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title: "Somnath Kadam - Assistant Vice President in Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Somnath Kadam, Assistant Vice President @Hitachi | Production RAG & LLM Apps | Agents · LLM Guardrails | Forward Deployed AI Engineer (FDE) based in Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area. AI stack includes antigravity, opencode, and claudecode."
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# Somnath Kadam on Tal

## Headline

Assistant Vice President @Hitachi \| Production RAG & LLM Apps \| Agents · LLM Guardrails \| Forward Deployed AI Engineer \(FDE\)

## About

I build production\-grade Generative AI for banks and fintechs — systems that survive real users, real volumes, and real auditors\. 12\+ years across banking and financial services \(currently AVP at Hitachi Payment Services; earlier at Barclays\)\. I take RAG and LLM applications from prototype to production on regulated data — loan agreements, KYC files, regulatory circulars — with the guardrails, evaluation, and observability that compliance teams expect\. What I deliver: • RAG & Document Q&A — citation\-grounded answers over your internal documents\. Chunking, metadata filtering, and re\-ranking tuned for domain accuracy\. \(Cut manual review \~45% on a 2,000\+ document banking corpus\.\) • LLM Guardrails & Evaluation — responsible\-AI controls, eval harnesses, and observability so you can trust outputs and prove it\. • AI/ML & NLP — complaint categorization, transaction intelligence, document processing at scale • POC → Production — I don't stop at a demo\. Containerized, monitored, CI/CD, built to scale\. Stack: Python, LangChain/LlamaIndex, OpenAI & Hugging Face, vector DBs \(FAISS, Pinecone, ChromaDB, Weaviate\), PostgreSQL, AWS/GCP/Azure, Docker, Kafka\.

## Location

Pune/Pimpri\-Chinchwad Area

## AI stack

antigravity

opencode

claudecode

## Work experience

Assistant Vice President at Hitachi Payment Services Pvt\. Ltd\., Feb 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 7 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, I build production\-grade Generative AI for banks and fintechs — systems that survive real users, real volumes, and real auditors\. I take RAG and LLM applications from prototype to production on regulated data — loan agreements, KYC files, regulatory circulars — with the guardrails, evaluation, and observability that compliance teams expect\. What I deliver: • RAG & Document Q&A — citation\-grounded answers over your internal documents\. Chunking, metadata filtering, and re\-ranking tuned for domain accuracy\. \(Cut manual review \~45% on a 2,000\+ document banking corpus\.\) • LLM Guardrails & Evaluation — responsible\-AI controls, eval harnesses, and observability so you can trust outputs and prove it\. • Agentic AI Workflows — multi\-step automations that take action, not just chat\. • AI/ML & NLP — complaint categorization, transaction intelligence, document processing at scale \(100K\+ tx/day in production\)\. • POC → Production — I don't stop at a demo\. Containerized, monitored, CI/CD, built to scale\. Stack: Python, LangChain/LlamaIndex, OpenAI & Hugging Face, vector DBs \(FAISS, Pinecone, ChromaDB, Weaviate\), PostgreSQL, AWS/GCP/Azure, Docker, Kafka\.

Vice President of Artificial Intelligence at Hitachi Payment Services Pvt\. Ltd\., Feb 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 7 mos, Architected a RAG\-based document Q&A system over 2K\+ banking documents \(loan agreements, KYC files, regulatory circulars\) on LangChain \+ OpenAI \+ FAISS, cutting manual review time by \~45%\. Engineered chunking strategies, metadata filtering, and re\-ranking to lift retrieval precision on domain\-specific financial queries\. Built an ML/NLP classification system in Python to auto\-categorize customer complaints; designed evaluation harnesses and observability hooks\. Architected a microservices payment processing platform \(SpringBoot \+ \.NET Core\) on PostgreSQL and AWS \(EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch\), serving 1M\+ transactions/day\. Implemented event\-driven architecture on Apache Kafka for real\-time transaction processing and data streaming\. Delivered React \+ Next\.js \+ TypeScript front\-ends and \.NET Core REST APIs with secure authN/authZ\. Set up CI/CD on GitHub Actions and AWS\-native pipelines; cut application load times by 40%\. Containerized services with Docker; ran knowledge\-sharing sessions on ML, microservices, and DevOps\.

Lead Application Developer at i\-TEK RFID, Aug 2023 \- Nov 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos, Pune District, Maharashtra, India, Team Leadership & Management: Directed a cross\-functional team of 4 engineers to deliver a cloud\-native platform, resulting in 99\.9% uptime Managed full\-stack development team of 8 developers, delivering projects 25% ahead of schedule\. Led agile transformation initiative for 9\-person engineering team, increasing sprint velocity by 45% Process & Performance Improvements: Implemented DevOps practices and infrastructure\-as\-code, cutting deployment time from 4 hours to 15 minutes Optimized database queries and caching strategies, improving application response time by 60% Introduced code quality standards and peer review process, reducing production incidents by 75%

Senior Application Specialist at Infotek Software Ltd, Jul 2023 \- Sep 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos, Led full\-stack delivery on enterprise applications spanning Python services, \.NET Core APIs, and React front\-ends\. Drove architecture, design reviews, and code quality across the team; mentored engineers on microservices and async/event\-driven patterns\. Owned CI/CD on Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions; introduced Docker\-based deployments and Prometheus/Grafana observability\.

Lead Consultant at Magic EdTech, Jul 2022 \- Jun 2023 · 1 yr, Remote

Technical Lead at Magic Software Inc\., Jul 2022 \- Jun 2023 · 1 yr, Tech\-led a multi\-team product squad shipping production features on \.NET Core and React\. Designed REST APIs, set coding standards, and ran code reviews; introduced unit\-test discipline and CI checks\.

## Education

Master of Technology \(M\.Tech\.\), Computer Science and Engineering, Walchand College of engineering, Sangli

SSC, Shanta Prabhu Parasla, Ajansond

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