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Rushikesh ShindeAI Engineer
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Hi, I'mRushikesh Shinde

Building Intelligent Systems
with AI.

focus:AI SOC & LLM Reasoning

Senior Software Engineer with 7.5+ years of experience engineering secure, high-scale backend architectures, autonomous AI-driven SOC systems, and production LLM integrations. Proven track record of boosting system reliability by 40% and slashing manual investigation time by ~90%.

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Graph • RAG • Tools
Engineering Philosophy

Architecting the Frontier of AI

Bridging cutting-edge foundational model capabilities with resilient, enterprise-grade software engineering.

Core Mission

“Senior Software Engineer with 7.5+ years of deep expertise in architecting resilient backend systems, distributed workflow orchestration, and enterprise Generative AI integrations for 10+ global enterprise clients.”

Currently at Crest Data, I design and deliver secure, production-grade backend integrations with platforms like Datadog, Netskope, and DeepTrust. I integrated Generative AI and LLM reasoning into an AI-Powered SOC platform, reducing manual alert investigation effort by ~90%.

My engineering philosophy couples distributed systems rigor with modern AI capabilities—combining fault-tolerant workflow orchestration with Temporal, high-throughput microservices using FastAPI/Python, robust security contracts (OAuth 2.0, JWT), and Oracle AI Vector Search.

Certified as an OCI Generative AI Professional, Oracle AI Vector Search Certified Professional, and AWS Cloud Practitioner, I specialize in bridging non-deterministic LLM capabilities with deterministic, scalable backend engineering.

01
Deterministic Guardrails

Enforcing strict validation schemas and safety boundaries on non-deterministic LLMs.

02
Eval-Driven Iteration

Systematic automated benchmarking to continuously quantify agent performance and accuracy.

AI-Driven SOC & LLM Reasoning

Integrating LLMs, LangChain, and Temporal for automated multi-source security alert correlation, triage, and threat synthesis.

Pillar 01→

Enterprise Backend Architecture

7.5+ years building distributed RESTful services, microservices, and asynchronous pipelines using Python, FastAPI, Django, and Flask.

Pillar 02→

Zero Trust Security & Integrations

Designing extensible API contracts and integration engines for Datadog, Netskope, Okta, Keycloak, Tenable, and SIEM platforms.

Pillar 03→

Vector Search & Retrieval

Certified expertise in Vector Databases and semantic search architectures to power enterprise knowledge synthesis.

Pillar 04→
Technical Stack

Specialized Capabilities

Curated toolset honed for architecting reliable agentic frameworks, high-throughput backend services, and enterprise security integrations.

AI & Machine Learning

Generative AI, LLM reasoning, vector search, and agent orchestration.

7 skills
Generative AI
Agentic AI
Large Language Models
RAG & Vector Search
LangChain
Prompt Engineering
Vector Databases

Backend Development

7.5+ years of high-performance Python architectures, frameworks, and APIs.

9 skills
Python (7+ yrs)
FastAPI (4+ yrs)
Temporal (Workflows)
Pydantic & Schemas
Django (2+ yrs)
Flask (3+ yrs)
REST APIs (7+ yrs)
Microservices
Redis

Security & Integrations

Zero Trust architecture, enterprise auth standards, and SIEM ecosystems.

7 skills
OAuth 2.0 & JWT
API Security & Rate Limiting
Datadog
Netskope
Okta & Keycloak
SIEM Platforms
Jira & ServiceNow

Cloud & DevOps & Databases

Cloud infrastructure, containerization, CI/CD, and data persistence.

7 skills
AWS
Docker (3+ yrs)
Git (5+ yrs)
CI/CD & Pytest
Linux (4+ yrs)
PostgreSQL & MySQL
MongoDB
Strictly verified skill set: Every listed technology reflects active, production development experience.
Career Trajectory

Professional Experience

Track record of engineering production-grade software and scaling AI architectures.

Senior Software Engineer (Python Backend Developer)

Crest Data
02/2022 — PresentPune, India

Designing and delivering secure, production-grade backend integrations and AI-powered systems for 10+ enterprise clients, ensuring high reliability, scalability, and compliance with industry standards.

Key Responsibilities

  • •Led AI agent development and backend integration for an AI-Powered SOC platform, reducing manual analyst investigation effort by ~90% through LangChain alert correlation and evidence synthesis.
  • •Architected durable, fault-tolerant workflow orchestration using Temporal to execute long-running investigation activities with automated retries, timeouts, and state persistence.
  • •Designed and delivered production-grade backend integrations with Datadog, Netskope, and DeepTrust for 10+ enterprise clients.
  • •Reduced integration onboarding time by 30% through standardized OOP abstraction layers, reusable API contracts, and automation.
  • •Mentored junior engineers on backend and system architecture, reducing onboarding time by 30%, improving code review speed by 25%, and fostering cross-functional alignment.
  • •Reviewed and optimized codebase to reduce complexity, improve system efficiency, and enhance long-term scalability.

