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TAGAD SARANG

@tagadsarang

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Senior AI platform engineer specializing in Dataiku, Kubernetes, cloud automation, and cost optimization.

India

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What I'm looking for

I seek a hands-on engineering role building and operating scalable AI/ML platforms with strong automation, observability, and cost-efficiency, within collaborative teams that value mentorship and reliability.

I am a Senior AI Platform Engineer with deep expertise operating and scaling enterprise Dataiku platforms on AWS and Kubernetes, enabling ML and GenAI workloads for hundreds of data scientists and ML engineers. I drive platform automation, observability, security, and cost optimization using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Docker, and Prometheus to deliver reliable, scalable production ML infrastructure.

I have led platform teams, migrated critical platform components to cloud-native architectures, and achieved substantial cost savings and performance improvements (notably EKS compute reductions and backup storage optimizations). I focus on pragmatic, repeatable automation, proactive monitoring, and mentoring cross-functional engineers to raise platform standards and accelerate AI delivery.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior AI Platform Engineer

Current

Birlasoft Limited

Mar 2025 - Present (1 year 3 months)

Own and operate an enterprise-scale Dataiku AI platform (30+ instances) on AWS and Kubernetes supporting 800+ data scientists; implemented autoscaling, observability, and automation to improve reliability and reduce costs. Delivered a ~64% reduction in EKS compute costs and optimized backup/storage costs through lifecycle and sizing improvements.

Dataiku AWS Kubernetes Terraform Jenkins Karpenter Observability Cost Optimization

Lead Platform Engineer

Tech Mahindra

Jan 2023 - Mar 2025 (2 years 2 months)

Led design and operations of Dataiku and UiPath platforms across AWS, Azure, Kubernetes and on‑prem Hadoop; managed and mentored a 4–8 engineer team and automated patching and housekeeping to reduce manual effort by 40%. Enabled a 60% increase in AI projects and cut infrastructure costs by 25%.

Dataiku Kubernetes AWS Azure Ansible Python CI CD Hadoop

Platform Engineer

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Jan 2021 - Jan 2023 (2 years)

Installed, configured and administered Dataiku DSS on AWS; integrated Dataiku with Kubernetes to optimize ML workloads and built monitoring/alerting to ensure platform availability for 50+ data scientists. Automated operational tasks reducing manual effort.

Dataiku AWS Kubernetes Python Linux Cloudwatch Ansible Monitoring

Level 1 Operations Support

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Dec 2016 - Dec 2020 (4 years)

Provided 24x7 L1 ITSM operations support for financial services and telecom clients following ITIL practices; performed alert triage and first‑level analysis and managed incidents in ServiceNow to meet SLAs.

ITSM ServiceNow AppDynamics Grafana Paessler Incident Management Monitoring ITIL

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

MIT College of Engineering

Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

2012 - 2016

Completed a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering focusing on core engineering principles and problem-solving for applied mechanical systems.