Headline

Ex. Lead Software Engineer · Backend & GenAI Systems · Scaled LLM-powered audio/video pipelines @ Pocket FM · Python · NodeJS · Kafka · Temporal · K8s · Distributed Systems . Kubernetes · MCP · AI Agent

About

With over six years of experience, I specialize in building robust and scalable backend systems for generative AI, e-commerce, and hyperlocal platforms. At Pocket FM, I lead the development of advanced content generation tools and architectural revamps that significantly enhance performance and scalability, including reducing TAT P50-P99 by up to 95%. My expertise extends to managing complex audio and video pipelines that process high-volume scripts daily, while optimizing infrastructure workflows to improve efficiency and support business growth. My core competencies include RESTful WebServices, technical discussions, and web applications, which I leverage to drive impactful results in cross-functional collaborations. Passionate about crafting high-performance distributed systems, I focus on delivering innovative solutions that improve user engagement, optimize operations, and enable revenue growth. Through my leadership and technical acumen, I continuously contribute to creating efficient, scalable, and user-centric products.

Location

Jamshedpur

AI stack

antigravity

codex

Work experience

Hobbyist Writer at Doing It For Myself, Mar 2011 - Present · 15 yrs 6 mos, India, https://sweta-sushila-chauhan.medium.com/

Lead Software Engineer at Pocket FM, Oct 2025 - Jul 2026 · 10 mos, Bengaluru, • Led the development of innovative content generation tools utilizing generative AI capabilities and architectural revamp which reduced TAT P50-P99 by 90-95% • Managed an audio pipeline processing over 25K+ scripts daily, ensuring scalability and efficiency. • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to enhance product features, significantly boosting user engagement. • Optimized infrastructure workflows • Superheaded TV pod and on-boarded subscription and mandate lifecycle which directly impacted revenue. • Video pipeline optimization and made it scalable and reduced TAT by 50%

Senior Software Engineer at Pocket FM, Apr 2024 - Oct 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos, Remote, • Boosted critical code test coverage from 24% to 86% through Test-Driven Development (TDD) practices in critical revenue pod. • Led refactoring efforts, enhancing code quality and reducing latency by approximately 20%. • Integrated and on-boarded revenue pod features across the globe have +positive impact over revenue and retention

SDE-1 at Fynd (Shopsense Retail Technologies Ltd.), Aug 2022 - Apr 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bangalore Urban, - Owned an independent logistics integration team as a Backend Engineer where handled huge shipment creation traffic on dps(during sale or IPL season time) by scaling consumers by dividing event dp wise on Kafka topics. - Proficient in implementing internal and third-party features for e-commerce platforms, delivering enhanced app performance with independent logistics integration for seamless delivery experiences. - Contributed to the serviceability feature which is written as a service to handle all business ideas of serviceability calculation. - Owned Merging process of two services (read + write service) into one, handled end-to-end service merger + delivery from impact analysis like internal service dependency in the first phase, to successful deployment on prod in the last phase. - Owned on shipment breaking/DPs check revamp work with generic region support (like any country any locality) - Delivered Sanic to FastAPI code-base migration with internal generic framework for connection initialisation - Get hands on experience on Microservoce architecture on monorepo setup - Designed and Implemented Configurable Promise Engine at Application level on Platform with more accuracy and flexibility support to Sellers - TDD based development to ensure maximum code coverage to mitigate business risk

SDE ( Back-end ) at LoveLocal, Aug 2020 - Aug 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Remote (WFH), - Successfully implemented multiple internal features for B2B, B2C, and CRM fronts * Offers like values offer implementation from scratch * BOGO offer revamp * feed section on B2B app * Question/Help section support on B2C app * ELK dashboard setup for API performance tracking * Did small PoC on CI/CD to run test case before deployment using Jenkins setup. - Integrated several third-party services, including: * 3rd party logistics partner for home delivery orders * Sendbird integration for consumer-retailer direct chat feature on B2B, B2C, and CRM fronts * Google SPOT PoC integration did e2e integration on B2C front to CRM front in order to automate approval process on LL front * WhatsApp integration which increases the order acceptance rate by 14% * PoC on Google Vertex AI * PoC on SignGY - Developed and implemented features and services to enhance app performance.

Intern at Nomura, Jun 2019 - Nov 2019 · 6 mos, Powai, Worked with DevOps team. And get chance to work with many third party API for automation and KPI development 1) Worked with GitHub and ServiceNoW integration to automate some support task using python 2) Did seeding of KPI project for developer commit quality tracking pipeline 3) Worked on internal tool and GitHub to automate access revoking support tasks.

Education

MCA, Computer Science, Savitribai Phule Pune University

B. Sci(VOC) IT, Information Technology, Jamshedpur Women's College,Kolhan University

Public links

github: https://github.com/sweta-chauhan