Senior Software Engineer building production agentic AI for regulated fintech — banking payment rails, compliance-aware RAG, and LLM systems built to survive an audit, not just a demo.

GCC · UK · India · Toptal Top 3% · Remote-first (IST, UTC+5:30)

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Eight years shipping distributed systems; now building LLM-powered agents for banks, fintechs, and IoT fleets across GCC, UK, and India. Recent war stories:

• Building the telematics AI agent at Nexular — LangGraph multi-agent orchestration + hybrid RAG over high-volume CAN-bus IoT telemetry from electric two/three-wheeler fleets across India, Africa & Southeast Asia, with Redis semantic caching and complexity-based multi-model routing.
• Cut LLM inference cost with semantic caching — a two-layer cache (exact + semantic) stopped the majority of repeat-intent queries from ever reaching the model, without sacrificing correctness in a regulated support context.
• Shipped BACS Direct Credit/Debit payment infrastructure integrating ClearBank, Temporal Cloud, and Mambu core banking for a GCC fintech — eliminating legacy workflow failures across production financial products.
• Took a Rust media pipeline from 800ms → under 200ms while cutting infra cost 25%, and pushed webhook delivery reliability up 95% with an SQS + DLQ redesign.
• Delivered a Sharia-compliant Instant Savings Account end-to-end for a GCC banking product, alongside compliant multi-currency conversion via Currency Cloud.