Hey, I'm Aakash 👋
RSS FeedI'm an AI Engineer building scalable GenAI applications — currently serving 10k+ user requests a day. I work across backend engineering and GenAI integration to solve complex business problems, with a focus on performant, asynchronous Python.
Outside of work, I'm into AI, backend systems, and fitness. Read the blog or see what I'm working on now.
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Text-to-SQL: Easy to Build, Hard to Trust
A Text-to-SQL demo takes an afternoon. Making one you'd let a business decision rest on takes considerably longer. Notes from a production build — three-collection retrieval, golden-set evaluation, guardrails, and the async bottleneck nobody warns you about.
I Ship LLM Systems for a Living. I Can't Derive Backprop.
Four+ years of engineering, two of them building production AI — an honest inventory of what I still don't know, and the 22-month plan I'm running in public to fix it.