Senior Software Engineer · 14+ years

Deepak K Rai

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14+
Years shipping
20+
Production projects
8+
AI / ML domains
3
Award wins

/ Experience

Senior Software Developer · Trust Research

07/2016 — Present
  • ▹ Lead backend & AI engineering for data-driven products — RAG, LLM apps, OCR pipelines.
  • ▹ Architect REST APIs, vector search and document-intelligence workflows end-to-end.
  • ▹ Mentor engineers and translate ambiguous business problems into shipped AI features.

Software Developer · Neosoft Technologies

03/2012 — 06/2016
  • ▹ Built scalable web platforms and RESTful APIs across multiple client products.
  • ▹ Shipped entrepreneur-investor matching platform and a job portal with PDF/DOC resume parsing.
  • ▹ Recognised as Performer of the Year in 2014–15 and 2015–16 for delivery and ownership.

/ Skills

Self-rated proficiency based on production usage — not a checklist.

Backend & Data

Python (Django, FastAPI, Flask)90%
Laravel / PHP88%
REST API Design92%
MySQL / PostgreSQL88%
Redis / ElasticSearch82%
Async Queues (Celery)85%

LLM & RAG

LangChain75%
OpenAI APIs75%
Prompt Engineering72%
FAISS / ChromaDB / Qdrant70%
Hugging Face65%

Machine Learning

PyTorch68%
FastAI70%
NLP72%

Computer Vision & OCR

OpenCV70%
Tesseract OCR75%
Document Intelligence75%

/ Education

Bachelor of Engineering (Computer)

Siddhant College of Engineering, Pune University · 2007 — 2011

/ Confidential AI Engagements

Payment Statement Analytics

Financial statement analysis engine with Laravel + Python + OCR and a RAG layer for querying merchant statements.

AI Knowledge Assistant

Embeddings + vector DB powered document search with an LLM-driven conversational interface.

Spiritual Knowledge AI

Multilingual RAG over Hindu scriptures and temple data with OCR ingestion and semantic retrieval.

/ Achievements

★ 1st Place — State Level Project Competition (StemBode)
★ Performer of the Year (2014–15), Neosoft Technologies
★ Performer of the Year (2015–16), Neosoft Technologies
★ Out-of-the-box Thinker (2016–17), BlueBytes News
★ Finalist — TechGig Code Gladiators (Alexa Theme), 2019

Web Development

All projects →
Media Monitoring

BlueBytes

Media monitoring platform tracking brand and topic mentions across news, print and broadcast.

Know more → Market Research

TRA Research

Web platform for the Brand Trust Report & Most Desired Brands — used by LG, Reliance Retail, Amex and more.

Know more → Survey Platform

MySurveyNow

A survey platform that scales from simple forms to full research studies.

Know more → EdTech

GyaniKids

Online learning and Olympiad-prep platform for school students.

Know more → Cloud Storage

DownTheMemory

A personal memory cloud for photos, videos and audio.

Know more → Interior Design

Eaves Decor

Platform connecting homeowners, designers, vendors and companies.

Know more →

Mobile App Backends

Mobile Backend

Mobile App Backend Platform

One backend serving many Android apps.

Know more → Android App

Divine Path

Devotional app with a custom content backend.

Know more → Android App

GyaniBano

GK quiz app with a competitions website.

Know more → Android Game

Chakram

Puzzle game with a players, coins and leaderboards backend.

Know more → Android App

News That Matters

Personalised news app backend.

Know more →

AI Experiments

Audio ML · Real-time

Gunfire Detection from Video

Streams audio from any video/RTSP feed and flags gunshots in under 100ms per window — no buffering delay.

FastAPI · Ollama

Divine RAG

Ask the Bhagavad Gita, Ramayana and Mahabharata a question — grounded answers with cited verses, running entirely on-device.

OCR · NLP

Intelligent Document Processing

Combines OCR, NLP and LLMs to extract structured info from reports and PDFs.