Available for senior roles · Remote-first · India & global

Mohit Khare

I build data platforms and AI/ML pipelines
that run faster, scale further, and cost less.

Software Engineer II at Demandbase with 7+ years across data platform, backend, and ML systems. I rearchitect heavy AI/ML pipelines, move workloads to Kubernetes at scale, and own ambiguous, high-stakes platform problems end to end — from Spark-on-GPU jobs to crawlers processing tens of millions of domains.

94%
NER pipeline runtime cut56h → 3h · spaCy on Spark + GPU
8×
Crawler throughput on K8s33M domains in 5 days · 80% cheaper
$75K
Velocity Hacker prizeKeystone AI · Demandbase 2025
7+
Years shipping at scaleDemandbase · Fynd · Odessa

01 — Selected work

Impact, with the numbers attached

A few problems I owned end to end. Each one started ambiguous and shipped with a measurable result.

AI/ML · Spark · GPU

Rearchitected the NER pipeline

Overhauled Demandbase's AI-driven named-entity-recognition pipeline (spaCy on Spark, GPU-accelerated). Runtime collapsed from 56 hours to 3 while cutting compute spend 75% — turning an overnight batch into a same-day job.

Kubernetes · Crawling

Migrated crawlers to Kubernetes

Moved the Render Crawler off AWS Lambda onto Kubernetes: 8× domain-processing throughput, 33M domains in 5 days, and monthly cost down from $10K to $2K (80% reduction).

FinOps · Data lifecycle

Drove down cloud cost

Recovered $8K/month in S3 through proactive data upkeep, and geotagged 4.5M locations with Pelias instead of Google APIs — a 95% cost cut ($10K → $500) with no loss in quality.

Data platform

Stabilized Unified Technographics

Took ownership of a fragile data product and cut upgrade time 90% — from 4 days to 30 minutes — alongside catalog migrations, EMR upgrades, and security hardening in a company-wide shift-left program.

Backend · API performance

Scaled e-commerce APIs at Fynd

Boosted search processing 1,000% and price-cache performance 200%, cut API latency 80%, shrank Redis keys from billions to thousands, and built APIs handling 50M daily updates.

Delivery · Automation

Automated the release pipeline

At Odessa, automated regression testing and releases to bring delivery time from one week to five hours — and was the only intern picked for the core framework team.

02 — Experience

Seven years, three companies, one throughline

From OCR support and release automation to owning AI/ML data platforms — a steady climb toward harder, higher-leverage systems.

  1. Demandbase May 2025 – Present · Hyderabad

    Software Engineer II — Data Platform & AI/ML

    • Led the complete overhaul of the AI-driven NER pipeline (spaCy on Spark + GPU): 56h → 3h runtime, 75% lower cost.
    • Owned and stabilized the Unified Technographics product, cutting data-upgrade time 90% (4 days → 30 min).
    • Recovered $8K/month in S3 cost through proactive data lifecycle work.
    • Velocity Hacker winner ($75K) at the September 2025 AI: Show & Tell for the Keystone AI project.
    • Led legacy technographics catalog migration; fixed critical security vulnerabilities and upgraded EMR infra in a shift-left program.
  2. Demandbase Aug 2023 – May 2025 · Hyderabad

    Software Engineer

    • Migrated the Render Crawler from AWS Lambda to Kubernetes — 8× throughput, 33M domains in 5 days, 80% cost reduction ($10K → $2K).
    • Geotagged 4.5M locations with Pelias instead of Google APIs — 95% cheaper ($10K → $500).
    • Standardized Kubernetes compute across teams, ran internal K8s training, and mentored teammates on catalog validation.
    • Won Most Impressive Technical Implementation at the AI Hackathon for DBX, an ML-powered outreach assistant.
  3. Fynd · Shopsense Retail Sep 2021 – Aug 2023 · Bengaluru / Mumbai

    Software Engineer → Senior Software Engineer

    • Cut API response time 80% and shrank Redis keys from billions to thousands via refactoring.
    • Lifted system performance 200% with a system-wide price cache and boosted search processing 1,000%.
    • Added pincode support for 1.5M products and designed APIs handling up to 50M daily updates.
    • Revamped the taxation system for ~20,000 tax codes to track government rule changes; handled 3× larger files.
  4. Odessa Dec 2018 – Sep 2021 · Bengaluru

    Intern → Software Engineer → Senior Software Engineer

    • Automated regression testing and the release process — delivery time from 1 week to 5 hours.
    • Built and supported APIs for Comments and Documents; handled software vulnerabilities and OCR document support.
    • Hypercare member for critical client defects; the only intern selected for the core framework team.

03 — Projects & open source

Things I build outside the backlog

Award-winning internal AI work and open-source tooling for the messy realities of AI-generated code.

PyCodeGate

PyPI · OSS

A static-analysis CLI built for the specific failure modes of AI-generated Python. 40+ rules targeting AI-prone bugs, framework-aware checks for FastAPI, Django, and Flask, and SARIF output so it drops straight into CI/CD.

  • Python
  • Static analysis
  • SARIF
  • CI/CD

Keystone AI

$75K · Winner

The project that won Demandbase's Velocity Hacker prize at the September 2025 AI: Show & Tell — recognized as the standout build among company-wide entries.

  • AI/ML
  • Applied AI
  • Internal platform

DBX

Hackathon · Winner

An AI-powered outreach assistant that uses ML to surface high-potential leads and automate personalized outreach — Most Impressive Technical Implementation at the Demandbase AI Hackathon.

  • ML
  • Automation
  • GTM tooling

04 — Toolkit

What I reach for

Targeting senior data platform, backend, and ML platform roles — remote-first from India.

Languages & core

  • Python
  • Scala
  • SQL
  • Apache Spark
  • Kafka

Cloud & infra

  • AWS
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Terraform
  • EMR

Data & search

  • OpenSearch
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • NoSQL

AI/ML

  • spaCy
  • ML pipelines
  • Multi-agent systems
  • NumPy

Engineering practice

  • System design
  • Microservices
  • API performance
  • Cost optimization

Education

B.Tech, Computer Science
SRM University, Chennai · 2019

05 — Contact

Let's build something that scales

Open to senior data platform, backend, and ML platform roles. Remote-first; happy to go hybrid in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, or Pune for the right team. The fastest way to reach me is email.