Vol. I  ·  No. 04 Sunday, August 2, 2026 Bengaluru  ·  Kochi Edition Price: Free

All the code that’s fit to ship

Shrijith S Menon

AI Agent Engineer LLM Systems Full-Stack Developer Est. Bengaluru
On Assignment Lead Story  ·  Engineering Desk

Building systems that actually ship.

AI Agent Engineer

Final-year Computer Science student specialising in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, currently building production-grade intelligent systems — autonomous multi-agent pipelines, real-time voice companions, and LLM-powered full-stack applications that make it all the way to users.

The work spans agentic orchestration with CrewAI, retrieval pipelines, and backend engineering in FastAPI and Django REST — shipped, deployed, and used daily rather than left in a notebook.

Section A  ·  Technical Stack

The Toolbox

Seven departments
Thirty-two instruments

01

Agentic AI & LLMs

Orchestration, retrieval, and prompt design.

CrewAILangChain Prompt EngineeringRAG LLM Fine-tuningOllama Groq API
02

AI & Machine Learning

Modelling, training, evaluation.

Scikit-learnTensorFlow HuggingFace
03

Programming

Languages in daily rotation.

PythonJava JavaScript
04

Frameworks & Tools

From API layer to deployment.

FastAPIDjango REST FlaskReact + Vite TailwindStreamlit DockerWebSockets Git / GitHub
05

Data & Visualisation

Wrangling numbers into narrative.

PandasNumPy MatplotlibSeaborn Plotly
06

Databases

Relational, document, and vector.

SQLiteMySQL ChromaDBMongoDB
07

Speech & NLP

Voice in, voice out, locally.

Vosk (STT)Piper (TTS) NLP Preprocessing

Section B  ·  Work History

Dispatches

From the field
2026 —

01

Jul 2026 — Present

Hyderabad, India

Velocity Clinical Research

AI Agent Engineer Intern

Working on the AI agent desk — building and evaluating agentic workflows in a clinical research environment.

Currently on assignment

02

Mar 2026 — May 2026

Bengaluru, India

NexGen FC

Backend Developer Intern

  • Built a Django REST Framework dashboard consolidating real-time land, legal, and task data — used daily by 15+ team members across departments.
  • Implemented role-based access control (RBAC) to restrict sensitive endpoint access to authorised roles only.
  • Integrated WhatsApp (Meta Cloud API) and SMS (Twilio) notifications using an adapter/factory pattern to keep provider logic clean and swappable.

Section C  ·  Selected Work

The Works

Three features
All shipped

Feature  ·  No. 01

StockSage

An AI-powered trading terminal

Fig. 2.1 — Signals streamed live to the terminal

A five-agent CrewAI pipeline powered by LLaMA 4 Scout via the Groq API, scanning the NSE and NYSE autonomously. It delivers real-time BUY / SELL / AVOID calls complete with entry, stop-loss, and ATR targets, streamed over SSE into a React front end with TradingView-style candlestick charts.

CrewAILLaMA 4 Groq APIReact SSE

Feature  ·  No. 02

DripMate

An AI-powered personal stylist

A full-stack outfit recommendation app driven by LLM reasoning and carefully tuned prompts. REST APIs in FastAPI, front end on Vercel, backend on Render.

FastAPILLM Prompt Eng.React Vercel

Feature  ·  No. 03

KeikoChat

A real-time voice AI companion

A voice-first companion with a FastAPI backend, emotional state handling, and multi-model LLM fallback for zero-downtime replies. Browser-native STT and TTS keep the API bill at zero; deployed on Vercel and Render.

FastAPISTT / TTS WebSocketsLLM Fallback

Section D  ·  Academic Background

The Record

Filed 2011 — 2027

2023 — 2027

Jain (Deemed-to-be-University)

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

B.Tech — Computer Science & Engineering
Specialisation: Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

CGPA 8.1 / 10

2011 — 2023

Kendriya Vidyalaya Port Trust

Kochi, Kerala, India

CBSE — 12th Standard
Physics, Chemistry & Mathematics

Stream PCM

Section E  ·  Highlights

The Honours Roll

Competitions, podiums
& committee work

01

150+ LeetCode Problems

Arrays, strings, trees, graphs, and dynamic programming.

02

4th — Jain University Hackathon

Built a 2029 India election prediction model with a live dashboard in three hours.

03

8th — 48hr CTF, MIT Manipal

Capture-the-flag cybersecurity competition across two sleepless days.

04

Event Management Lead

Third year — The Cognito Club, a 250+ member university tech society.

05

Social Media Lead

Second year — The Cognito Club, a 250+ member university tech society.

Section F  ·  Credentials

On File

Two certifications
Both verified

IBM AI Developer Professional Certificate

IBM  ·  Coursera  ·  Jan 2025

Verified
2025

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Generative AI Professional

Oracle University  ·  Oct 2025

Verified
2025

Section G  ·  Correspondence

Have something in mind?

Open to interesting projects, internship extensions, and long conversations about AI, agents, or whatever you happen to be building. The desk is open on every channel below — letters are answered in the order received.