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Utsa Poddar

@utsapoddar

Data & AI Engineer building Alpha Digest, an automated financial-data pipeline, and auditable retrieval systems for AI agents.

Canada

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What I'm looking for

AI and data engineering roles building reliable LLM, retrieval and data-pipeline systems, in Calgary or remotely in Canada.

I built and operate Alpha Digest, a five-stage weekly financial-data pipeline that publishes email and web editions through GitHub Actions. After four consecutive weekly failures, I rebuilt its summarization stage with a three-model fallback chain and corrected job timeout; the next five weekly runs succeeded.

I also built Engram, an auditable retrieval system for AI agents combining BM25 and optional semantic retrieval, and DopaKernel, which checks agent work against frozen, verifiable requirements. Their verification includes 71 automated tests for Engram and 85 runtime tests plus 46 structural checks for DopaKernel.

At Next Generation Graphics Ltd (NGGL), I rebuilt recurring KPI reports and automated extraction steps, improving data accuracy and reporting efficiency by 25%. At Canadian Tire Corporation, I supervised 11 associates and raised order fulfilment from 90% to a sustained 98% through metric review and targeted process changes.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Data & AI Engineer

Current

Self-employed

Sep 2025 - Present (1 year 1 month)

Built and operate Alpha Digest, a five-stage weekly financial-data pipeline for a 25-entity watchlist that publishes email and web editions through GitHub Actions. Diagnosed and rebuilt a failing summarization stage as a 3-model fallback chain with retry and a corrected job timeout, ending 4 consecutive weekly failures; the next 5 weekly runs succeeded.

Online Orders Department Supervisor

Canadian Tire Corporation

Jul 2024 - Sep 2025 (1 year 2 months)

Supervised 11 associates across online-order fulfilment, quality assurance, and daily operations, planning team schedules up to a month ahead to smooth coverage across peaks. Raised order fulfilment from 90% to a sustained 98% by tracking bottlenecks through metric review and implementing targeted process changes.

Team Leadership Scheduling Metrics Review Process Improvement Root Cause Analysis SOP Development Inventory Management Sales Analysis Dashboard Usage

Customer Service Representative

Canadian Tire Corporation

Apr 2023 - Jul 2024 (1 year 3 months)

Promoted to Online Department Supervisor after 15 months as a Customer Service Representative.

Business Intelligence Analyst

Next Generation Graphics Ltd (NGGL)

May 2022 - Jun 2023 (1 year 1 month)

Improved data accuracy and reporting efficiency by 25% by rebuilding recurring KPI reports and automating repetitive extraction steps. Wrote and optimized SQL queries across relational databases for recurring and ad hoc extraction, cleaning, and transformation.