Lalit Pagaria
VP Of Technology at Blue Pencil Strategies
Thane, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolLalit Pagaria is a technology leader with 7+ years of experience building highly scalable distributed systems and driving product-focused, data-driven engineering. As VP of Technology at Blue Pencil Strategies and former CEO/co‑founder of Oraika, he blends hands-on system design with startup grit, having led high-throughput dispatch engines and reliability improvements at Ola and Careem. He maintains Obsei, an open-source data collection/integration tool, and contributes to notable projects like deepset-ai/haystack, improving test robustness and efficiency for LLM applications. Known as a “jack of all trades,” he pairs infrastructure and DevOps expertise with product sensibility, has made angel investments in early-stage startups, and retains a hobbyist commitment to open source.
7 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasBE Computer Science and Engineering, BE Computer Science and Engineering at M.B.M. Engineering College, JodhpurPolytechnic Diploma Electronics Engineering, Polytechnic Diploma Electronics Engineering at Birla Technical Training Institute, Pilani
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Github Skills (21)
docker10
pytest10
python10
testing10
dockers10
amazon-elasticsearch9
aws-elasticsearch9
elasticsearchquery9
elasticsearch-api9
elasticsearch9
faiss8
retrieval-augmented-generation8
machine-learning8
large-language-models8
cicd7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
deepset-ai/haystack
Sep 2020 - Oct 2021
AI orchestration framework to build customizable, production-ready LLM applications. Connect components (models, vector DBs, file converters) to pipelines or agents that can interact with your data. With advanced retrieval methods, it's best suited for building RAG, question answering, semantic search or conversational agent chatbots.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:182 reviews, 26 commits, 30 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Lalit's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the test environment and improving the overall robustness of the Haystack framework. They made adjustments to test setups for different operating systems, specifically MacOS, and addressed compatibility issues. Furthermore, the user implemented features such as skipping file conversions based on file type to improve efficiency and debug FAISS indexes.
pythonbertfinetuningproduction-readyhuggingface-transformers
felipeescallon/obsei
Jan 2021 - Apr 2021
Obsei is intended to be an automation tool for text analysis need.
Contributions:23 commits in 2 months
pythonautomationneedanalyze
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