Cirencester, UK · Available for new roles

Harikrishna
Thekkethara

AI Solutions Engineer
~ $ building 
Cirencester, United Kingdom harikrishnata3@gmail.com +44 7949 097082
01 About

I take AI solutions from discovery and scoping through proof-of-concept and demo to production deployment — for enterprise customers including the Reserve Bank of India and the John Lewis Partnership.

I'm a pre-sales / go-to-market AI Solutions Engineer who builds and ships GenAI, RAG and agentic AI applications. My focus is translating technical capability into clear customer value — scoping the right problem, building a working demo fast, and standing behind the engineering through to live production.

I graduated with a First Class integrated MSc in Computer Science from Lancaster University, finishing in the top 5% of my year.

5%
Top of MSc cohort — First Class
20
Daily users on a tool I shipped to production
2
Enterprise engagements (RBI · John Lewis)
Full solution lifecycle, end to end
02 Selected Work
● Live in production Internal Platform

The Hatchery

Designed, built and shipped an internal innovation platform with integrated AI agents for idea submission, triage and progress tracking. Took it from proof-of-concept to a live tool now used daily by 20 staff across the company.

ReactNode.jsAWSAI Agents
◆ Deal in progress Reserve Bank of India

Regulatory Monitoring

Scoped a regulatory-monitoring use case directly with the customer and built a working proof-of-concept — a UI with AI agents that surface and summarise news and social-media alerts on regulated banks. The demo advanced the engagement to a deal now in progress.

Agentic AISummarisationDiscovery
John Lewis Partnership · Waitrose

Supply-Chain Cost Leakage

Built a proof-of-concept and demo UI showing how AI agents could detect and help reduce supply-chain cost leakage — delivered for a customer scoping session on a multi-day turnaround.

Agentic AIDemoRapid Delivery
Go-To-Market

GTM Dashboard

Built a dashboard consolidating Jira, Confluence and internal spreadsheet data into a single view, with AI agents automating routine reporting and surfacing deeper insights for the GTM team.

Jira APIConfluenceAI Reporting
Ecoveritas

Legislation RAG Chatbot

Built an internal RAG chatbot in Python to cut the time the Policy & Consulting team spent querying UK packaging legislation. Ran structured experiments on chunking, embeddings and prompt design to push answer accuracy higher.

PythonRAGEmbeddingsRetrieval
MSc Dissertation

Climate Argument Classification

Master's research applying RAG-based LLMs to real business problems and evaluating retrieval accuracy; earlier undergraduate work used LLMs to classify climate-change arguments.

LLMsEvaluationResearch
03 Experience
Feb 2026 — Present

AI Solutions Engineer Intern

IntellectAI (Intellect Design Arena)
Purple Fabric Enterprise AI Platform · Pre-sales / GTM · Cirencester, UK
  • Shipped The Hatchery from PoC to a live production tool used daily by 20 staff.
  • Scoped and demoed a regulatory-monitoring solution that advanced the Reserve Bank of India engagement to a live deal.
  • Delivered a rapid-turnaround supply-chain demo for the John Lewis Partnership.
  • Built an AI-augmented GTM dashboard over Jira, Confluence and internal data.
Jan 2025 — Apr 2025

AI Solutions Engineer Intern

Ecoveritas
Environmental compliance consultancy · Manchester, UK
  • Built an internal Python RAG chatbot to speed up querying of UK packaging legislation.
  • Ran structured retrieval experiments — chunking, embeddings, prompt design — to improve accuracy.
Oct 2022 — Jul 2025

Teaching Assistant

Lancaster University, School of Computing
Lancaster, UK
  • Supported students in Java, Python and C labs across a range of experience levels.
  • Marked coursework to set schemes and gave feedback to support progress.
May 2022 — Jul 2025

Digital Content Ambassador

Lancaster University Marketing Team
Lancaster, UK
  • Represented the University and School of Computing at open days and online events.
  • Scripted, filmed and edited content; managed and reviewed social media performance.
04 Skills

Languages

PythonJavaJavaScriptSQLC

AI & GenAI

RAGAgentic AILLMsPrompt EngineeringLangChainEmbeddings & Retrieval

Web & Frameworks

ReactNode.jsFlutterHTML/CSS

Tools & Platforms

AWS (Amplify · S3 · Lambda · Aurora)GitJiraConfluencen8nClaude CodeRailwayVercel
05 Education

MSc Computer Science (Integrated Masters)

Oct 2021 — Jul 2025
First Class · Top 5% of year group · Lancaster University

A four-year integrated programme covering the core of computer science and software engineering — algorithms and data structures, programming, object-oriented design, software systems, and the fundamentals of artificial intelligence.

  • Master's dissertation (with Ecoveritas): applied RAG-based LLMs to real business problems and evaluated retrieval accuracy.
  • Undergraduate dissertation: used LLMs to classify climate-change arguments.

Let's build something
worth shipping.

harikrishnata3@gmail.com