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Aejaz Sheriff Quaraishi

Aejaz Sheriff Quaraishi

Cumming,Georgia

Summary

Accomplished Principal Enterprise & AI Architect with 28 years building regulated, mission-critical platforms across healthcare, AI, and IT/OT. Sole creator of the Lilo Therapeutic AI platform—a clinical-grade, HIPAA-compliant system with 26 microservices and a 7-agent therapeutic AI—delivered 128 days ahead of schedule. Expert in microservices, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, and interoperability (HL7 FHIR/PDex, CAQH, Epic, Availity), with deep RAG/agentic AI experience and robust evaluation frameworks. Proven leader who aligns technology with business outcomes, raises customer satisfaction, reduces risk, and accelerates delivery with pragmatic architecture guardrails.

Overview

26
26
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Principal Architect & Sole Creator

Lilo Therapeutic AI
10.2025 - Current
  • Conceived, designed, and built a clinical-grade, HIPAA-compliant therapeutic AI platform for elder care: 26 microservices, 4 databases, and a 7-agent AI system governed by zero-trust security and an API gateway.
  • Authored a unified 2025–2027 roadmap merging 14+ plans; eliminated duplicate scope and outdated assumptions, projected savings: $1.75M–$2.55M; delivered 128 days ahead of plan.
  • Engineered a multi-agent AI system (Behavioral Activation, Reminiscence, Web Search, etc.) with Dual-Channel Crisis Detection achieving 100% recall, 98.7% accuracy, and 178ms response time on internal test sets with zero false negatives.
  • Built a Retrieval-Augmented Generation layer unifying Knowledge Base, Life Story, and Chat History in PostgreSQL/pgvector, driving contextually relevant, safety-checked responses.
  • Established a 7-dimension quality framework with automated scoring, achieving 93.3/100 average response quality; integrated Langfuse for tracing and analytics.
  • Introduced RAG-based benefits and data-quality agents with an evaluation harness for regulatory workflows (GeoAccess, encounters).

Founder & Principal Architect

Praglogic
06.2025 - 09.2025
  • Designed reusable ingestion→indexing→inference pipelines with policy guardrails; deployed workflow/voice agents for fraud detection, recommendations, and predictive maintenance.
  • Introduced RAG-based benefits and data-quality agents with an evaluation harness for regulatory workflows (GeoAccess, encounters).
  • Authored SLOs/runbooks and FinOps guardrails for scalable AI services; implemented streaming dataflows on GCP/Vertex AI, Kafka, and NiFi.
  • Instituted HIPAA-aligned privacy controls and auditable retrieval chains for PHI/PII.

Lead AI Engineer

International Data Group (IDG)
08.2024 - 05.2025
  • Drove agentic AI adoption with standardized evaluation/observability/safety patterns, reducing manual oversight and accelerating team delivery.
  • Built reference architectures for real-time orchestration (Ray, LangChain/LangGraph) aligned with enterprise governance.

Principal Architect, Enterprise Platforms & Governance

NASCO (Blue Cross Blue Shield)
10.2012 - 06.2024
  • Established the Solution Architecture practice and governance cadence (Design Authority, ARB, standards, ADRs), cutting late-stage rework by ~30% and improving decision velocity.
  • Architected a provider data platform integrating EHRs + claims via HL7 FHIR/CAQH/Epic/Availity; delivered a 35% increase in customer satisfaction and stronger compliance posture.

Modernization & Integration Architect

IBM Software Labs
09.2002 - 10.2012
  • Governed IBM Maximo and Atlassian Jira/JSM integrations with API-first/event-driven patterns (Kong/Tyk/Apigee) and MQTT telemetry, reducing manual reconciliation by ~25%.
  • Module lead for IBM MQ Everyplace (MQTT); delivered QoS/LWT/mTLS patterns and broker/bridge designs enabling secure OT telemetry across SCADA/BACnet.
  • Led OSS/eTOM and SOA re-engineering for telecom/energy; drove HIPAA modernization and near-real-time liability estimation for payer programs.

EAI Practice Lead, Senior Systems Analyst, Developer

Polaris/Virtusa, DSQ/Square D, Ritechoice
01.2000 - 01.2002
  • Focused on integration, infrastructure, and delivery in finance/telecom.
  • Earlier Roles (Summary)

Education

B.E. - Computer Engineering

Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU)
  • Awarded University topper

Skills

  • Architecture & Cloud: Enterprise Architecture (TOGAF), Microservices, Kubernetes/Docker/Helm, AWS, GCP, DevOps (CI/CD, SRE), Terraform, Observability, Zero-Trust
  • AI/ML & Data: GenAI/RAG, Multi-Agent Systems, LangChain/LangGraph, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Sentence Transformers, Qwen, BGE-M3, S-PubMedBERT, Evaluation/Quality Frameworks, Vector Search, Semantic Search, Data Governance (HIPAA, FHIR PDex)
  • Integration & IoT: API Management (Kong, Tyk, Apigee), REST/WebSocket, MQTT/SCADA, Sparkplug-B, Kafka/Confluent, NiFi
  • Healthcare & Interoperability: HL7 v2/FHIR (PDex/Patient Access), CAQH, Epic, Availity, HIPAA Transactions (837, 270/271, 278), PHI/PII Governance
  • Leadership & Methodologies: Architecture Governance (ARB, ADRs, standards), Agile/Scrum, Stakeholder Alignment, Runbooks/SLOs/SLIs, FinOps/Cost Guardrails, Team Building, Conflict Resolution
  • IT/OT & EAM: IBM Maximo, Atlassian Jira/JSM, ITIL, MOC/CAB Alignment

Certification

  • TOGAF 9.1 (The Open Group)
  • HL7 FHIR Proficient
  • Google Professional Machine Learning Engineer
  • Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP)
  • Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD)

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual

Timeline

Principal Architect & Sole Creator - Lilo Therapeutic AI
10.2025 - Current
Founder & Principal Architect - Praglogic
06.2025 - 09.2025
Lead AI Engineer - International Data Group (IDG)
08.2024 - 05.2025
Principal Architect, Enterprise Platforms & Governance - NASCO (Blue Cross Blue Shield)
10.2012 - 06.2024
Modernization & Integration Architect - IBM Software Labs
09.2002 - 10.2012
EAI Practice Lead, Senior Systems Analyst, Developer - Polaris/Virtusa, DSQ/Square D, Ritechoice
01.2000 - 01.2002
Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) - B.E., Computer Engineering

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