AI Engineering
OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, LangChain, LangGraph, Flowise, n8n, MCP, Temporal, prompt & context engineering.
AI ENGINEERING • SOLUTION ARCHITECTURE • TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP
Selvakumar
Shanmugam
AI Engineering / Technical Lead
Building secure, scalable AI-powered enterprise platforms, agentic workflows and cloud-native solutions across financial services, payments and telecommunications.
18+Years experience
AI + CloudEnterprise delivery
SydneyAustralia
AI
Digital Workers • RAG • Agentic AI • Microservices • APIs • Cloud Solutions
ABOUT
Engineering AI into real enterprise workflows.
Senior AI Engineer / Technical Lead with 18+ years of experience designing and delivering enterprise technology. Hands-on with Digital Worker and AI Co-Worker platforms using Node.js/TypeScript, Python, OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, LangChain, LangGraph, Flowise, n8n, Temporal, MCP, RAG, embeddings and vector databases.
Strong background in solution architecture, application modernization, microservices, event-driven systems, cloud migration, DevOps and technical leadership, with deep experience across banking, wealth management, payment acquiring and telecommunications.
CAPABILITIES
Core expertise
RAG & Document AI
Embeddings, chunking, PGVector, vector search, OCR, document classification, grounded validation and human-in-the-loop flows.
Backend & Integration
Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, TypeScript, Python, REST, OpenAPI, gRPC, Kafka, Camel and event-driven architecture.
Cloud & Platform
Azure, AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, AKS/GKE, Terraform, serverless and cloud-native deployment.
Architecture
DDD, EDD, SOA, C4 models, technical design, modernization, API architecture, security and observability.
Financial Technology
Payments, acquiring, Open Banking, ISO 8583, ISO 20022, AS 2805, PCI-DSS and financial services platforms.
EXPERIENCE
Career journey
Future Secure AI
AI Senior Software Engineer • Sydney
AI-powered enterprise solutions and Digital Worker / AI Co-Worker platforms for financial services.
Cuscal Limited
Lead Engineer • Payments & Acquiring
Card-present acceptance platform, AS2805 integration, ACI Postilion and AWS serverless APIs.
Capgemini
Technical Lead • Australia & Singapore
Credit services, digital transformation, cloud migration, API architecture and banking modernization for Humm, Equifax and Credit Agricole/Azqore.
Banking & Telecommunications
Technical and Engineering Roles • Singapore & India
StarHub, Maybank, EON Bank, Verizon and product engineering engagements.
SELECTED WORK
Enterprise platforms & transformations
AI Co-Worker for Benefit Payments
Led architecture and delivery of a Digital Worker platform automating document intake, OCR extraction, policy-grounded validation, exception routing and case progression. Combined RAG, vector retrieval, workflow orchestration and secure enterprise integrations.
Certified Card-Present Acceptance Platform
Designed integrations for a certified card-present acquiring platform using AS2805, ACI Postilion and API-driven AWS services.
Credit Services Transformation
Led cloud migration and modernization of credit services while establishing scalable engineering practices and offshore delivery capability.
Equifax APPLY
Re-architected a legacy digital application into cloud-native microservices with API-first architecture and reusable platform components.
CREDENTIALS
Certifications & education
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals & Azure Administrator Coursera
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate AWS
Google Associate Cloud Engineer Coursera
Certified SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager 5.0 SAFe
TOGAF® Skills Academy, Singapore
M.Sc. Software Engineering Madurai Kamaraj University
CONTACT
Let’s build something useful.
Based in Sydney, NSW. Open to conversations around AI engineering, enterprise architecture, agentic automation and technical leadership.