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Darrshan Govender
Member #904FounderL2Founder & CEO, Agulhas Code
Industrial AI engineer: predictive maintenance, cited knowledge assistants, supervised agents. Founder, Agulhas Code. Durban, UTC+2. Contrac
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Plugged In ×2Connected sources: GitHub, Hugging Face, LinkedIn, X, website.How: Connected 2 sources (GitHub, LinkedIn, X or a website) in Settings
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Shipper ×2Projects on your profile.How: Added 5 projects to their profile
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Profile README — AI engineer making LLM systems cheaper, faster, and safer. Available for contract and fractional work from Durban (UTC+2).
ai-engineerllmprofilereadme
Portfolio site: industrial AI built to be evaluated, audited and trusted. Interactive replays of the asset-health fleet report and the maintenance-agent approval gate, on synthetic data.
github-pagesindustrial-aiportfolio
Document extraction pipeline: OCR and native-PDF parsing into Pydantic-validated schemas, with per-field confidence and a human-review queue for anything uncertain.
llmocrpydantic
pythonai
Production RAG assistant with hybrid retrieval (cosine + BM25), enforced inline citations, and a confidence-threshold fallback that opens a ticket instead of guessing.
embeddingspythonragchatbot
fastapi
Hybrid recommender on MovieLens — popularity, content-based, ALS collaborative filtering, and a blended model with embedding-driven cold-start handling.
alsembeddingspythoncollaborative-filteringdata-science
Semantic cache for LLM responses using pgvector kNN — serves near-duplicate questions from cache instead of paying for the same answer twice.
embeddingsllm
pgvectorcachingcost-optimization
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About
Industrial AI engineer: predictive maintenance, cited knowledge assistants, supervised agents. Founder, Agulhas Code. Durban, UTC+2. Contract and fractional.
