Abhilash Sathe
@abhilashsathe
Platform engineer delivering scalable AI/ML, search, and backend systems.
IndiaWhat I'm looking for
I am a hands-on platform engineer with 13 years building distributed AI/ML systems, search infrastructure, and backend services for web platforms. I lead architecture design, system reliability, cost optimization, and mentor engineers while remaining deeply involved in code and production operations.
I've built production LLM/GenAI systems, RAG pipelines, and classical ML serving across Python-first architectures on AWS and Kubernetes, and I led the design and rollout of a contract-intelligence AI/ML platform processing 1.8M+ contracts. My work has reduced costs (~40%), sped processing (~60%), and maintained high uptime (~99.5%).
I bring experience as an engineering manager and senior/staff engineer across startups and enterprise environments, driving post-acquisition integrations, standardizing observability and release practices, and shipping reliable platforms that unblock ML and product teams.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
CLStabilized the India side of Cloudera’s Enterprise AI Platform by introducing JIRA-driven sprints, Definition of Ready/Done, and release gates, restoring predictable delivery cadence and unblocking stranded ML projects within months.
COOwned design and rollout of Conga’s contract-intelligence AI/ML platform, building RAG pipelines and MLOps for 100+ NLP models that analyzed 1.8M+ contracts and reduced processing time ~60% while cutting infra costs ~40%.
NSEngineering Manager
Netcore Solutions
Feb 2019 - Aug 2021 (2 years 6 months)
Led backend for a conversational-intelligence product, delivered data ingestion and Elasticsearch search layers, and implemented OpenSearch/Kibana monitoring that improved incident visibility and debugging speed for personalization pipelines.
Lead Software Engineer
Quinto.ai
Mar 2015 - Jan 2019 (3 years 10 months)
As first engineering hire, led development of a B2C Android food-recommendation product to production and evolved the platform into a B2B conversational AI solution, driving architecture, standards, and the acquisition handover.
Senior Software Engineer
MereeDhun Digital Media Pvt. Ltd.
Apr 2013 - Feb 2015 (1 year 10 months)
Delivered Android and web projects including a music-streaming app with caller-tune features and an e-commerce prototype, owning implementation and production support across web and mobile.
Software Engineer
La Mere Business
Jun 2012 - Mar 2013 (9 months)
First engineering hire building and maintaining end-to-end school-management modules (attendance, reporting) and engaging directly with founders and early customers to deliver product features.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
NWIMSR, University of Pune
Master of Computer Management, Computer Management
2010 - 2012
Completed a Master of Computer Management focusing on advanced topics in computer management and systems from 2010 to 2012.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Location
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Skills
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