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MAHESH AMBULE

@maheshambule

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Senior tech lead specializing in cloud-native backend and data platforms.

India

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior/platform roles where I can lead architecture of cloud-native backend and data systems, mentor engineers, improve observability and reliability, and deliver scalable ML/GenAI-driven features.

I am a Senior Tech Lead with 15+ years designing and operating distributed, high-performance backend and data platforms across AI startups and global consumer technology companies. I specialize in cloud-native systems (AWS, Kubernetes), scalable API design, domain-driven architecture, and large-scale real-time and batch data processing.

In product roles I architected high-throughput backends processing millions of interactions daily, built a real-time audio streaming and transcription system, and led development of a GenAI assistant that reduced processing time by 70%. At AWS I contributed to CodeGuru, Apache TVM, and TorchServe, improving static analysis, runtime operator support, and inference performance.

I drive architectural standards, observability, and operational maturity while mentoring teams and leading incident response and post-mortems. I am an active open-source contributor focused on ML/DL infrastructure and practical GenAI integrations that deliver measurable business outcomes.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior Software Engineer

Deliveroo

Apr 2025 - Feb 2026 (10 months)

Designed and delivered a voucher surfacing and redemption system for high-traffic flows (60K+ RPM) and implemented Offer Unstacking to enable scalable, deterministic promotion evaluation; led incident triage and reliability improvements across consumer-facing backend services.

Go Python Distributed Systems Kafka Kubernetes AWS API Design Observability

Senior Team Lead

Prodigal

Jul 2022 - Apr 2025 (2 years 9 months)

Architected a high-throughput backend processing millions of interactions daily and built a real-time audio streaming/transcription system and GenAI assistant that reduced processing time by 70%; designed a Databricks-based CDC pipeline syncing 100+ GB/day.

Python Databricks Spark MongoDB Kafka LLM Integrations Microservices Cloud Architecture

Lead Engineer

Amazon Web Services

Dec 2020 - Jul 2022 (1 year 7 months)

Contributed to Amazon CodeGuru core development, building static analysis libraries and high-performance DSL constructs for taint-flow analysis and led a team of 10+ engineers scaling backend and SAST systems.

Static Analysis Python Security DSL Backend Scalability CI CD AWS

Lead Engineer

Amazon Web Services

Dec 2019 - Dec 2021 (2 years)

Contributed to TorchServe and Multi-Model Server by adding ensemble/DAG execution and extensibility plugins, improving inference performance and memory efficiency for large HuggingFace models on EC2 GPU instances by up to 80%.

TorchServe GPU Python EC2 Performance Tuning Machine Learning

Lead Engineer

Amazon Web Services

Dec 2019 - Dec 2021 (2 years)

Implemented ONNX runtime support and contributed DL operators and frontends for Apache TVM, participating in RFC-driven architecture and community-driven ecosystem enhancements.

Apache TVM Onnx Deep Learning C#Operator Development Runtime Integration Open Source

Senior Product Engineer

Persistent Systems

Mar 2015 - Dec 2019 (4 years 9 months)

Led backend architecture of a low-code analytics platform, built a query translation/optimization framework with an ANTLR SQL parser, and improved distributed Spark execution performance by 40% for large-scale analytics workloads.

Spark SQL Antlr Snowflake Hive Data Engineering Performance Optimization Backend

Associate

Cognizant

Dec 2011 - Feb 2015 (3 years 2 months)

Designed large-scale data models and optimized ETL pipelines using DataStage and Teradata, developing complex SQL transformations to support enterprise data warehouse solutions.

ETL DataStage Teradata SQL Data Modeling Performance Tuning Data Warehouse

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Government College of Engineering, Aurangabad

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering

2007 - 2011

Completed a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from 2007 to 2011 focusing on core computer science principles and engineering practice.