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Aditya Pattanayak

AI Systems / Backend Engineer

I like building things, breaking them, and figuring out why they broke.

Recent rabbit holes: tool-calling reliability, retrieval failure modes, and backend systems that keep products honest.

About

  • I'm an engineering student who learns by building first, then pulling the system apart until I understand why it works.

  • I work mostly around AI systems, backend infrastructure, retrieval, and reliability, especially the quiet failures that make software look healthy when it isn't.

  • I enjoy turning fuzzy ideas into working products, measuring what breaks, and refining the details until the result feels simple.

01 / Experience

Experience

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Stealth Startup

Backend Engineer

Oct 2025 - Jan 2026
Remote

  • Worked on backend services for a production platform, contributing to APIs, data flows, and system reliability.
  • Gained hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and AWS (ECS, S3, ECR) in a fast-paced startup environment.
  • Collaborated cross-functionally while learning real-world trade-offs between rapid iteration and maintainable system design.

02 / Projects

Projects

A few things I've been building.

Aegis project preview

Aegis

LLM Reliability

01

A reliability runtime for LLM tool-calling agents, focused on catching silent execution failures before they disappear into successful-looking runs.

Reduced silent tool-call failures from 6 -> 0 across an initial 22-case benchmark.

Python · Agents · Tool Calling · Reliability · Benchmarks

Exora project previewLive

Exora

AI Product

02

Real-time competitive intelligence engine - multi-LLM pipelines, SSE streaming, and BYOK architecture.

TypeScript · Exa API · Groq · SSE · BYOK

Tokaroo project preview

Tokaroo

Retrieval Evaluation

03

Adaptive RAG evaluator - retrieval failure analysis, BM25 + cross-encoder reranking, and context compression.

Python · RAG · BM25 · Reranking · Evaluation

ChunkdUp project preview

ChunkdUp

Memory Infrastructure

04

Chunking strategy explorer - how LLMs process and retrieve context, without abstraction layers.

Python · Chunking · Retrieval · Embeddings · Context

03 / Stack

Stack

tools that have earned a place in the toolbox

RAG
Embeddings
BM25
Reranking
Evaluation
Python
FastAPI
Node.js
TypeScript
Docker
AWS
GitHub Actions
Redis
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Elasticsearch

04 / GitHub

GitHub Activity

A little proof that I'm usually building something.

05 / Writing

Writing