name: Jyotindra Kallappa Tavanoji
role: Tech Lead - DevOps / AI Systems Engineer
experience: 2+ years in production systems
location: Mumbai, India
day_job: Kubernetes, Kafka, ArgoCD, HA Postgres (Patroni) @ Research Connect USA
currently:
- building an LLM firewall for prompt-injection detection (v0 regex -> v1 semantic + pgvector)
- building an eval harness and guardrail system for LLM pipelines
- building an agent memory layer on LangGraph
- exploring a self-hosted, Kubernetes-native LLM serving/gateway platform
philosophy: building in public - a peer learner, not a claimed expert
open_to:
- AI engineering / full-stack roles at early-stage and YC-backed teamsCore Languages & Backend
AI / Agents
LANGCHAIN · LANGGRAPH · LANGSMITH · COHERE · PGVECTOR
RAG (HyDE + hybrid search) · HITL workflows · multi-agent orchestration · context engineering
Infra / DevOps
PgBouncer, HAProxy (HA Postgres cluster), ArgoCD
Databases
Always up for a conversation about RAG pipelines, Kafka/K8s failure modes, or GST reconciliation edge cases. Reach out via the links above.

