– Present
Technical Lead
SmartSitting
Childcare placement marketplace · New York, US (Remote)
What Deepak Kumar Jha did in this role:
- Shipped a RAG pipeline on self-hosted Ollama (Llama 3, Mistral) for privacy-first semantic search across candidate, job and family data.
- Built the Gemini API conversational support system driving 3x growth in weekly candidate applications.
- Implemented multi-model routing between cloud LLMs and local inference — selected on cost, latency and data sensitivity — plus agentic workflows via Model Context Protocol connecting LLMs to internal services.
- Lead a 4–5 engineer team and own all GCP infrastructure end to end: CI/CD, zero-downtime deploys via GitHub Actions, Docker and Cloud Run, plus domain, email and payment gateway integration.