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Hi there, I am

Poorav Desai

Software Engineer | Cloud & AI SystemsBuilding scalable and reliable products with end-to-end ownership

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About Me

I build AI & cloud systems that turn real business problems into reliable software.

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Engineering

Distributed systems, cloud platforms, and AI apps built for production

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Product & People

I bridge engineers, product, and customers to build what actually matters

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Ownership

I take ideas from design → deployment → iteration

You Should Hire Me Because...

  • I turn vague ideas into deployed systems
  • I keep engineering aligned with real user and business needs
  • I care about reliability, not just demos
  • I communicate clearly across technical and non-technical teams

How I Think

  • Start with who we're building for
  • Translate business goals into technical design
  • Design for scale and failure
  • Ship fast, then harden
  • Learn from real-world usage

Work Experience

May 2025 - Jul 2025

May 2025 - Jul 2025

Technology Modernization Intern

@Kaspar Companies Inc.

Saved ~40 hours of manual work per month by designing and deploying automation solutions for Finance team, including a digital credit application processing system.

Built automation using Python Flask, Celery, Redis, MSSQL, and Azure Dockerized deployment.

Collaborated with Finance and IT teams to observe workflows, capture pain points, identify inefficiencies, and align stakeholder expectations.

Jul 2021 - Aug 2024

Jul 2021 - Aug 2024

Software Engineer

@Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Reduced operational costs by ~30% by designing and implementing a failure-attribution feature enabling faster root-cause analysis across OCI's global deployment automation platform (Shepherd) in ~80 regions.

Built and operated production microservices using Java (Dropwizard) and Oracle DB, deployed via Docker and Terraform.

Improved platform resiliency by enabling runtime switching of dependency service stacks, preventing cascading failures and avoiding downtime.

Delivered actionable performance insights to leadership by analyzing metrics dashboards and identifying systemic incidents impacting availability and latency.

Jul 2018 - Oct 2018

Jul 2018 - Oct 2018

Artificial Intelligence Intern

@Meditab Software India Pvt. Ltd.

Developed end-to-end Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) system for parking management and traffic estimation using Python and TensorFlow.

Conducted literature review on deep learning-based object detection and segmentation techniques.

Implemented preprocessing, training, and evaluation pipelines using OpenCV, Pandas, and NumPy.

Research & Projects

Multimodal Sarcasm Explanation

🔬 Research @ LCS2-IIITD

Aug 2020 – Sep 2021

Published at AAAI, explaining sarcasm in multimodal social media posts

PythonPyTorchBARTVGG-19TransformersHuggingFace
  • Proposing a novel NLP task to generate natural-language explanations that reveal the intended sarcasm in multimodal social media posts (image + text)
  • Designed and fine-tuned a multimodal Transformer-based architecture combining visual and textual representations, leveraging VGG-19 for image features and BART for text encoding and generation
  • Implemented training and evaluation pipelines using PyTorch and HuggingFace, with data processing via NumPy and Pandas

DocuChat

🚀 Production

Dec 2025 – Jan 2026

Production-Grade RAG-Based Document Chat System

FastAPILangChainNext.jsCeleryRedisMongoDBQdrantLLMs
  • Developed a scalable RAG pipeline using FastAPI and LangChain, enabling low-latency conversational AI over private documents
  • Engineered a modular backend supporting plug-and-play LLM backends (Ollama, OpenAI, Gemini) and vector database (Qdrant), leveraging Design Patterns to ensure system extensibility
  • Architected a fault-tolerant ingestion engine with retry logic and distributed task queues (Celery, Redis) to handle high-throughput document ingestion and vector embedding tasks
  • Built a modern, responsive frontend with Next.js

Skills

Backend & Distributed Systems

MicroservicesDistributed SystemsREST APIsDesign PatternsAsynchronous Programming

AI / ML

LLMsRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)NLPDeep LearningTransformersCNNs

Programming Languages

JavaPythonC++SQLJavaScript

Frameworks & Libraries

LangChainFastAPIFlaskDropwizardPyTorchTensorFlowHuggingFaceRedisCeleryNumPyPandas

Databases

MySQLMSSQLOracle DBMongoDBQdrant (Vector DB)

Cloud / DevOps

AWSAzureGCPOCIDockerKubernetesTerraformGitShell Scripting

Frontend

ReactNext.jsTailwind CSS

Leadership & Involvement

Community Volunteer Leader at BVCIL

Community Volunteer Leader at BVCIL

Led a 5-person volunteer team to organize an art and craft event for individuals with special needs, fostering creativity and community engagement

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