Abhilash Sathe
@abhilashsathe
Staff/Principal backend and platform engineer focused on reliable AI and search systems.
IndiaWhat I'm looking for
I am a backend and platform engineer with 13 years building distributed systems, search platforms, and platform-side AI solutions, including LLM/GenAI serving, RAG, and classical NLP. I combine hands-on engineering with delivery discipline to drive predictable releases, strong SLA/SLO alignment, and operational reliability.
My experience spans zero-downtime migrations, hybrid inference architectures, MLOps and model packaging, search and ingestion pipelines, and observability/SRE practices. I have led teams and cross-functional planning to improve sprint predictability, reduce incidents, and enable scalable AI inference for production workloads.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
CLLed quarterly and sprint planning for Cloudera AI (Inference, AI Studios, AMPs), introduced Definition of Ready/Done and release gates, and improved sprint predictability ~30% while tightening CI/CD and SLA/SLO-aligned dashboards to reduce regressions.
COExecuted zero-downtime migration of 1M+ contracts to Kubernetes and implemented hybrid inference (AWS Lambda + Kubernetes) with model packaging, CI/CD canary/rollback guardrails, and vector/RAG retrieval on OpenSearch to meet SLA/SLOs.
Engineering Manager
Netcore Cloud
Feb 2019 - Aug 2021 (2 years 6 months)
Led architectural work on conversational-intelligence ingestion and search using Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, achieving ~99% availability and building ELK observability, SLAs/SLOs, on-call rotations and runbooks to reduce incident noise and MTTR.
Lead Software Engineer
Quinto.ai
Mar 2015 - Jan 2019 (3 years 10 months)
Built B2B conversational AI integrations for Shopify and maintained Node.js backends, React frontend and Android apps, implementing logging, monitoring and release hygiene to support ~5,000 installs and 100+ daily active users.
Senior Software Engineer
MereeDhun Digital Media Pvt. Ltd.
Apr 2013 - Feb 2015 (1 year 10 months)
Delivered Android streaming and caller-tune features and modular e‑commerce components, enabling partner integrations and smoother releases ahead of acquisition.
Software Engineer
La Mere Business
Jun 2012 - Mar 2013 (9 months)
Developed LAMP back-end modules for school management (attendance and reporting) and documented handoffs and QA to stabilize small-team releases.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
NWIMSR, University of Pune
Master of Computer Management, Computer Management
2010 - 2012
Completed a Master of Computer Management (MCM) program focused on advanced computing and management practices from 2010 to 2012.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Location
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