Director · GenAI Architect @ Tredence

Architecting the
enterprise AI of what's next.

I'm Ashwini Sharma — building enterprise knowledge layers for AI agents, defining North Star architectures for Generative AI, Agentic AI & RAG, and turning the art of the possible into production-grade platforms.

Generative AIAgentic AIRAG Knowledge GraphsLLMOpsExplainable AI
north_star.architecture
agent EnterpriseBrain {
  knowledge: GraphRAG + VectorStore,
  retrieval: HyDE → rerank → context,
  reasoning: multi-agent orchestration,
  guardrails: responsible-ai,
  observability: LLMOps + evals,
}
// scaled beyond PoC → production
deploy EnterpriseBrain  cloud 
14+ yrs
10× scale
$5M saved
01 — About

From telecom data at planetary scale to enterprise GenAI.

Over 14 years across Information & Communication Technology — from processing billions of records a day for global telecoms to architecting the enterprise knowledge layer that powers autonomous AI agents today.

I advise C-level stakeholders on AI strategy and translate cutting-edge GenAI capabilities into organization-wide platforms that live beyond the pilot. My work spans the full arc: executive discovery → North Star architecture → production delivery, with a deep focus on governance, cost-efficient inference and LLMOps observability.

Alongside the engineering, I'm a published Explainable-AI researcher — my Master's thesis introduced RICE, a method for extracting human-interpretable rules from convolutional neural networks.

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North Star Architect

Scalable design patterns for multi-agent orchestration, reasoning workflows & secure enterprise integration.

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Art of the Possible

Evaluating & deploying Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI / Gemini Enterprise & Databricks AgentBricks at scale.

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Researcher

M.S. in AI (Thesis Track), UNT. Published in MDPI on interpretable rules from CNNs.

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Global Delivery

Onsite engagements across 10+ countries spanning the US, Europe, the Middle East & Africa.

02 — Building Now

What I'm building right now.

My current frontier at Tredence — agentic platforms, code intelligence, and AI across the whole development lifecycle.

🧬 Flagship

Agnostic Agent Meta-Platform

A spec-driven meta-platform that spawns agents on demand — deliberately agnostic across cloud, framework, vector DB, runtime and LLM. You describe the agent in a spec; the platform assembles, wires and ships it. Swap any layer — model, runtime, store — without a rewrite, and no vendor lock-in.

  • Meta-Platform
  • Spec-driven Dev
  • Cloud-agnostic
  • Framework-agnostic
  • VectorDB-agnostic
  • Runtime-agnostic
  • LLM-agnostic
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Code Knowledge Graph

Ingesting entire code estates into a knowledge graph over code — capturing inter-repo and system-wide dependencies to predict blast-radius and automate the SDLC.

  • Code Ingestion
  • Knowledge Graph
  • AST · Merkle
  • Impact Analysis
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AI-DLC · Greenfield & Brownfield

Bringing AI across the full development lifecycle — accelerating greenfield builds and modernizing brownfield legacy systems with the same agentic tooling.

  • AI-DLC
  • Greenfield
  • Brownfield
  • SDLC Automation
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Agentic Document Intelligence

Production IDP combining Azure Content Understanding, Databricks AI Parse & AI Extract and fine-tuned SLMs for accurate, cost-efficient extraction at scale.

  • Azure Content Understanding
  • Databricks AI Parse
  • AI Extract
  • SLMs
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Polyglot Vector + Graph Stores

The right store for each job — vector and graph side by side: Azure Cosmos DB & Cosmos Gremlin, Postgres pgvector, and graphs on Postgres via Apache AGE.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Cosmos Gremlin
  • Postgres pgvector
  • Apache AGE
03 — Speaking & Media

Sharing the work out loud.

Webinars, blogs & features on enterprise GenAI, Agentic AI and Intelligent Document Processing.

04 — Impact

Outcomes, not just output.

