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Laba Deka

Laba Deka

AI & Distributed Systems Engineer · New York, NY

Agentic AI · MCPLLM SystemsDistributed @ ScaleSr. SWE @ Arya Health
github.com/Kuxhalinkedin.com/in/laba-dekal.deka@nyu.edu

About

Senior software engineer building at the intersection of large-scale distributed infrastructure and autonomous AI agents. 4+ years at BookMyShow — India's largest entertainment platform — engineering recommendation systems that serve 500M+ users at 500K RPM with 99.99% availability. Currently at Arya Health as a Senior Engineer, building multi-tenant health data pipelines while completing my M.S. CS at NYU (2026). On the side I design agentic systems using MCP, LangChain, and tool-calling LLMs — from AI SRE copilots to autonomous workforce orchestration. Looking to bring both sides — distributed systems at scale and modern agentic AI — to an ambitious team.

Experience

Arya HealthFeb 2026 – Present

Senior Software Engineer · Data & Platform

  • ›Reduced API latency 40% with an Aerospike distributed cache over PostgreSQL
  • ›Built serverless event pipelines using AWS Lambda, SQS, and InfluxDB for multi-tenant health data
  • ›Wired Dagster pipeline telemetry into SigNoz and Grafana for real-time cross-tenant observability
GoAWS LambdaSQSAerospikePostgreSQLGrafana
BookMyShowApr 2023 – Aug 2024

Software Development Engineer 2 · Personalization & Recommendations

  • ›Scaled recommendation systems to 500K RPM at 99.99% availability during blockbuster events
  • ›Cut p99 latency 50% (300ms → 150ms) via a Go Scatter-Gather pattern for parallel data aggregation
  • ›Led migration from Java monoliths to microservices, reducing AWS infrastructure costs by 40%
GoJavaKafkaAerospikeElasticsearchAWS
BookMyShowJul 2020 – Apr 2023

Software Development Engineer 1

  • ›Built Spark/Scala + Kafka pipelines for zero-loss terabyte-scale cloud migration of user data
  • ›Powered real-time recs by integrating Redshift clickstream data into Elasticsearch and Aerospike
  • ›Maintained 100% uptime through JVM tuning and Elastic APM alerts during post-pandemic traffic surges
JavaScalaApache SparkKafkaElasticsearch

AI / Agentic Projects

Autonomous agents, MCP servers, RAG pipelines, and LLM-powered systems.

Agentic · SRE↗
pocketops-ai

AI SRE copilot that connects to GitHub, AWS, Sentry, and runbooks to autonomously investigate incidents, summarize alerts, query logs/metrics, and propose fixes — with human-in-the-loop approval for destructive actions.

PythonFastAPIPydantic AIMCPAWS
MCP · Orchestration↗
health-ops-mcp

MCP server for autonomous home-care workforce orchestration — schedules caregivers, detects scheduling conflicts, and enforces compliance constraints over synthetic patient data.

PythonMCPStreamlitPydantic
Multi-Agent↗
crimeboard

Multi-agent investigation platform that orchestrates specialized LLM agents to correlate evidence, detect inconsistencies across sources, and generate structured deduction boards.

TypeScriptLangChainMulti-AgentLLM
RAG · Robotics↗
rag-robotics-nav

RAG pipeline for ROS2 documentation using Qdrant vector search and locally-hosted LLMs to serve context-aware navigation code to robotics developers.

PythonQdrantDockerOllamaGradio
Reference · LLMOps↗
ai-engineering-handbook

Progressive AI engineering reference spanning basic RAG to production autonomous agents — covers LangChain, LangGraph, AWS Bedrock, prompt caching, and MCP tool use.

PythonLangChainLangGraphAWS BedrockChromaDB

Side Projects

Geo-spatial · Crisis↗
disasterscout

Crisis response platform built for low-bandwidth environments — geo-spatial incident mapping, MongoDB Atlas Search for resource lookup, and real-time coordination between responders.

PythonMongoDBGeo-spatialFastAPI

Currently Building

Niche AI infrastructure projects — in active development.

Geo-spatial Agent
llm-geo

Agent combining PostGIS + OpenStreetMap spatial data with LLM reasoning to answer location-aware queries. Explores geo-spatial retrieval as a first-class RAG layer — 'best hospitals near X accepting Y insurance with Z rating'.

PythonPostGISOpenStreetMapLangGraphMCP
MCP Infrastructure
mcp-gateway

API gateway purpose-built for the MCP ecosystem — auth, rate limiting, routing across multiple MCP servers, and built-in observability. Think Nginx/Kong but for agentic tool infrastructure.

GoMCPRedisPrometheusDocker
LLMOps · Evaluation
agent-eval-kit

Evaluation harness for multi-agent systems. Runs deterministic scenario suites, scores task completion, tracks token cost and latency distribution, and detects behavioral drift across model versions.

PythonLangChainPydanticpytestGrafana

Competitive Programming

LeetCode@Kuxha
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Contest Rating 1,580 · Top 26% · 27 contests · 773 submissions / year

Codeforces@kuxha
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Peak 1420 (Specialist) · 51 contests · active since 2017

AI Focus

The problems I think about most deeply.

Agentic Pipelines

Multi-step LLM workflows — tool use, planning loops, state management, and human-in-the-loop approval gates for destructive actions.

RAG Infrastructure

Vector retrieval, context assembly, hybrid search, chunking strategy, and eval-driven quality loops for grounded generation at scale.

MCP & Tool Ecosystems

Designing, composing, and operating Model Context Protocol servers — auth, routing, observability — for production agentic systems.

Writing

Draft

Scatter-Gather at 500K RPM: parallelizing BookMyShow recommendations in Go

How we cut p99 latency in half using a scatter-gather pattern across 12 microservices — and what the Go runtime taught us.

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Draft

MCP in production: what nobody tells you about building tool servers

Auth, versioning, error taxonomy, and why your MCP server will time out when you least expect it.

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Draft

Why RAG evals are broken — and a simple harness that actually works

Most RAG eval frameworks measure the wrong thing. Here's what to measure instead, and how to wire it into CI.

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Education

New York University

M.S. Computer Science · GPA 3.77 / 4.0

2024 – 2026
National Institute of Technology Silchar

B.Tech Computer Science · CGPA 8.06 / 10.0

2016 – 2020

Stack

Languages
JavaGoPythonScalaSQL
Data & Storage
KafkaApache SparkAerospikeElasticsearchPostgreSQLCassandra
AI / ML
LangChainLangGraphRAGMCPPydantic AI
Infra
AWSDockerGrafanaSigNoz

Let's build something.

Open to Senior SWE and AI Engineering roles.

l.deka@nyu.edu
GitHub ↗LinkedIn ↗

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