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CHITRANSH SAXENA

SR. STAFF ENGINEER · GENAI × DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

I build production retrieval systems that don't fall over — RAG, embedding pipelines, exactly-once streaming at enterprise scale. The architecture and the taste are mine; the machine holds the boilerplate. A poet who ships RAG.

7+ yrs shipped3+ yrs genai1.5M txns/day+35% recall@20
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Senior staff engineer shipping production RAG & exactly-once streaming — architecture and taste by hand, boilerplate by machine.

01 identity record

A poet who ships RAG.// 01

I hold the architecture and the taste; the machine holds the boilerplate. Production GenAI on distributed infrastructure — and a soft spot for things that bend through the air.

··leetcode solved ··github commits ··public repos
··site visits
handle@chitransh-saxena
roleSr. Staff SWE — IBM
focusRAG · embeddings · streaming
baseBangalore, IN · UTC+5:30
exp7+ yrs · 3+ GenAI · 1.5+ Claude Code
toolingClaude Code daily, 1.5+ yrs
status◉ open to hard problems
  • signal RAG · +35% recall@20
  • scale 1.5M txns/day · 99.99%
  • off-hours FPV drones · guitar · photography
  • on grass trivela free-kicks · juggling

02 experience.ledger — open a row

Three latent shelves.// 02

01 IBM Software Labs Sr. Staff SWE 2024 — now BLR RAG · +35% recall@20

IBM Bob RAG Team — watsonx Code Assistant for Z, configurable SaaS embedding & RAG platform · Go codebase

  • Architected & led (4 devs · 2 QEs) an end-to-end embedding + RAG pipeline ingesting 8K+ code pairs, 50+ docs and 250+ runtime examples.8K+ PAIRS
  • Integrated SPLADE learned-sparse retrieval after a deep BM25 study, with sub-second hybrid inference.+35% RECALL@20
  • Prototyped vector search on MilvusDB (HNSW/IVF, quantization), then ported to a hybrid Elasticsearch (x86) + OpenSearch (s390x, IBM Z) stack via a zero-downtime migration.<900MS
  • Profiled Go inference services for memory issues in ONNX Runtime bindings and batch-optimized the reranking stage.P99 4S → SUB-2S
  • Redis Streams backbone with a novel LSP-based chunking algorithm over 10K+ artifacts via custom MCP tools.SUB-100MS · 99.95%
  • Re-architected a monolith; adopted by 4+ teams. ★ Star of the Month in 2 months.90% REUSE
  • Extended the platform into a multi-tenant, customer-facing SaaS product — configurable ingestion (docs, code, PDFs), per-tenant deployment.MULTI-TENANT
  • Synthetic-data pipeline, TDD-validated, for LLM extended pre-training.50K FROM 5K · 10×
  • Shipping it in Go (Golang) — actively leveling up the language on the job.

GoRAGSPLADEMilvusDBElasticsearchOpenSearchs390xONNX RuntimeRedis StreamsMCP

Fault-tolerant event-driven stream processing at retail scale

  • Designed & owned a fault-tolerant, event-driven stream platform sustaining 1.5M txns/day @ 50 TPS on 3-broker Kafka (RF=3) — idempotent producers, exactly-once semantics, DLQ isolation.99.99% AVAILABLE
  • Cut p99 consumer lag by collapsing 15+ redundant queries into 3; compressed the wire format 67% (150 → 50 bytes).P99 2S → 0.5S
  • Architected an extensible event-processing framework (Strategy/Factory/Decorator, Resilience4j circuit breakers, bulkhead isolation, backoff retries).50+ TYPES · 15+ TOPICS
  • Ran 12+ autoscaled microservices on K8s; built a MERN release-automation control plane across 20+ repos.7–10D → 45S
  • Eliminated 2 recurring SPOFs; drove SRE-led P1 incident response (logging + Jaeger tracing).MTTR −40%

KafkaExactly-onceKubernetesResilience4jJaegerMERN

Decomposing monoliths, squeezing C++ pipelines

  • Decomposed 3 monoliths into distributed microservices with leader election.THROUGHPUT +60%
  • Re-engineered latency-critical C++ pipelines across 15K+ LOC — profiling, leak elimination, hot-path restructuring; owned on-call.−55% RUNTIME

