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Vikas
Anand

AI Engineer turning data into decisions — building RAG pipelines, LLM systems, and enterprise data platforms that scale.

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Vikas Anand — Senior AI/ML Engineer

Building intelligent systems that actually ship.

I'm a Senior AI/ML Engineer based in London with 8+ years of experience designing and delivering production AI systems across insurance, media, and fintech. I don't just prototype — I own the full lifecycle: architecture, infrastructure, deployment, and monitoring.

At NFU Mutual, I built a natural-language analytics interface used by 200+ analysts, a RAG pipeline that cut research time from 30 minutes to under a minute, and a real-time ML recommendation engine for personalised cross-sell campaigns. At Sky UK, I scaled their primary conversational AI across help and sales journeys with production guardrails — prompt injection filtering, PII redaction, and RAG grounding.

I'm currently building FinRAG Eval — an open-source evaluation framework for financial RAG systems — as my contribution to the community and signal of depth for what comes next.

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01 / DEPTH

8+ years in AI/ML engineering

From Hyperledger deployments at Accenture to production LLM systems at top-tier UK enterprises — I've grown through each generation of the stack.

02 / BREADTH

Insurance · Media · Fintech

Delivered across NFU Mutual and Sky UK via Zensar, and built enterprise cloud platforms at Accenture serving 270+ global clients.

03 / COMMUNITY

Open-source contributor

Building FinRAG Eval — a production-grade RAG evaluation framework with hallucination detection, citation accuracy, and automated dataset construction from SEC filings.

The stack I ship with.

AI & LLMs
RAG Pipelines LangChain Azure OpenAI HuggingFace LLM Evaluation Prompt Engineering QLoRA / PEFT DeBERTa / NLI
Data Engineering
Snowflake Azure Synapse SQL PostgreSQL + pgvector MongoDB Data Quality (DMFs) sentence-transformers
MLOps & Cloud
Azure MLOps MLflow Docker Kubernetes Terraform Azure DevOps CI/CD AWS · GCP
Languages & Frameworks
Python FastAPI TypeScript Go Java Streamlit Next.js

Things I've built.

Learning & Experiments

Concurrency Bug Analyser

Lock graph + DFS cycle detection via Python AST & Go go/ast for deadlocks, races, goroutine leaks across 12 hazard types.

ML-Learnings

Jupyter notebooks covering core ML topics — from fundamentals to applied experiments.

Marine Insurance Predictor

Predictive modelling for marine insurance risk using classical ML approaches.

Where I've worked.

Zensar Technologies Jun 2021 – Present
↳ NFU Mutual (Jun 2022 – Present)
Senior AI/ML Engineer
  • Architect and delivery owner for 4 production AI systems at a top-20 UK insurer. Rated "Exceeds High Bar"; recognised by client CTO as primary technical liaison.
  • Built a natural-language analytics interface on Snowflake Cortex used by 200+ analysts, replacing routine SQL requests with self-serve conversational queries.
  • Shipped a RAG pipeline (Azure Functions, GPT-4o, hybrid vector search) over underwriting documents — cut per-query research time from ~30 min to under 1 min. Owned Terraform IaC, CI/CD, prompt versioning, and automated faithfulness evaluation.
  • Built a Snowflake-native ML prediction system end-to-end and a real-time recommendation engine using behavioural clustering for personalised cross-sell campaigns.
↳ Sky UK (Jun 2021 – Jun 2022)
Senior AI/ML Engineer
  • Scaled Sky's primary conversational AI chatbot across help and sales journeys, serving 1M+ UK accounts.
  • Architected multi-tenant LLM serving with production guardrails: prompt injection filtering, PII redaction, intent safety classification, and RAG knowledge grounding.
Accenture Innovation Hub Sep 2017 – May 2021
Senior Software Engineer
  • Top-rated (5/5) all review cycles with multiple spot bonuses. Led a team of 4 to automate Hyperledger Fabric deployments on Azure (K8s, Helm, Ansible), cutting deploy time from 3 days to under an hour.
  • Backend tech lead for myNav Cloud (Node.js, Azure) serving 270+ enterprise clients with automated cloud migration assessments.
Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore
Certificate in Data & AI · 2025
Bangalore Institute of Technology
B.Eng. Computer Science · 2017
Certifications: Generative AI with LLMs (deeplearning.ai) · AWS Developer Associate · Kubernetes for Administrators · Salesforce AI Associate · Dataiku GenAI Practitioner

Writing about what I build.

Coming Soon ~8 min read #RAG #LLMs #OpenSource #AI

How I Built FinRAG Eval: A Production-Grade RAG Evaluation Framework

RAG evaluation is deceptively hard. String matching doesn't capture semantic accuracy, and LLM-as-judge alone is expensive and inconsistent. Here's how I combined claim-level decomposition, local NLI models, and fuzzy citation matching to build an evaluation pipeline that actually reflects what users care about.

Hallucination Detection Citation Accuracy DeBERTa SEC Filings

More posts in the pipeline — covering QLoRA fine-tuning, Snowflake data quality patterns, and enterprise RAG in production.

Let's work together.

Open to roles globally

I'm looking for Staff / Senior AI Engineer roles at ambitious companies — FAANG, AI-first startups, or strong mid-tier tech. I bring 8+ years of proven delivery, not just prototypes.

Based in London, open to remote and relocation. Happy to talk about RAG, LLM systems, data platforms, or anything in between.

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