Somnath Sarkar is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building production-grade AI and data systems, currently working as an SDE in AGI Labs at Amazon in Boston. His Amazon tenure spans AI algorithms for SageMaker, advertising systems, and financial intelligence, demonstrating a track record of taking research-grade models and analytics into large-scale production. Trained in statistics and operations research (IIT Kharagpur; Columbia Engineering), he blends rigorous quantitative thinking with pragmatic engineering. Prior roles in finance and real-estate tech (Goldman Sachs, Honest Buildings) give him a deep appreciation for high-stakes, data-driven decision-making. Colleagues rely on him to bridge model development and robust service engineering, shipping scalable ML infrastructure under tight constraints. He’s comfortable navigating both research environments and commodity cloud production, often surfacing subtle trade-offs between model fidelity and operational cost.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Operations Research, MS, Operations Research at Columbia Engineering
Five Year Integrated MSc, Statistics and Informatics, Five Year Integrated MSc, Statistics and Informatics at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
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