C++MicroservicesLeader electionOn-call

edu — B.Tech Information Technology · SRM Institute · 2015–2019 · 88%

03 stack.matrix — click a cluster to expand its tools ›

The competency lattice.// 03

00GenAI / MLRAGEmbedding modelsSemantic & hybrid searchBM25 / SPLADERe-rankingMultimodal ingestSynthetic dataFine-tuningPrompt engAgentic codingMCP11
01Retrieval / ANNFaissHNSWIVFQuantizationANN indexingHybrid retrieval06
02DatabasesPostgreSQLMS SQL ServerMongoDBElasticsearchOpenSearchMilvusDB06
03Streaming / DistributedApache KafkaRedis StreamsExactly-onceEvent-drivenDLQsMicroservicesLeader electionCircuit breakersHASRE & observability10
04FrameworksSpring BootSpringResilience4jgRPCREST APIsNode / ExpressReact07
05LanguagesJavaPythonC++GoSQLNoSQL06
06InfrastructureKubernetesDockerHelmAzureGrafanaPrometheusJaeger07
07Personal / Self-hostedGitHub SCMGitHub ActionsGitHub IssuesGitHub ProjectsCloudflare DNSCloudflare WorkersCloudflare Zero TrustWAF / SSLOracle Cloud · OCIDockerTerraformWrangler12

04 how i build

I ship with Claude Code in the loop.// 04

For 1.5+ years it's been my default tooling — agentic coding, custom MCP servers, rapid POCs across enterprise & personal work. More shots on goal.

“I hold the architecture and the taste; the machine holds the boilerplate.”
  • POCs in hours, not weeks
  • Custom MCP tools wired into real data
  • Tests-first, even for throwaways

↳ this site was designed & shipped with Claude Code, served from Cloudflare's edge.

// retrieval_pipeline
RAG retrieval pipeline Five stages, left to right: ingest, chunk via LSP, embed, index, retrieve. ingest chunk·LSP embed index retrieve // idle — press RUN_QUERY to trace a retrieval
chitransh@edge — claude
~/portfolio claude "render my résumé as a calm console"
✓ Astro · Lenis momentum scroll · GSAP reveal
✓ light / dark themes · magnetic controls · ⌘K palette
✓ Inter · Fraunces · JetBrains Mono
→ shipped to the edge
~/portfolio ▍

05 projects.index · 4 live

Sub-constellations.// 05

01● LIVE

obsidiary

An open-source publisher for Obsidian vaults — wikilinks with Obsidian's real resolution rules, transclusion, backlinks with context, a graph, and .canvas files rendered as pages. Your notes stay in their own repo and the engine is just a dependency, so upgrading never touches your writing. The renderer is isomorphic, so the same code also reads any public vault straight in the browser with no build at all.

TypeScript · Astro · remark · zero-dep core · 199 tests

live ↗code ↗my notes ↗

02● LIVE

agent-flow

An agentic-AI workflow simulator — pick an agent pipeline (deep research, RAG Q&A, multi-agent code review, support triage) and press play. Sequential steps light up in turn while independent ones fan out and run in parallel, an agent console streams the trace, and an "under the hood" panel names the real algorithm & libraries behind each step. Fully mocked & deterministic — no live model calls, runs offline.

vanilla JS/CSS · zero deps · zero build

live ↗code ↗

03● LIVE

trivela

A free-kick game that makes the Magnus effect impossible to misunderstand — curl it round the wall into the top bins. Vanilla web component, embeddable; play it live or read the source.

JavaScript · canvas · physics

live ↗code ↗

04● LIVE

deadlock-dinner

Interactive, kid-friendly visualization of the Dining Philosophers problem — locks, mutexes, semaphores & deadlock come alive, with real Java & Go code.

JavaScript · concurrency viz

live ↗code ↗

06 arcade — a tiny game, built into the page

Don't clip the hurdles.// 06

07 library — recent reads · pick a book

The open stacks.// 07

// the notes behind the shelf live at notes/reading ↗ — an Obsidian vault, published with obsidiary

08 open channel

Got a hard problem in
GenAI or distributed systems?// 08

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