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Sunil Gawai

Applied AI Engineer · Pune, India

Summary

Backend engineer turned applied AI engineer — queues, pipelines and multi-tenant systems, now powering reliable LLM agents.

2023/06 – Present
Full Stack Engineer · Swift Business Solutions
- Designed REST APIs in Node.js + TypeScript for concurrent production traffic; tuned PostgreSQL schemas and query plans on high-throughput paths.
- Built RabbitMQ-backed async pipelines that decouple producers from consumers for resilient background processing.
- Ran containerised services on Docker with Redis caching on hot read paths to cut database pressure under load.
- Owned backend architecture across POS and e-commerce platforms — data models, API contracts and performance.
2022/10 – 2023/04
Software Engineer · Wipro
- Contributed to enterprise backend systems: large-scale distributed service workflows, cross-team delivery and production code reviews.
2022/01 – 2022/09
Freelance Full Stack Developer · Self-employed
- Built custom web applications for small businesses with React, Node.js and MySQL.
- Delivered end to end — requirements, build and deployment — earning repeat contracts.

Ask my agent — The tool-use agent behind this site's ⌘K palette, with a live trace of every call.
Stellar POS — A 0-to-1 real-time retail platform connecting store operations to live analytics.
Diamond Trading Operations Platform — Three companies on one platform: company-scoped RBAC, ledgers and executive KPIs.

Agents & LLMs: Tool use, Agent loops, RAG, MCP, Evals, Streaming, Anthropic SDK
Backend: Node.js, TypeScript, Express, Python, REST API design
Data & messaging: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ
Infra & reliability: Docker, CI/CD, OpenTelemetry (exploring), Multi-tenancy, RBAC
Frontend: React, Next.js, Vue.js

MCA — Master of Computer Applications — PES Modern College of Commerce and Computer Studies, Pune, 2022–2025
BBA (Computer Applications) — Mahatma Phule Mahavidyalaya, Pune, 2019–2022
Languages: English, Hindi, Marathi