Ashish Ernest Jeldi

About

Built and shipped a production agentic LLM tool that helps internal teams update technical product whitepapers using plain-language edit requests, with strong guardrails (citations, verification, refusal/clarify flows) to reduce hallucinations and maintain compliance. Experienced taking LLM workflows from rapid LangChain prototypes to more predictable, debuggable LangGraph agent graphs, and orchestrating end-to-end ingestion/embedding/indexing/eval/deploy pipelines with Kubeflow.

Experience

Education

Key Strengths

• Built and deployed production agentic LLM system for technical whitepaper revision via natural-language change requests
• Strong grounding strategy: retrieval-coupled generation with citation-required prompts and verification of claims against sources
• Performance/cost optimization via dynamic indexing (re-embed only changed sections)
• Long-document and structure-preserving generation (headings/tables/format constraints) for enterprise documents
• Production reliability engineering for LLM apps (confidence thresholds, clarifying questions/refusals, fallbacks, monitoring)
• Scaled orchestration from LangChain to LangGraph for explicit stateful control flow, debugging, retries, and conditional paths
• Rigorous evaluation approach: layered testing (unit/golden/adversarial/replay) plus offline and online metrics with canary/A-B releases
• Effective collaboration with non-technical stakeholders using transparent UX patterns (diff output, citations) and iterative demos

Reference Highlights

• Proactive in researching state-of-the-art techniques
• Brings new ideas/techniques to the team
• Strong system design contributions (agents, workflow, memory schema)
• Takes the lead and acts in the team’s best interest
• Excellent stakeholder management
• Eloquent communicator
• Exceptional at simplifying complex concepts for non-technical audiences
• Helps users/testers understand and effectively test the application
• Integral in gathering feedback and addressing product gaps
• Very knowledgeable in his field
• Excited and keen to contribute
• Strong communication skills
• Able to work with people across various domains
• Translates technical concepts into clear, non-jargon language
• Helps align on problems and solutions with diverse stakeholders
• Contributed strong ideas leading to excellent project remarks
• Effective at explaining projects in depth to professors
• Supportive teammate who brings others up to speed