Senior Software Engineer Eightfold AI
Architected scalable full-stack and backend services for enterprise talent products using Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes. Supported more than 3 million candidate and employee profiles across matching, search, recommendation, and workforce-intelligence workflows.
Designed application architectures across frontend, API, backend, database, and cloud layers, including asynchronous processing, caching, database optimization, authentication, authorization, observability, and automated testing. Built search and recommendation capabilities using NLP, embeddings, vector search, skill extraction, and multi-factor ranking, improving relevant candidate retrieval by 32% and recruiter shortlist acceptance by 24%.
Developed LLM-powered interview and knowledge platforms using RAG, tool calling, persistent state, deterministic validation, hybrid retrieval, reranking, and grounded generation. Led secure production engineering with OAuth2/JWT, RBAC, PII protection, audit logging, encrypted data handling, CI/CD quality gates, and Kubernetes deployments while maintaining 99.95% availability and mentoring five engineers.