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Available for senior roles Data Platform · AI/ML Systems · SWE II @ Demandbase

Mohit Khare

I build data platforms & AI/ML pipelines that run faster, scale further, and cost less.

7+ years across data platform, backend, and ML systems. I rearchitect heavy AI/ML pipelines, move workloads to Kubernetes at scale, and own ambiguous, high-stakes platform problems end to end — from Spark-on-GPU jobs to crawlers processing tens of millions of domains.

12.97°N 77.59°E · Bengaluru, India
• Now live

Products I design and build end-to-end

Two products under the SastaSpace name — Flutter on the client, Cloudflare Workers and D1 on the edge.

SastaSpace

Android · in development

A local-first wardrobe app for India. Photograph a garment and it removes the background, pulls the dominant colours, and tags it with an India-first taxonomy — kurta, saree, dupatta, fabrics, occasions. Build outfits and get occasion- and heat-aware suggestions from a stylist that runs fully offline, with optional on-device or bring-your-own-key AI on top. Account-less — every photo stays on the device.

Flutter Drift / SQLite On-device AI Offline-first

SastaSpace Jobs

Web & Android

A job-hunt mediator. Paste a job description and it extracts the role, compensation, location, and requirements, scores fit 1–5 against your profile, then tracks every application across an eight-stage pipeline — kept in sync between the Android app and the web client. A Pro tier unlocks full CSV export of your pipeline.

Cloudflare Workers D1 Auth0 LLM scoring
01 / Selected work

Impact, with the numbers attached

Six problems I owned end to end. Each one started ambiguous and shipped with a measurable result.

01 AI/ML · Spark · GPU
0% runtime cut
56h3h
94% fasterruntime
~636 hrs/yr runtime · 12 runs75% compute cost

Rearchitected the NER pipeline

Overhauled Demandbase's AI-driven named-entity-recognition pipeline (spaCy on Spark, GPU-accelerated). Runtime collapsed from 56 hours to 3 while cutting compute spend 75% — turning an overnight batch into a same-day job.

02 Kubernetes · Crawling
0× throughput
1×8×
8× throughputvs Lambda
$96K/yr cloud cost$10K→$2K/mo · 80%

Migrated crawlers to Kubernetes

Moved the Render Crawler off AWS Lambda onto Kubernetes: 8× domain-processing throughput, 33M domains in 5 days, and monthly cost down from $10K to $2K (80% reduction).

03 FinOps · Data lifecycle
$0K/yr saved
$10K$500
95% cheapergeotagging
$114K/yr geotagging · $10K→$500/mo

Drove down cloud cost

Recovered roughly $96K/year in S3 (~$8K/month) through proactive data upkeep, and geotagged 4.5M locations with Pelias instead of Google APIs — a 95% cost cut ($10K → $500) with no loss in quality.

04 Data platform
0% faster upgrades
4 days30 min
90% fasterupgrades
~47 days/yr upgrade time · 12×

Stabilized Unified Technographics

Took ownership of a fragile data product and cut upgrade time 90% — from 4 days to 30 minutes — alongside catalog migrations, EMR upgrades, and security hardening in a company-wide shift-left program.

05 Backend · API performance
0% search throughput
100%20%
80% lower latencyAPI p50
Redis keys: billions → thousands

Scaled e-commerce APIs at Fynd

Boosted search processing 1,000% and price-cache performance 200%, cut API latency 80%, shrank Redis keys from billions to thousands, and built APIs handling 50M daily updates.

06 Delivery · Automation
0h release time
1 week5 hours
97% fasterreleases
12 releases/yr · 1 wk→5 h each

Automated the release pipeline

At Odessa, automated regression testing and releases to bring delivery time from one week to five hours.

02 / Experience

Seven years, three companies, one throughline

From OCR support and release automation to owning AI/ML data platforms — a steady climb toward harder, higher-leverage systems.

Demandbase
May 2025 – Present · Hyderabad
Current

Software Engineer II — Data Platform & AI/ML

  • Led the complete overhaul of the AI-driven NER pipeline (spaCy on Spark + GPU): 56h → 3h runtime, 75% lower cost.
  • Owned and stabilized the Unified Technographics product, cutting data-upgrade time 90% (4 days → 30 min).
  • Recovered roughly $96K/year in S3 (≈$8K/month) through proactive data-lifecycle work.
  • Velocity Hacker winner ($75K) at the September 2025 AI: Show & Tell for the Keystone AI project.
Demandbase
Aug 2023 – May 2025 · Hyderabad

Software Engineer

  • Migrated the Render Crawler from AWS Lambda to Kubernetes — 8× throughput, 33M domains in 5 days, 80% cost reduction.
  • Geotagged 4.5M locations with Pelias instead of Google APIs — 95% cheaper ($10K → $500).
  • Standardized Kubernetes compute across teams, ran internal K8s training, and mentored teammates.
  • Won Most Impressive Technical Implementation at the AI Hackathon for DBX.
Fynd · Shopsense Retail
Sep 2021 – Aug 2023 · Bengaluru / Mumbai

Software Engineer → Senior Software Engineer

  • Cut API response time 80% and shrank Redis keys from billions to thousands.
  • Lifted system performance 200% with a system-wide price cache and boosted search processing 1,000%.
  • Added pincode support for 1.5M products and designed APIs handling up to 50M daily updates.
Odessa
Dec 2018 – Sep 2021 · Bengaluru

Intern → Software Engineer → Senior Software Engineer

  • Automated regression testing and the release process — delivery time from 1 week to 5 hours.
  • Built and supported APIs for Comments and Documents; handled vulnerabilities and OCR document support.
  • Hypercare member for critical client defects.
03 / Projects & open source

Things I build outside the backlog

Award-winning internal AI work and open-source tooling for the messy realities of AI-generated code.

PyCodeGate

PyPI · OSS

A static-analysis CLI built for the specific failure modes of AI-generated Python. 40+ rules targeting AI-prone bugs, framework-aware checks for FastAPI, Django, and Flask, and SARIF output that drops straight into CI/CD.

Python Static analysis SARIF CI/CD

Keystone AI

$75K · Winner

The project that won Demandbase's Velocity Hacker prize at the September 2025 AI: Show & Tell — recognized as the standout build among company-wide entries.

AI/ML Applied AI Internal platform

DBX

Hackathon · Winner

An AI-powered outreach assistant that uses ML to surface high-potential leads and automate personalized outreach — Most Impressive Technical Implementation at the Demandbase AI Hackathon.

ML Automation GTM tooling
04 / Toolkit

What I reach for

Targeting senior data platform, backend, and ML platform roles — remote-first from India.

Languages & core
Python Scala SQL Apache Spark Kafka
Cloud & infra
AWS Kubernetes Docker Terraform EMR
Data & search
OpenSearch MongoDB Redis NoSQL
AI/ML
spaCy ML pipelines Multi-agent systems NumPy
Engineering practice
System design Microservices API performance Cost optimization
05 / Contact

Let's build something that scales

Open to senior data platform, backend, and ML platform roles. Remote-first; happy to go hybrid in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, or Pune for the right team. The fastest way to reach me is email.

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