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Sai Mohan Kesapragada

AI Engineer at Deriv·Dubai, UAE

At the intersection of intuition and intelligence.

Currently building LLM systems and agentic tools at Deriv.

About

Systems over models.

I'm an AI Engineer at Deriv in Dubai. The part of LLM work I care about most is the layer underneath: retrieval that doesn't lie, agents that don't loop forever, and the boring plumbing that turns a model into a product.

Before Deriv I led the build of Arkaa, a production GenAI RAG platform serving enterprise customers. Before that, observability and data infrastructure on the Elastic Stack. The same instinct runs through all of it: I want to know how the system breaks, then build for that.

On the side I run small experiments. Right now: a graph reasoning agent, an Arabic voice mental-health assistant, and an eval harness I keep meaning to open-source. Most of it lives in Python and TypeScript, with Postgres for state and more bash than I'd like to admit.

Experience

Where I've worked.

Education

  • 2018-22B.Tech, Computer Science·GITAM Deemed UniversityVisakhapatnam, India
  • 2022Building a Chatbot with Amazon Lex·IJSREM
  • 2022Cloud Integration with an Android Application
  • 2022Public-Key Cryptography and Digital Signatures for Cloud Data Security

Certifications

  • 2024Azure Network Engineer Associate·MicrosoftVerify
  • 2023Azure Security Engineer Associate·MicrosoftVerify
  • 2023ML Practitioner·DataikuVerify
  • 2023Core Designer·Dataiku
  • 2022Certified Observability Engineer·Elastic
  • 2019RHCSA·Red HatVerify

Selected work

Things I've shipped.

Writing

Notes on what I'm learning.

Short essays on AI engineering, data infrastructure, and the messy parts of shipping production systems.

Contact

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