sreenath tella

Building agentic systems in production — open to new work

Sreenath Tella

Applied AI Engineer. I take multi-agent systems from prototype to production inside large, regulated organizations — and make their behavior legible enough that leadership will actually turn them on.

Based in
Dallas–Fort Worth, TX
Focus
Agentic AI & inference
Experience
12 yrs · 2+ in GenAI
Cloud
Azure · Salesforce · AWS
Approach

An agent is a system, not a prompt

The interesting part of applied AI isn't getting a model to answer — it's deciding what the system does when it isn't sure. This is the shape most of my production work takes.

Request INTAKE + CONTEXT Hybrid retrieval DENSE + BM25 · RE-RANK NL2SQL SCHEMA INJECTION · GATES Entity resolution CROSS-SYSTEM MATCHING PARALLEL · TOOL-CALLING AGENTS Confidence router THRESHOLD + POLICY Human review EXCEPTIONS · APPROVALS Structured output SCHEMA-VALIDATED · CITED EVALS · GUARDRAILS · PII MASKING · TRACES · COST PER TASK

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Capabilities

What I actually build

01 — Agentic systems

Orchestration & tool use

LangGraph and LangChain multi-agent graphs with parallel retrieval, confidence-based routing, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints placed exactly where being wrong is expensive. Function calling against real systems of record, with code-enforced safety gates around anything that writes.

  • LangGraph
  • LangChain
  • multi-agent orchestration
  • tool use / function calling
  • human-in-the-loop
  • state machines
  • exception handling
02 — Inference

Serving models under load

Async FastAPI inference endpoints with schema-validated structured outputs, prompt and context engineering that survives real inputs, caching and concurrency control, and per-task cost and latency budgets that hold up when volume arrives.

  • Azure OpenAI
  • OpenAI
  • structured outputs
  • prompt & context engineering
  • async FastAPI
  • Redis caching
  • cost / latency per task
03 — Retrieval

RAG that cites its sources

Hybrid dense + BM25 search with cross-encoder re-ranking and semantic chunking, tuned against a golden set rather than vibes. Citation-grounded generation, multi-tenant isolation, and dead-letter-queue recovery so ingestion failures are reprocessable instead of silent.

  • hybrid search
  • cross-encoder re-ranking
  • semantic chunking
  • Azure AI Search
  • Qdrant
  • FAISS
  • ChromaDB
04 — Evaluation

Guardrails & observability

Golden datasets, LLM-as-judge scoring, faithfulness checks, and regression evals that catch retrieval and prompt drift before release. Full agent tracing plus per-agent KPIs — cycle time, resolution rate, cost per task — so agent behavior can be explained to people who don't read traces.

  • golden datasets
  • LLM-as-judge
  • regression evals
  • prompt-drift monitoring
  • PII detection & masking
  • Langfuse
  • LangSmith
  • Arize
05 — Agentforce

Agents inside the CRM

Agentforce and Salesforce-connected automation where the CRM stays the system of record and the agent does the work around it — bi-directional integration across Sales, Service, Experience and Data Cloud, with exceptions routed back to a human queue instead of guessed at.

  • Agentforce
  • Data Cloud
  • Sales & Service Cloud
  • CPQ
  • Apex
  • LWC
  • MuleSoft
  • REST integration
06 — Data

Pipelines & production NL2SQL

Spark and Azure Data Factory pipelines feeding warehouse, reporting and retrieval layers, plus natural-language querying over large operational datasets with dynamic schema injection and static SQL validation — read paths open, destructive paths closed.

  • Python
  • SQL
  • PySpark
  • Spark SQL
  • Databricks
  • Azure Data Factory
  • Delta Lake
  • ETL / ELT
  • CDC loads
07 — Cloud

Platform & delivery

Containerized agent services on Azure with autoscale, gateway policy, managed identity, secrets handling and queue-based decoupling — shipped through CI/CD with telemetry wired in from the first deploy rather than bolted on after the incident.

  • Azure Container Apps
  • APIM
  • Service Bus
  • Key Vault
  • Entra ID
  • App Insights
  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions
  • AWS
Selected work

Shipped, not demoed

Client and employer names withheld. Detail available on request.

2025 — now

Multi-agent platform for network asset reclaim

End-to-end owner of an Azure multi-agent system validating legacy circuit records across seven OSS/BSS systems to de-risk network decommissioning. Parallel retrieval, confidence-based routing, entity resolution across inconsistent identifiers, production-safe NL2SQL, and domain compliance guardrails that keep autonomous decisions inside regulatory boundaries.

Validation cycle time: hours → minutes
2024 — 2025

Agentforce-connected order-to-cash automation

A Salesforce-connected agentic platform handling multilingual purchase-order extraction, SKU matching, compliance validation and automated order creation — replacing a manual multi-team process with an agent-driven one, with human-in-the-loop exception handling and hardened ingestion for regulated data.

Manual multi-team process → automated workflow
2024 — 2025

Evaluation harness & retrieval quality program

Golden datasets with LLM-as-judge scoring plus end-to-end tracing, paired with hybrid dense + BM25 retrieval and cross-encoder re-ranking. Retrieval and prompt regressions started getting caught before release instead of in production.

Higher answer relevance · faster failure diagnosis
2022 — 2024

Enterprise intake platform in a federal environment

Architected and delivered automated submission, tracking, eligibility review and approval workflows under federal compliance constraints, on reusable platform patterns several programs could share. Backed by Spark and Azure Data Factory pipelines into the analytics layer.

Manual case-intake time down 60%
2013 — 2022

A decade of GTM systems engineering

Eight-plus years across the lead-to-revenue lifecycle — CPQ quote-to-cash, contract lifecycle management, order management, marketing automation and customer service — which is why the AI work lands on systems that already exist rather than beside them.

Quote turnaround +30% · contract generation −45% · adoption +40%
Credentials

Certifications & education

Certifications

  • NVIDIA Certified Professional — Agentic AI
  • NVIDIA — Building AI Agents with Multimodal Models
  • Salesforce Certified Data 360 Consultant
  • AWS Certified Developer — Associate

Education

  • M.S., Computer ScienceNORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY · 2015–2016
  • B.Tech, Electrical & Electronics EngineeringJAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY · 2008–2012
Contact

Tell me what you're trying to automate

Agentic AI, retrieval, evaluation, or the systems integration underneath all three.

sreenath.aieng@gmail.com