
RAJ KUMAR G
Verified Expert in Engineering
Data Engineer and Developer
Dallas, United States
Toptal member since August 27, 2026
Across healthcare, manufacturing, and engineering, Raj has spent 17 years building production-grade generative AI and data systems. His toolkit centers on AWS Bedrock, Azure Databricks, and MLflow. While at Parker Hannifin Corporation, Raj delivered a $10+ million RAG layer for global industrial operations.
Portfolio
Experience
- Data Warehousing - 17 years
- Business Intelligence (BI) - 17 years
- PySpark - 8 years
- Azure Databricks - 8 years
- Python - 7 years
- Snowflake - 5 years
- Agentic AI - 3 years
- Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) - 3 years
Preferred Environment
Azure Databricks, MLflow, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Agentic AI, Business Intelligence (BI), Data Integration, Data Migration, Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), Retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG)
The most amazing...
...AI system I've built is a multi-agent clinical decision support platform unifying 12 clinical data sources with cryptographic audit trails.
Work Experience
Lead Applied AI Engineer
Saika Technologies
- Architected end-to-end production GenAI systems for TeleRx, Saika's pharmacy operations product, with HIPAA-aligned architecture, using Azure Databricks for the data layer and AWS Bedrock as the production foundation model.
- Designed and deployed a production RAG pipeline, including ingestion of pharmacy SOPs and clinical documents, chunking calibrated to document structure, embedding generation, vector retrieval with hybrid search, and grounding constraints.
- Conducted retrieval evaluation against held-out questions for the RAG pipeline.
- Implemented agentic AI patterns for autonomous source profiling using planner-executor architecture and tool-calling agents for schema inference across thousands of MongoDB collections.
- Integrated human-in-the-loop checkpoints and audit-ready execution traces, compressing discovery from weeks to days under strict code-review discipline.
- Developed FastAPI microservices and REST APIs for AI features such as clinical document Q&A and operational reasoning over pharmacy data, integrating with downstream consuming applications.
- Applied typed contracts via Pydantic, async patterns for high-throughput endpoints, and structured logging for observability.
- Executed production prompt engineering with systematic versioning and testing, including an evaluation framework with automated metrics and human assessment.
- Established token accounting per call, latency budgets per endpoint, structured logging, and usage analytics for production observability.
- Managed MLOps lifecycle using MLflow registry, CI/CD via Asset Bundles, environment-aware deployment across dev, staging, and production.
Principal Consultant
Parker
- Owned the AI and data platform transformation for a NYSE-listed Fortune 500 industrial manufacturer with global plant operations by engaging the director and VP-level stakeholders across operations, supply chain, finance, and IT.
- Built a production RAG layer over SOPs, contracts, supplier records, and operational documents using vector search, embeddings, and foundation model APIs to enable plant operations and procurement teams.
- Designed and built the data foundation on Azure Databricks using Bronze, Silver, and Gold medallion architecture with Delta Lake storage, Unity Catalog governance, Databricks Workflows orchestration, MLflow lifecycle, and Asset Bundles CI/CD.
- Delivered predictive ML for supply chain risk and disruption using feature store on Delta, MLflow registry, and production-grade lifecycle from training through serving and drift monitoring.
Data and Analytics Solutions Architect
Ricardo
- Led Infor LN ERP integration into a unified Azure Databricks Lakehouse for a global engineering and environmental consultancy using Bronze, Silver, and Gold medallion architecture across finance, project delivery, and operations data domains.
- Developed PySpark and Delta Live Tables pipelines on the medallion architecture with advanced Spark SQL transformations for project profitability analytics, resource utilization, and consolidated financial reporting.
- Delivered over 60 Power BI dashboards on the Gold layer, resulting in report-generation efficiency up 50% through query optimization and incremental refresh patterns.
- Implemented CI/CD in Azure DevOps with Python orchestrators for ingestion scheduling.
Staff Data Engineer
TFS
- Owned the data engineering function across a national industrial distribution business by building and maintaining the SQL Server warehouse foundation and owning the stored-procedure-based ELT estate.
- Migrated legacy SQL Server analytics onto Infor Birst BI using advanced T-SQL for transformation logic. Optimized ELT patterns resulting in 40% performance gains on critical workloads.
- Automated Python pipelines, reducing manual reporting effort by 40%.
Principal Consultant
Pulse Electronics
- Owned the analytics and database estate across manufacturing, supply chain, finance, and sales across multiple geographies after promotion to principal in 2018, with ownership of architecture and vendor selection.
- Led modernization of legacy reporting on SAP, SQL Server, SSIS, and Oracle onto Infor Birst and Power BI using advanced T-SQL and PL/SQL development. Implemented ETL patterns with SSIS.
- Mentored junior consultants on engineering standards and architecture review.
Experience
Agentic AI Clinical Decision Support Platform
I implemented multi-agent orchestration using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to enable safe, controlled tool use. It also includes a planner-executor architecture with memory across agent steps, human-in-the-loop checkpoints at high-stakes decisions, and audit-ready execution traces for every agent action.
The stack used included Python, FastAPI microservices, a React front end, PostgreSQL, an agentic orchestration layer, and cryptographically signed reproducible decision provenance. The solution demonstrates the multi-agent, multi-modal, and governance patterns that enterprise AI engineers typically specify only on paper.
LLM-routed Adaptive Forecasting Platform
The solution offers a React front end for analyst-facing interaction, a FastAPI back end, and continuous online updates rather than periodic full retraining cycles. Production discipline included drift monitoring, fallback paths, and observability on every model decision.
Measured outcomes included 15 to 40% accuracy lift over single-model baselines and 70 to 85% cost reduction vs mainstream forecasting stacks. The pattern applies to healthcare cost forecasting, member utilization prediction, and care management caseload projection.
Numerical Trust and Audit Layer for AI
The system was validated on three production codebases: 28 call sites were audited with zero critical defects identified, and a 99.3% portfolio average trust score. The evaluation framework entailed discipline enterprise healthcare AI systems required for HIPAA-aligned deployment, model risk management, and FDA-style clinical decision support documentation.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering
Kakatiya University - India
Certifications
Databricks Professional and Associate Data Engineering, AI/BI for Data Analysts
Databricks
Snowflake Data Warehousing
Snowflake
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, Pydantic, PySpark, Smart API, REST APIs
Tools
Spark SQL, Amazon OpenSearch, INFOR M3, Git
Languages
Python, Snowflake
Paradigms
Azure DevOps, ETL, Business Intelligence (BI), Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Platforms
Oracle, Azure AI Search, Databricks, Azure, ProductPlan, Docker
Storage
MongoDB, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), PL/SQL, PostgreSQL, Databases, Database Migration, JSON, Redis, Data Integration
Other
Agentic AI, Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), HIPAA, Azure Databricks, Retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG), FastAPI, MLflow, CI/CD Pipelines, Vector Search, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Databricks Workflows, SQL Server, ELT, T-SQL, SAP, Databricks Vector Search, Pinecone, FAISS, GitHub Actions, Data Warehousing, Data Modeling, Reports, Dashboards, Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Instrumentation, Delivery, Data Migration, BI Reporting, Birst, Infor, Front-end, Back-end, APIs, LLM Reasoning, LLM Fine-tuning, LLM Integration, Healthcare IT, Epic, Full-stack, Integration, Roadmaps, LLM Agents, Large Language Models (LLMs), Open-source LLMs, Data Cleaning, Data Cleansing, RAG Pipelines
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