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Sameer Poddar

BITS Pilani | Agentic AI & LLMs | Immediate Joiner

Bengaluru

< 1 year of work experience

Nielsen
Jul 20258 mosFeb 2026

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Designed and implemented an automated data pipeline using Apache Airflow, Python, and PostgreSQL, enabling stakeholders to identify team-wide bottlenecks and improving cross-team performance tracking. Led a cross-account AWS infrastructure migration for 16 Airflow DAGs and 6 Java repositories, ensuring 100% environment parity across development and production. Optimized GitLab CI/CD pipelines for AWS ECR-based containerization, strengthening deployment reliability and release consistency. Established end-to-end system observability by configuring a comprehensive suite of AWS CloudWatch alarms, enabling proactive monitoring of critical cloud resources. Improved backend code quality by developing JUnit and Mockito-based unit tests, achieving 87% test coverage for a Java microservice.
Aug 20245 mosDec 2024

India

Engineered a Spring Boot application to automate Google Calendar event creation, integrating Google Calendar APIs with OAuth 2.0-based authentication. Designed and deployed RESTful APIs to validate event data and streamline scheduling workflows, reducing manual errors by up to 90%. Collaborated with stakeholders to translate operational needs into scalable backend solutions.

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Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

20214 yrs2025

CBSE

Himalayan public school , Patna

20182 yrs2020

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Headline

BITS Pilani | Agentic AI & LLMs | Immediate Joiner

About

Results-driven Software Engineer with a strong foundation in backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and data platforms, currently working as a Member of Technical Staff at Nielsen. I specialize in building scalable, production-ready systems that improve reliability, performance, and operational visibility. Beyond my professional role, I actively build advanced engineering projects, including: An AI-powered multi-agent idea generation system leveraging LLMs, Redis caching, and vector databases A low-latency stock trading engine designed for concurrent, high-throughput processing I’m passionate about system design, performance optimization, and cloud-native engineering, and I thrive in environments where complex problems meet real-world scale.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Member of Technical Staff 1 at Nielsen, Jul 2025 - Feb 2026 · 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Designed and implemented an automated data pipeline using Apache Airflow, Python, and PostgreSQL, enabling stakeholders to identify team-wide bottlenecks and improving cross-team performance tracking. Led a cross-account AWS infrastructure migration for 16 Airflow DAGs and 6 Java repositories, ensuring 100% environment parity across development and production. Optimized GitLab CI/CD pipelines for AWS ECR-based containerization, strengthening deployment reliability and release consistency. Established end-to-end system observability by configuring a comprehensive suite of AWS CloudWatch alarms, enabling proactive monitoring of critical cloud resources. Improved backend code quality by developing JUnit and Mockito-based unit tests, achieving 87% test coverage for a Java microservice.

Software Engineer Intern at ERP BITS Hyderabad, Aug 2024 - Dec 2024 · 5 mos, India, Engineered a Spring Boot application to automate Google Calendar event creation, integrating Google Calendar APIs with OAuth 2.0-based authentication. Designed and deployed RESTful APIs to validate event data and streamline scheduling workflows, reducing manual errors by up to 90%. Collaborated with stakeholders to translate operational needs into scalable backend solutions.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

CBSE, Himalayan public school , Patna

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