VINAYAKA HEGDE

Vinayaka Hegde

AI Engineer (multi-agentic, tool calling, FastAPI, AWS Certified)

College Station, TX

I architect autonomous, agentic systems, which is a serious way of saying: I build things that think and act for you, so you can focus on the stuff that actually needs a human

Designing and shipping agentic AI in production: multi-agent orchestration, model routing, autonomous workflows, and deploying to AWS

Vinayaka Hegde

Experience

Roles where product thinking, customer obsession, and AI delivery all had to work together.

TexasA&M Engineering Experiment Station

TexasA&M Engineering Experiment Station

College Station, TX
Jan 2025 - May 2026

AI Engineer

WHAT I DID
  • Built an agentic incident triage system using LangGraph, OpenSearch, and AWS Bedrock
  • Engineered a hybrid RAG pipeline using Titan Embed v2, OpenSearch BM25, RRF, and Amazon Rerank v1
  • Developed asynchronous FastAPI APIs for real-time incident-triage
  • Implemented AWS Bedrock Guardrails and contextual grounding checks to mitigate prompt-injection attacks
WHAT THE IMPACT WAS
  • Reduced PagerDuty mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR) by 50%
  • Improved top-k retrieval precision by 30%
  • Reduced API latency by 15%
  • Reduced hallucinated outputs in incident triage recommendations by 40%
LangGraphAWS BedrockOpenSearchFastAPI
PESU Venture Labs

PESU Venture Labs

Bangalore, India
Jan 2024 - Jul 2024

Python Developer

WHAT I DID
  • Containerized services with Docker and implemented a Flask-based orchestrator to manage a pool of worker containers handling database operations
  • Used RabbitMQ for RPC Communication between the orchestrator and worker containers, enabling asynchronous read/write handling
  • Implemented request-volume based auto-scaling of worker containers via Docker SDK and threading
WHAT THE IMPACT WAS
  • Improved availability and load-balancing under varying request volumes
  • Enabled asynchronous read/write handling across worker pool
PythonFlaskDockerRabbitMQ
LeadSquared

LeadSquared

Bangalore, India
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022

Python Developer

WHAT I DID
  • Built FastAPI CRM workflow engine for lead-to-case lifecycle management, enabling automated lead assignment, case creation, and routing
  • Designed PostgreSQL schemas for CRM entities (leads, accounts, cases, logs) and optimized SQLAlchemy queries (pagination, filtering, RBAC) for 60K+ CRM records
  • Implemented JWT authentication, Pydantic validation, and async FastAPI APIs for high-throughput CRM workloads
  • Collaborated with support and engineering teams to stabilize CRM pipelines via stricter validation and access control
WHAT THE IMPACT WAS
  • Reduced manual handling of leads completely
  • Improved throughput and reduced API latency by 35%
  • Improved data consistency and reduced production incidents
PythonFastAPIPostgreSQLSQLAlchemyJWT

Skills

Areas where I can contribute quickly and own the work end to end.

Languages & Backend

PythonJavaFastAPIFlaskPydanticSQLAlchemyREST APIsJWT AuthAsync APIs

AI Stack

LangGraphRAGLLMsLLM OrchestrationMulti-step Tool CallingAWS Bedrock (Claude, Titan, Rerank)Titan Embed v2Amazon Rerank v1Bedrock GuardrailsOpenSearch (KNN, BM25)Hybrid Retrieval (RRF)Vector SearchEmbeddings

Databases

SQLPostgreSQLMongoDBDynamoDB

Cloud & DevOps

AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, CloudWatch)DockerRabbitMQGitGitHub ActionsCI/CDPostman

Certifications

AWS Certified Developer – Associate, 2025

Testimonials

Feedback from managers and collaborators across AI and product delivery work.

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Thomas Myrick
Senior ML Engineer, TexasA&M Engineering Experiment Station

I had the pleasure of supervising Vinayaka at Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station for 1.5 years. What stood out most in day to day work was his sense of ownership and reliability. Once he picked up a problem, I could trust him to drive it independently and see it through without needing close follow up. He is calm in ambiguous situations, breaks down problems in a very practical way, and consistently delivers thoughtful solutions rather than quick fixes. Over time, he also became someone I could rely on for sound judgement when things were unclear or time sensitive. I genuinely enjoyed working with him and would strongly recommend him for any high impact engineering role.

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Sai Rajesh Nalamati
Staff Eng @ Salesforce | Ex-HPE

Vinayaka is a good team player, he worked in a project as a part of HPE-CTY program mentored by me. As a part of project he was involved in multiple technologies and gave his best managing his academics and project. Not everyone gets this kind of opportunity , I would say he definitely gave his best using the opportunity. Technically he is good, great team player with sounding presentation skills. All the best for his future career.