I work inside your team, find where AI earns its place, and ship it to production.

I'm a Forward Deployed AI Engineer at Data Color AI. I work directly with customer teams to understand how they work, figure out what AI can realistically do for them, and then build it: LLM agents, MCP integrations, retrieval systems and AI steps inside their data pipelines. I work across AWS, GCP and Azure, and I ship the whole stack.

Portrait of Samith Deshai Siddo

Samith Deshai Siddo

Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Forward deployed: close to the problem.

I don't start from a model. I start with the people doing the work, learn their systems and data, and find the places where AI changes the outcome. Then I build it with them and stay until it runs on its own.
  1. 01

    Discover

    Sit with the team

    I learn how the work happens today: the systems, the data, the handoffs, and where people lose hours.

  2. 02

    Scope

    Find where AI fits

    I separate what an LLM is actually good at from what a rule or a query should do, and agree on a number that defines success.

  3. 03

    Build

    Ship a working agent

    I build a prototype on their real data within days, then harden it with evals, guardrails and human review where mistakes are costly.

  4. 04

    Hand off

    Leave it running

    It goes live with monitoring, cost tracking, audit trails and documentation, so the team owns it after I step back.

Agents that work inside enterprise data.

Production systems I've built alongside customer teams. They connect to MDM platforms, ERPs, CRMs and data pipelines, and they bring in a person for the decisions that need one.
01MCP client

Atlas Co-Pilot

A domain-specific co-pilot that connects to Salesforce and Informatica MDM through several MCP servers and gives support teams contextual recommendations.

↳Cut support ticket volume by 40%

  • MCP
  • Salesforce
  • Informatica MDM
02Human-in-the-loop agent

AI Data Steward

When the same customer shows up twice in Reltio, a data steward has to decide whether to merge the records. This agent does the investigation for them. It compares the two records, checks what a merge would change and whether it breaks any data rules, then recommends merge, reject or wait. A person makes the final call, and every decision is recorded.

↳Stewards review a recommendation instead of researching every pair

  • Azure OpenAI
  • Reltio MCP
  • Service Bus
  • Cosmos DB
03Document agent

DocuAssist

An agent built on Informatica's AI Agent Engineering Platform. It turns unstructured documents into governed, structured data sources using RAG-based extraction and reasoning.

↳Made document ingestion 3× faster

  • RAG
  • Informatica
  • Hugging Face
04LLM matching · post-acquisition

Smart Mapping

When a company is acquired, its service codes live in its own ERP and CRM and look nothing like the parent's catalog. Smart Mapping has an LLM do the mapping. For each code, Gemini reads the description, weighs it against the closest catalog entries, and decides which one it is. Search and rules only narrow the options first. When Gemini isn't confident, the code goes to an analyst.

↳20 acquired brands onboarded, about 70% of codes auto-accepted

  • Gemini
  • BigQuery VECTOR_SEARCH
  • Cloud Run
  • TF-IDF
05Data engineering

AI-Native Data Pipelines

I build LLMs into data engineering pipelines. On Databricks, a Spark validation framework has LLMs profile the data and propose quality rules, a person reviews them, and they run at scale. Other LLM steps classify and enrich records along the way. MLflow tracks the results.

↳Better data reliability and observability across pipelines

  • Databricks
  • Spark
  • MLflow
  • Hugging Face

Built on my own time, shipped to real users.

A prompt engineering product with paying subscribers, a voice agent that won a hackathon, and a desktop app that turns lectures into fact-checked courses.

Prompt Weaver

2025

Turn napkin sketches into production prompts.

A prompt engineering platform that turns sketches, screenshots, voice and screen recordings into structured prompts for AI coding tools. It's live and has paid subscriptions.

  • Three prompt modes, each tuned for a different kind of coding tool: general LLMs, Bolt/Lovable and Cursor/Windsurf
  • Whiteboard drawing, screen-share animation capture, custom palettes and UI-to-ER diagram conversion
  • Full subscription billing with usage tracking and plan enforcement through webhooks
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • PostgreSQL
  • LLMs
Visit Prompt Weaver
promptweaver.netlify.app
Open playlist on YouTube ↗
1st place, UNT GradInnoHack

MediCall

2025

A voice agent that books your doctor's appointment.

A real-time voice AI receptionist. You call it and talk normally to book, reschedule or cancel medical appointments.

