Tejas Kumar
Open to contract roles
Agentic AI Engineer // USA

Tejas
Kumar

I build governed AI systems for regulated industries — banking, healthcare, finance. My operating doctrine: agents advise, deterministic code decides, a human acts. Nine years of shipping ML, NLP, RAG and agentic workflows into production on Azure and AWS.

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Years shipping AI/ML
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Regulated industries
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Production systems
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Clouds — Azure · AWS · GCP
fig.01 // signature system

Anatomy of a governed
agentic workflow.

A governed agentic-workflow pattern from my banking work — shown as a reference architecture, drawn the way it actually runs: AI Foundry agents write advisories, a deterministic rule makes the call, and every case ends at exactly one human gate. No agent moves money. Tap a node to see its job.

governed agentic workflow · reference architecture langgraph × azure ai foundry × n8n
CASE INTAKE
n8n · FastAPI
STOP AGENT
advises
PROFILE AGENT
advises
DECISION RULE
python · decides
HUMAN GATE
acts
EXECUTE
n8n · audited
tap a node to see what it does here
agent — advisory only human — final authority
profile // 02

Production AI, with the
guardrails built in.

I'm an AI/ML engineer who has spent nine years taking models out of notebooks and into production systems that enterprises actually trust — across banking, healthcare, finance and utilities.

Right now, at Citizens Bank, I design agentic AI for banking operations: LangGraph orchestration, Azure AI Foundry agents, semantic search over enterprise knowledge, and the governance layer around all of it — prompt validation, structured outputs, audit logging, behavior monitoring.

Before that I built RAG and document-intelligence platforms for Cigna, ML services for financial analytics at Deloitte, and NLP systems for Duke Energy at Accenture. The common thread: AI that holds up under regulation, audit and real operational load.

LocationUnited States
CurrentlyAgentic AI Engineer
Citizens Bank
FocusAgentic systems · RAG
AI governance · MLOps
EducationM.S. Computers & Info. Science
Southern Arkansas University
stack // 03

Technology core.

systems // 04

Systems I've shipped.

All projects are shown at the pattern level — nothing here includes employer code, data, or confidential information.

Banking · Agentic AIsys.01

Agentic Workflow Automation for High-Stakes Banking Operations

A reference architecture for end-to-end agentic banking workflows: n8n intake, LangGraph orchestration, Azure AI Foundry advisory agents, a deterministic decision rule and a mandatory human gate — the pattern drawn in fig.01, proven end to end with monitoring.

LangGraphAzure AI Foundryn8nFastAPIPythonHuman-in-the-Loop
  • Designed the governance doctrine: agents advise, deterministic code decides, a human acts — no agent touches money.
  • Built two advisory Foundry agents (transaction review, account status) provisioned once via script, invoked from LangGraph.
  • Implemented the single-source-of-truth decision rule flagging uncoded transactions and account-status conflicts.
  • Wired business-readable n8n stages from intake to final document preparation with one merged human-decision node.
  • Exposed the orchestration as a FastAPI service with a clean 5-dependency footprint, ready for Azure Container Apps.
Banking · RAG · Live in productionsys.02

Enterprise RAG & Semantic Search Platform

Operations teams deal with large volumes of documents, policies and backend information — much of it searched and validated manually. This platform is the intelligent retrieval layer: enterprise documents ingested, embedded and served through semantic search and RAG, so LLM answers are grounded in the bank's own knowledge instead of model memory. Deployed and running in production.

Azure AI SearchRAGEmbeddingsAzure OpenAILangChainRedis
  • Built the full pipeline — document ingestion → embeddings → vector retrieval — grounding LLM responses in enterprise knowledge.
  • Human-in-the-loop controls on sensitive decision points: the model informs, people decide.
  • Implemented governance controls: prompt validation, structured outputs, audit logging, behavior monitoring.
  • Optimized document-intelligence workflows through prompt engineering and retrieval tuning.
  • Deployed as distributed microservices on Docker, Kubernetes and Azure Container Apps.
  • Instrumented with Azure Monitor, Application Insights, LangSmith and LangFuse.
Healthcare · RAGsys.03

Healthcare Knowledge & Document Intelligence

Production AI services for a major health insurer — semantic search, intelligent document processing and predictive analytics, deployed with full MLOps lifecycle management across regulated healthcare systems.