Major Achievements

  • ✓Reduced manual security alert investigation effort by ~90% with AI-driven reasoning and LangChain workflows.
  • ✓Conducted in-depth Root Cause Analysis (RCA) on high-priority production issues, reducing system downtime by 30% and accelerating incident response by 40%.
  • ✓Standardized multi-vendor Zero Trust security integrations across SIEM, IAM, Okta, Duo, and Rapid7.
PythonFastAPILangChainLLMsTemporalDockerAWSOAuth 2.0REST APIsDatadogNetskope

Python Developer

Atos-Syntel
07/2018 — 02/2022Pune, India

Engineered scalable RESTful backend services, secure authentication workflows, and automated testing pipelines for enterprise applications.

Key Responsibilities

  • •Developed high-throughput RESTful backend services using Python, Django, and Flask.
  • •Implemented robust OAuth 2.0 and JWT authentication mechanisms across distributed endpoints.
  • •Implemented Test-Driven Development (TDD) and comprehensive unit testing using Pytest across the entire backend service, accelerating delivery and enhancing code quality.
  • •Constructed automated Continuous Integration (CI) and deployment pipelines, elevating code reliability and release velocity.
  • •Collaborated with cross-functional engineering teams to optimize backend performance, database queries, and API response latency.

Major Achievements

  • ✓Achieved 40%+ improvement in system reliability through disciplined TDD, Pytest test coverage, and CI automation.
  • ✓Spearheaded token-based authentication and granular authorization across multi-tenant enterprise services.
PythonDjangoFlaskREST APIsOAuth 2.0JWTPytestCI/CDGitMySQL
Key Systems & Architectures

Featured Engineering Projects

Production-grade AI systems, Zero Trust integration frameworks, and distributed workflow orchestration.

Production systems delivering up to 90% manual effort reduction in AI SOC investigations and standardized Zero Trust multi-vendor integrations.
SOURCESSIEM/EDR
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FastAPIIngestion
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TemporalWorkflow
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LangChainAI Agent
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TriageFindings
Temporal Stateful Workflow • LangChain Agent
LangChain • Temporal • FastAPI • React
AI & Security Operations

AI-Powered Security Operations Center (SOC)

An enterprise security automation platform orchestrating specialized LangChain agents within fault-tolerant Temporal workflows to correlate multi-source alerts, synthesize evidence, and reduce manual investigation effort by ~90%.

Key Engineering Highlights:
•Engineered workflow-oriented LangChain agents for contextual alert correlation, IoC extraction, and structured threat synthesis
•Architected fault-tolerant workflow orchestration with Temporal, coordinating long-running investigation activities with automatic retries and timeouts
•Developed asynchronous RESTful backend services using Python and FastAPI for real-time alert ingestion and workflow dispatching
•Enforced strict Pydantic schemas for LLM inputs and structured outputs, guaranteeing deterministic API contracts and zero schema crashes
•Designed context construction and log noise pruning filters, reducing prompt token footprint by ~75% while boosting reasoning accuracy
•Integrated human-in-the-loop React investigation dashboard allowing analysts to inspect synthesized evidence timelines and confirm mitigation steps
PythonFastAPITemporalLangChainLLMsReactREST APIsPydanticDocker
GitHub
Okta • SIEM • Duo
Heterogeneous
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INTEGRATION CONTRACTOAuth 2.0 • Normalizer
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Zero Trust Core
Standardized OOP Integration Engine
Python • OOP Design Patterns • Zero Trust
Zero Trust Architecture

Deeptrust Security Integrations

A reusable Python-based integration framework for a Zero Trust security platform to streamline integration with multiple security and identity products (SIEM, IAM, Okta, Duo, Rapid7).

Key Engineering Highlights:
•Designed and developed reusable Python integration framework for Zero Trust security platform
•Implemented integrations with security tools and platforms including SIEM, IAM, Okta, Duo, and Rapid7
•Applied core Python concepts: OOP, abstraction, inheritance, polymorphism, interfaces, composition, and design patterns
•Built reusable components for authentication, API clients, request/error handling, retries, and response normalization
•Decoupled vendor-specific implementation details from core platform through well-defined interfaces and modular architecture
•Established standardized implementation workflows so developers onboard new integrations with minimal boilerplate
PythonOOP Design PatternsOAuth 2.0JWTREST APIsSIEMIAMOktaDuoRapid7
GitHub
Academic & Professional Foundation

Education & Certifications

Formal academic engineering degree and professional certifications in AI systems and Cloud.

Academic Degrees

2014 — 06/2018

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech)

Computer Engineering
Government College of Engineering, Jalgaon

Graduated with GPA 7.11/10. Comprehensive coursework in Computer Science, Distributed Systems, Algorithms, Database Management Systems, and Object-Oriented Software Design.

Industry Certifications

Oracle•Valid Oct 2025 — Oct 2027

OCI Generative AI Professional

Credential: Oracle Certified Professional
Oracle•Valid Oct 2025 — Oct 2027

Oracle AI Vector Search Certified Professional

Credential: Oracle Certified Professional
Oracle•Valid Oct 2025 — Oct 2027

OCI AI Foundations Associate

Credential: Oracle Certified Associate
Amazon Web Services (AWS)•Apr 2021

AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials

Credential: AWS Certified
Continuously benchmarking the latest advances in Generative AI, Vector Search, and distributed backend architectures.
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