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Priyam Biswas

Engineering Leader | 17+ yrs in AI/ML, LLMs, Cloud, and Scalable Architecture | Driving AGI & Gen AI Transformation

Bengaluru

16+ years of work experience

Turing
Sep 20251 yrPresent

Remote

Engineering Manager II - AI/ML Platform, Turing Inc (Remote - United States) Led 105-person engineering organization (8 direct EM reports) delivering LLM fine-tuning infrastructure for Apple, Anthropic, and xAI clients. PEOPLE LEADERSHIP • Built engineering team from 45 to 105 through structured hiring: defined JDs, ran 150+ system design/coding interviews, calibrated hiring bar across 5 interview panels • Managed 8 Engineering Managers and 3 Staff Engineers; conducted bi-weekly 1:1s, quarterly performance reviews, and created career development plans resulting in 2 internal promotions • Established Agile ceremonies: sprint planning, standups, retros; reduced sprint spillover from 30% to 8% • Coordinated cross-functional initiatives with Product, ML Research, and Platform teams across 3 time zones TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP & DELIVERY • Defined engineering roadmap for RLHF/SFT platform: CI/CD modernization, observability stack (Datadog, Jaeger), multi-tenant isolation, and cloud cost optimization (FinOps practices) • Architected migration of 120+ microservices to Kubernetes (GKE/EKS) with autoscaling, reducing infrastructure cost by 30% and improving P99 latency by 85% • Led incident management: established on-call rotations, runbooks, postmortem culture; reduced MTTR from 4hrs to 2.2hrs through automated triage agent (LLM-based root cause analysis) • Improved release velocity by 60% via GitLab CI/CD pipelines, feature flags (LaunchDarkly), and blue-green deployments
Persistent Systems
Mar 20241 yr 7 mosSep 2025

Bangalore Urban

Intelligent SCM Systems: Directed delivery of an AI-driven Supply Chain platform, integrating predictive analytics for demand forecasting and NLP-based vendor automation. Process Transformation: Improved on-time delivery from 65% to 95% by establishing scalable architectures and Agile governance. Availability: Achieved 99.9% production uptime via robust monitoring and automated redundancy for ML data pipelines.
Infosys
Dec 20212 yrs 3 mosFeb 2024

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI-Assisted Development: Pioneered AI-assisted development (LLM-based) to optimize Node.js codebases, scaling developer velocity by 70%. NLP for Observability: Integrated NLP-driven anomaly detection within CITI Bank’s application logs, increasing uptime to 99.9% for 2M+ users. Architecture: Designed an event-driven logistics platform, increasing transaction throughput by 70% and improving response time from 7s to 92ms.
Walmart
Dec 20192 yrs 1 moDec 2021

Sunnyvale, CA

ML-Driven Search: Re-architected quick-commerce platform to sustain 100M+ daily requests, integrating NLP-based semantic search efficiency for peak traffic. Predictive Personalization: Optimized retail analytics services using ML-driven caching strategies, achieving an 85% performance boost.
Tranzeal Incorporated
Jul 20196 mosDec 2019

Sunnyvale, CA

GE
Apr 20172 y 2 moJun 2019

San Ramon

Salesforce
Jan 20161 y 3 moApr 2017

San Francisco

Apple
Jan 20106 yJan 2016

Sunnyvale

Priyam’s AI Stack

anthropic apis
anthropic apis
mcp
mcp
openai
openai
huggingface
huggingface

Education

Stanford University

NLP with Deep Learning

Stanford University

20194 yrs2023
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

Post Graduate Certificate Program, Data Science and Machine Learning

Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

20222 yrs2024

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Headline

Engineering Leader | 17+ yrs in AI/ML, LLMs, Cloud, and Scalable Architecture | Driving AGI & Gen AI Transformation

