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Senior Software Engineer Building AI-powered products

Suguna Jayaram

9+ years of software engineering experience, now building practical AI systems with RAG, LLMs, agents and intelligent workflows.

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Engineering experience meets applied AI

I'm a React and TypeScript engineer first. Over 9+ years I've built and maintained large frontend and full-stack applications: Redux and Redux-Saga state, REST and GraphQL integrations, performance work, testing, CI/CD and refactoring. My AI work is hands-on and project-driven, and I don't present myself as an ML researcher.

  1. Traditional software engineering — production web apps, architecture, debugging
  2. AI-assisted development — faster exploration, refactoring, documentation
  3. GenAI applications — LLM APIs (Claude, OpenAI) and prompt engineering
  4. RAG systems — hybrid retrieval, embeddings, reranking, knowledge graphs
  5. Agentic workflows — multi-agent systems, tool calling, human approval

Senior Software Engineer → AI Product Engineer. My AI work is applied engineering, not ML research:

LLM integrationRAGRetrievalAgentsTool callingAI workflowsVector searchKnowledge graphsAI-assisted development

Engineering DNA

Key areas first, then the full stack in three levels: production engineering, applied AI, and current experiments. Select any skill to see where it shows up.

The Full Stack, in Three Levels

Experience

Professional work, kept separate from projects and experiments.

  • Cloud Assert Technologies

    Senior Software Development Engineer · Jun 2025 – Jun 2026

    Frontend delivery for a K-12 student safety SaaS, with a Claude API content-analysis workflow.

    ReactTypeScriptReduxClaude APIDockerGitHub Actions
    Responsibilities

    Owned frontend delivery (React, TypeScript, Redux) for a K-12 cybersecurity and student-safety SaaS used by US school districts. Built a Claude API workflow with prompt engineering and structured outputs that flags student-safety signals for human review, built reusable dashboard components (alert lists, risk filters, policy settings), optimised data-heavy views, integrated REST APIs, and added Docker and GitHub Actions CI/CD.

  • Photon Interactive Pvt. Ltd.

    Senior Software Engineer · Mar 2022 – Jun 2025

    High-traffic US retail e-commerce interfaces.

    ReactNext.jsTypeScriptRedux-SagaTailwind CSS
    Responsibilities

    Built responsive Product Grid, Product Filter and Carousel components for category, department and promotional pages, and Next.js pages with server-side rendering. Migrated legacy class components to Hooks and optimised rendering, replaced several third-party libraries with native implementations, managed async workflows with Redux-Saga, wrote unit tests with Jest and Enzyme, resolved production issues and reviewed pull requests in Agile sprints.

  • Merlion Apps

    Senior Software Developer · Jun 2021 – Mar 2022

    Responsive web apps with React and Node.js.

    ReactNode.jsExpress.jsMongoDB
    Responsibilities

    Built responsive React and TypeScript applications with Node.js, Express.js and MongoDB, delivering business workflow modules and reusable UI components.

  • Infognana Solutions

    Software Engineer (Project Delegate) · Nov 2019 – May 2021

    HR, payroll and learning platforms for Singapore-based clients.

    ReactNode.jsLaravelMySQL
    Responsibilities

    Delivered HR, attendance, leave and payroll modules (CPF and overtime calculations) with React, Node.js, PHP/Laravel and MySQL, and built an online learning platform and an appointment system with government-record validation.

  • Ardhas Technology India Pvt. Ltd.

    Software Developer · Sep 2017 – Jun 2019

    School inspection module and API services.

    JavaScriptPHPLaravelMySQL
    Responsibilities

    Built a school inspection module (scheduling, approval workflow, status tracking) and API services with PHP/Laravel, JavaScript and MySQL.

Education: B.E. Computer Science, Nehru Institute of Engineering & Technology, Coimbatore (graduated 2015).

AI Lab

Personal builds and experiments. Professional client work is listed below them. These are portfolio builds, not client deployments, and none carries invented metrics.

Professional projects

Client work. Client names are not shown.

How I build

Software: Discover › Architect › Build › Test › Evaluate › Deploy › Observe › Iterate

AI systems: Define › Data › Retrieval › Prompt › Tools › Guardrails › Evaluation › Human approval › Deployment

  1. Interface React, TypeScript, Next.js
  2. API Node.js, FastAPI, REST
  3. Orchestration LangChain, CrewAI, tool calling
  4. Retrieval BM25, vectors, knowledge graph
  5. Models Claude and OpenAI APIs

Build before over-engineering.

Retrieval before hallucination.

Automation should keep humans in control.

AI + engineering experience + product understanding + human judgment = better software.

AI speeds up exploration, coding, debugging, refactoring and documentation. Architecture, validation, testing, security, performance and business context still need an engineer.

What I can build for you

Engineering notes

No articles are published yet. Planned topics: RAG that doesn't hallucinate, hybrid search versus vector search, lessons from a multi-agent build.

Code

Source for my projects lives on GitHub. Not every repository is production-quality work; many are experiments.

taskline

Team work tracker with AI planning and status reports, with a live demo.

GitHub Live demo

ai-sales-intelligence

CrewAI multi-agent sales intelligence, with a live demo.

GitHub Live demo

orgpulse-ai

Hybrid retrieval knowledge platform (OrgPulse AI).

GitHub

rag-arena

GenAI learning project repository.

GitHub

spotify-web-app-architecture

Web app architecture project repository.

GitHub
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