# Purav Parekh - Full-Stack AI Engineer

> Full-Stack AI Engineer specializing in AI agents, multi-agent orchestration, LLMs, RAG pipelines, React, TypeScript, and Node.js. Founding AI engineer at a health-tech startup. Senior engineer at NIST.

## About

Purav Parekh is a Full-Stack AI Engineer with expertise spanning modern web development and artificial intelligence. He currently works as a Senior Full-Stack Engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and as the Founding AI Engineer at a stealth health-tech startup. He previously founded Parekh Digital Solutions, an IT consulting company, and has worked at Normalyze Inc and Adcuratio Media.

## Current Roles

- **Founding AI Engineer** at a stealth health-tech startup (Aug 2025 - Present): Architecting HIPAA-compliant AI systems, multi-agent orchestration, long-term memory with Mem0, and bidirectional data sync pipelines.
- **Senior Full-Stack Engineer** at NIST (Oct 2023 - Present): Leading the first-ever pipeline to digitize unstructured sustainability compliance documents using LLMs. Built AI-powered data pipelines with Azure Document Intelligence. Modernized a 40-year-old building economics tool used by the US military.

## Skills

- **Web Development:** React, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML/CSS, Tailwind CSS
- **AI & Machine Learning:** AI Agents, Multi-Agent Orchestration, LLMs, Generative AI, RAG, OpenAI, LangChain, Pinecone, Mem0, Python
- **Frameworks:** Node.js, Express, FastAPI, Django, Electron, Vite
- **Cloud & Databases:** AWS, Azure, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes

## Publications (NIST)

- [Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) Database Creation and Public Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) Data Gap Assessment](https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.TN.2353) (2025)
- [Energy Price Indices & Discount Factors for Life-Cycle Cost Analysis](https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.85-3273-40) (2025)
- [Building Life Cycle Cost (BLCC) User Guide](https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.TN.2346) (2025)
- [A Guide to the Smart Investment Tools](https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.AMS.100-62) (2024)

## Certifications

- AWS AI Practitioner
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Generative AI Professional

## Featured Projects

- **Cricket League RAG Chat:** RAG-powered app using LLMs + knowledge base to answer questions about cricket league rules. Built with OpenAI, Pinecone, React.
- **parsEPD:** LLM-based tool that digitizes Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs). Built with OpenAI, React, TypeScript.

## Links

- Website: https://purav-parekh.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/purav-parekh
- GitHub: https://www.github.com/purav-parekh
- Medium: https://medium.com/@purav-parekh
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nxYTWrUAAAAJ