
Surya Kant Swain
Verified Expert in Engineering
Flask Developer
Greenville, SC, United States
Toptal member since October 8, 2026
For the past 15 years, Surya has built production software and AI systems across engagements with banking, technology, and retail. His work centers on Python, AWS, and Kubernetes. He raised customer self-service rates by 27% while at Wells Fargo through production LLM evaluation infrastructure and chatbots.
Portfolio
Experience
- Flask - 14 years
- Node.js - 10 years
- React - 10 years
- AWS IoT - 8 years
- Python - 8 years
- PyTorch - 7 years
- FastAPI - 7 years
- AI Agents - 4 years
Preferred Environment
Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Prometheus, AWS IoT
The most amazing...
...LLM evaluation pipeline I've built benchmarked Gemini and GPT-4 for banking, raising customer self-service rates by 27%.
Work Experience
Lead Python and AI Engineer
Wells Fargo
- Owned technical direction for the LLM evaluation and document-parsing workstreams, from architecture through production deployment.
- Built retrieval and summarization over market-risk, credit-risk, and capital-markets data, with secure tool-calling contracts (JSON Schema, RBAC, and audit logging), so agents could reach those metrics inside a regulated environment.
- Extended the platform onto AWS Bedrock: foundation-model inference as a 3rd provider, Knowledge Bases for grounded retrieval, Agents for multi-step tool calls against internal APIs, and Guardrails enforcing PII redaction and denied-topic policy.
- Fine-tuned LLMs and embedding models on Azure ML GPU clusters against internal domain data.
- Delivered a production document-parsing platform for PDF, DOCX, PPTX, and images, pairing Azure Document Intelligence with PyMuPDF for OCR and layout preservation.
- Deployed customer-support chatbots on Google Dialogflow integrated with FastAPI and Salesforce CRM, raising customer self-service rate 27% through multi-turn intent design.
Senior Lead Python and AI Developer
Dell
- Led a team of 4 engineers, mentoring junior developers and owning code review for the service layer.
- Built interactive React dashboards for Dell’s accounting and tax teams, surfacing month-end close, reconciliation, and variance analysis data.
- Designed event-driven microservices on Kafka, and refactored Flask services into async FastAPI, cutting API latency 45% while lifting Pytest/TDD coverage to 92%.
- Deployed containerized services with Docker and Kubernetes on AWS, codified in Terraform and instrumented with Prometheus and the ELK Stack.
- Built an internal document search on LLMs with Retrieval-Augmented Generation, cutting project turnaround 28% for the analytics team.
Senior Python and AI Developer
Nike
- Led demand-forecasting models for AI-driven projects, improving predictive accuracy 37%.
- Built LLM personalization and sentiment classification on GPT APIs, with hybrid keyword-and-semantic catalog search over fine-tuned embeddings.
- Built scalable ETL pipelines on Databricks, boosting data processing speed 42% across analytics and BI.
- Established the MLOps framework (MLflow tracking and model registry on Databricks, with CI/CD on Jenkins and AWS CodePipeline), cutting model deployment time 46%.
- Built React front ends over RESTful APIs in FastAPI and Flask with SQLAlchemy, and designed Kafka streaming pipelines feeding real-time model-serving endpoints.
- Deployed containerized microservices with Docker and Kubernetes on AWS, and architected secure, cost-efficient services on Lambda, API Gateway, and Cognito.
Senior Python Developer
Wells Fargo
- Built Next.js front ends over scalable Python services in Django and Tornado, exposing RESTful APIs and integrating back-end services asynchronously over RabbitMQ.
- Engineered real-time data pipelines on AWS with Spark and PySpark, improving processing speed 23% for financial insights.
- Automated application deployments with AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins, and Docker, increasing deployment speed 32%.
- Designed an S3 data lake and deployed Databricks ML pipelines predicting financial metrics for risk management.
Senior Python Developer
McAfee
- Led an automation framework on Django REST Framework enabling CI and real-time stakeholder reporting.
- Built PyTorch models for defect prediction, improving early defect detection 33%.
- Engineered Redshift data warehousing that cut analysis time 18%.
Full-stack Web Developer
Western Digital
- Redeveloped web functionality in Django with ORM-backed data handling and OpenStack API integration for provisioning database infrastructure.
- Built React dashboards (class components) and Tableau reporting for manufacturing metrics.
- Built REST-based automation frameworks on AWS Lambda and Docker, cutting manual testing 44%.
- Built analytics tools that cut the manufacturing defect rate 13%.
Software Developer
LG Electronics
- Developed web applications for connected health-monitoring products, building jQuery, HTML5, and CSS3 front ends over PHP services and REST APIs.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable software solutions for embedded and IoT-enabled healthcare products.
- Improved application performance, scalability, and maintainability through code optimization, API improvements, and database integration.
Experience
LLM Evaluation Platform for Banking
Document Intelligence Pipeline
Agentic RAG Copilot
Education
Master's Degree in Computer Science
Birla Institute of Technology and Science - Pilani, Rajasthan, India
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Krupajal Engineering College - Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, PyTorch, REST APIs, TensorFlow, Node.js, SQLAlchemy, PySpark, Pandas, NumPy
Tools
Pytest, Terraform, Jenkins, Amazon SageMaker, Apache Airflow, Git, Amazon Cognito, RabbitMQ, Amazon CloudFront CDN, Tableau
Languages
Python, HTML5, CSS3, GraphQL, TypeScript, Snowflake
Frameworks
Flask, Next.js, LangGraph, Tailwind CSS, Django, Spark, Django REST Framework
Paradigms
Role-based Access Control (RBAC), Model Context Protocol (MCP), Microservices, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), ETL
Platforms
LangSmith, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS IoT, Databricks, AWS Lambda, Azure, Linux, Vertex AI
Storage
PostgreSQL, Datadog, Databases, Database Management, Redshift, Amazon S3 (AWS S3)
Other
AI Agents, FastAPI, Salesforce CRM, Kafka, Large Language Models (LLMs), MLflow, AWS CodePipeline, Retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG), LangChain, Prompt Engineering, Fine-tuning, Model Evaluation, HTML/CSS, SQL Server, GitHub Actions, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Algorithms, Web Development, Software Development, Prometheus, Tornado, CI/CD Pipelines, Large Language Model Operations (LLMOps), ECS, Amazon RDS, GCP, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Data Structures, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Hugging Face, LLM Evaluation, Azure AI Document Intelligence, PDF, Document Parsing, Vector Databases
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