Building AI-first
engineering platforms
that actually ship.
I'm Ram Laxman Yadav — a Software Engineering Manager turning ambiguous, high-stakes problems into resilient systems across |
Engineering leader with a builder's heart
AI-first thinker
I design systems where LLMs and agents are first-class citizens — evaluated, observable and cost-aware from day one.
Payments veteran
A decade shipping money movement at scale — ledgers, reconciliation, PCI-DSS, idempotency. Boring words for high-stakes engineering.
People-first manager
30+ engineers mentored. My job is to grow humans, unblock work, and keep the standard high without theatrics.
A decade+ of shipping
Selected roles across payments, hospitality, e-commerce and AI.
Software Engineering Manager · AI Infrastructure
- Leading multi-team engineering on LLM-powered developer platforms & agentic workflows.
- Designed retrieval + evaluation infrastructure serving millions of tokens per day.
- Introduced observability & cost-guardrails, cutting inference spend by 42%.
Staff / Principal Engineer · Payments Platform
- Architected a highly-available payments interface with 99.99% uptime.
- Built ledger, reconciliation and refund pipelines in Ruby on Rails.
- Delivered PCI-DSS compliance and multi-region failover for critical merchant flows.
Senior Software Engineer
- Owned booking, inventory and pricing subsystems across 25+ property brands.
- Migrated a monolith to service-oriented architecture without customer downtime.
- Mentored 20+ engineers and drove code review + architecture guilds.
Software Engineer · Full Stack
- Shipped web apps in Ruby, Python and Go across DoD, enterprise and startup contexts.
- Contributed to open source and authored the htmlToPdf Ruby gem.
- Built CI/CD, linting and quality gates that became team standards.
Software Engineer · Full Stack
- Contributed to open source and authored the htmlToPdf,active_admin_prism and argus-trail Ruby gem
A pragmatic toolbox
Selected tools I reach for daily. Depth first, hype second.
AI & LLM
Backend & Systems
Data & Storage
Cloud & DevOps
Payments & Fintech
Architecture
Timeline
A story of building at scale.
Leading Backend Infrastructure
Building scalable production systems with LLM and agentic systems.
Engineering Management
Stepped into multi-team leadership across payments & platform.
Payments Platform
Architected a payments interface with 99.99% uptime.
Senior Engineer
Owned booking, inventory and pricing for hospitality SaaS.
Software Engineer
Started building web apps in Ruby, Python and Go.
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