  • Gemini for reasoning, Deepgram for speech-to-text and ElevenLabs for natural-sounding speech
  • LangChain tool calling, with the tools running as serverless functions
  • Appointments sync to Supabase in real time while the call is happening
  • Voice AI
  • LangChain
  • React
  • Supabase
Live demo
LectureForge: HomeLectureForge: Mission ControlLectureForge: Course readerLectureForge: Tutor drawsLectureForge: Interactive visual

Paste a lecture video or type a topic, pick your level and model, and generate. Your courses sit below.

LectureForge

2026

Turn any lecture into a researched, cited course.

A desktop app that turns a study video into a mini-course with lessons, a quiz, flashcards and a tutor. It checks the lecture against the live web and flags anything that's out of date.

  • Paste a video link or type a topic and get a full course: lessons at your level, a quiz and flashcards
  • Fact-check badges on every claim. If the lecture is out of date, you see what it said, what's true now, and the sources
  • Watch it work live in Mission Control as it plans, researches each concept and builds the course
  • Ask the tutor anything. It answers from the course, searches the web, and draws charts and 3D scenes to explain
  • Spaced-repetition review, a knowledge graph of what you've learned, one-click re-check of facts, and export to Notion
  • Deep Agents
  • Tavily
  • MCP
  • FastAPI
  • React
  • Tauri

How agents actually work, drawn out.

Illustrated explainers on the parts of AI engineering that tutorials skip: harnesses, MCP, tool calling, memory and context.

Where I've worked

Data Color AI

Forward Deployed AI Engineer

2025 — Now · Dallas, TX

  • Work directly with customer teams to understand their workflows and data, find the use cases where AI pays off, and take them from prototype to production.
  • Build agentic AI products for enterprise master data management, connected to MDM, ERP and CRM systems through MCP.
  • Built custom MCP servers that connect our agents to enterprise platforms, exposing each system's data and actions as tools the agents can call safely.
  • Build AI into data engineering pipelines on Databricks and Spark, including LLM-generated data quality rules, enrichment and MLflow monitoring.
  • Built secure integrations between MCP servers and third-party clients with AWS Cognito OAuth and the Bedrock AgentCore runtime.
  • Deploy open-source Hugging Face embedding and instruction-tuned models in RAG pipelines, tuning them for latency and retrieval quality.

Club InQuizitive

Full Stack Developer

2021 — 2023 · Hyderabad, India

  • Led a team of developers building the club's main site and several event platforms from scratch.
  • Shipped responsive React and Tailwind apps with PostgreSQL and Firebase backends for live event registration.

Wins, papers and launches

What I build with, end to end.

From the model call to the queue it runs on. The highlighted tools are what I use every week. The rest I've shipped with.

Agents

01

Loops, tools and guardrails

  • LangGraph
  • MCP
  • Tool calling
  • Human-in-the-loop

LangChain · Agent memory · Prompt caching · Voice agents

Retrieval

02

Getting the right context in

  • Hybrid RAG
  • Vector search
  • LLM re-ranking

TF-IDF · BigQuery VECTOR_SEARCH · Pinecone · Chroma · Embeddings

Models

03

Where the reasoning runs

  • AWS Bedrock
  • Vertex AI · Gemini
  • Azure OpenAI

Bedrock AgentCore · Claude · Hugging Face · Open-source LLMs

Data

04

Pipelines AI plugs into

  • Databricks
  • Spark
  • BigQuery

MLflow · PostgreSQL · Cosmos DB · MongoDB · Supabase

Cloud & infra

05

Running it in production

  • GCP Cloud Run
  • Azure Service Bus
  • Docker

Container Apps · Artifact Registry · GCS · AWS Cognito · OAuth

Product

06

The rest of the stack

  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • FastAPI

Next.js · Node.js · Java · Flutter · pytest

Education & certifications

University of North Texas

2025

M.S. Computer Science

GPA 3.90 · NLP, Information Retrieval, Software Development for AI

BV Raju Institute of Technology

2023

B.Tech Computer Science

Data Structures, Operating Systems, Design Patterns

  • MCP: Build Rich-Context AI Apps — Anthropic × DeepLearning.AI
  • LangChain for LLM Application Development — DeepLearning.AI
  • JavaScript RAG Web Apps with LlamaIndex — DeepLearning.AI

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