01AI / ML / Research
Sentinel: an autonomous multi-agent AI system
Intent-routed specialist agents, with federated fine-tuning so the data never leaves
Personal project
4Specialist agents
AI Systems Engineer · Mumbai, IN
I build agentic AI systems — and the infrastructure that carries them.
Owais Barkati is an engineer in Mumbai, India, working across two things that rarely show up together: multi-agent AI and retrieval systems, and the high-throughput data infrastructure — Apache Kafka, Debezium change data capture, ClickHouse — that production AI actually runs on.
Selected numbers2023 – 2026
- concurrent users served
- 10M+
- API response latency
- −85%
- CDC replication, 1M+ rows
- <1s
- peer-reviewed papers
- 2
Selected work
02Backend / Data
Broadcasting to 10 million concurrent users
A Kafka fan-out system that got the database out of the notification path
FyreGig · Backend Developer Intern
10M+Concurrent users supported
03Data / Backend
Sub-second MySQL to ClickHouse replication
A Debezium CDC pipeline feeding loan-risk dashboards without touching the source database
FyreGig · Backend Developer Intern
Sub-secondReplication latency
04Backend
Cutting an API from 10 seconds to 1.5
Why a recursive org-tree endpoint was slow, and what breadth-first traversal fixed
FyreGig · Backend Developer Intern
−85%Response latency
05AI / ML
The assistant on this site has no vector database
Why retrieval was the wrong answer for an 8,000-token corpus, and what replaced it
This website
~$0.0012Cost per cached turn
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Research
Two peer-reviewed papers in computer vision and natural language processing, published as Owais Ansari.
- 01ADCIS 2025
Interpretable Instance Segmentation for Camouflaged Wildlife Detection
Best Presentation
- 02ICT4SD 2025
AI-Based Synchronized Video Dubbing