Sai Mohan Kesapragada
AI Engineer at Deriv·Dubai, UAE
At the intersection of intuition and intelligence.
Currently building LLM systems and agentic tools at Deriv.
About
Systems over models.
I'm an AI Engineer at Deriv in Dubai. The part of LLM work I care about most is the layer underneath: retrieval that doesn't lie, agents that don't loop forever, and the boring plumbing that turns a model into a product.
Before Deriv I led the build of Arkaa, a production GenAI RAG platform serving enterprise customers. Before that, observability and data infrastructure on the Elastic Stack. The same instinct runs through all of it: I want to know how the system breaks, then build for that.
On the side I run small experiments. Right now: a graph reasoning agent, an Arabic voice mental-health assistant, and an eval harness I keep meaning to open-source. Most of it lives in Python and TypeScript, with Postgres for state and more bash than I'd like to admit.
Experience
Where I've worked.
- NowAI Engineer·DerivDubai, UAE
- 2023-25Technical Consultant·Spire SolutionsDubai, UAE
- 2022-23Software Engineer·kipi.biHyderabad (Remote)
Education
- 2018-22B.Tech, Computer Science·GITAM Deemed UniversityVisakhapatnam, India
Research
View on Google Scholar- 2022Building a Chatbot with Amazon Lex·IJSREM
- 2022Cloud Integration with an Android Application
- 2022Public-Key Cryptography and Digital Signatures for Cloud Data Security
Certifications
Selected work
Things I've shipped.
Arkaa
2023-25
End-to-end GenAI platform shipped to production at Spire Solutions. Built RAG over multilingual document corpora (Arabic included), text-to-SQL across MySQL and Snowflake, agentic workflows, and offline model support for on-prem deployments.
- RAG
- Text-to-SQL
- Agents
- On-prem LLMs
Writing
Notes on what I'm learning.
Short essays on AI engineering, data infrastructure, and the messy parts of shipping production systems.
Building Multi-Language RAG
Multilingual LLMs lose context in regional languages. Comparing three translation approaches (OpenAI, Google Translate, Argos) for production-grade RAG.
5 minMigrating to Elasticsearch with Logstash and Kafka
Streaming production data into Elasticsearch with Kafka as the buffer and Logstash as the pipeline.
4 minSnowflake to Elasticsearch with Logstash
Moving data from a structured warehouse to a search-first store, with the configs and Windows gotchas to make it work in practice.
3 min