Saurabh Bhardwaj - Lead AI Architect

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Saurabh Bhardwaj

AI Leader — Teams, Strategy & Production AI at Enterprise Scale

Lead AI Architect at Delaware UK. I build and lead enterprise AI organizations—a 19-member team across three countries—owning AI strategy, governance, and delivery that has generated $2M+ in business value from concept to production.

19
AI Team Members Led
$2M+
Value Delivered
36
AI Use Cases
3
Countries Led Across

Executive Impact

Delivering Measurable Business Outcomes Through AI Innovation

$2M+

Cumulative Business Value Delivered

Across my career: reduced legal document review time by 60%, automated quality control saving 500+ hours monthly, and cut equipment downtime by 60% through predictive maintenance.

0→19

Team Built & Led

Built and currently lead a 19-member AI team across UK, Belgium, and Netherlands, fostering collaboration and delivering enterprise AI solutions for Fortune 500 clients.

3

Production AI Systems

Deployed 3 mission-critical AI systems serving 10,000+ users daily with 99.9% uptime, from RAG document intelligence to automated quality control and supply chain optimization.

36

AI Use Cases Architected

Designed comprehensive AI strategy encompassing generative AI, computer vision, and MLOps, ensuring GDPR compliance and ethical AI practices across all initiatives.

Strategic Vision

I transform complex business challenges into scalable AI solutions by bridging technical innovation with strategic business outcomes. My approach focuses on building AI capabilities that drive revenue, reduce costs, and create sustainable competitive advantages—while maintaining the highest standards of data governance, regulatory compliance, and ethical AI deployment.

Leadership & Strategy

How I Build AI Organizations That Deliver

AI Strategy & Roadmap

Architected a portfolio of 36 AI use cases—prioritizing by business value, feasibility, and risk—and translated it into a delivery roadmap spanning generative AI, computer vision, and MLOps.

Team Building & Development

Grew an AI practice from zero to 19 people across the UK, Belgium, and the Netherlands—hiring, mentoring, and shaping career paths for engineers, data scientists, and architects.

AI Governance & Responsible AI

Established a GDPR-compliant AI governance framework enabling enterprise adoption in regulated industries, with working knowledge of the EU AI Act and ethical AI deployment in practice.

Delivery Frameworks

Built Delaware's Agentic AI Deployment Framework—a repeatable path from pilot to production that accelerated client delivery timelines by 40%.

Executive Communication

Translate AI into board-level outcomes—business cases, risk, and ROI—for Fortune 500 stakeholders. District-level 1st place public speaker (Toastmasters).

Hands-On Builds

I lead from technical credibility — open-source AI systems I've built myself

EPYHIA AI Agency
Code Live Demo
Agentic AI

EPYHIA — One-Person AI Agency

A business brief goes in, a real business comes out: a live website, a grounded marketing pack with launch video, and a working Stripe checkout—built by a crew of four AI agents that can spend money and publish to the world, but only through one audited gateway.

4
AI Agents
100/100
Product Eval
Live
In Production
Multi-Agent Python React Stripe Fly.io

Key Features:

  • Audited action gate for agent spend & publish
  • Builds & deploys real sites with checkout
  • Evidence-based product evaluation suite
ScholarMomentSearch
Code Live Demo
RAG / Search

ScholarMomentSearch

One searchable brain over an ML research corpus—ask a question and get one grounded answer citing the exact video moment, paper page, and deck slide it came from, with a citation guard that withholds answers it can't ground.

703/703
Tests Passing
53
Scoped Components
3
Source Types
Qdrant Hybrid RAG Prefect Auth0 Opik

Key Features:

  • Deep-link citations: timestamp, page, slide
  • Entity-graph-boosted hybrid retrieval
  • Crash-resumable async ingestion queue
Aurora Voice Reservations Agent
Code Live Demo
Voice AI

Aurora — Voice Reservations Agent

Real-time, multilingual voice AI agent for hotel reservations—cascade voice architecture (STT → LLM → RAG/Tools → TTS) hardened with real auth, persistence, and observability, continuously evaluated against the live model in production.

Real-time
Voice Calls
Multi
Lingual
Live
In Production
LiveKit GPT-4o / Whisper FastAPI PostgreSQL Opik

Key Features:

  • Cascade STT → LLM → RAG/Tools → TTS pipeline
  • Real auth, persistence & observability
  • Continuous evals against the live model
Multi-Agent Banking System
Code
Agentic AI

Multi-Agent Banking System

Production-grade multi-agent AI system for banking operations, built on Google's Agent Development Kit and the Agent-to-Agent protocol—agent orchestration, secure inter-agent communication, and strict guardrails for financial data.

8+
AI Agents
A2A
Protocol
100%
Auditable
Google ADK Gemini 2.5 A2A MCP Toolbox Cloud SQL

Key Features:

  • Manager agent routing to specialist agents
  • Loan orchestrator with 6 sub-agents
  • Guardrails protecting sensitive financial data

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About Me

Driving AI Innovation Across Industries

Saurabh Bhardwaj

Experience

9+ years
Lead AI Architect

Education

M.Sc. Applied AI
Cranfield University

Recognition

1st Place
Imperial College DS Bootcamp

As Lead AI Architect at Delaware UK, I lead a 19-member AI team across UK, Belgium, and Netherlands, architecting 36 AI use cases with 3 successful production deployments. I built Delaware's Agentic AI Deployment Framework while ensuring GDPR and Ethical AI compliance.

Previously at Unisys, I developed a RAG solution that improved accuracy from 64% to 89% and built a computer vision model reducing documentation errors by 93%. My expertise spans the full AI lifecycle - from MLOps with Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes to deploying solutions on Azure OpenAI and AWS SageMaker.

