Rakshitha R.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0/5.0 Ex-Bosch · Ex-Valeo · Ex-ISRO (STUDSAT-2 Satellite Program) Top 1% Expert-Vetted on Upwork. 150+ AI projects shipped at 5/5 stars and 100% Job Success. Advisor to venture-funded AI startups. I architect production LLM agents, RAG systems, and voice AI, with security designed in from day one, for teams that need senior thinking and staffing. 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗜 𝗗𝗘𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗡 ✅ Multi-agent systems on LangGraph, OpenAI Agents SDK, and Google ADK, with MCP and A2A interop for tool use, memory, and cross-framework orchestration ✅ Production RAG with hybrid search, Voyage rerank-2.5 / Cohere Rerank v3.5, agentic retrieval, citation enforcement, and RAGAS evaluation ✅ Voice AI agents on LiveKit Agents + Pipecat with Deepgram Nova-3, Cartesia Sonic-3, ElevenLabs Flash v2.5, at sub-300ms end-to-end latency ✅ LLM fine-tuning and adapter training (LoRA, QLoRA, DoRA) with Unsloth, Axolotl, TRL on Llama 4, Qwen3, Mistral, DeepSeek ✅ Time-series and forecasting systems (TimeGPT, PatchTST, Prophet) for trading, demand, and operations ✅ Computer vision and generative imaging/video (SAM 3, YOLO26, Flux, Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0, Runway Gen-4.5) ✅ Secure AI and LLM systems: threat modelling (TARA), prompt-injection defense, access control, secrets and key management, and secure agent tool use ✅ Embedded and automotive cybersecurity: Secure Boot, SecOC, Secure FOTA/SOTA, HSM/SHE provisioning, PKI and certificate lifecycle ✅ Connected-device and IoT security: TCU, V2X, LTE/5G, TLS/DTLS, SOME/IP, IDS/firewalls, hypervisor isolation ✅ Compliance readiness: ISO/SAE 21434, UNECE R155/R156, EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), RED, NIST CSF, AIS 189 ✅ Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) migration planning for embedded and cloud systems 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗖𝗞 𝗔𝗜: GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.7 / Sonnet 4.6, Gemini 3 Pro, Llama 4, DeepSeek V3.2 · LangGraph, OpenAI Agents SDK, Google ADK, Pydantic AI, DSPy · LlamaIndex, Haystack · pgvector, Qdrant, Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus · LangSmith, LangFuse, Arize Phoenix · vLLM, SGLang for self-hosted inference · AWS Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, Vertex AI · Python, FastAPI, Node.js, TypeScript, Next.js · MCP servers and A2A agent communication 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆: HSM / SHE · AUTOSAR Crypto Stack · AES / RSA / ECC / SHA · OpenSSL · PKI · Linux OS hardening · C / C++ · Vector CANoe / CANalyzer · JTAG debuggers · UDS / ISO 14229 · CAN / Ethernet · ISO 26262 𝗦𝗘𝗖𝗨𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗬 𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗞 𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗗 ▸ Prevented a ~€9M production failure: led on-site incident response at Valeo's Friedrichsdorf plant (Germany), saving 100,000 Telematics ECUs from cancellation, commended by Nissan ▸ Resolved key-provisioning and FOTA failures on-site at the Chonburi plant (Thailand) and designed a parts-recovery process that avoided major scrap costs ▸ Designed a novel Secure Boot architecture on Renesas U2A/U2B with ~50% faster boot time ▸ Built a standard HSM Signing Tool saving ~80 engineering hours per project across global programs ▸ Led Valeo's first EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) compliance assessment ▸ Contributor to FOCAL, an EU Horizon-funded program on Post-Quantum Cryptography for automotive systems ▸ Valeo Cybersecurity Spokesperson for India; industry panelist with ACMA and ARAI on national standards ▸ Neutralised critical software-update vulnerabilities for an OEM before production release ▸ Delivered Daimler VS20 to Start-of-Production at Bosch under a critical timeline 𝗕𝗘𝗬𝗢𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗢𝗗𝗘 I bring senior product and people leadership, having managed engineering organizations approaching a thousand people and led products from idea to end-of-life. I speak on AI, cybersecurity, and entrepreneurship at conferences and podcasts, and advise venture-funded AI startups on architecture, security, hiring, and go-to-market. My engineering journey started in space: I was selected by ISRO for STUDSAT-2, India's student satellite program, chosen from teams across Karnataka. That mindset of building systems that must work the first time, with no second chances, still shapes how I design AI and security systems today. 𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗔𝗟𝗦 ▸ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0/5.0 rating ▸ Top 1% on Upwork: Expert-Vetted, Top Rated Plus, 100% Job Success Score ▸ 150+ AI projects shipped at 5/5 stars ▸ Ex-Bosch, Ex-Valeo (Global Expert, Defensive Security) ▸ Ex-ISRO: STUDSAT-2 student satellite program ▸ Women Icon 2023 (GTC Chennai) for leadership in cybersecurity ▸ Torch-Bearer Award 2024 for coaching and mentoring ▸ Certified global "Security Design Approaches" trainer across Europe and Asia ▸ Published at IETE National Conference (assistive tech for deaf and blind users) ▸ B.E. Electronics & Communications, State Rank 7 among 15,000+ students ▸ Mentor and advisor at multiple venture-funded AI startups ▸ Speaker and panelist on AI, cybersecurity, and entrepreneurship ▸ Founding partner at a boutique AI engineering studio with Frankfurt and US teams