Sandeep Kandekar
Principal Lead Engineer - GenerativeAI
Hopkinton, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSandeep Kandekar is a Principal Lead Engineer specializing in Generative AI and Applied ML with over a decade of experience building production-grade NLU, ASR, and agent-facing systems for enterprises like Levi Strauss & Co. and Wayfair. He architects cross-cloud LLM orchestration and scalable ML pipelines—migrating legacy stacks to Vertex AI, designing document search/conversation models, and fine-tuning foundation models with practical PEFT/QLoRA workflows. Comfortable across Golang, Java, Scala and Python, he blends big-data engineering (Spark, Kafka, Hive) with ML tooling (TensorFlow, PyTorch) and Mulesoft integration to deliver end-to-end products such as feature discovery, churn/propensity models, and scam detection. A hands-on leader who has grown and managed teams while serving on corporate Generative AI charters, he pairs research-driven design with low-latency distributed systems experience. An MIT executive-education alumnus and Google Cloud/MuleSoft certified engineer, he also runs kandekar.com to share work and insights—demonstrating a habit of public-facing technical storytelling beyond internal delivery.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Applied computer Science, MS, Applied computer Science at Northwest Missouri State UniversityJawaharlal Nehru Technological University HyderabadExecutive Education, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence, Executive Education, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMBA - Discontinued, Finance, Insurance, MBA - Discontinued, Finance, Insurance at dropped
Github Skills (27)
kubernetes9
docker9
golang9
go9
container8
ecosystem8
intellij7
toolbox7
moby7
kitematic7
assemble7
scheduling7
mesos6
kubernetes-monitoring6
docker-container5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
robotickle/math-for-ml
Jun 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
robotickle/spark-troubleshoot-tips
May 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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