With a Master's degree in Applied AI from Cranfield University and 12 industry certifications, I transform business challenges into scalable AI solutions that deliver measurable results.

Professional Journey

Leading AI Transformation Across Global Teams

Lead AI Architect

Delaware UK

London, UK

Sep 2025 - Present
19
Team Members (3 Countries)
$1M+
Annual Value Delivered
10K+
Daily Active Users
  • Lead 19-member AI team across UK, Belgium, and Netherlands, driving strategic AI transformation for Fortune 500 clients
  • Delivered 36 AI solutions generating $1M+ in annual business value with 3 production systems serving 10,000+ users daily
  • Built Delaware's Agentic AI Deployment Framework, accelerating client delivery timelines by 40%
  • Established GDPR-compliant AI governance framework, enabling risk-free enterprise AI adoption across regulated industries
LangChain LangGraph Azure OpenAI Agentic AI

Principal AI Engineer

Unisys

Milton Keynes, UK

Jul 2024 - Aug 2025
$500K
Annual Cost Savings
500+
Hours Saved Monthly
60%
Time Reduction
  • Delivered RAG document intelligence system reducing legal review time by 60%, generating $500K in annual cost savings
  • Built automated quality control system saving 500+ hours monthly in manual processing and eliminating 93% of documentation errors
  • Established MLOps infrastructure with Terraform CI/CD pipelines, reducing deployment time from weeks to hours
  • Architected enterprise-grade AI solutions on Azure OpenAI platform ensuring 99.9% uptime and regulatory compliance
RAG Computer Vision Terraform Azure AI

Principal Consultant

Nissan Technical Centre Europe

Cranfield, UK

Feb 2018 - Jun 2024
  • Developed end-to-end Accessories Price Prediction Model achieving 92% accuracy
  • Reduced sourcing time from 12 to 7 weeks using ML-powered price predictions
  • Built automated quality monitoring system achieving 70% time savings
  • Received Certificate of Appreciation for delivering Qashqai with minimal design quality concerns
Machine Learning Azure Data Warehouse Power BI

Technical Foundation

The Engineering Depth Behind the Leadership

Python

C++ / C#

SQL / NoSQL

PySpark

Agentic AI

PyTorch

TensorFlow

LangChain

LangGraph

Llama-Index

Hugging Face

Scikit-Learn

Azure ML

AWS SageMaker

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

MLflow

Microsoft Fabric

Power BI

Tableau

Client & Colleague Testimonials

What People Say About Working With Me

"Demonstrated strong technical expertise as an AI Architect and collaborative mindset on the Digital Engineer project. Professional commitment to quality outcomes made him a key contributor to success."

Ankur Gaur

Principal AI Architect

Unisys

"Exemplary hands-on experience with ML and Gen AI tools. Deep understanding of AI with ability to lead teams. Impressive technical content on AI and delivering value using AI. Highly recommend as trusted AI architect."

Ansul Gupta

Principal AI Architect

Unisys

View all 14 recommendations on my LinkedIn profile

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Speaking & Writing

Perspectives on Enterprise AI Leadership

I share perspectives on enterprise AI leadership—building AI teams, taking generative AI from pilot to production, and governing AI responsibly under GDPR and the EU AI Act. Talks and articles will be listed here; in the meantime, I share my thinking on LinkedIn.

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Certifications & Awards

Industry-Recognized Expertise in AI/ML

Azure AI Engineer Associate

AI-102

Microsoft

Azure OpenAI Cognitive Services AI Solutions

Azure Fabric Analytics Engineer

DP-600

Microsoft

Data Engineering Fabric Analytics

Azure Data Scientist Associate

DP-100

Microsoft

Azure ML MLOps Model Training

AI Transformation Leader

Microsoft Certified

Microsoft

AI Strategy Transformation Governance

Agentic AI Business Solutions Architect

Microsoft Certified

Microsoft

Agentic AI Solution Architecture Business Value

Claude Certified Architect

Professional

Anthropic

Claude Agentic Systems AI Architecture

AWS Future Agentic AI Engineer

Nanodegree

Udacity

AWS Agentic AI AI Engineering

Agents with LangChain & LangGraph

Nanodegree

Udacity

LangChain LangGraph AI Agents

Agentic AI Nanodegree

Nanodegree

Udacity

Autonomous Agents Multi-Agent Systems

Generative AI Nanodegree

Nanodegree

Udacity

LLMs GenAI Prompt Engineering

ML DevOps Engineer

Nanodegree

Udacity

CI/CD MLOps Model Deployment

Azure DevOps Expert

Advanced

AI Core

Azure DevOps Pipelines Automation

Awards & Recognition

1st Place

Imperial College Data Science Bootcamp (among 350 participants)

1st Place Public Speaking

Toastmasters District Competition

Lead ML Engineer Recognition

Omdena - Helping charities using AI

Certificate of Appreciation

Nissan Technical Centre Europe

Let's Build Something Amazing

Available for AI consulting, speaking engagements, and collaboration opportunities

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Get In Touch

I'm always open to discussing new projects, creative ideas, or opportunities to be part of your visions.

Email

aryan.saurabhbhardwaj@gmail.com

LinkedIn

@saurabhbhardwajofficial

GitHub

@Bhardwaj-Saurabh

Location

London, United Kingdom

Available for new opportunities

Why Work With Me?

  • Built & led a 19-member AI team across 3 countries
  • $2M+ in business value delivered
  • 36 AI use cases architected, 3 in production
  • GDPR-compliant AI governance in regulated industries
  • 9+ years of hands-on AI/ML depth

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