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Hi, I'm Mani

Senior Software Engineer · Applied AI Engineer · .NET, Azure & Agentic AI

const mani = 10y @ Insightsoftware · Philips · ADP · AI/ML MSc @ LJMU

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about me

10 years shipping software.
Now shipping AI that works.

I'm a Senior Software Engineer with a decade in the Microsoft ecosystem — from full-stack enterprise .NET to applied AI engineering. I specialize in Advanced RAG pipelines, multi-agent orchestration, and LLM-powered automation that solves real business problems in financial services, healthcare, and ERP — not prototypes that never reach production. Currently completing an MSc in AI/ML at Liverpool John Moores University.

10+
Years Engineering
4
AI Systems in Prod
60%
Reporting Effort Cut
3
Industry Verticals

Agentic AI Systems

Designing and shipping multi-agent orchestration, Advanced RAG pipelines, and MCP connectors that go from prototype to production in enterprise environments.

.NET & Azure Depth

10 years of .NET engineering with hands-on production depth across the Azure ecosystem — from Functions and Service Bus to AI Foundry and Cognitive Services.

Enterprise Domain Experience

Delivered AI-integrated systems across financial services (Insightsoftware), healthcare (Philips), and HCM (ADP) — domains where reliability and observability are non-negotiable.

Production-First Mindset

AI systems that ship, get instrumented with OpenTelemetry, get evaluated with RAGAS, and improve over time. Not prototypes.

Strong backend foundation in .NET and Azure, extended with hands-on depth in Semantic Kernel, agentic frameworks, and observable production AI behavior.

— Mani N, Senior AI Engineer
portfolio

Things I've Actually Built

Production systems, not side projects. Each one is live, battle-tested, and generating real value.

EAR
Live
Featured
AI

Enterprise Advanced RAG Platform

Production-grade document intelligence platform for legal, finance, and consulting. Hybrid retrieval (BM25 + dense vector), semantic re-ranking, query rewriting, and RAGAS evaluation — built for high-accuracy compliance document processing.

Hybrid BM25 + Vector · Semantic Re-ranking · RAGAS Evaluated

Azure AI FoundryAzure OpenAIAzure AI Search.NET 8Semantic Kernel+4
AAR
Live
Featured
AI

Agentic AI Reporting System

Autonomous multi-agent orchestration system for enterprise financial reporting. Three-agent pipeline — Data Retrieval, LLM Analysis, and Report Generation — connected via MCP tool layers for natural language database queries.

60% reduction in manual reporting · 3-agent pipeline · MCP tool layer

Semantic KernelAutoGenMCPAzure OpenAI.NET 8+2
C—A
Live
Featured
AI

CareFlow — AI Clinical Consultation System

End-to-end AI system automating clinical consultation workflows. Agentic engine for patient intake, consultation documentation, and care plan generation with persistent vector memory across multi-turn sessions.

Multi-turn memory · Real-time escalation · Healthcare-grade compliance

.NET 8Azure OpenAISemantic KernelAzure FunctionsAzure Service Bus+2
XFI
Live
AI

XBRL/EDGAR Financial Intelligence Platform

Financial intelligence platform targeting SEC EDGAR filings. Automated XBRL extraction pipeline, anomaly detection via cross-period validation, and statistical benchmarking against industry peer data.

SEC EDGAR ingestion · Cross-period anomaly detection · Full HLD/LLD

Azure FunctionsAzure Service BusPostgreSQLRedisBlob Storage+2
MEC
Live
Tools

MCP Enterprise Connectors

Model Context Protocol connectors enabling AI agents to interact with SQL databases, REST APIs, and external SaaS systems — supporting natural language queries, dynamic function calling, and real-time schema exploration.

Natural language SQL · Dynamic function calling · Schema exploration

MCP.NET 8Azure OpenAISemantic KernelSQL Server+1
LPE
Live
Tools

LLM Prompt Evaluation Framework

Systematic prompt evaluation framework to measure and improve LLM output quality across model upgrades. Tracks groundedness, faithfulness, relevance, and hallucination rate across production AI pipelines.

Hallucination tracking · RAGAS metrics · A/B prompt testing

RAGASPythonAzure OpenAI.NET 8Azure AI Foundry+1
expertise

My Technical Stack

Years of production experience across the full AI and engineering stack.

Azure OpenAISemantic KernelAdvanced RAG.NET 8 / C#Multi-Agent SystemsMCPLangGraphAutoGenAzure AI SearchpgvectorAzure AI FoundryPython / FastAPIRAGASAzure FunctionsLlamaIndexCrewAI
🧠

AI Engineering

8 technologies

Azure AI Foundry & Azure OpenAI (GPT-4o, Embeddings, Function Calling)96%
Semantic Kernel94%
Advanced RAG (Hybrid Search, Re-ranking, Query Expansion)95%
Multi-Agent Orchestration (AutoGen, LangGraph, CrewAI)90%
MCP — Model Context Protocol88%
LangChain / LlamaIndex87%
LLM Evaluation (RAGAS, Prompt Engineering)90%
Vector Databases (Azure AI Search, pgvector, ChromaDB)92%
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Backend & System Design

8 technologies

C# / .NET 8 / ASP.NET Core97%
Python / FastAPI88%
Microservices & Clean Architecture93%
Event-Driven Systems (Azure Service Bus)90%
REST API Design & Azure SDK Integration94%
Domain-Driven Design88%
OpenTelemetry & Distributed Tracing85%
Resilience Patterns (Polly, Circuit Breakers)87%
☁️

