Independent Consultant · AI Strategist · Production Engineer
Girish Prasad
Sahu
I help companies ship their first production AI system — not a pilot. MCP agents, RAG pipelines, and LLM architecture that actually runs in production. 17+ years building mission-critical platforms. Founder of Ajatus Software, scaled to a 50-member team. Most recently Lead Architect for Search at TransUnion CIBIL.
About
Who I Am
Independent consultant helping companies ship production AI — not just prototypes.
I work with founders and technical teams to design and ship AI systems that hold up in production — MCP agents, RAG pipelines, LLM architecture, and the infrastructure around them. My focus is getting past the pilot phase to something that runs reliably at scale.
Most recently, I served as the Lead Architect for Search at TransUnion CIBIL — a national-scale credit reporting platform under RBI regulation, 99% uptime across 150+ Solr nodes, millions of consumer records daily.
Founder Story
In 2008 I started Ajatus Software alone — a laptop, a few client leads, and a bet that enterprise software could be done better by a small, focused team. Over the next decade I grew it to 50 engineers, shipping production systems for Flipkart, IndiGo, a Thailand textile manufacturer, and the Government of Odisha. I managed the full business — engineering, hiring, sales, P&L, and client relationships across India and the UK.
That experience — building a team from zero, winning enterprise clients, and delivering under real commercial pressure — is what I bring to every engagement today. Not just architecture on a whiteboard, but systems that ship and stay up.
Today I'm focused on production AI and agentic systems— including a live MCP-based AI Agent connected to a client's production database, delivering natural-language data intelligence to business users in real time via Claude.
B.Tech, Information Technology
CET, Bhubaneswar — 2004–2008
17+
Years Experience
150+
Solr Nodes Managed
99%
Platform Uptime
₹50L+
ARR Growth Driven
Domains
Core Strengths
- High-Availability & Zero-Downtime Platform Engineering
- Enterprise & Solution Architecture at Scale
- Production AI Agents & MCP Systems
- Engineering Team Leadership & P&L Ownership
- DevOps, SRE & Observability Pipelines
Experience
Where I've Worked
A timeline of my professional journey across enterprise and startup environments.
Principal Consultant
Blackbuck Insights (assigned to TransUnion CIBIL)
July 2022 – April 2026
Bhubaneswar, India
- Enterprise Architecture: Solr Consultant for Search on a national-scale credit reporting platform with 99% uptime across 150+ nodes.
- Revenue Growth: Spearheaded technical delivery and vendor-client management, driving ₹50L+ in annual recurring revenue growth.
- Performance Engineering: Optimized Apache Solr schema, shard/replica topology, caching and JVM tuning — cutting query latency significantly.
- Zero-Downtime Platform: Architected VIP + Keepalived pattern enabling zero-downtime patching and version upgrades across production.
- Observability & Automation: Implemented Grafana/Prometheus dashboards and Jenkins pipelines for restarts, sanity checks and leader switches.
- Security & Compliance: Led cluster-level Basic + JWT authentication rollout under stringent InfoSec and RBI regulatory frameworks.
- Crisis Resolution: Deployed as "Special Intervention" lead for mission-critical blockers; received formal commendations from India Head VP.
Founder & CTO
Ajatus Software Pvt. Ltd.
2008 – Present
India
- Giovani Textile (Thailand): Sole Architect for international ERP covering fabric lifecycle, production, billing and sales. Integrated BizSense AI for data-driven insights from production and sales schemas.
- Flipkart (B2B Commerce): Architected B2B commerce platform with SolrCloud topology serving millions of products with sub-second response.
- IndiGo (Fleet Management): Designed fleet-tracking and resource management system improving real-time visibility across aircraft logistics.
- Government of Odisha: Architected two state-wide COVID-19 crisis-response portals — Oxygen Portal (state-wide real-time tracking) and Migration Portal (managing migrant worker movement during national lockdown).
- Business Scaling: Grew from founder-led into multi-engineer delivery org; managed full-cycle product development and P&L across India and the UK.
Projects
Things I've Built
A selection of production systems, AI agents, and platform engineering work.
Giovani AI Agent — Production MCP System
Production AI Agent deployed as an MCP server connected directly to the client production database, orchestrated via Claude/Claude Code. Ingests live database schema and ER diagrams, answers natural-language queries against operational data in real time, and auto-generates graphs and visualizations for business users.
