Sam Muthu

Principal Engineer & AI Architect • Agentic AI • Enterprise Systems

Sunnyvale, CAConnect on LinkedIn
15+
Years building production systems
2023
Hands-on enterprise GenAI since
10M+
Customers on the identity platform I modernized
1,600+
AI-authored solutions in production

Executive Summary

Principal Engineer and AI Architect with 15+ years building production systems — hands-on with enterprise GenAI since the 2023 rollout inside Wells Fargo, and full time on AI-native product development at Zen Algorithms since 2025. I design, build and deploy AI agents: multi-agent orchestration, MCP integrations, RAG on pgvector, and the evaluations and guardrails that make agents dependable in production. The combination is banking-grade reliability discipline plus production agentic AI.

🎯 Principal / Staff AI Engineer🏗️ AI Architect🚀 Agentic AI · MCP · RAG · Evals

🏆 Key Achievements

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Banking Identity Modernization

5 years modernizing Wells Fargo's authentication platform for tens of millions of customers under SOX and PCI-DSS

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Production Agentic AI

AI Factory and LLM Council: 1,600+ AI-authored solutions through automated quality gates

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Side Projects and Open Source

CosmicKeys, WatchAlgo, 15 CosmicFlow Archives, and Mnemos (MIT-licensed local RAG)

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Global Platforms

Streaming and recommendation systems at Ericsson MediaKind; the webOS app ecosystem at HP/Palm

🎯 What I'm looking for

Roles

Principal, Staff and Senior AI Engineer and AI Architect — at enterprises or early-stage startups.

Where I add the most

Taking agents from prototype to production in regulated, high-availability environments: architecture, evals, guardrails and the team practices around them.

Logistics

San Francisco Bay Area or remote (US) · US Citizen · Full-time, or contract through Zen Algorithms.

Certifications: Anthropic — Claude Code in Action · Claude 101 · AI Fluency: Framework and Foundations (2026). B.E. Computer Science and Engineering, Bharathiar University.