Raman Shrivastava

Fractional Head of AI — Paris

I build AI agent systems that work in production — not demos, not proofs of concept, but systems that handle real users and real money without someone watching them. Based in Paris, working globally. I embed in engineering teams as a fractional Head of AI, shipping code and making architecture decisions alongside your engineers.

What I do

Agent engineering is building AI agents as products — the voice agent that handles your customer calls, the video agent that processes KYC, the RAG system that serves your search. I design these across LangGraph, OpenAI Agents SDK, and Claude Agent SDK, choosing based on what the problem actually needs. The hard parts are never the model. They're context engineering, state management, observability, and graceful degradation — the 80% of the work that doesn't make it into demo videos.

Agentic engineering is the other side: helping your team ship better software faster using AI-native development setups. CLAUDE.md constitutions, custom skills, spec-driven development, parallel agents across git worktrees, sandboxed execution. I've built and open-sourced these setups. Autonomous coding agents are still early, but the results are promising enough that I think this becomes standard within a year.

What I've built