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Years in ICT & AI
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Fraud losses averted
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Fraud subscribers stopped
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System uptime
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Startup scale-up
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Countries onsite
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Papers reviewed
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Publications
05 — Expertise

A full-stack AI builder's toolkit.

From the math of neural networks to enterprise-grade LLMOps — here's where I go deep.

GenAI competency map

Relative depth across the modern GenAI stack.

Domain focus

Where my day-to-day energy goes.

Platforms & tooling — hands-on depth

A sample of the GenAI / LLMOps stack I build with.

GenAI & RAG

  • RAG Pipelines
  • Agentic AI
  • Agentic Meta-Platform
  • Spec-driven Dev
  • GraphRAG
  • LightRAG
  • Knowledge Graphs
  • Code Ingestion
  • Code Knowledge Graph
  • AI-DLC (Green/Brownfield)
  • Chunking Strategies
  • Contextual Retrieval
  • Re-Ranking
  • HyDE
  • Embeddings
  • Vector Stores
  • Prompt & Context Eng.
  • Code Indexing (AST · Merkle)

Models & ML

  • LLM / SLM Fine-tuning
  • SLMs
  • Gemini
  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic
  • Llama
  • Cohere
  • BERT
  • VGG16
  • Nomic
  • TensorFlow
  • Scikit-learn
  • Computer Vision
  • Explainable AI
  • Synthetic Data

LLMOps & Tooling

  • Arize
  • Galileo
  • LangFlow
  • NeuralSeek
  • Nvidia NeMo
  • NV-Ingest
  • Docling
  • Unstructured.io
  • Uniphore X-Stream
  • Accenture Aspire
  • LLM-as-a-Judge
  • Observability & Evals

Cloud & Data

  • AWS
  • GCP / GKE
  • Azure OpenAI
  • Azure Content Understanding
  • Databricks AgentBricks
  • Databricks AI Parse / Extract
  • Vertex AI
  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Cosmos Gremlin
  • Postgres pgvector
  • Apache AGE
  • Python
  • SQL / PL-SQL
  • Graph DBs
  • NetworkX
  • Data Engineering
  • Cloud Infra Architecture

Analytics & Viz

  • QlikView
  • QlikSense
  • Tableau
  • Power BI
  • Grafana
  • Kibana
  • Matplotlib
  • Altair
  • Predictive Analytics
  • Hypothesis Testing
06 — Research

Making neural networks explain themselves.

My Master's research on Explainable AI — extracting human-interpretable rules from CNNs.

2023 — 2024

M.S. in Artificial Intelligence · Thesis Track

University of North Texas, USA

Thesis on Explainable Deep Neural Networks (RICE). Built fully-connected nets for binary & multi-class text classification from scratch with custom penalties & loss functions. Reviewed 50+ top AI/ML papers.

2007 — 2011

B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering

Technical University, Rajasthan, India

Foundations in computer science & engineering.

07 — Global Reach

Delivered on the ground, worldwide.

Onsite engagements across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East & Africa.

🇺🇸 USA 🇸🇪 Sweden 🇳🇴 Norway 🇷🇴 Romania 🇲🇦 Morocco 🇿🇦 South Africa 🇦🇪 UAE 🇮🇷 Iran 🇨🇳 China 🌍 MENA region
08 — Experience

14 years, one trajectory.

Telecom data & revenue assurance → machine learning → enterprise GenAI architecture.

Oct 2025 — Present

Director — GenAI Architect

Tredence

Defining enterprise North Star architectures for Generative & Agentic AI — scalable patterns for multi-agent orchestration, reasoning workflows, RAG knowledge systems & secure integration. Advising C-level stakeholders and driving large-scale deployment of Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI / Gemini Enterprise & Databricks AgentBricks. Currently building a cloud-, framework-, vector-DB- and LLM-agnostic meta-platform that spawns agents from specs, plus a code knowledge graph that automates the AI development lifecycle across greenfield & brownfield.

