Bhimesh Chauhan
Lead AI Platform Engineer
Summary
Based in Canada: permanent resident, authorized to work in Canada for any employer, no sponsorship needed. Lead AI platform engineer (10+ years of production software) operating at staff scope, with experience embedded with customer teams. Builds and runs production RAG and LLM systems end to end, from retrieval architecture to launch-day reliability, and leads teams of 4-5 engineers and designers. Roles of interest: forward deployed engineer, staff / principal AI platform engineer, lead / founding engineer.
Experience
Lead Software Engineer · Rare Days
Architected and built a multi-tenant SaaS platform with a production RAG chatbot, owning the system from retrieval architecture through backend delivery and reliable releases.
- Led Ask Kindred from SDK integration through production, serving approximately 200 daily active users across three customer companies with grounded retrieval, citations, conversation history and feedback.
- Built RareDaysAI, the reusable multi-tenant RAG platform behind it, shipped as an npm SDK and CLI with config-as-code tenants, staging-then-approval production deploys, per-tenant capacity caps and per-client cost attribution. About 90% of the repository's commits are mine.
- Runs it at under 5 seconds to first token and 99.99% availability for about $15 per client per month.
- Evaluates retrieval and refusal behaviour against fixed question sets: a 55-query set for Ask Kindred (distress queries routed correctly 7/10 to 10/10, all out-of-scope queries refused with no grounding violations).
- Led engineering for the Jefferson Fisher launch platform: about $700K USD in total sales in under 48 hours.
- Designed the multi-tenant SaaS architecture, including backend infrastructure and role-aware access controls.
- Delivered 10+ CI improvements that strengthened release quality and platform reliability.
- Mentored a junior engineer and created reusable AI capabilities for other Rare Days projects.
Founder and CTO · Scrubs Co-Pilot
Founded and led all engineering for an ambient clinical AI platform that structures doctor-patient conversations into medical documentation.
- Architected LLM and RAG workflows for real-time transcription and structured note generation, reducing clinician documentation time by about 80%.
- Set the technical roadmap from MVP through production, balancing clinical workflow quality, security and reliability.
- Worked with clinicians to validate outputs and guide the evolution of the AI system.
- Led a team of 4-5 engineers and designers.
Lead AI and Full-Stack Engineer · BenchSci
Led AI data-platform engineering for biomedical research workflows.
- Built AI-driven pipelines processing 100K+ research artifacts into structured datasets.
- Reduced manual data curation by about 60% by standardizing AI-assisted extraction and validation.
- Designed RAG workflows for literature synthesis and discovery; developed Neo4j and PostgreSQL query paths.
- Established data reliability, lineage and auditability practices across engineering, science and ML teams.
Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer · MicroMart
Built and operated distributed software for smart food kiosks.
- Improved customer engagement by 20% and satisfaction by 15%, and reduced downtime by 30%.
- Implemented Modbus RS485 integrations in Python and Node.js connecting cloud services to embedded hardware.
- Improved database query performance by about 25% and reduced bug reports by about 40%.
- Delivered production payment workflows and supported payment-certification work.
Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer · Preply
Built personalization and analytics capabilities for a global language-learning marketplace serving 80K+ learners.
- Led a cross-functional team delivering student progress-tracking and feedback for 80K learners.
- Built NLP-driven personalization that increased engagement by 20% and satisfaction by 15%.
- Ran tests and product analysis across markets contributing to a sustained 5% increase in conversion.
Full-Stack Software Engineer · DataRobot
Built enterprise integrations connecting AutoML workflows to customer data and analytics tools.
- Integrated DataRobot with Excel, Snowflake, Tableau and Alteryx, increasing partner visibility by 70%.
- Built custom Jenkins and Kibana CI/CD tooling for repeatable ML-backed releases.
Full-Stack Software Developer · Pitchly
Built SaaS applications for financial and legal teams.
- Built Node.js REST APIs for high-throughput client workflows adhering to OWASP and HIPAA requirements.
- Developed two GraphQL-powered MeteorJS applications.
Android Software Developer and Data Scientist · Nebullam
Built software for connected aeroponics systems.
- Built an Android application to monitor and control aeroponics firmware through MQTT.
- Developed PyTorch and TensorFlow models for resource prediction, increasing crop yield by 20%.
Projects
- Jefferson Fisher launch platform: Checkout, entitlements and course delivery for a client launch: about $700K USD in total sales in under 48 hours.
- Ask Kindred: Production RAG assistant serving about 200 daily active users across three customer companies.
- RareDaysAI platform: Reusable multi-tenant RAG platform: npm SDK and CLI, config-as-code tenants, staged production deploys, per-tenant capacity caps, under 5 seconds to first token at 99.99% availability.
- Scrubs Co-Pilot: Ambient clinical AI platform; about 80% less clinician documentation time.
- Wrangle: Mobile and platform engineering: 1,000+ automated tests, 46 migrations, 3 automated deploy pipelines.
- RAG Portfolio Assistant: Grounded assistant live on this site.
- PDF-to-Audiobook: NLP and TTS pipeline with NER, coreference and speaker attribution.
Skills
- AI and RAG systems
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation, OpenAI API, pgvector, Whisper, AI data pipelines, LangChain
- Application engineering
- TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, React, Next.js, Node.js, NestJS, Django, Flask
- Data and APIs
- PostgreSQL, Neo4j, GraphQL, REST APIs, WebSockets, Redis, MongoDB
- Platform and delivery
- AWS, Docker, CI/CD, Sentry, Supabase, Stripe
Education
- Bachelor in Electrical Engineering, Iowa State University, 2014–2018
Languages
English, Hindi, Bengali