Rishav Upadhaya
AI & Backend Engineer — Building Scalable LLM-Driven Systems with Production-Ready RAG & Agentic Solutions
AI & ML
Django & FastAPI
pgvector
LangChain

AI Engineer Intern @ AsterGaze

Kathmandu, Nepal
Open to opportunities & collaborations

Projects

Reviso.ai

AI-first assessment platform leveraging GPT-4o and LangChain to automate exam creation, proctoring, and evaluation with vector search integration.

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Calendar Agent

AI-powered scheduling agent automating IPO events to Google Calendar with Map-Reduce summarization, reducing token usage by 30%.

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Information Extraction System

AI pipeline extracting structured company data from long documents into CSV format with robust validation and error handling.

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RAG Agent

Retrieval-Augmented Generation system analyzing PDFs to answer questions and predict trends using LangGraph and pgvector.

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Neural Network for Sentiment Analysis

NLP pipeline classifying IMDB movie reviews using TF-IDF + MLP Classifier achieving 89% accuracy on test data.

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Blog

The Model Context Protocol (MCP): The Future of LLM Tool Integration

Exploring how MCP reshapes LLM integrations for real-world AI systems and production environments.

Read on Medium

Experience

AsterGaze Technologies — AI Engineer Intern

May 2025 – Present • Engineered AI features with LangGraph & pgvector. Built Calendar Agent automating events and reducing scheduling overhead by 40%. Developed AI wrapper in Go for context-aware responses.

Leapfrog Technology — Student Partner

April 2025 – October 2025 • Completed apprenticeship with Reviso.ai capstone project. Implemented RAG system using LangChain & LangGraph. Applied Agile methodology and clean code principles.

HOBES TECH Pvt. Ltd — UI Designer

April 2023 – November 2023 • Built Figma component libraries improving design consistency by 60%. Prototyped AI-powered trip planner and collaborated with engineering teams.

Skills

Backend Development

Python, Django, FastAPI, REST APIs, WebSockets, Asyncio, Docker, Redis

AI & Machine Learning

LangChain, LangGraph, GPT-4o, Pinecone, RAG Systems, Prompt Engineering, NLP

Databases

PostgreSQL, pgvector, SQLite, MySQL

Frontend & Design

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React (Basic), Figma

Tools & Platforms

Git, GitHub, Postman, Docker, Jira, VS Code

Soft Skills

Communication, Problem Solving, Team Collaboration, Adaptability, Time Management

Certifications & Achievements

IT Essentials — Cisco
Python for Beginners — Cisco
Data Analysis with Python — IBM
LangChain: Chat with your Data — DeepLearning.AI
Campus Director — Hult Prize at Samriddhi College
Hackathon Participation (SecurityPal, Sandbox, CodeYatra)