Lakshmi is an AI engineer focused on practical LLM and ML applications. She has built RAG systems, recommender engines, and document-AI pipelines for healthcare, fintech, and e-commerce clients.
Lakshmi Menon
Senior AI Engineer · 8+ Years
Singapore
Hire pre-vetted OpenClaw / Open Claw AI developers. Open-source agent stacks, RAG, multi-step reasoning — $3,000–$7,500/mo, matched in 24 hours.
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4.9
avg client rating
200 +
companies building with us
92 %
talent retention rate
50-70 %
payroll savings
Lakshmi is an AI engineer focused on practical LLM and ML applications. She has built RAG systems, recommender engines, and document-AI pipelines for healthcare, fintech, and e-commerce clients.
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Thanks to Second Talent, Open Campus quickly built a skilled tech team of 10 within two months, boosting productivity by 70% and accelerating our Web3 platform's development.
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Their pre-screened candidates fit perfectly, and their smooth onboarding and support built a strong, cost-effective team that helped to test and experiment sales with another market.
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Engineers who build, ship and automate with AI. Less overhead, more output.
No office overhead, no traditional employee expenses.
Teams equipped with the latest AI tools.
4-6 hours of overlap to stay aligned.
Coding tests, peer interviews, and role checks, matched to your exact stack.
70%
Jump in productivity after building the team.
Animoca Brands
Jonah L., Head of Portfolio
$1.5B
Exit via acquisition by a major automotive marketplace.
Carro (Beyond Cars)
Garry Y., Co-Founder
70%
Reduction in labor costs across store operations.
Chow Sang Sang
Digital Lead
<3 Days
To source and onboard their first sales hire.
imBee
Leo Wong, Co-Founder
We work with engineering teams in the United States, Europe, the UK, and Australia who hire pre-vetted senior engineers in Asia every week. Senior talent, time-zone overlap, and compliant employment, handled by Second Talent.
Most US clients start with one engineer and scale to a 3–5 person team within the first quarter.
European teams typically replace 3–4 open senior roles with one Second Talent engagement.
Australian teams get the closest time-zone alignment of any offshore destination.
Hire in 3 steps, not 3 months.
Share what to ship, automate, or scale. Plus stack, budget, and timezone overlap.
6–8 pre-vetted OpenClaw Developers fluent in Claude Code and modern AI stacks. Interview the ones you like.
We handle contracts, payroll, and equipment. Your OpenClaw Developer ships real output within the first week.
TL;DR: Hire senior OpenClaw / open-source AI agent developers in Southeast Asia for $3,000–$7,500/mo. Save up to 75% vs US salaries. Pre-vetted in 24 hours.
Open-source AI agent infrastructure is the fastest-growing area in production AI. Frameworks like OpenClaw, LangGraph, AutoGen, and CrewAI let you build agents that are not locked to any single LLM vendor. Senior US engineers with this experience are extremely rare and command $180K+/year.
Southeast Asian agent developers deliver the same depth at $3,000–$7,500 per month, vetted and ready in 24–48 hours.
| Factor | Hiring Locally (US) | Hiring via Second Talent |
|---|---|---|
| Time to hire | 12–20 weeks | 24–48 hours |
| Average monthly cost | $15,000–$22,000 | $3,000–$7,500 |
| Vetting | Done by you | Pre-vetted (top 1% only) |
Open-source LLM frameworks, vector databases, prompt engineering, function calling, multi-agent orchestration, and local model serving (Ollama, vLLM, LM Studio).
Practical agent-build assessment, prompt engineering deep dive, error-handling design review, and English check. Top 1% only.
Tell us the agent use case. Profiles in 24–48 hours. Contracts via our Employer of Record service. Book a free consultation.
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