Summary
Sounak Ray is a systems-focused software and data science engineer with nine years of experience building ML-driven products and production services, currently working as a System Development Engineer at AWS in Seattle. He blends deep NLP and deep learning expertise—having built sentiment detection and named entity recognition models with transformer architectures at Sprinklr—with solid backend and infra skills in Python, C++, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL and CI/CD. A Columbia MS in Computer Science and an IIT Guwahati B.Tech, he has hands-on research and teaching experience in speech recognition and multimodal event detection, which informs his careful approach to model design and evaluation. Sounak consistently ships maintainable, production-ready code and is motivated by complex, real-world problems at the intersection of data science and software engineering. He also brings experience across startup and enterprise environments (LENA, JPMorgan, Sprinklr) and a proven ability to move ML prototypes toward scalable deployments.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology Electronics and Communication Engineering, Bachelor of Technology Electronics and Communication Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Columbia University
High School Diploma Science, High School Diploma Science at Salt Lake School
English, Hindi, Bengali