Ritesh Raj

AI Automation Engineer and AI-driven Video & Animation Producer with 6+ years of freelance experience spanning narrative-driven AI video production for independent artists and, more recently, end-to-end AI automation pipelines. Built production-grade automation systems using n8n, Make.com, FastAPI, and Docker, and delivered 100+ animated music videos by combining generative AI pipelines (ComfyUI, Stable Diffusion, Kling, Runway) with traditional post-production in Premiere Pro and After Effects. Electronics & Communication Engineering background with a fast, self-directed learning style that supports rapid adoption of new AI tools and full ownership from concept through final delivery.

AI Video & Animation Producer - Independent / Freelance - Ranchi, India

(2018-01)

• Produced 100+ animated AI-generated music videos for independent artists, owning the full pipeline from concept and prompting through generation, editing, and final delivery.
• Delivered a complete music video catalog for independent artist Wele Moyne Alexander, including the singles "Insecurities," "Day Dreaming," and "Chasing Time," published on the artist's official website.
• Combined generative AI tools (ComfyUI, Stable Diffusion, Kling, Runway) with traditional editing in Premiere Pro and After Effects to deliver narrative-driven, broadcast-ready visuals.
• Maintained consistent character appearance and scene continuity across multi-scene narratives using prompting, batching, and post-processing techniques.

AI Automation Engineer - Independent / Freelance - Ranchi, India

(2022-01)

• Built a fully automated AI video generation pipeline that converts a topic into a complete video — research, scripting, image generation, voiceover, captions, and assembly — reducing manual production effort by 80%+.
• Designed and delivered a SaaS automation tool for a client, built independently in collaboration with Rex Automation, that uses AI to generate YouTube video transcripts and automatically publish videos end-to-end.
• Developed a personalized children's book automation platform connecting web forms, an Airtable database, AI image generation, and media processing, with a built-in preview/approval workflow.
• Built an academic research automation system that searches academic sources, extracts relevant sections, and converts complex content into simplified scripts, using custom FastAPI scraping services in Docker.
• Built and integrated custom scraping APIs (FastAPI + Docker) into n8n pipelines for structured data extraction and research workflows.

Founder - BluenodeAI - Ranchi, India

(2022-01)

• Founded an AI automation studio building custom "smart business tools," including a Faceless Content Engine that converts a spoken idea directly into a captioned, published video for YouTube and Instagram.
• Designed and delivered AI agent systems, no-code CRM setups, and client onboarding automations for solo founders and small businesses.

M.Tech - Jharkhand University of Technology (JUT) (2021-03 - 2023-03)

B.Tech - Electronics & Communication Engineering - RTU, Rajasthan (2016-08 - 2020-05)