Adya Mahlawat

About Adya Mahlawat

I’m a passionate Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML, Data Engineering, and Full-Stack Development. Recently completed my Master’s in Computer Science from University of Illinois, I combine cutting-edge research with hands-on industry experience to build scalable, intelligent systems.With expertise in Generative AI, cloud-native architectures, and big data pipelines, I thrive on solving complex problems—whether it’s fine-tuning LLMs for healthcare, optimizing ETL workflows in Azure, or developing high-performance web applications. My work bridges the gap between data, AI, and engineering to deliver impactful solutions.Let’s connect and explore how technology can drive innovation!

Experience

1. Ai Software Engineer

   Quadrant Technologies

   Jun 2025 — Present · Redmond, WA, US

   Architected tenant specific RAG support agents on Azure OpenAI for Q and A over curated enterprise sources,orchestrating retrieval plus generation with citation grounding, guardrails, and safe refusal when evidence is missing,improving response efficiency by 35% in internal workflows.• Engineered Azure AI Search hybrid retrieval (BM25 plus vector similarity) by defining index schemas, chunking andembeddings ingestion, and applying metadata filters with query routing to select the best strategy per query type,improving retrieval precision by 20% on an internal evaluation set.• Operationalized an end to end document pipeline for PDFs and technical docs using layout aware chunking, overlaptuning, and structured metadata extraction to reduce context loss, then shipped capabilities via Azure Functions andREST endpoints with tenant scoped context and role based behaviors, plus CI CD for prompts and retrieval configs,secrets management, and telemetry to distinguish retrieval misses vs model behavior vs ingestion issues, reducing missingcontext errors by 25%, improving multi turn consistency, and cutting incident triage time by 30%

Education

• University of Illinois Springfield

  Master's degree

• NIIT University

  Bachelor of Technology