Stoke-on-Trent, UK · Available for senior AI engineering roles

Malik Sholadoye Garuba

Senior Software, AI & Data Engineer

Senior Software, AI and Data Engineer with 10+ years productionising enterprise-grade systems across banking, capital markets, higher education and automotive. Currently building AI transformation, retrieval and PII-redaction pipelines at NatWest. AWS Certified Developer and Data Engineer, combining Generative AI engineering with hands-on data engineering at scale.

10+
years shipping to production
40%
research time cut by RAG agents
2x
AWS certifications
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Built, deployed, running

Five projects, one platform

Each project is a surface on a shared retrieval platform rather than a standalone demo — the ingestion pipeline feeds the knowledge base, the agents query it, the eval harness scores it, and the knowledge graph offers a second opinion. Every demo is live and scales to zero between visitors.

01Live demo

Enterprise Knowledge Base

Hybrid RAG over a messy corpus, with citations back to source

PythonFastAPIpgvectorBM25
02Live demo

Multi-Agent Research Assistant

A LangGraph supervisor routing to specialist agents, exposed over MCP

LangGraphMCPPythonDynamoDB
03Live demo

LLM Evaluation Harness

Golden sets, faithfulness scoring, and a CI gate that fails on regression

RAGASLLM-as-judgeGitHub ActionsPython
04Live demo

GraphRAG Knowledge Graph

Entity extraction into Neo4j, answering multi-hop questions vectors cannot

Neo4jCypherGraphRAGStructured outputs
05Live demo

Event-Driven Ingestion Pipeline

The layer that feeds everything above, with lineage on every record

EventBridgeSQSLambdaDynamoDB

10+ years

Experience

NatWest Group

April 2026 – Present

AI Engineer

  • AI rewriter and transformer pipelines improving retrieval-as-a-service relevance for enterprise knowledge retrieval.
  • NLP-based PII scanner detecting names, emails, identifiers and financial data before documents reach any LLM.
  • LLM inference, evaluation and regression testing embedded into GitLab CI/CD.
PythonLLMsRAGGitLab CINLP

University of Salford

August 2025 – April 2026

Data Developer

  • ETL/ELT pipelines in Python and PySpark on Databricks over large institutional datasets.
  • Azure Data Factory orchestration into a governed lakehouse with lineage and data quality checks.
  • Azure DevOps YAML CI/CD with Key Vault-backed secrets management.
PySparkDatabricksAzure Data FactorySQL

London Stock Exchange Group

March 2025 – August 2025

Senior Software Engineer

  • Cloud-native services for World-Check on Demand, a real-time risk-intelligence API in payment and onboarding flows.
  • Terraform + GitLab CI infrastructure-as-code, including a centralised AWS backup platform for S3, DocumentDB, Aurora and RDS.
AWSTerraformPythonGitLab CI

EPAM Systems

May 2022 – September 2024

Senior Software Engineer

  • Agent-based Generative AI solution (GPT-4, DALL·E, FastAPI) for automated content generation.
  • RAG proof of concept for legal analysis using embeddings and FAISS — cut research time by 40%.
  • ETL pipelines updating in-vehicle HAD map systems over the air on Kubernetes and AWS.
GPT-4FAISSFastAPIKubernetesRedshift

Swifta Services

November 2020 – March 2022

Back-End Developer

  • SwiftaHR — ERP for employee management, payroll and finance (Django, DRF, PostgreSQL, Redis).
  • Configurable workflow engines letting each client model its own internal processes.
DjangoPostgreSQLRedis

MOMAS (Memmcol)

November 2016 – November 2020

Software Developer → Design Engineer

  • High-throughput Java/Netty services for meter data management over DLMS, MODBUS and MQTT.
  • Memory-efficient firmware for metering hardware with automated reliability testing.
JavaNettyPythonMQTT

Capabilities

Generative AI & Agents

OpenAI / GPT-4LangChainLangGraphMCPAgents SDKFunction callingContext engineering

Retrieval & Knowledge

RAGHybrid searchRe-rankingFAISSPineconepgvectorKnowledge graphsNeo4j

LLMOps & Evaluation

RAGASLLM-as-judgeGolden setsTracingToken cost managementCI/CD for AI

Data Engineering

PySparkDatabricksKafkaAzure Data FactoryAWS GluePolarsLineage & governance

Cloud & DevOps

AWS LambdaS3CloudFrontDynamoDBAurora ServerlessTerraformDockerGitLab CI

Software Engineering

Python (expert)FastAPIDjangoJavaTypeScriptReactPytestTDD

Certifications