Core Competencies
- Agentic AI systems — multi-agent orchestration, tool/function calling,
model-as-tool patterns, human-in-the-loop task graphs, agent evaluation harnesses.
- Retrieval & knowledge engineering — RAG and GraphRAG, knowledge-graph
retrieval, natural-language-to-SQL over governed data, grounding verification.
- Cloud platform engineering — Azure and AWS architecture, Kubernetes, Terraform
and Bicep, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code at enterprise scale.
- Reliability & continuity — disaster recovery and failover design,
observability and incident response, runbook development from undocumented systems.
- Identity & access engineering — on-behalf-of and delegated auth,
role-based access control, least-privilege design for AI systems touching sensitive data.
- Data engineering — ingestion pipelines, schema design, Microsoft Fabric,
streaming with Kafka, Python-based data tooling.
Past Performance
Via Microsoft · 2026 – Present
Production discovery agents — global materials manufacturer
Agent architecture over a knowledge graph and enterprise search: retrieval grounding,
natural-language querying across governed data, model-as-tool orchestration, and an
evaluation loop measuring answer quality against source data.
Via Microsoft · 2026
R&D discovery data layer — global beverage manufacturer
Ingestion pipeline and schema design for a scientific discovery program, with the cloud
identity and role-based access layer governing read access to proprietary datasets.
Cisco (contract) · 2025 – 2026
FedRAMP High application onboarding
Provisioned and onboarded applications within a FedRAMP High environment using
Terraform and Argo CD GitOps pipelines, holding every infrastructure change to federal
security standards. Architected HashiCorp Vault Secrets Operator with webhook integration
and automated credential rotation.
AMC & The Standard (contract) · 2022 – 2025
ML and multi-region cloud platform
Bicep modules provisioning Azure ML workspaces, Synapse Analytics and Data Factory;
multi-region Azure and AWS (Pulumi/CDK, EKS, VPC, RDS); Azure AD least-privilege IAM; VM
and network hardening to pass compliance audits; zero-downtime AKS upgrades.
Client names withheld under confidentiality. References available on request.
Company Data
- Legal name
- NikTech AI (LLC in formation)
- UEI
- Pending SAM.gov
- CAGE
- Pending SAM.gov
- Business size
- Small business
- Principal
- Nikhil “Nick” Harinath
- Citizenship
- US Citizen
- Clearance
- None held; eligible
- Certifications
- 6× — AI-102, AI-900,
DP-900, AZ-900, Terraform, KCNA
- Education
- MS Systems Eng.
BS Electrical Eng., CSU Fullerton
- Location
- Corona, CA
- Delivery
- Remote nationwide;
on-site Orange County, Los Angeles,
San Diego, Inland Empire
NAICS Codes
541512Computer Systems Design Services (primary)
541511Custom Computer Programming Services
541519Other Computer Related Services
518210Computing Infrastructure, Data Processing & Hosting
Differentiators
- Infrastructure-first AI. 15+ years in IT and 10 running production cloud
systems before building agents on them — the failure modes are familiar, not theoretical.
- Fortune 50 delivery, today. Currently shipping production AI systems for global
manufacturers through Microsoft engagements.
- Federal-environment experience. Delivered inside a FedRAMP High boundary under
federal security standards — not a first rodeo in a controlled environment.
- Certified depth. Six certifications across Azure, Terraform and Kubernetes,
including Azure AI Engineer (AI-102).
- Grounding discipline. Focus on whether AI answers are traceable to real data —
the difference between a demo and an accreditable system.
- Direct principal engagement. No bench, no hand-off; the person you evaluate is
the person who delivers.
Contact
Nikhil “Nick” Harinath
Principal Engineer
[email protected]
niktechai.com
Schedule: 30-min intro call