Open to remote roles — EOR or contractor
Hello, I'm Exson Joseph
Applied AI Engineer & Full-Stack Developer
3 years shipping production software. RAG pipelines, autonomous agents, and MCP tooling — from requirements and architecture through evaluation, deployment, and customer onboarding.
Chennai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
About Me
I am an Applied AI Engineer with 3 years shipping production software, most recently building GenAI systems in production: RAG pipelines, autonomous agents, and MCP tooling. I design, build, and deploy AI products end to end — requirements and architecture through evaluation, deployment, and customer onboarding.
Currently an AI Engineer at Staples, Chennai, working daily with the US product team on agentic retail search over a Neo4j hybrid graph + vector index. Alongside that I run Noetic Laboratories, where I have taken a product from first demo to a signed paying customer solo — Agnihr for labour compliance, and Striketroop, a pre-launch WhatsApp AI CRM for clinics.
Technical Skills
Languages
GenAI / LLM
Full-Stack
Integrations & Deployment
Cloud / MLOps
Databases / Vector
Work Experience
AI Engineer — Staples
Chennai, India
- Built autonomous AI agents from scratch for natural-language product search and discovery across the retail catalog.
- Designed hybrid graph and vector retrieval in Neo4j over pure vector, with re-ranking, to map complex product relationships and improve accuracy on relationship queries.
- Built MCP servers (FastMCP) for secure LLM tool orchestration over internal REST APIs, serving real-time product and inventory data.
- Ran the ML lifecycle on Databricks (Azure) with MLflow: experiment tracking, eval gates, and production monitoring.
- Work daily with the US product and engineering team on requirements, demos, and rollout, on overlapping US business hours.
Founder & AI Engineer — Noetic Laboratories
Chennai, India
- Own the full commercial loop solo: requirements, architecture, build, deployment, onboarding, and support.
- Agnihr (labour-compliance automation for contractors): closed the first paying B2B customer solo, from first demo through signed annual contract and onboarding.
- Striketroop (pre-launch WhatsApp AI CRM for clinics): architected a RAG and guided-agent system with grounded responses, PII-safe patient data handling, and an owner dashboard; added Langfuse evals, OpenRouter multi-model routing, Razorpay billing, and self-managed VPS deployment.
Gen AI Engineer — Workcohol
Chennai, India
- Built a GenAI conversational assistant for natural-language data querying, lifting week-1 onboarding by 40%.
- Built document Q&A and semantic search over platform docs with LangChain, Gemini, and ChromaDB.
- Drove prompt-flow design across product and design, owning the spec, eval criteria, and trade-offs.
Full Stack Engineer — Workcohol
Chennai, India
- Launched a Hiring Assessment SaaS (Next.js, Node.js, MongoDB) for HR consultancies, handling 1K+ assessments per month, including admin dashboards, candidate workflows, and anti-cheating mechanisms.
- Optimized SEO, page load speed, and Core Web Vitals across the marketing site, improving search visibility and load performance.
Product Intern — GoX.ai
Chennai, India
- Contributed to a marketing analytics reporting platform.
- Implemented Pinterest OAuth and built Node.js backend logic to retrieve ad analytics via REST API.
Key Projects
Agentic chatbot handling itineraries, cabs, and hotels in one conversational flow, with Pinecone semantic search and Google Maps routing.
AI tool that reads candlestick chart images and returns plain-language trading insights.
SaaS-style chatbot generator shipped in 3 weeks: builds a one-line embeddable widget from a customer's own documents.
Certificates
Education
Bachelor of Engineering — Computer Science
Anna University
2019 – 2023
Get in Touch
Open to remote Applied AI / GenAI roles — full-time via EOR, or contract. Flexible for US/EU overlap hours. Fastest reply is email.