Ayush Kaushik · Backend & AI Engineer

I build backend systems that stay up — and AI that actually ships.

I design and engineer production-grade APIs, LLM/RAG pipelines, and the data infrastructure behind them. Python and FastAPI at the core, with a focus on reliability, performance, and code other engineers trust.

FastAPI
production specialist
AI / RAG
LLM systems
20+
deep-dive articles

What I do

Engineering across the full backend stack

Four areas where I do my best work — usually where they overlap.

Backend Development

Robust Python/FastAPI services — clean architecture, async done right, and the reliability work that keeps them running at 3am.

  • FastAPI & async Python
  • SQLAlchemy & Postgres
  • Production hardening

API Architecture

Well-designed REST APIs that scale: versioning, auth, rate limiting, observability, and contracts your consumers can rely on.

  • REST & OpenAPI design
  • Auth & rate limiting
  • Caching & scaling

AI / LLM Engineering

RAG pipelines and LLM-powered features that are grounded, evaluated, and production-ready — not demos that fall over.

  • RAG & vector search
  • LLM app integration
  • Evaluation & guardrails

Data Pipelines

Ingestion, transformation, and scheduling that move data reliably — from one-off scripts to scheduled, monitored workflows.

  • ETL & ingestion
  • Scheduling & jobs
  • Cloud (GCP) automation

Selected work

Deep dives into real production problems

Not case-study theater — full technical breakdowns of issues I've actually debugged and shipped fixes for.

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