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SURYA SANDEEP BODA

Supervised fine-tuning(SFT) Apple Intelligence Foundation Models(AFM) in various programming languages like Python, Javascript, Java, GoLang, C++

Reinforced Learning from Human Feedback(RLHF) Apple Intelligence Foundation Models in various programming languages like Python, Javascript, Java, GoLang, C++

Developing an in-house Labelling tool for Fine-tuning models and delivering tasks to Apple Intelligence

Supporting OpenAI DALL-E multimodal project by fine tuning in a very specific niche area

  • Role

    Engineering Manager

  • Years of Experience

    13 years

Skillsets

  • jasper
  • Airflow
  • Aurorasql
  • AWS CodePipeline
  • AWS Glue
  • Celery
  • Django
  • DynamoDB
  • ECS
  • EKS
  • Elasticsearch
  • Flask
  • GitHub Actions
  • gitlab ci
  • GraphQL
  • Zabbix
  • Kafka
  • PostgreSQL
  • Python
  • RabbitMQ
  • RDS
  • ReactJs
  • REST Framework
  • SAP
  • Sendgrid
  • Spring
  • Spring MVC
  • Terraform
  • Xebialabs
  • AWS EC2
  • MySQL
  • Rest APIs
  • Spring Boot
  • Java
  • Spring Boot
  • Java
  • Spring Boot
  • Grafana
  • Microservices
  • MongoDB
  • Nodejs
  • Prometheus
  • Snowflake
  • API Gateway
  • Java - 12.0 Years
  • AWS Lambda
  • AWS S3
  • dbt
  • JavaScript
  • Aws pinpoint
  • AWS Quicksight
  • AWS SES
  • AWS SQS
  • Docker
  • Hevo
  • Jenkins
  • Kafka connect
  • Spring JPA

Professional Summary

13Years
  • Sep, 2025 - Present 7 months

    Engineering Manager

    Autonomize Ai
  • Oct, 2024 - Jun, 2025 8 months

    Engineering Manager AI

    Turing Global India
  • Jun, 2023 - Aug, 20241 yr 2 months

    Software Engineering Manager

    Veltris Technologies
  • Jul, 2019 - Mar, 2020 8 months

    Senior Consultant

    Capgemini
  • Apr, 2020 - Jan, 20221 yr 9 months

    Technical Project Manager

    Itc Infotech
  • Jan, 2022 - Nov, 2022 10 months

    Engineering Manager

    Talent500 Tech India
  • Apr, 2018 - Apr, 20191 yr

    Technical Delivery Lead

    Cai India
  • Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2018 11 months

    Manager Software Engineering & Investor Relations

    Decimus Financial Services
  • Mar, 2014 - May, 20151 yr 2 months

    Senior Software Engineer

    Accenture India
  • Aug, 2010 - Mar, 20143 yr 7 months

    Application Developer

    Ibm India

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    Bitbucket

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    Postman

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    Eclipse

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    PyCharm

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    VSCode

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    Sublime

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    Docker

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    Kubernetes

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    CI/CD

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    Jenkins

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    CI/CD

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    AWS Redshift

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    AWS Lambda

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    AWS EC2

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    AWS S3

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    AWS SES

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    AWS SQS

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    API Gateway

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    Apache Kafka

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    Rabbit MQ

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    Grafana

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    Grafana Loki

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    Prometheus

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    AWS S3

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    AWS Quicksight

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    Snowflake

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    CI/CD

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    API Gateway

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    Prometheus

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    Sublime

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    CI/CD

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    AWS Redshift

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    AWS SES

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    AWS Pinpoint

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    GitHub

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    AWS EC2

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    AWS S3

Work History

13Years

Engineering Manager

Autonomize Ai
Sep, 2025 - Present 7 months
    Designed and orchestrated an end-to-end Document generation pipeline using Apache Airflow and AWS Glue. Automated schema discovery using AWS Glue Crawlers and centralized metadata management via Glue Data Catalog. Built scalable Glue ETL jobs (PySpark) to extract, cleanse, aggregate, and enrich data from multiple sources. Orchestrated Glue jobs using Airflow DAGs with retries, SLAs, and dependency management. Monitored pipeline health using Airflow logs and Amazon CloudWatch metrics/alerts.

Engineering Manager AI

Turing Global India
Oct, 2024 - Jun, 2025 8 months
    Designed a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline using Apache Kafka, Kafka Connect and AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) for a major Digital Marketing client in the United States. Vectorised MySQL, PostgreSQL and a Knowledge base using Hugging Face BAAI/bge-m3 model with 1024 dimensions. Researched the Vector DB market and finalized Weaviate Self host as the best option amongst Pinecone Cloud, Weaviate Cloud, Milvus cloud. Coached and supervised developers how to write the Kafka consumer scripts with Weaviate cross references. Architected the Langchain based AI agents to research and query the SQL and Knowledge database to find the best possible answer for a given question. Led Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) of Apple Intelligence Foundation Models (AFM) across multiple programming languages, including Python, JavaScript, Java, Go, and C++, to enhance model adaptability and performance in diverse development environments. Executed Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) for Apple Intelligence Foundation Models, applying advanced reinforcement learning techniques in Python, JavaScript, Java, Go, and C++ to optimize model alignment with human intent. Enhanced the agentic workflow in Turings labelling tool, contributing to the automation of task reviews and efficient pipeline delivery to Apple Intelligence models. Collaborated on OpenAIs DALLE multimodal initiative, fine-tuning generative models within a highly specialized niche to improve image synthesis capabilities and multimodal performance. Conducted applied research and development on ByteDances zero-to-one RL task initiatives, leveraging proprietary annotation tools to architect scalable reinforcement learning workflows. Designed and implemented a comprehensive model evaluation framework to benchmark ByteDances AI IDEsTrae and MarsCodeagainst Cursor, analysing comparative performance and developer experience.

