
Kaushik Jeyaraman
Verified Expert in Engineering
Forward Deployed AI Developer
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Toptal member since April 16, 2026
Kaushik is a senior AI/ML engineer and tech lead with nearly 7 years of experience building production AI platforms across GenAI, semantic search, document intelligence, and MLOps. He specializes in turning ambiguous business problems into reliable, user-facing solutions in regulated enterprise environments. He has hands-on experience in Palantir Foundry/AIP, governed data workflows, scalable GenAI systems, and forward-deployed delivery.
Portfolio
Experience
- Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) - 5 years
- Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) - 4 years
- Palantir Foundry - 4 years
- Palantir AIP - 3 years
- RAG Systems - 3 years
- Elasticsearch - 3 years
- Azure - 2 years
- Agentic AI - 2 years
Preferred Environment
Palantir AIP, Palantir Foundry, Azure, Elasticsearch, TypeScript, RAG Systems, Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), Data Modeling, Agentic AI
The most amazing...
...thing I’ve done is turn ambiguous, high-stakes business problems into trusted AI systems used in real operations.
Work Experience
Machine Learning Engineer, Assistant Vice President
Swiss Re
- Led end-to-end delivery of a multi-tenant NLP triage platform processing 1,000+ underwriting documents per day across global business units.
- Scaled document AI systems to 200+ models, reducing manual review time by 60% and enabling 3x faster underwriting decisions.
- Built governed AI workflows in Palantir Foundry and AIP, combining ontology-aligned data models, production pipelines, and user-facing AI tools.
- Developed a GenAI analytics pipeline and chatbot over 1+ million advisor notes, improving knowledge retrieval speed by 5x with auditable outputs.
- Modernized ML deployment workflows across Azure, Jenkins, and Kubernetes, cutting release cycles by 3x and enabling safer rollbacks.
Software Developer
Ferma
- Became one of the first 4 engineers at Ferma.AI, taking a semantic search product from concept to first production release in 4 months.
- Led the architecture of a greenfield semantic search platform indexing 200,000+ documents with sub-500 milliseconds retrieval for real analyst workflows.
- Turned ambiguous stakeholder needs into a production search and analytics platform used by pharmaceutical teams to extract insights from medical congress data.
- Designed and shipped 30+ APIs across 12 Flask/FastAPI microservices, enabling scalable, low-latency product delivery.
- Built production-grade back-end and retrieval systems for multi-tenant usage in a regulated healthcare analytics environment.
Experience
Video2PdfSlides
https://github.com/kaushikj/video2pdfVextract.AI
Education
Master's Degree in Data Science
University of Victoria - Victoria, BC, Canada
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Vishveshwarya Technical University - Bangalore, India
Certifications
Certified Palantir Foundry Application Developer Professional
Palantir Technologies
Certified Palantir Foundry Data Engineer Professional
Palantir Technologies
Generative AI with LLMs
DeepLearning.AI
Natural Language Processing 5 Course Specialization
Coursera
IBM Data Science Specialization
Coursera
Skills
Libraries/APIs
PySpark, OpenCV, Google Vision API
Tools
Palantir AIP Logic, Palantir AIP Agent Studio
Languages
Python, TypeScript
Platforms
Palantir Foundry, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux
Storage
Elasticsearch, Neo4j, Redis, Google Cloud
Frameworks
Ontology Framework
Paradigms
Microservices
Other
Palantir AIP, Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Semantic Search, Regulated Industries, Data Governance, RAG Systems, Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), Machine Learning, CI/CD Pipelines, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Modeling, Agentic AI, LangChain, Chatbots, Transformers
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