Shaswat PandaSchedule Review

Available for Fractional AI Advisory & Architecture Sprints (Q4 2026)

AI Systems Architect & Fractional Founding Engineer

Taking mission-critical Machine Learning and Generative AI systems from prototype to hardened production. Specializing in real-time edge/cloud inference optimization, deterministic multi-agent systems, and multimodal enterprise RAG.

Upstream Contributor to PyTorch & YOLO-WorldEx-Founding EngineerSystems Architect

Production benchmarks

Latency

<15 ms

End-to-end real-time edge CV inference for global live broadcast feeds (WTT).

Hallucination cut

30%

Achieved across enterprise RAG and agentic workflows via hybrid BM25 + dense vector routing.

OCR accuracy

+25%

Layout-aware document extraction pipelines using LayoutLMv3 and deep learning inpainting.

Contributor

Upstream

Verified code and optimizations merged into PyTorch and YOLO-World core repositories.

Systems architecture

Latency, failure domain, and cost sit inside the architecture.

  1. 01

    Real-time edge and cloud inference

    The forward pass is not the whole budget. Capture, the compiled graph, and the stream are. PyTorch weights leave through ONNX into TensorRT and run on Jetson-class hardware beside the feed.

    PyTorch · ONNX · TensorRT · Jetson · FastAPI

  2. 02

    Deterministic multi-agent systems

    Retrieval answers before a model speaks. Hybrid BM25 and dense search run first. Smolagents and CrewAI sit behind a step limit, and domain models are served on Triton with a cost trace on every query.

    LiteLLM · Qdrant · ChromaDB · Triton · Grafana

  3. 03

    Multimodal document intelligence

    LayoutLMv3 reads the page rather than a flattened string. Inpainting removes PII from the image. ECS and SageMaker carry the model out of the notebook, and people only see the low-confidence remainder.

    LayoutLMv3 · Inpainting · ECS · SageMaker

Case studies

Production systems with a measured constraint.

Broadcast vision, financial agents, and logistics documents. Each engagement had a ceiling — latency, hallucination, or review load — and a number on the other side of it.

01World Table Tennis

<15 ms

Broadcast-grade edge vision under 15 ms

Context

World Table Tennis international tournaments, including WTT Star Contender Goa and Singapore Smash. A single camera feed, millions of live global viewers, and a broadcast encode that cannot wait on a distant GPU.

Problem

Single non-stereo camera pose tracking with a hard real-time ceiling under 20 ms and zero perceptual broadcast delay. A stereo rig was not available, and a cloud round trip would have shown up on air.

Camera

One non-stereo broadcast camera. No rig calibration and no sync hardware on the critical path.

End-to-end latency
<15 ms
Live viewers
Global
Stereo-rig overhead
Zero

02Fintech and B2B SaaS

30% cut

Multi-agent orchestration and hybrid RAG

Context

Fintech and B2B SaaS platforms that automate document handling and decisions over unstructured financial tables. The cost of a wrong cell is a wrong decision, and the cost of an open agent loop is a surprise invoice.

Problem

LLM hallucinations, token-cost explosions, and unbounded agent loops over financial tables that do not arrive as clean JSON.

Intake

Unstructured financial tables and documents. A naive chunker invents structure the source never had.

Lower hallucination
30%
Financial logic
Multi-step
Cost tracking
Per query

03Supply chain and logistics

+25%

Document intelligence and automated redaction

Context

Supply chain and enterprise logistics automation. Invoices and bills of lading arrive in whatever layout the sender used, and PII cannot ride along into downstream storage.

Problem

Parsing noisy, multi-layout invoices and bills of lading while scrubbing PII at scale, without parking every document in a human review queue.

Capture

Multi-layout invoices and bills of lading, including scans that defeat template OCR.

Field accuracy
+25%
Less human review
70%
Scrubbed at scale
PII

Advisory models

Two engagements. Both scoped before the work starts.

A fixed sprint when the question is whether the system will survive contact with production. A monthly retainer when the team needs a senior engineer in the repository.

2-week fixed scope

Architecture & Evaluation Sprint

$6,000 – $8,000

Fixed fee · 2 weeks

Best for

Seed and Series A teams preparing to launch, or already scaling inference and finding the budget in production.

Scope

  • Deep teardown of the model and retrieval pipelines
  • Triton and vLLM inference profiling
  • Token and GPU cost optimization
  • Deterministic guardrail roadmap
  • Concrete benchmark pull requests
Book Architecture Sprint

Monthly retainer

Fractional Founding AI Engineer

$10,000 – $14,000 / month

Retainer · 15–20 hours/week

Best for

Funded teams that need a senior hands-on technical lead without a six-month hiring cycle or equity dilution.

Scope

  • 15–20 hours/week of dedicated engineering
  • Direct model fine-tuning on your data
  • Ownership of the RAG and agent platform
  • MLOps orchestration across the serving path
  • Mentoring the engineers who will run it
Schedule Review

Schedule

Book an architecture review.

A working session on the system you are about to put in front of users. Bring the diagram and the number you cannot miss.

  1. 01The inference path, and the latency budget measured on that path
  2. 02Retrieval, agent step limits, and token cost
  3. 03Where human review is still carrying the system
  4. 04Whether a two-week sprint or a monthly retainer matches the next quarter