System Architecture
TransUnion CIBIL — Strategic AI Platform
EnterpriseHigh-level AI roadmap to automate analysis of complex client inquiries and technical troubleshooting. Orchestrated RAG pipelines connected to Splunk and Solr consoles for real-time log ingestion. Implemented MoM variance tracking and automated root cause analysis of result discrepancies.
E-Challan — AI Traffic Violation Detection
DeployedComputer vision pipeline for real-time traffic violation detection. Trained custom YOLOv5 model (TensorFlow) from scratch for no-helmet detection, triple riding and wrong-side driving. Built low-latency FastAPI inference APIs, distributed RabbitMQ image queue, and integrated with Parivahan for automated challan generation.
MCP-Driven Infrastructure Management
ProductionMCP server for managing diverse Linux distributions on AWS via SSH. Handles automated software deployment, real-time server health monitoring, and proactive CPU/memory spike alerting. Reduces operational toil for multi-server fleet management.
Multilingual Audio Sentiment Analytics
DeliveredAnalytics pipeline for audio recordings in mixed local languages. Used Sarvam AI for English translation and Groq API with open-source models for high-speed sentiment extraction. Delivered a centralized dashboard visualizing sentiment trends and detailed call analysis.
AI-Driven E-commerce Creative Pipeline
ActiveCreative pipeline leveraging Claude and Higgsfield API to generate dynamic product-on-model imagery. Utilized Bulk APIs to automate image creation for e-commerce catalogs and automated the end-to-end product creation flow for WooCommerce.
ModelRouter — Multi-LLM Cost Router
ActiveIntercepts Claude Code traffic via mitmproxy and routes tasks by complexity to Gemma/Ollama/Codex/Gemini/Claude Pro. Reduces token costs 60–70% on long agent runs by matching task complexity to the cheapest capable model. Fully transparent to the Claude Code CLI.
CodeReviewer — LLM Eval Harness
ActiveLLM-based code review and regression evaluation harness. Tracks hallucination rates and quality drift across model versions. Runs automated diff reviews, scores outputs against golden sets, and surfaces regressions before they reach production.
Testimonials
What Clients Say
Outcomes from founders and teams I've worked with.
Girish stepped in and helped our team resolve a slow-loading issue we had been struggling with for two weeks. His hands-on involvement and leadership made a real difference. What has stood out most is how consistently he has supported us since the initial deployment — whenever we get stuck, he ensures things move forward. His technical depth and guidance have been genuinely valuable to our team.
Rachan Singhpathom
Client · Giovani Textile, Thailand
Skills
What I Work With
Across architecture, engineering, data, and AI — a full-stack of capabilities.
Architecture & Platform
- Enterprise Architecture
- High-Availability Design
- Microservices
- SolrCloud
- ZooKeeper
- HAProxy
- Keepalived / VIP
- Load Balancing
Languages & Frameworks
- Java (Spring Boot)
- Node.js
- TypeScript / JavaScript
- Angular
- .NET
- Python
- Ionic / Cordova
Cloud & DevOps
- AWS
- Linux
- Jenkins
- CI/CD
- Shell Scripting
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Splunk
- Docker
Data & Search
- Apache Solr
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- MSSQL
- MongoDB
- Apache Kafka
- ChromaDB
AI & Emerging Tech
- Anthropic Claude & Claude Code
- MCP (Model Context Protocol)
- RAG Pipelines
- Agentic Workflows
- OpenAI Codex CLI
- Graphify Knowledge Graphs
- YOLOv5 / Computer Vision
- LLM Orchestration
Leadership & Delivery
- Engineering Management
- P&L Ownership
- Stakeholder Management
- Vendor Management
- Hiring & Mentoring
- UAT & Sign-off
Recognition
Multiple client accolades across TransUnion CIBIL, Flipkart, and IndiGo. Formal commendations from India Head VP at TransUnion CIBIL. Recognized as "Special Intervention" lead for mission-critical architectural crisis resolution.
Contact
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Have a production AI project, architecture challenge, or want to discuss an engagement? Reach out.
Whether you're building your first production AI system, need an architecture review, or want a fractional AI CTO to help your team move faster — send a message and I'll reply within 24 hours.
girish.sahu@gmail.com
linkedin.com/in/girishprsahu
Phone
+91-7735734101
Location
Bhubaneswar, India
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