About

• Engineering Manager with 17+ years leading high-performing teams (up to 105 engineers across 8 direct reports) in AI/ML, cloud-native systems, and enterprise platforms at Walmart, GE, Salesforce • People Leadership: Built and scaled engineering organizations through structured hiring (200+ interviews), performance management, career development frameworks, and cross-functional collaboration with Product/Design • Technical Strategy: Defined engineering roadmaps aligned to business OKRs; drove cloud migrations, micro-services adoption, and DevOps transformation resulting in 60% faster delivery cycles • Operational Excellence: Established SRE practices, incident management, and observability frameworks maintaining 99.9%+ uptime for systems serving 100M+ daily requests

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

anthropic apis

mcp

openai

huggingface

Work experience

Engineering Manager II at Turing, Sep 2025 - Present · 1 yr, Remote, Engineering Manager II - AI/ML Platform, Turing Inc (Remote - United States) Led 105-person engineering organization (8 direct EM reports) delivering LLM fine-tuning infrastructure for Apple, Anthropic, and xAI clients. PEOPLE LEADERSHIP • Built engineering team from 45 to 105 through structured hiring: defined JDs, ran 150+ system design/coding interviews, calibrated hiring bar across 5 interview panels • Managed 8 Engineering Managers and 3 Staff Engineers; conducted bi-weekly 1:1s, quarterly performance reviews, and created career development plans resulting in 2 internal promotions • Established Agile ceremonies: sprint planning, standups, retros; reduced sprint spillover from 30% to 8% • Coordinated cross-functional initiatives with Product, ML Research, and Platform teams across 3 time zones TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP & DELIVERY • Defined engineering roadmap for RLHF/SFT platform: CI/CD modernization, observability stack (Datadog, Jaeger), multi-tenant isolation, and cloud cost optimization (FinOps practices) • Architected migration of 120+ microservices to Kubernetes (GKE/EKS) with autoscaling, reducing infrastructure cost by 30% and improving P99 latency by 85% • Led incident management: established on-call rotations, runbooks, postmortem culture; reduced MTTR from 4hrs to 2.2hrs through automated triage agent (LLM-based root cause analysis) • Improved release velocity by 60% via GitLab CI/CD pipelines, feature flags (LaunchDarkly), and blue-green deployments

Senior Software Engineering Manager at Persistent Systems, Mar 2024 - Sep 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos, Bangalore Urban, Intelligent SCM Systems: Directed delivery of an AI-driven Supply Chain platform, integrating predictive analytics for demand forecasting and NLP-based vendor automation. Process Transformation: Improved on-time delivery from 65% to 95% by establishing scalable architectures and Agile governance. Availability: Achieved 99.9% production uptime via robust monitoring and automated redundancy for ML data pipelines.

Senior Project Manager at Infosys, Dec 2021 - Feb 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, AI-Assisted Development: Pioneered AI-assisted development (LLM-based) to optimize Node.js codebases, scaling developer velocity by 70%. NLP for Observability: Integrated NLP-driven anomaly detection within CITI Bank’s application logs, increasing uptime to 99.9% for 2M+ users. Architecture: Designed an event-driven logistics platform, increasing transaction throughput by 70% and improving response time from 7s to 92ms.

Senior Software Engineer at Walmart, Dec 2019 - Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Sunnyvale, CA, ML-Driven Search: Re-architected quick-commerce platform to sustain 100M+ daily requests, integrating NLP-based semantic search efficiency for peak traffic. Predictive Personalization: Optimized retail analytics services using ML-driven caching strategies, achieving an 85% performance boost.

Senior Software Engineer at Tranzeal Incorporated, Jul 2019 - Dec 2019 · 6 mos, Sunnyvale, CA

Staff Software Engineer at GE, Apr 2017 - Jun 2019 · 2 y 2 mo, San Ramon

Member Technical Staff at Salesforce, Jan 2016 - Apr 2017 · 1 y 3 mo, San Francisco

Software Engineer at Apple, Jan 2010 - Jan 2016 · 6 y, Sunnyvale

Education

NLP with Deep Learning, Stanford University

Post Graduate Certificate Program, Data Science and Machine Learning, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee