Chethan UK — Software Engineer

"You have to dream before your dreams come true." I am a Senior Data/AI Engineer with 8+ years of hands-on experience architecting resilient, scalable data pipelines, MLOps infrastructure, LLM applications, and GenAI systems in cloud-native environments. I have hands-on experience architecting resilient, scalable data pipelines, MLOps infrastructure, LLM applications, and GenAI systems in cloud-native environments. Passionate about solving intricate challenges for global startups, I specialize in building multimodal lakehouse platforms that enable agentic workflows, orchestrate durable AI agents using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for seamless tool interfaces and handoffs, and handle retries, state management, and crash recovery at scale. My expertise spans RAG/AI pipelines, autonomous agents, supporting fine-tuning foundation models, and production-grade AI systems on AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes stacks I am Certified Palantir Foundry Professional, I've completed Palantir Foundry & AIP Builder Foundations, the Palantir Data Engineer course tracks, and applied these in real PySpark-based data projects for enterprise-scale integration and ETL processes Beyond day to day roles, I'm an active Apache open source contributor and CnCF open source contributor to Airflow, Pinot, Flink, Beam, Trino, and CNCF projects like KServe etc Technical Skills & Tools: Python, SQL, PySpark, K8s, Airflow, Flink - Big Data: Apache Flink, Apache Spark, Apache Beam, PrestoSQL(TrinoDB) - DataOps (Data DevOps): Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Terraform - Workflow: Apache Airflow - Streaming Messaging: Apache Kafka, Kafka Connect - Databases: MySQL, PSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, ElasticSearch, BigQuery, Pinot - Cloud: GCP (Google Cloud Platform), AWS Additionally, I am a huge fan of FC Barcelona, I love to travel and Hike. I get excited about opportunities where I'm able to leverage big data to discover insights and identify patterns that have real human impact. I love connecting with new people, give me a shout at chethanuk@outlook.com or here on LinkedIn!

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Engineering expert in SaaS with a focus on MLOps and AI systems.

Location: London, United Kingdom

Experience: 7 yrs 6 mos