Shubham Bhardwaj

Engineering Manager — AI/ML & Data Platforms

Gurugram, Haryana (+91) 99100-34601
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Summary

Engineering Manager specializing in AI/ML & Data Platforms. Proven track record of directing agile engineering teams, architecting scalable data lakehouses, and building robust generative AI pipelines (RAG, multi-agent workflows, LLM orchestration) to drive significant business value.

Experience

Engineering Manager

Feb 2022 — Present
V-Mart Retail Ltd.
  • Directed engineering teams through Agile sprint planning and technical recruitment, acting as the primary technical liaison for cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Founded and led an internal AI/LLM training program, teaching engineering and business teams transformer architectures and prompt engineering.
  • Architected a centralized retail data lakehouse from scratch using ClickHouse (Zookeeper clustered on AWS) and Airflow.
  • Built and scaled a comprehensive Offer and Promotion Engine utilizing ClickHouse and FastAPI to directly power ₹200 Cr+ in annual revenue.
  • Designed an AI-driven product discovery ecosystem and embedding-based Recommendation Engine (sBERT + FAISS).
  • Engineered a real-time customer engagement platform using Kafka and MongoDB.
  • Designed an end-to-end Product Information Management (PIM) pipeline integrating Gemini LLMs and Stable Diffusion (SDXL).
  • Built a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) engine powering a Natural Language Query system.
  • Enforced org-wide AI governance via a centralized multi-model LLM Gateway using LiteLLM.

Full-Stack Software Engineer

June 2018 — Jan 2022
Lyxel Labs Pvt. Ltd.
  • Architected backend infrastructure for a social media management platform and Instagram influencer search engine using Python (Tornado), MongoDB, and SQL.
  • Built a real-time sentiment analysis engine consuming Facebook/Twitter APIs, scheduling millions of background tasks via Celery beat.
  • Implemented secure OAuth2 integrations and a dynamic frontend using Vue.js, ensuring high availability across client-facing components.

Skills

Languages & Scripting Python, C++, JavaScript, Bash/Shell, SQL
Data & Infrastructure ClickHouse, Kafka, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, AWS (EC2, Lambda, SES), Airflow, Zookeeper
Frameworks & APIs FastAPI, Node.js, Express.js, React.js, Vue.js, Celery
Generative AI & LLMs RAG Pipelines, Agentic Workflows, Prompt Engineering, Multi-LLM Orchestration (Gemini, Claude, GPT-family), LiteLLM Gateway, LangChain, LLM Evaluation
Applied ML & Computer Vision Vector Search (FAISS, sBERT), FashionCLIP, Recommender Systems, Stable Diffusion / SDXL, Speech-to-Text (ASR)
AI Strategy & Governance LLM Cost & Compute Governance, Model Benchmarking, Observability, Internal AI Training