PythonFastAPIPineconeFAISSMLflowKubernetes
  • Built enterprise semantic search with vector embeddings, Pinecone, FAISS and Azure AI Search.
  • Shipped ML models and intelligent search as scalable Python + FastAPI microservices.
  • Implemented AI governance: model validation, documentation, auditability and responsible-AI deployment.
  • Automated deployment pipelines with Docker, Kubernetes, MLflow, GitHub Actions and Azure ML.
  • Improved workflow accuracy via prompt engineering, retrieval optimization and production monitoring.
Desktop tooling · Solo buildsys.04

PDF Editor — Make Any PDF Editable

A desktop application that opens any PDF and makes it directly editable — click-to-edit text overlay, drag-to-create text boxes, and save-through with the original file as the source of truth. Built solo, end to end, with an AI-assisted development workflow.

PythonDesktop GUIPDF engineAutomated tests
  • Click-to-edit overlay on rendered pages plus drag-to-create text boxes anywhere on the document.
  • Save-through pipeline that writes edits back to a valid PDF and preserves page rotation flags.
  • Graceful degradation by design: font look-alike fallback for missing glyphs, shrink-to-fit for overlong text.
  • 51 automated checks across the engine and GUI — load, edit, save, dirty-state and folder handling.
  • Honest limitations documented in the README, including a deliberate no-OCR scope decision.
Utilities · NLP & Predictive MLsys.05

Customer NLP & Predictive Maintenance

Enterprise NLP and ML for a major US utility — complaint classification, intent detection and equipment-failure prediction feeding customer service and maintenance planning across operational systems.

TensorFlowScikit-learnspaCyFlaskAWSDocker
  • Production NLP models for complaint classification, intent detection and text analytics.
  • Predictive models identifying equipment failures to improve maintenance planning and asset reliability.
  • REST APIs integrating ML predictions into enterprise customer-service applications.
  • Automated inference workflows supporting real-time operational decisions.
  • End-to-end pipelines: feature engineering, training, validation, deployment, monitoring.
timeline // 05

Where I've worked.

Aug 2025 — Present
Richmond, VA

Citizens Bank

Agentic AI Engineer
  • Built the bank's RAG foundation — Azure AI Search, vector embeddings, Pinecone — deployed and running in production.
  • Now building agentic workflow automation: LangGraph orchestration combined with n8n on Azure AI Foundry.
  • Governance from day one: prompt validation, structured outputs, audit logging, human-in-the-loop checkpoints.
  • Ship Python/FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes and Azure Container Apps via GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps.
Sep 2024 — Jul 2025
Rhode Island

Cigna

AI Engineer
  • Built healthcare knowledge management, document intelligence and semantic search platforms.
  • RAG with Pinecone, FAISS and Azure AI Search behind Python/FastAPI microservices.
  • Deployment pipelines with Docker, Kubernetes, MLflow, GitHub Actions and Azure ML.
  • AI governance: validation, documentation, auditability, responsible-AI deployment.
Sep 2021 — Dec 2023
India

Deloitte

Data Scientist — Securian Financial · Cardinal Health
  • Production ML on AWS for financial analytics and intelligent automation at Securian Financial.
  • Vector-based semantic retrieval and embedding pipelines — foundational RAG — at Cardinal Health.
  • REST APIs exposing predictive analytics to enterprise platforms; reusable Python ML libraries.
  • Automated ML lifecycle: deployment validation, monitoring, versioning, CI/CD.
Nov 2016 — Sep 2021
India

Accenture

NLP Engineer / Data Scientist — Duke Energy
  • Production NLP for complaint classification, intent detection and text analytics.
  • Predictive maintenance models reducing operational downtime for utility assets.
  • Scalable Python data pipelines and RESTful ML services on AWS.
credentials // 06

Education & recognition.

Education

M.S. — Computers & Information Science
Southern Arkansas University · 2025
B.Tech — Computer Science & Engineering
SRM University, Chennai · 2017

Awards

On the Spot Award
Deloitte · May 2023
Best Team Player Award
Deloitte · Dec 2023
contact // 07

Have a system that
needs governing?

Open to contract Agentic AI, Generative AI, and AI/ML Engineer roles — remote, hybrid, or onsite. Use the form, or reach me directly.