Aparna Pradhan - Applied AI Architect & Forward Deployed Engineer
Open to FDE / Applied AI / Staff+ AI Engineer Roles

I build agentic AI systems that turn ambiguous business problems into governed workflows and measurable outcomes.

Builder of agentic AI and operations systems with deterministic automation, PRD-driven delivery, and CLI-agent-assisted coding workflow. Breaking problems into tasks, enforcing TDD, validating with Docker and curl.

Self-taught in FP&A and business analysis, bringing a strong business lens to internal tools, applied AI, and forward-deployed work.

Agentic AI Systems
Forward Deployed Engineering
PRD-Driven Delivery
Business-First Architect
Core Skills

What I Bring

Engineering capabilities paired with business analysis foundations for delivering production AI systems.

Engineering & Design

  • Forward Deployed Engineering
  • Solution Design
  • Agentic AI Systems
  • Workflow Orchestration

Development Stack

  • Go 1.24 (Fiber, gRPC)
  • Python (FastAPI, AsyncIO, Pydantic)
  • LangGraph
  • PostgreSQL, Redis, Qdrant

Methodology & Ops

  • PRD Slicing
  • Task Decomposition
  • TDD
  • Docker, Curl-based Smoke Tests
  • Governance Gates

Reliability & Business

  • Deterministic Logic
  • Audit Trails
  • HITL Review
  • Langfuse Observability
  • FP&A Variance Thinking

Delivery Stack

Go 1.24PythonLangGraphFastAPIPostgreSQLRedisQdrantDockerLangfuseOpenTelemetryTDD
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Operating Principles

How I Work

Forward deployed engineering: integration, deployment, and production AI systems that deliver measurable business outcomes.

Integration-First

I connect AI capabilities to existing systems — APIs, data pipelines, and legacy infrastructure. The model is only useful if it fits the production environment.

Deployment Thinking

I design for production from day one: monitoring, edge cases, data sync, and graceful degradation. Staging success means nothing if it fails in the real environment.

Customer Problem Solving

I translate business pain into technical solutions and explain trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders. FDE is boundary work between engineering and business needs.

Production AI Systems

RAG, fine-tuned models, MCP servers, and multi-agent workflows. I build systems that take real actions, not just chat interfaces.

Documentation & Handoff

Architecture diagrams, deployment guides, and troubleshooting notes. Clear documentation is a force multiplier for engineering teams.

Measurable Business Outcomes

I optimize for throughput, accuracy, and cost. Every system ships with eval metrics, error modes, and a story about the improvement it delivers.

Delivery Stack

LangGraph · FastAPI · Go (Fiber, gRPC) · PostgreSQL + pgvector · Redis · Qdrant · Docker · Langfuse · TDD-first workflow

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Portfolio Projects

Selected Work

Agentic AI systems and operations platforms built to demonstrate production-grade engineering

Education & Certifications

Continuous Learning

Self-directed engineering, business analysis, and FP&A design focus areas.

Self-Directed Engineering, Business Analysis & FP&A Design

2023 – Present

Focus areas: Distributed Systems, Workflow Orchestration, Solutions Architecture, and Value Engineering

Why FP&A for an FDE

FDEs translate business pain into technical solutions. FP&A thinking — variance analysis, cost modeling, scenario reforecasting — lets me quantify the problem before building the system. A control tower that catches mismatches before payment blocks is worth more when you can express the dollar impact.

Why Business Analysis

BA skills — requirements elicitation, stakeholder mapping, process modeling — turn vague stakeholder asks into structured PRDs and granular task plans. The gap between "we need AI" and a deployed system is a requirements problem, not a model problem.

Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Associate / Fundamentals

Microsoft

Certified AI Agents Developer (HF-2025)

Hugging Face

AWS Educate Badge: Introduction to Generative AI

AWS

Google Cloud Partner Skills Boost

Google Cloud

Open to Forward Deployed Engineer & Applied AI roles

Seeking FDE and Applied AI positions where I can deploy AI systems into production, integrate with complex environments, and deliver measurable business outcomes.