Ritesh Srivastava
Forward Deployed Engineer | Applied AI & Platform Engineering
Summary
Forward Deployed Engineer with 7+ years delivering customer-facing applied AI systems and production Python platforms. At Adobe, build and own PRISM, an agentic release-certification CLI that cut GenAI evaluation cycles 75–90%, from person-weeks of manual sign-off to hours. Experienced partnering directly with engineering, product, and enterprise stakeholders — from requirements discovery through self-service tools, production guardrails, and adoption.
Core Skills
PythonREST APIsSQLJavaScriptJavaDjango
Applied AILLM integration (Claude/GPT)LLM-as-a-judgeAgent & skill designPrompt engineering
CLI tool designPrefectDockerAWSGitWeights & Biases
Stakeholder managementRequirements discoveryCross-team enablementProduction guardrailsTechnical documentation
Experience
Adobe Systems — Document Cloud & Artificial IntelligenceNoida, India
Lead Software EngineerJul 2025 – Present
- Build and own PRISM, an agentic CLI that turns completed evaluation runs into auditable go/no-go decisions across 13 locales and 2 pipelines (26 runs per release).
- Shipped a six-agent skill layer for Claude and Cursor, enabling non-engineering stakeholders to run and interpret evaluations independently.
- Implemented publish-isolation guardrails with allow-listed write targets, protecting shared Weights & Biases projects from cross-team data corruption.
- Root-caused and resolved two production defects surfaced by the tool — silent empty outputs and a broken triage dependency — before release impact.
- Designed an extensible onboarding path: each new GenAI feature reuses the engine and agent layer with one parser and one configuration file.
Senior Software EngineerApr 2022 – Jul 2025
- Led LLMJury, a multi-model evaluation framework across summary, podcast, and assistant features that removed 100+ manual hours per evaluation cycle.
- Partnered directly with feature teams as an embedded engineer, turning ad hoc evaluation requests into self-service tooling adopted across the organization.
- Built a Voxel51/Labelbox-integrated analysis tool that cut manual evaluation effort 80%.
Tata Consultancy ServicesNoida, India
System Engineer — embedded with Walgreens, Corteva/DuPont, EatonNov 2018 – Apr 2022
- Embedded with Walgreens, Corteva/DuPont, and Eaton; gathered requirements directly from stakeholders and delivered production CRUD systems and REST APIs.
- Built Django-based automation tools that reduced manual handling in recurring enterprise client operations.
Selected Projects
- PRISM — agentic release-certification CLI; Prefect and W&B orchestration, LLM triage, HTML report generation, and publish-isolation guardrails.
- LLMJury — multi-model GenAI evaluation framework; 30× faster and 15% more precise than human reviewers.
- CRUD & User Activity Panel — Django REST APIs built for enterprise client operations at TCS.
Education
B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering — FGIET, AKTU, Uttar Pradesh2014 – 2018
Certifications
Certified MLOps Practitioner — Adobe Cohort 01, School of DevOps
Python & Django Full Stack Web Developer — Udemy