Hrishikesh Gawde

About

LLM/agentic systems practitioner who specializes in moving demo-only assistants into reliable, observable, cost-controlled production services. Strong in real-time diagnosis of complex agent workflows (including tracing, loop detection, and guardrails) and in customer-facing enablement—running workshops, building tailored PoCs, and partnering with sales to close deals by proving reliability in high-risk pilots.

Experience

Education

Key Strengths

• Takes LLM prototypes to production by defining concrete constraints (latency, cost ceilings, reliability) and modularizing prompt/tool/state layers
• Prioritizes reliability, observability, and clear ownership to build trust in production LLM systems
• Systematic real-time debugging of agentic/LLM workflows using trace-based visibility and failure-bucket classification (retrieval, tool calling, orchestration, state, prompts, infra)
• Designs pragmatic mitigations (guardrails, max-iteration caps, loop detection) to prevent runaway tool-calling and cost/latency spikes
• Adapts technical demos/workshops to audience needs with step-by-step traces, live walkthroughs, and intentionally breaking flows to teach failure modes
• Bridges sales and engineering by de-risking adoption via tailored architecture discussions and high-risk pilots that convert skeptical customers