Cloud & DevOps

7 technologies

Microsoft Azure (Functions, API Mgmt, Service Bus, Key Vault)95%
Azure DevOps & GitHub Actions (CI/CD)92%
Docker & Containerization87%
Azure Blob Storage & Application Insights93%
Infrastructure as Code (Bicep)80%
Structured Logging & Observability90%
SonarQube & Quality Gates85%

Data & Frontend

7 technologies

PostgreSQL / SQL Server / Azure SQL90%
pgvector / Azure Data Factory / Databricks82%
React.js / TypeScript85%
Angular / RxJS83%
Blazor78%
Testing (xUnit, NUnit, Cypress, Playwright)87%
PySpark / Databricks75%

// skill levels based on production usage, not courses

career

Where I've Made Impact

9+ years delivering production AI systems across finance, healthcare, and enterprise platforms — from full-stack roots to Agentic AI architecture.

Senior Software Engineer — AI & Applied Intelligence

InsightsoftwareFull-time
Jun 2023 – Present
Hyderabad, India

Led the AI transformation of enterprise financial disclosure and reporting systems. Responsible for taking AI features from design through to production, working across the full stack from Azure infrastructure to API surfaces to frontend integration.

  • Designed and built an Advanced RAG pipeline using Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, and Azure AI Search — combining hybrid retrieval (keyword + vector), semantic re-ranking, intelligent chunking, and query expansion for high-accuracy compliance document processing.
  • Engineered a multi-agent reporting system using Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, and LangGraph, with specialized agents for data retrieval (SQL/API), LLM reasoning, and structured report generation — reducing manual reporting effort by 60%.
  • Built and integrated MCP (Model Context Protocol) enterprise connectors enabling AI agents to interact with SQL databases, REST APIs, and external SaaS systems with natural language queries and dynamic function calling.
  • Implemented memory-driven agentic workflows with vector memory and persistent context, enabling multi-turn document-aware AI interactions across long-horizon financial tasks.
  • Developed a multi-model routing layer directing different LLMs to specialized tasks (reasoning, extraction, summarization) to balance cost, latency, and output quality.
  • Created prompt evaluation frameworks to systematically measure and improve LLM output quality, reducing hallucinations across model upgrades.
  • Instrumented services with OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and structured logging, providing operational visibility across distributed AI workflows.
Azure AI FoundryAzure OpenAISemantic KernelLangGraphAutoGenMCP.NET 8Azure FunctionsAzure AI SearchpgvectorReactAzure DevOps

Software Technologist

PhilipsFull-time
Apr 2022 – Jun 2023
Bangalore, India

Delivered enhancements to a regulated healthcare platform, integrating AI capabilities and strengthening API security and reliability across patient-facing and clinician-facing systems.

  • Integrated Azure Cognitive Services and Azure OpenAI to enable intelligent document processing and clinical decision support features within the platform.
  • Built secure, high-throughput APIs using ASP.NET Core and Azure API Management, with OAuth2/OIDC authentication and input validation aligned to healthcare data compliance requirements.
  • Developed real-time communication modules (chat and video) using SignalR, integrated into patient and clinician-facing web applications.
  • Established automated regression testing pipelines using Cypress, cutting manual QA cycles and improving release stability.
.NET CoreReactAngularAzure ServicesAzure OpenAISQL ServerCypressSignalROAuth2/OIDC

Senior Member Technical

ADPFull-time
Nov 2019 – Mar 2022
Hyderabad, India

Developed and maintained microservices components for ADP's enterprise payroll and HCM platform serving global clients across multiple countries.

  • Built and owned microservices-based platform APIs using .NET Core and Azure, integrating multiple enterprise data sources and downstream systems.
  • Designed event-driven workflows using Azure Service Bus and Azure Functions to automate payroll processing tasks, reducing manual operational overhead.
  • Improved test coverage and CI/CD pipeline reliability, contributing to a more consistent delivery cadence across the team.
.NET CoreAzure FunctionsAzure Service BusApplication InsightsSQL Server

Software Engineer

Option Matrix InfotechFull-time
Oct 2016 – Nov 2019
Hyderabad, India

Built end-to-end ERP and CRM solutions across multiple client engagements in Agile delivery teams.

  • Built end-to-end ERP and CRM solutions using ASP.NET MVC, Angular, and SQL Server across multiple client engagements.
  • Participated in Agile delivery cycles, authored unit tests, and contributed to code reviews.
ASP.NET MVCAngularSQL ServerC#
education & credentials

Always Learning

Formal training in AI/ML combined with a decade of hands-on production engineering.

Academic

Master of Science Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Expected 2026

Liverpool John Moores University

United Kingdom

Postgraduate Diploma Generative AI & Applied Machine Learning

2025

IIIT Bangalore

India

CGPA 3.85 / 4.0

Bachelor of Technology Electronics & Communication Engineering

2016

JNTU Kakinada

India

Certifications

Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-102)

Microsoft

Expected 2026

Executive PG in AI/ML

IIIT Bangalore

2025
Currently Pursuing

MSc AI/ML at Liverpool John Moores University, UK — deepening formal ML theory alongside 10 years of production engineering.

open source

Building in Public

My open source work on GitHub. Real code, real commits, real impact.

github.com/maniscodebase
get in touch

Let's Build Something Real

Have a project that needs serious AI engineering? I'm selectively available for the right opportunities.

Direct Contact

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