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Hire Arun J. - LLM Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

17+ years
san francisco, california, united states
Intuit

About arun

A first-principles software engineer specializing in developing highly scalable backend applications, and NLP systems utilizing large language models (LLM).

Key Skills

ai evaluationapache kafkaback end web developmentcore javagithealthcareinnovation managementjavakuberneteslangchainlarge language modelsllm fine tuningllm inferencemachine learningmaven+11 more

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Current

Intuit

* Working on AI memory infrastructure for Intuit's conversational AI platform, focused on production reliability, compliance, and adoption across internal teams. * Designed and built a Long-Term Memory (LTM) platform for AI agents, covering summarization, real-time memory, and semantic search — end to end, from architecture to production. * Platform handled 5.5M+ requests over 4 days during Tax Peak, peaking at 90 TPS with 99.999% availability. * Worked across security, privacy, PCI, and Responsible AI (RAI) review processes to ship AI capabilities in a regulated financial services environment. * Built MemoryLens, an observability and diagnostics layer for LTM systems, recognized as a Top 3 innovation at the VP of Engineering level. * Coordinated delivery across engineering, product, security, and compliance teams in a domain with evolving requirements and multiple external partners. * Mentored a junior engineer on the team through technical growth and ownership of complex systems.

Senior Software Engineer

Teladoc Health

* Spearheaded the development of Teladoc's first Generative AI-based project, creating high-quality clinical and chat summaries using techniques like prompt engineering, self-reflection and DSPy. Led the development of an AI chat assistant for chronic care members, incorporating Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and custom guardrails for patient safety. Lead engineer and significant contributor for developing and deploying Java, Scala ,Python-based APIs into production, successfully serving 1 million chronic care members. AI Skills & Technologies: High throughput asynchronous, non-blocking AI/ML APIs with Python, FastAPI, AsyncIO, Kafka. Experience with advanced LLM applications using Python, LangChain, Vector databases, Azure OpenAI / Open source Huggingface models, Kubernetes, Nemo Guardrails, MLFlow , RAGAS/LLM-As-Judge evaluation, Observability stacks. Knowledge of fine-tuning techniques, quantization, LLM serving libraries and optimizations. Backend Skills & Technologies: Scala(Play Framework), Java (Spring Boot), Python(FastAPI), Apache Kafka / Confluent cloud, Kafka Connectors, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, MySQL, Redshift, Jenkins/CloudBees, Azure, Git , New Relic

Software Engineer Iii

Teladoc Health

* Lead engineer and significant contributor for developing and deploying Scala/Python-based services into production, successfully serving 1 million chronic care members. Led intiatives to identify, resolve, and remediate platform-level issues, such as the large-scale data inconsistencies across multiple services. Expert in troubleshooting and performance optimization, including resource contentions, SQL query performance problems, and bugs in code. Tech Stack : Scala, Python, Apache Kafka / Confluent cloud, Kafka Connectors, Kubernetes, Helm, MySQL, Redshift, Jenkins/CloudBees, Azure, Git , New Relic

Education

University Of Illinois Urbana - Champaign

Masters

Rajiv Gandhi Institute Of Technology, Kottayam

Bachelors

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arun specializes in LLM Engineer, with expertise in ai evaluation, apache kafka, back end web development, core java, git.

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

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arun has 17+ years of professional experience.

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