About

Sagar Shirwalkar is a highly skilled Software Engineer III at KlearNow Corp. with over 9 years of relevant experience in the industry. He has a diverse skillset that includes management, tech, and consulting. In his current role, Sagar is leading a pod of four developers and coordinating with the product team, scrum masters, and Customs Brokers for drawing up software specifications and planning scrums. He has expertise in building modern full-stack microservices on Kafka/gRPC/Jenkins/Kubernetes, designing SQL warehouses & ETL pipelines, and working on the AWS platform. He is well-versed in Scrum based development and has experience in analytics-driven campaign planning, monitoring & triage, client liaison, and relationship development. Sagar is currently working at KlearNow, an international Custom Clearance PaaS, where he has successfully spearheaded the company's Canadian and Dutch Geographical Expansion Team. He has brought the platform live by partnering with their customs agencies. He has created a stack of microservices within KlearNow's Choreography model using an Orchestrator Model for ease of debugging. He has liaised with product managers, customers, and Customs Brokers to design the platform and the UI. Prior to KlearNow, Sagar has worked as an Analytics Specialist at Transorg Analytics, a B2B Analytics and Consulting company with diverse clientele across sectors like BFSI, Insurance, Retail, FMCG, Healthcare, Telecom, Travel, and Hospitality. He has played a vital role in creating end-to-end data ingestion pipelines, maintenance & troubleshooting, and building the first data warehouse for the team. He has also deployed a complete Python Production environment, with version control, containerization, and build & test automation. He has created a Customer Lifetime Value model for all repeat guests and a multi-threaded framework for rapidly cleaning and mapping guest profiles across multiple disparate current and legacy data sources. He has built an ML model for predicting the repeat propensity of first-time guests and created 4 PowerBI dashboards. Sagar has also worked as a Data Scientist at ReportGarden, a B2B product company with subscription-based platforms for Marketing Agencies, involving Reporting, SEO, Campaign tracking, Web Analytics, and Client Management. He has created and deployed an NLP platform for analyzing messages between their B2B customers and their clients on-the-fly and built and deployed a statistical framework for identifying customers at risk of canceling their subscriptions. Sagar holds a Bachelor of Engineering (