Chetan Kerhalkar

Head of AI | Multi-Agent Systems | RAG & GenAI Platforms | Azure OpenAI | Building Enterprise AI from Pilot → Production | Driving 40% Dev Productivity & 25% Cloud Cost Optimization

Schaumburg, Illinois, United States

About

🚀 AI Executive | Enterprise Transformation | Multi-Agent & RAG Architect I’m passionate about transforming how enterprises build, deploy, and govern AI at scale — bridging the gap between innovation and real business outcomes. Over 18 years in technology, I’ve led multi-disciplinary AI teams (50+ engineers/architects) across Finance, Insurance, and Retail — driving programs that combine strategy, architecture, and hands-on execution. 🔹 AI Leadership: Built and scaled AI Centers of Excellence and productionized multi-agent systems, RAG stacks, and GenAI developer tools — enabling enterprise AI to move from pilot → production with measurable ROI. 🔹 Business Impact: Delivered 40% productivity gains via AI-assisted SDLC tools and 25% cloud cost savings through FinOps guardrails and GPU optimization. 🔹 Technology Depth: Azure OpenAI • AWS Bedrock • LangGraph • LangChain • LlamaIndex • Microsoft Copilot Studio .Azure ML • Python • .NET/C# • Node.js • React • Vector Databases • Guardrails • CI/CD • Observability 🔹 Governance & Scale: Designed secure RAG pipelines with access controls, prompt-injection defenses, evaluation frameworks, and model-router optimizations for regulated enterprises. Today, I’m focused on helping organizations design Agentic AI ecosystems — where human-AI collaboration boosts productivity, decision-making, and operational agility. 🤝 Always open to connecting with leaders driving AI transformation, product innovation, and ethical governance — across Microsoft, Google, AWS, or forward-thinking enterprises shaping the next AI wave.

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