Summary
Sandeep Kulkarni is a Senior Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack, big data and ML-driven products, currently shaping the Data Management and Demand-side Platforms for Samsung Ads. He has taken projects from POC to AWS production—leading design and deployment of a DMP and core DSP features like auto-campaign creation and dynamic user segmentation. Comfortable across Spark, Python, Java/Spring, MEAN stack and both SQL/NoSQL stores, he combines hands-on implementation with tech-evaluation and rapid POC skills to de-risk features early. A USC MS graduate and Oracle-certified Java programmer, he also brings practical experience in look-alike modeling (PU learning) and raising data quality to mid-90s through robust SSOT pipelines. Colleagues rely on him for architectural decisions, mentoring juniors, and enforcing engineering standards across modules.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Southern California
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Engineering at Savitribai Phule Pune University
English, Hindi, Marathi