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Richard Watson
Stephen Amudha

I build AI systems, LLM and RAG apps, and full-stack products.

AI & Full-Stack Software Engineer with 4+ years building production LLM & agentic AI systems end to end. I've scaled services to 30M+ requests/day for 1M+ daily users, and I ship AI with the guardrails production needs — approval workflows, RBAC & audit logging. MS in Computer Science @ UMass Amherst.

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I'm an AI & Full-Stack Software Engineer with 4+ years building production LLM, agentic AI, and web systems end to end — React/TypeScript frontends, Python and Java backends, and LLM features grounded in RAG & vector retrieval. At Zoho I led Ask ZIA, an in-app AI assistant used daily by 1M+ people, and scaled backend services to 30M+ requests/day at sub-200ms latency.

I own problems from design and architecture through deployment and operations — and I build AI with the guardrails production actually needs: approval workflows, RBAC, and audit logging. Currently the sole engineer on EchoMind at Ajace while completing my MS in Computer Science at UMass Amherst (4.0 GPA).

  • 🤖 Agentic AI, function calling & tool use
  • 🔎 RAG, GraphRAG & vector search
  • 🚀 Full-stack: React, Next.js, FastAPI, Spring Boot
  • ☁️ AWS Bedrock, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD
🎓 Education

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

M.S. Computer Science — AI, ML & Software Engineering

Jan 2025 – Dec 2026 · GPA 4.0/4.0

Anna University

B.E. Electronics & Communication Engineering

Aug 2018 – Apr 2022 · GPA 3.5/4.0

📍 Chantilly, VA, USA
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