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Sarthak Baweja

@sarthakbaweja

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Platform & AI technical lead building scalable backend applications and Generative AI solutions

India

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a role where I can own platform reliability/security/performance while building production GenAI that automates real business workflows—partnering with teams to ship fast, optimize cost, and strengthen an AI-native engineering culture.

I’m a Platform and AI technical lead with 6+ years of experience building scalable backend systems and production GenAI applications. I lead platform engineering across 20+ services with accountability for reliability, security, and performance, and I serve as my organization’s go-to AI engineer driving the shift toward an AI-native operating model.

I focus on measurable outcomes—cutting manual effort by 95% (20x efficiency gain), saving roughly $1,000/month through cost optimization, and improving application performance by 15% while reducing infrastructure costs by 40%. I’ve delivered GenAI tooling like custom plugins on top of Claude Code and Cowork, an MCP server exposing capabilities to AI agents, and an internal RAG-based AI chatbot, plus platform and event architecture upgrades (Kafka-based decoupling processing 30M+ events/day) and scalable real-time systems using WebSockets.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Platform & AI Technical Lead

Current

SplashLearn

Aug 2022 - Present (3 years 10 months)

Led platform engineering and the organization’s shift to an AI-native operating model, owning reliability, security, and performance across 20+ services. Drove GenAI and platform initiatives that cut manual effort by 95%, saved ~$1,000/month, reduced infrastructure costs by 40%, and improved performance by 15%.

Java Spring Boot Microservices Kafka AWS GenAI LLM RAG Vector Databases

Associate Software Engineer

BlueOptima

Jan 2020 - Jul 2022 (2 years 6 months)

Built backend microservices, data ingestion workflows, and Grafana dashboards for CXO and engineering teams, supporting analytics and operational visibility. Worked across Java, Spring Boot, Python, AWS, and Postgres to deliver production-ready components.

Java Spring Boot Python AWS PostgreSQL Microservices Data Ingestion Grafana REST APIs Monitoring

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Computers

2016 - 2020

Grade: CGPA: 8.48

Activities and societies: Built custom plugins and delivered GenAI initiatives such as an MCP server for AI agents and a RAG-based internal AI chatbot.

Earned a B.E. in Electronics and Computers (2016–2020) and led AI engineering initiatives, including building GenAI/RAG tooling and delivering production-track proofs of concept.