About

Neelesh Sambhajiche is a highly skilled senior software engineer with over 4 years of experience in Big Data, Backend Development, and Machine Learning. He is currently a part of the Machine Learning Engineering team at [24]7.ai, where he works on building and scaling Data Science tools. Neelesh has a strong command of programming languages such as Scala, Python, and associated frameworks like Spark, Akka Core/HTTP, Flask, Gunicorn, Pandas, and NumPy. He also has experience working with Big Data tools such as Hadoop, Yarn, GCP (Cloud Storage, Dataproc), and NoSQL databases like TitanDB Graph, Cassandra, and Elasticsearch. With his experience in development tools like Git (Version Control), IntelliJ, PyCharm, Visual Studio Code (IDE), and JIRA (Issue Tracking), Neelesh has demonstrated his expertise in testing frameworks like Gatling, ScalaTest, and databases such as MySQL and Sqlite3. He is also skilled in other technologies like Docker, Nginx, Oozie, Kafka, ELK Stack, Shell scripting, Apigee, and CICD (Jenkins, Nexus, Chef). In his current role at [24]7.ai, Neelesh has worked on several projects, including the design and development of a Python Service template, the microservice architecture-based backend for a real-time information retrieval service, and the migration of products running on the internal data center to Google Cloud Platform. Neelesh has previously worked as a Senior Data Engineer at [24]7.ai, where he developed a config-driven workflow for training and testing models in SparkML and converting Spark models to JS for real-time deployment. He also designed and developed a data pipeline to process Avro events using Spark and create a tabular dataset for analytics. Neelesh holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and a Master's degree in Economics from Birla Institute of Technology and Science. He has also completed his schooling from DAV Public School, Pune, City International School, Pune, and Indian School Ibri in Oman. With over 7 years of relevant experience, Neelesh is a highly skilled professional with expertise in Spark, ML, Software Engineering, Big Data, Backend, Python, Scala, Flask, SQL, Kafka, AI, Docker, MySQL, NoSQL, Hadoop, Elastic Search, Data Engineering, Data Scientist,