School Of Engineering

Bachelor Of Science

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What is sanjay's expertise?

sanjay specializes in Forward Deployed Engineer, with expertise in amazon web services, apache spark, artificial intelligence, artificial neural networks, asp.net.

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sanjay is based in san francisco, california, united states.

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sanjay has 12+ years of professional experience.

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