Hire me for AI platform work that has to ship.

Lead AI platform engineer with 10+ years of production software. I build and run customer-facing AI systems end to end, from retrieval architecture to launch-day reliability, and lead the teams around them. Below: the three kinds of role I fit, and the shipped work behind each.

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  1. Bhimesh Chauhan, lead AI platform engineer. This is a real recording of this site and its assistant.
  2. Ask the assistant anything about my work. It answers from a search index of my work.
  3. Every answer shows what it retrieved: the passages, their scores and the timings.
  4. Questions that are not about me get a fixed reply, with no model call.
  5. The platform behind it: a reusable multi-tenant RAG platform that ships as an SDK and CLI. Under 5 seconds to first token, 99.99% availability, about $15 per client per month.
  6. Retrieval quality is measured and published, including the misses: 29 of 30 found on questions it was never tuned on, and 19 of 30 in the top 3.
  7. Book a 30-minute call, or check how I fit a role.

Roles I fit, and the evidence

Forward deployed / customer-facing AI engineer

Embedded with customer teams, scoping vague problems into shipped systems.

forward deployed engineer, customer-facing, SDK integration, solutions engineering, RAG, launch engineering

Staff / principal AI platform engineer

Architecture, reliability and reusable platform work that other teams build on.

staff engineer, principal engineer, AI platform, architecture, multi-tenant, reliability, RAG, observability

Lead / founding engineer

Owns the roadmap from zero to production and leads the team doing it.

lead engineer, founding engineer, CTO, engineering lead, technical leadership, hiring and mentoring

Fast facts

Current role
Lead Software Engineer, Rare Days (Jan 2026 – present)
Location
Canada. Permanent resident, authorized to work in Canada for any employer, no sponsorship needed
Worked in
Has lived and worked in Canada, the United States and Spain
Experience
10+ years of production software; earlier roles at Scrubs Co-Pilot, BenchSci, MicroMart, Preply, DataRobot, Pitchly and Nebullam
Focus
Production RAG and LLM systems, multi-tenant SaaS, healthcare AI, high-traffic commerce, IoT and distributed systems
Stack
TypeScript, Python, React, Next.js, Node.js, NestJS, PostgreSQL, pgvector, Neo4j, Supabase, AWS, Docker, Stripe, Sentry, CI/CD
Leadership
Teams of 4–5 engineers and designers; roadmap ownership; mentoring
Education
B.S. Electrical Engineering, Iowa State University (2014–2018)
Languages
English, Hindi, Bengali

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