Senior Backend / AI Platform Engineer based in Nairobi, Kenya.
I build production LLM systems on top of distributed Python infrastructure.
Most recently: Built a fleet spend-governance product for African operators — Teltonika telematics, M-Pesa payments, WhatsApp-native driver workflows, OCR receipt capture, and an Anthropic-API agentic system for guided fuel and maintenance investigation. Wound down operations after pre-seed runway, retaining IP and partnership relationships.
8+ years senior backend engineering across fintech, payments, healthcare, ERP, and platform work.
Strong in Python (Django, FastAPI), PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, Celery, AWS, and distributed systems. Production experience with LLM systems, agentic workflows, and the Anthropic API; deepening into RAG architecture and inference infrastructure.
@surajit.das0320 on Medium — production LLM engineering, agent design, and fleet AI.
Open-source LLM engineering projects landing through 2026: a production RAG implementation with a custom evaluation harness, an open-sourced postmortem of the Siphyy WhatsApp driver agent, a Swahili–English evaluation suite for frontier LLMs, and vLLM inference benchmarks. Pinned repos will reflect these as they ship.
Senior remote roles in AI Infrastructure, Applied AI, ML Platform, or Backend at AI-native companies. Fully remote, Nairobi-anchored, comfortable with US or EU time-zone overlap.
For senior engineering or AI infrastructure conversations: surajit.das.03211@gmail.com
- Medium: @surajit.das0320
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/surajit-das-2a704165/
- Stack Overflow: stackoverflow.com/users/14438609