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Forward Deployed Engineer (AI) & Product Leader | GenAI · AI Agents · RAG · Python · Azure OpenAI · AI Governance | Enterprise AI Consultant - Fortune-500 & startups | Ex-Adobe, Wells Fargo, Ethos | IIM-L MBA

About

14+ years building outcome-focused platforms across fintech, logistics, health tech and enterprise software - now as a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) shipping GenAI agents, RAG systems and AI governance inside a Fortune-500. I embed with your business teams, take vague problems and ship AI systems that are governed, measured, and actually used. At Ethos, I founded the AI first Forward Deployed Engineering practice from 0→1 (running across 4 teams, 1,500+ issues resolved). Built AI agents for bug triage and multi-agent product discovery systems that go from research input (PRD/BRD) to prototype. Today I run AI and automation and platform programs for a Fortune-500 US life-sciences company - HR, finance, regulatory, sales and supply-chain workflows across the US, Japan, Korea, Singapore, ANZ, India and the Middle East. MBA from IIM Lucknow; B.Tech in IT. I build production systems, write code, and I still think adoption beats architecture. Before: Consulted on 1→10 platform for US Healthcare. Built a no-code/low-code B2B SaaS platform at Wells Fargo (300K+ daily transactions, $8.4M customer value). Scaled a logistics SaaS at Loadshare 10x in 10 months. Spent 7 years at Adobe - Creative Cloud Enterprise and Adobe.com at 350M+ monthly visits. Specialties: Forward Deployed Engineer · Generative AI · AI Agents · Agentic AI · Multi-Agent Systems · RAG · LLM · Prompt Engineering · LLM Evaluation · Azure OpenAI · Azure AI Foundry · Python · FastAPI · Power Automate · Copilot Studio · Document Intelligence · AI Governance · Responsible AI · Enterprise AI · Product Management · Digital Transformation · Fintech · Life Sciences · Logistics · Insurtech Visit my Website: https://forwarddeployedengineers.io Fastest way to see the work: shashank.srivastava89@gmail.com Personal GitHub: https://github.com/shashanksrivastava89

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

cursor

grok

langchain

langgraph

OpenAI Agents SDK

Work experience

Principal Forward Deployed Engineer (AI) | Consultant at Forward Deployed, May 2026 - Present · 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Principal Forward Deployed Engineer to a Fortune-500 US life-sciences company: I own their enterprise AI & intelligent-automation program across HR, Sales, Finance, Regulatory and Supply Chain in APAC + US, and lead the FDE pod. • Built and shipped AI resume-screening platform - two-layer scoring (deterministic rubric + evidence-quoted LLM adjustments + bias critic), Python, FastAPI + React on Azure Container Apps, Entra ID SSO, 7-role RBAC, versioned scoring policy, audit trails, ~560 automated tests. First brief → SSO-hosted enterprise pilot in ten weeks. Human-in-the-loop by design; Legal and compliance-aware. • Distributor secondary-sales analytics across ~130 distributors: document AI, SKU matching against SAP masters, material-balance reconciliation as a data-quality signal. • Customs/trade document AI for 6 countries: Azure AI Document Intelligence extraction from commercial invoices, ~20 auto-filled declaration templates, DocuSign routing. • ADLC - Agentic development lifecycle (staged agent pipeline, human decision gates, solution-owner agents with permanent project memory, per-demand ROI gates) that lets one engineer run 4–5 parallel builds. • Statutory 48-hour HR settlement pipeline: 14+ orchestrated flows across HR, IT, Facilities, Payroll, Finance. Plus benefits-reimbursement-to-payroll and salary-communication automation. Tech Stack: Generative AI · AI agents & multi-agent systems · RAG · LLM evaluation · prompt engineering · Azure AI Foundry · Azure OpenAI · AWS · Python · FastAPI · React · PostgreSQL · Docker · Power Platform · Copilot Studio · SAP/iCIMS/DocuSign integration · AI governance.

Senior Technical Product Manager - AI & FDE at Ethos, May 2025 - May 2026 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Founded Ethos's AI-first Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) practice from 0→1 - now adopted across 4 teams. • Resolved 1,500+ partner issues, onboarded 6 insurance agencies, and established triage and resolution workflows that cut resolution time ~40%. • Built AI agents to improve how the team works: an agentic AI bug triage system that reads Slack threads, deduplicates against Jira, and recommends priority and assignee based on a self-built knowledge base of 1000+ tickets, PRDs, Figma • Piloted multi-agent product discovery system (Analyst → Strategist → Designer → Reviewer) that takes research input or a PRD and generates opportunity frames, concepts, and prototypes. • Shipped features improving insurance agent and partner experience - including underwriting routing visibility in the agent portal and fixes for critical application logic issues affecting policy issuance.

Lead Product Manager - AI Workflow Platform at Wells Fargo, May 2023 - Jan 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Pioneered vision, roadmap, and OKRs for 0-1 no-code/low-code B2B SaaS AI platform, enabling 300K+ daily transactions and $8.4M customer value. • Led 14-member team to enhance reliability by 47%, reduce downtime by 66%, and drive 22% MoM traffic growth. • Conducted customer sessions/roadshows for 63% adoption increase; implemented modular pricing to cut billing from 120 to 30 days. • Collaborated with finance/tech for data-driven features using Splunk, Elastic APM, and AWS.

Senior Product Manager at LoadShare Networks, May 2022 - May 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Launched 3P SaaS logistics platform, scaling orders 10x (20K to 200K/day) in 10 months via B2B integrations. Platform bought (acqui-hired) by Meesho. • Designed scalable WMS, Rider App, and AWS data platform (15TB/month) with Athena, Kafka, and MongoDB. • Managed 5-member team to boost order acceptance by 122%, cut incidents by 57%, and improve CSAT by 23%. • Reconciled $200K in claims; redesigned COD tracking for $500K daily cash monitoring. Clients & Partners: Meesho, Flipkart, Myntra, Shiprocket, Purple, Nykaa, Pickr

Lead Software Engineer at Adobe, May 2015 - May 2022 · 7 y, Noida

Education

Master of Business Administration, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

Certificate Program, Product Management, Product School

Public links

github: https://github.com/shashanksrivastava89

forwarddeployedengineers.io: https://www.forwarddeployedengineers.io/