  • North Star
  • Agentic Meta-Platform
  • Code KG
  • AI-DLC
  • LLMOps
Nov 2024 — Oct 2025

Enterprise Architect — GenAI CoE, Tech Strategy

Verizon (End Client)

Led enterprise-wide unstructured-data handling for RAG: ingestion, chunking, enrichment, metadata extraction, topic modeling, embedding & indexing. R&D on multi-query retrieval (HyDE, intent extraction, hybrid keyword+semantic, re-ranking). Built the knowledge layer ingesting code repos to map system-wide impacts and automate the SDLC.

  • RAG
  • Knowledge Layer
  • GCP / AWS
  • Arize
Nov 2022 — Oct 2024

AI / ML Consultant — Freelance

While pursuing Master's in AI

Moved an African telco from static-threshold to ML-based fraud detection with an open-source stack and an interactive GUI for real-time precision/recall trade-offs. Designed & deployed a North Star architecture that helped an AI startup scale 10× with reduced hallucinations. Sized GPUs and fine-tuned models from 130M to billions of params (VGG16, BERT-large, Nomic, Llama 3B).

  • Fine-tuning
  • 10× scale
  • GPU sizing
Apr 2019 — Sep 2022

Technical Manager — Risk Assurance & Analytics

Subex Limited

Led engineers & consultants delivering real-time analytics on billions of daily records. Ensured 99.9% uptime, deployed ML models that averted $5M in fraud losses, and automated workflows suspending 200K+ fraudulent subscribers — AWS-native, Python & ML.

  • $5M saved
  • 99.9% uptime
  • AWS
May 2018 — Apr 2019

Manager — Internal Data Systems

Bharti Airtel

Led revenue & fraud management with real-time roaming fraud detection PoCs. Improved data integrity & governance and deployed SAS-based controls that prevented $400K in losses while hardening access to sensitive customer data. Python & Java; first ventures into AI.

  • $400K saved
  • Governance
Nov 2017 — May 2018

Consultant — RA (Data Strategy)

Notrika Radman Communications

Defined scope & strategy for Revenue & Business Assurance, built a master-data-management framework for subscriber data, delivered leakage KPIs, and reduced false positives for more accurate revenue reporting.

  • MDM
  • Data Quality
Aug 2017 — Nov 2017

Senior Engineer — Revenue & Fraud Ops

Etisalat, UAE

Deep data analysis to uncover new leakage & fraud scenarios, implemented system controls, expanded data coverage and stood up 24×7 monitoring dashboards enabling predictive maintenance.

  • Fraud Ops
  • Dashboards
Sep 2014 — Aug 2017

Senior Engineer — Implementation & Data Analytics

Subex Limited

Led global telecom analytics engagements across fraud detection, churn & network optimization. Designed metrics for high-revenue / high-risk zones with real-time sim-box controls and signaling-level auto-deactivations. Statistical auto-thresholding — my first exposure to learning algorithms.

  • Telecom Analytics
  • Sim-box
Feb 2014 — Jun 2014

Business Analyst — Mediation

IBM

Built production rules for the Mediation system processing billions of CDRs in near real-time with fail-safe delivery to multiple downstream systems.

  • Mediation
  • CDR
Jun 2013 — Jan 2014

Executive

Tishitu Research & Consultancy

Embedded & robotics project design and development for the Department of Science & Technology.

  • Embedded
  • Robotics
Oct 2011 — May 2013

Engineer — Deployment & Data Migration

Huawei Technologies

Led data migration for product upgrades, deployed & configured BSS stack (rating, charging, billing, mediation) and worked with smart memory databases (SMDB) for real-time rating & charging — state-of-the-art for its time.

  • BSS
  • SMDB
09 — Contact

Let's architect something ambitious.

Advising on enterprise GenAI strategy, Agentic AI architecture, RAG systems or LLMOps — or just want to talk Explainable AI? I'd love to hear from you.