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Naveen KumarNK

Naveen Kumar

Lead AI Architect AI Product Manager

$1,449/day
Abu Dhabi Island and Internal Islands City, AE
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Naveen

Principal/ Lead AI Engineer / Agentic Systems Builder with 9+ years of experience shipping production-grade AI solutions, including LLM agents, RAG pipelines, and Automation workflows. Strong hands-on experience building end-to-end AI systems (design → build → deploy → maintain) using Python, n8n, LangGraph, and LLM APIs (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini). Proven track record of delivering practical AI tools and internal platforms that solve real operational problems, with expertise in multi-agent workflows, API integrations, and cost-optimized model deployent (cloud + self-hosted LLMs). Passionate about building fast, scalable AI systems with real-world impact.
  • English

    Fluent

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • ADEK & Watermelon
    Lead AI Architect / AI Product Manager
    April 2025 - Today (1 year and 2 months)
    United Arab Emirates
    • • Architected and deployed enterprise GenAI platforms (LLM agents, agentic workflows, RAG chatbots) using Claude Code, Google Antigravity and Gemini (Vertex AI), serving 10K+ daily requests, improving user engagement by 40% and reducing operational costs by ~30%.
    • • Designed end-to-end production AI systems (data ingestion → retrieval → inference → evaluation → monitoring) with distributed microservices architecture, reducing latency by 40% and improving system reliability to 98% uptime.
    • • Led LLM fine-tuning (LoRA/QLoRA), prompt engineering, and hallucination mitigation, improving response accuracy by 30–40% and reducing hallucinations by ~30%.
    • • Built and deployed AI agents and Automation workflows using n8n and LLM APIs, integrating with business tools (CRM, Google Workspace, APIs) to automate real-world operational processes.
    • • Designed and deployed agentic systems with multi-step reasoning, tool usage, and workflow orchestration using LangGraph and custom Python pipeline.
    • • Delivered A/B tested AI solutions driving 20% reduction in churn and increased product engagement across UAE & GCC markets, built scalable MLOps pipelines (CI/CD, MLflow, Docker, FastAPI, Kubernetes), reducing deployment time from weeks to days and enabling continuous delivery of production AI systems.
    • • Partnered with stakeholders to define AI strategy, KPIs, and ROI-driven use cases, aligning AI initiatives with business outcomes
    • • Evaluated and deployed self-hosted LLMs (via Ollama/vLLM) vs cloud models based on latency, cost and data privacy requirements.
    • • Rapidly prototyped and shipped AI tools (v1 within days), iterating based on real user feedback and operational needs.
    Python Langchain LLM artificial intelligence SQL
  • Circle K & Huloop.ai
    Lead Data Scientist
    July 2022 - April 2025 (2 years and 9 months)
    • • Built and deployed advanced Agentic RAG systems (Hybrid retrieval, re-ranking, tool orchestration), improving answer relevance by 25% and reducing support resolution time by 40% using OpenAI, Claude, Llama, LangChain, and vector DBs (FAISS, Pinecone), developed scalable LLM APIs (FastAPI + MLflow) supporting real-time inference at production scale.
    • • Built large-scale data integration pipelines (batch + real-time via Kafka/Airflow) consolidating multiple data sources, improving data availability and reducing processing latency by ~30%
    • • Defined data and AI architecture roadmaps aligned with business goals, collaborating with cross-functional teams (AI/ML, product, business) to drive data-driven decision-making and platform scalability.
    • • Implemented LLM fine-tuning (PEFT, LoRA, QLoRA) improving model performance and reducing inference cost
    • • Delivered $600K/year cost savings, led cross-functional teams for AI product delivery, architecture decisions and deployment strategies.
    artificial intelligence Langchain LLM Python SQL
  • PIMCO, BMS & NFL
    Senior Data Scientist/ ML Engineer
    January 2020 - July 2022 (2 years and 6 months)
    • • Developed ML and AI solutions including recommendation systems, RL models, fraud detection, and forecasting systems.
    • • Built production ML pipelines using Python, SQL, and MLOps frameworks.
    Python SQL Langchain Chatbot artificial intelligence

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Education

  • B. Engineering
    Panjab University
    B. Engineering

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