Krishna Kategaru

Krishna Kategaru

AI Consultant • Data Scientist • Systems Thinker

AI Architecture & System Design for Production

I help teams design, review, and de-risk AI systems—from GenAI and RAG to multi-agent workflows and data platforms—with a focus on production readiness, cost efficiency, and measurable outcomes.

Multi-Agent SystemsRAG & KnowledgeLLMOpsModel Context ProtocolData ScienceWorkflow Automation

Architecture Reviews

RAG/agent designs, data flows, security, and scaling — with clear recommendations.

System Design

Reference architecture, tradeoffs, APIs, and operational plan for production rollout.

PoC → Production

Turn prototypes into reliable systems with evaluation, observability, and guardrails.

Who this is for

Teams building AI features that must work in the real world: with messy data, real users, compliance, budgets, and uptime requirements.

Engineering teams shipping GenAI, RAG, Multi-Agent, or MCP-powered workflows

Founders validating whether AI or Data Science is worth building

Leads who want an architecture or data science second opinion before committing

Managers asked to “add AI, Multi-Agent, or Data Science” without a system design plan

What I help with

Practical guidance across AI product, architecture, and delivery — from first feasibility checks to production hardening.

Feasibility & ROI

  • Use-case clarity and success metrics
  • Model vs rules vs search tradeoffs
  • Cost, latency, and risk estimation
  • Data readiness and data science opportunity analysis

RAG & Knowledge Systems

  • Indexing strategy, chunking, retrieval, reranking
  • Grounding, citations, and hallucination controls
  • Evaluation: relevance, faithfulness, and drift
  • Data pipelines, feature engineering, and data quality

Multi-Agent & Agentic Workflows

  • Tooling boundaries and failure modes
  • Human-in-the-loop checkpoints
  • State, retries, and idempotency
  • Multi-agent orchestration, communication, and collaboration
  • MCP (Model Context Protocol) integration

Production Readiness

  • Observability: traces, prompts, cost dashboards
  • Security & privacy: PII, secrets, access controls
  • Reliability: SLAs, fallbacks, and safe degradation
  • LLMOps, Responsible AI, and continuous evaluation

Architectures & system design

I design systems end-to-end: user workflow → APIs → data → compute → evaluation → monitoring. Below are common reference architectures I help teams implement.

RAG for enterprise knowledge

When to use: When answers must be grounded in internal documents/data.

What’s inside: Ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector store, reranking, citations, eval.

Agent + tools (workflow automation)

When to use: When tasks require calling APIs, updating systems, and multi-step reasoning.

What’s inside: Tool design, permissions, state, retries, human approvals, audit logs.

AI copilots inside products

When to use: When users need guided actions: search, summarize, draft, and decision support.

What’s inside: UX patterns, guardrails, prompt contracts, telemetry, A/B + evaluation.

Data platform for ML/AI & Data Science

When to use: When data reliability or advanced analytics is the bottleneck for any model, GenAI, or business system.

What’s inside: Pipelines, data contracts, feature/data stores, quality checks, lineage, analytics, and data science workflows.

How I work

Clear, system-first thinking. I aim to reduce ambiguity, make tradeoffs explicit, and produce artifacts your team can execute.

1) Discovery

Understand goals, constraints, current stack, data, and users.

2) System design

Define architecture, interfaces, components, and failure modes.

3) Evaluation plan

Define test sets, metrics, review loops, and launch criteria.

4) Delivery support

Help your team implement, iterate, and harden for production.

Deliverables you’ll receive

You’ll leave with concrete outputs your team can implement — not just a call recording.

Architecture pack

  • High-level diagram + component responsibilities
  • Key tradeoffs and recommended decisions (ADRs)
  • Failure modes and mitigations

System design details

  • Data flows, APIs, and sequence of operations
  • Security & privacy considerations
  • Cost/performance notes and scaling plan

Evaluation plan

  • Metrics and acceptance criteria
  • Golden set / test set strategy
  • Monitoring + feedback loop recommendations

Execution roadmap

  • Prioritized backlog for MVP/PoC
  • Risks, unknowns, and validation steps
  • Phased rollout strategy

Engagement options

1:1 architecture review

A focused session to review your AI system design and identify risks, tradeoffs, and next steps.

  • • 60 minutes • video call
  • • You share context + diagrams (if available)
  • • You receive written recommendations
Book a session

System design sprint

Short engagement to produce a production-ready architecture, evaluation plan, and rollout approach.

  • • 1–2 weeks
  • • Architecture pack + roadmap
  • • Stakeholder-friendly docs
Discuss scope

Build with your team

Hands-on support to implement, evaluate, and ship — with guardrails, monitoring, and reliability.

  • • Part-time / project-based
  • • Pairing + reviews + PR guidance
  • • Confidential, practical, fast
Start a project

Background

I’ve worked on data science and AI systems across domains including supply chain, healthcare, and enterprise analytics. I’ve built and reviewed large-scale pipelines, GenAI applications, agent workflows, and optimization models (including MILP) on cloud platforms.

I contribute as both an individual contributor and a technical lead. Client and employer details are anonymized due to confidentiality.

Architectures, notes, and breakdowns

I publish system-thinking content and practical AI engineering notes. More written breakdowns will be added here over time.

Client testimonial

"Krishna''s guidance helped us save 30% on infrastructure costs while scaling our AI system reliably. His cost-effective approach and practical architecture recommendations were exactly what we needed."

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Confidential Client
AI Platform Lead

FAQ

Do you work with startups and enterprises?

Yes. The approach is the same: clarify outcomes, design the system, and ensure it’s shippable and measurable.

Can you review an existing architecture?

Yes. I’ll review your diagrams/code notes, identify risks, and propose concrete fixes and tradeoffs.

Do you build end-to-end?

I can support implementation with your team (pairing, reviews, guidance). Full delivery depends on scope and timelines.

What do you need from us to start?

A short problem statement, current stack, sample data/doc sources (if RAG), and any constraints (security, latency, budget).

Get in touch

If you’re unsure whether something makes sense, start with a conversation. Share your context and I’ll reply with a suggested next step.