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phaneendrakatakam/README.md

Hi, I'm Phaneendra Katakam πŸ‘‹

Cloud & DevOps Engineer β†’ Aspiring Forward Deployed Engineer

I work with cloud infrastructure, production systems, monitoring, incident response, deployments, and operational reliability.

I'm currently expanding that foundation into Applied AI and Forward Deployed Engineering, with a focus on building systems that interact with real business data, use tools, retrieve evidence, expose their execution, and solve practical problems.

My current areas of focus include:

  • AI agents and tool calling
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
  • Semantic and hybrid retrieval
  • PostgreSQL + pgvector
  • FastAPI-based AI applications
  • Agent observability and execution traces
  • Evidence grounding and hallucination control
  • Production-minded testing and reliability

πŸš€ Featured Projects

πŸ€– Support Pilot AI

AI Customer Support Resolution Agent

Support Pilot AI is a tool-using customer-support agent built around a fictional SaaS platform called CloudDesk.

Instead of relying only on an LLM's internal knowledge, the agent can choose approved tools, inspect structured business data, retrieve support documentation, and generate responses grounded in evidence.

V1 β€” Agent Foundation βœ…

  • Gemini tool calling
  • Explicit agent orchestration loop
  • Customer and subscription lookup
  • Service incident investigation
  • Semantic knowledge retrieval
  • Gemini Embedding 2
  • PostgreSQL + pgvector
  • Evidence-grounded responses
  • Hallucination guardrails
  • Developer View / Agent Trace
  • Agent-run and tool-execution persistence
  • Tool latency and failure tracking
  • 28/28 automated tests passing

Next: V2 β€” Multi-Tool Resolution

View Support Pilot AI β†’


🧠 Knowledge Hub AI

Multi-user, multimodal RAG knowledge workspace

Knowledge Hub AI evolved across three versions from a document-based RAG application into a retrieval-focused knowledge platform with private user workspaces, multimodal document understanding, hybrid retrieval, grounded generation, and broader evaluation.

Key capabilities

  • PDF, DOCX, Markdown and TXT ingestion
  • PostgreSQL + pgvector
  • Gemini embeddings and generation
  • Hybrid semantic + lexical retrieval
  • Candidate ranking / reranking
  • Grounded answer generation
  • Source attribution
  • Conversational retrieval
  • Authentication and private workspaces
  • Admin / member roles
  • Cross-user data isolation
  • Multimodal document understanding
  • Flowchart, chart and architecture-diagram retrieval
  • Unsupported-question rejection
  • 107 automated tests passing

View Knowledge Hub AI β†’


πŸ› οΈ Technical Background

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS Β· CloudWatch Β· Linux Β· Terraform Β· Docker

DevOps & Delivery

CI/CD Β· Jenkins Β· Git Β· Bitbucket Β· Octopus Deploy

Monitoring & Reliability

New Relic Β· CloudWatch Β· PagerDuty Β· Incident Response Β· Production Support

Backend & Data

Python Β· FastAPI Β· PostgreSQL Β· SQLAlchemy Β· SQL Β· pgvector

Applied AI

Gemini Β· LLM Tool Calling Β· AI Agents Β· RAG Β· Embeddings Β· Semantic Search Β· Hybrid Retrieval Β· Grounding

Testing

pytest Β· API Testing Β· Workflow Testing Β· Evaluation Β· Regression Testing


🎯 Why Forward Deployed Engineering?

What interests me about Forward Deployed Engineering is the combination of technical problem solving, customer context, system integration, production ownership, and measurable outcomes.

The kind of workflow I enjoy looks like this:

Business / Customer Problem
            ↓
Understand the Requirement
            ↓
Investigate Systems & Data
            ↓
Build or Integrate a Solution
            ↓
Validate the Behavior
            ↓
Observe & Troubleshoot
            ↓
Improve the Outcome

My Cloud/DevOps background gave me experience around production systems, reliability, monitoring and incident response.

My current AI projects are helping me build the other side of that skill set: agents, retrieval, tool use, data integration, grounding, evaluation and AI application design.


πŸ“š Current Portfolio Roadmap

Knowledge Hub AI
β”œβ”€β”€ V1 βœ…
β”œβ”€β”€ V2 βœ…
└── V3 βœ…

Support Pilot AI
β”œβ”€β”€ V1 β€” Agent Foundation βœ…
└── V2 β€” Multi-Tool Resolution β†’ Next

I'm intentionally building these projects version by version so that each release adds a deeper engineering problem rather than simply increasing the feature count.


πŸ… Certifications

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

🀝 Connect

I'm interested in opportunities around:

Forward Deployed Engineering Β· Applied AI Β· AI Agents Β· Cloud / DevOps Β· Technical Solutions Engineering

LinkedIn Β· GitHub


Building at the intersection of Cloud Engineering, Applied AI, and real-world problem solving.

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  1. KnowledgeHub-AI KnowledgeHub-AI Public

    A multi-user, multimodal RAG knowledge workspace with hybrid retrieval, grounded answers, source transparency, and private document isolation.

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  2. SupportPilot-AI SupportPilot-AI Public

    AI customer-support resolution agent with Gemini tool calling, PostgreSQL + pgvector semantic retrieval, evidence-grounded responses, and observable agent traces.

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