Engineering Leader · AI Architect
Girish Prasad
Sahu
Engineering leader with 17+ years delivering mission-critical platforms across fintech, aviation, logistics, e-commerce and public-sector domains. Most recently Lead Architect for Search at TransUnion CIBIL, ensuring 99% uptime for a national-scale credit reporting platform under RBI regulatory requirements. Currently building AI-driven systems including a production MCP-based AI Agent integrated with Anthropic Claude.
About
Who I Am
A brief introduction to my background and what drives me.
I'm an engineering leader with over 17 years of experience delivering mission-critical software across fintech, aviation, logistics, e-commerce, and public-sector domains.
Most recently, I served as the Lead Architect for Search at TransUnion CIBIL, where I maintained 99% uptime on a national-scale credit reporting platform operating under strict RBI regulatory requirements — handling millions of consumer records daily across 150+ Solr nodes.
Before that, I founded Ajatus Software and scaled it into a multi-engineer consultancy, delivering specialized solutions for Flipkart, IndiGo, a Thailand textile ERP, and the Government of Odisha's COVID-19 emergency response portals.
Today, I'm deeply invested in production AI and agentic systems— including a live MCP-based AI Agent connected to a client's production database, orchestrated via Anthropic Claude, delivering natural-language data intelligence to business users in real time.
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.
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
Let's Work Together
Open to senior engineering leadership, AI architecture, and consulting opportunities.
Whether you're building an AI-first product, architecting a high-availability platform, or looking for a technical leader who can bridge strategy and execution — I'd love to hear from you.
girish.sahu@gmail.com
linkedin.com/in/girishprsahu
Phone
+91-7735734101
Location
Bhubaneswar, India
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