whoami

cat status.yaml

role:

software engineer, machine learning

experience:

10+ years

location:

London, UK

open_to:

ML / AI engineering roles

resume:

resume_uk.pdf

git log --career

1. 2026 (HEAD -> main) Freelancer - building LLM-powered products
   • ship consumer products with AI-assisted development and structured LLM evals
2. 2022-2025 Expedia Group - Software Engineer (ML), Search Ranking
   • Spark ML pipelines on Databricks to train and score ranking models, with feature engineering from raw event data
   • second-pass reranking in the service layer, feature-serving endpoints, YAML-driven signal selection
   • pipeline runtime 15h → 2h by parallelising jobs with Databricks Workflows
   • A/B experiments on model impact; Travel Ads in the ranking backend with real-time placement
   • data services ingesting millions of events/day; tuned the SQL behind ranking datasets
3. 2020-2022 Zalando - Software Engineer (ML), Fraud & Risk
   • feature pipelines turning raw fraud signals into features for real-time risk scoring
   • ML-based post-processing to flag fraudulent invoices
   • scaled APIs handling 250M+ orders and payments with low-latency fraud checks
   • GDPR compliance across the risk platform
4. 2015-2020 Earlier - Software Engineer
   • Hotels.com: personalised pricing APIs, Grafana monitoring pipelines
   • Profectus Solutions: 0→1 pricing intelligence platform, led 8 engineers
   • Infosys: REST APIs with Kafka event streaming for Apple Concierge Analytics

ls -l ~/projects

• drwxr-xr-x citybites/

  Restaurant recommendations, built from a Google Maps Takeout CSV of 106 personal picks into an animated, searchable site. 80 visitors in the first 24h.
  # built with Claude Code

• drwxr-xr-x withspaces/

  An app for working in flow state. Designed and shipped the waitlist.
  # built with Claude Code

cat requirements.txt

• python
• java
• kotlin
• sql
• spark
• databricks
• kafka
• kubernetes
• aws
• llm-evals

ping pooja