Sathya Dhanabal
Applied AI Engineer - Knowledge Management RAG Platform
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolSathya Dhanabal is an applied AI engineer and senior software developer based in Ghent with over a decade of hands-on experience delivering production-grade systems for European teams. He specializes in building AI-augmented delivery platforms and knowledge-management RAG systems—designing hybrid dense/sparse search, agentic orchestration, and robust ingestion pipelines that ship as Slack bots and cloud services. Equally fluent in disciplined engineering practices and practical AI use, he focuses on maintainability, observability, and human-in-the-loop review rather than one-off experiments. His background spans low-level systems work in C++/C# to modern cloud-native stacks (Python, FastAPI, Vertex AI, Terraform), reflecting a rare full-stack-to-MLOps fluency. Outside work he’s a Rafa Nadal fan who hikes and cooks Tamil dishes, a detail that hints at his patient, iterative approach to complex delivery challenges.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer Applications, Masters, Computer Applications at PSG College of TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at AYYA NADAR JANAKI AMMAL COLLEGE
Tamil, English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (32)
immutable-collections8
java8
functional-programming8
fig7
mocking6
spock6
datastax6
datastax-java-driver6
amazon-web-services6
scala6
unit-testing6
cassandra6
testing6
vavr6
commercial5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
happysathya/javaDojo
Nov 2019 - Dec 2021
Contributions:18 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
happysathya/scalaDojo
Jul 2020 - Mar 2024
Contributions:60 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 8 months
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