Software Engineering Manager

Veltris Technologies
Jun, 2023 - Aug, 20241 yr 2 months
    Project: Toyota Connected India: Supported TCIN build an iOS/Android remote vehicle connectivity mobile application hosted on AWS ECS with 30 microservices. Built a custom Google Firebase/APNS based push notification system using Amazon Pinpoint, AWS Batch and AWS Lambda. Created a background scheduled job to create a weekly CSV report about customer migration using AWS Eventbridge rules, AWS Lambda, Node Serverless framework. Supported the TCIN Devops team to automate Infrastructure deployment using Terraform scripts. Project: Book My Ticket: Supervised the AWS architecture implementation to create a scalable, distributed system for ticket booking and streaming. Architected and built a Live + Video On Demand Streaming platform using AWS Elemental MediaLive, MediaPackage. Integrated Worldpay (FIS Global) payment gateway. Built a microservice based AWS EKS platform to handle Ticket booking and Streaming service. Implemented Horizontal Pod Autoscaler(HPA) with metrics. Implemented a Chatbot using The-Rasa-Answer-Machine-GPT3. Project: AFL Fujikura ECSite: Enhanced ECSite CLI to build backend servers. Supported ECsite to implement AWS ECS servers for AFL using Terraform scripts. Implemented a Node Backend Service and a Python based Reporting service in AWS ECS. Created GraphQL APIs to interact with MongoDB. Implemented a PubSub architecture using AWS Eventbridge Buses. Created a Data pipeline and Dashboard using MongoDB, Hevo, dBT, Snowflake, AWS Quicksight.

Engineering Manager

Talent500 Tech India
Jan, 2022 - Nov, 2022 10 months
    Kubernetes Cluster: Containerized frontend and backend applications using Docker and deployed to a Kubernetes cluster, later re-architected to AWS ECS Cluster. Enterprise Scheduler: Built an internal application that schedules jobs and sends payloads to Apache Kafka. PDF conversion: Built a microservice using Spring boot for document to PDF conversion. Candidate Workflow: Developed microservices to track the Candidate journey. Offline Job Recommendation systems: Developed an AI/ML API for job recommendations using TensorFlow and Cosine similarity. Enterprise Communication Services: Delivered a centralized email sending system using SendGrid. Talent Intelligence: Developed a web feature to suggest top candidate matches using AI/ML API and AWS S3. Canvas (On Premise to SaaS conversion): Converted On premise web application to SaaS version with a Pythonic backend permission framework. MongoDB exception handling: Resolved webhook integration failures by storing payloads in MongoDB and retrying failures. Drove Product and Engineering catch ups, initiated grooming meetings, mapped Product Release plans, communicated Program Executive Reports, collaborated with stakeholders, and automated testing and regression processes.

Technical Project Manager

Itc Infotech
Apr, 2020 - Jan, 20221 yr 9 months
    Streamlined ITC Global In House Centre (GIC) AC3 delivery across three major KANBANs: Standardized Inbound Invoice Management, Factory Logistics, Supply Chain Management. Architected and built an Activiti Java SpringBoot Workflow for invoice approval. Used Java SpringMVC, Spring Boot, Hibernate, and MySQL. Stored invoices as backup in AWS S3 and archived to S3 Glacier. Used AWS SES for HTML rich emails and AWS SQS for vendor payment framework. Collaborated with KANBANs across Malaysia, Singapore, and India. Supervised Delivery Managers meet to improve KPIs. Established HP Solution Manager Workflow system for Incident/Change Management. Consolidated KANBAN Retrospective Meetings and enforced improvements through knowledge transfers and technical trainings.

Senior Consultant

Capgemini
Jul, 2019 - Mar, 2020 8 months
    Built a web application called Commercial Project Management to track multiple WBS in a project. Architected backend linkage of WBS elements. Leveraged Java Spring MVC and Spring Boot to build RESTful APIs. Utilized Docker for containerization. Supervised CI/CD pipeline using Github actions.

Technical Delivery Lead

Cai India
Apr, 2018 - Apr, 20191 yr
    Built a Procurement web application for Minneapolis public schools. Launched an Online Shopping cart using React JS frontend and Java Spring Boot, Spring MVC backend. Converted shopping cart into Purchase Order and posted into SAP. Designed Billing invoices using Jasper Report PDFs. Designed Vendor Validation form and workflow. Designed Java Spring boot workflow for vendor approval.

Manager Software Engineering & Investor Relations

Decimus Financial Services
Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2018 11 months
    Built a Loan Management workflow System (LMS) based on SpringBoot and SpringMVC for various loan products. Tracked loan applications from application to disbursement. Used S3 based CloudFront distributions for document storage. Valued vehicle segments using DCF analysis and presented to International Finance Corporation. Acted as single point of contact for Investor Relations team. Researched and implemented a Reverse Factoring model. Built an internal Reverse Factor platform and used Open Sci for receivables trading.

Senior Software Engineer

Accenture India
Mar, 2014 - May, 20151 yr 2 months
    Facilitated Australian Telstra communications to build Business Workflows in Java. Automated Quotation process for Telstra in SAP. Assisted in contract extension with Telstra. Mentored 150 junior employees in Java. Streamlined data transfer between e-Commerce portal and SAP of Gerdau steel. Integrated Hybris systems with SAP ERP. Organized internal training meets for SAP technologies. Implemented SAP workflows and handled Java Billing portal of Wartsila corporation. Designed Billing invoices for Wartsila. Gained proficiency in SAP SD cycles.

Application Developer

Ibm India
Aug, 2010 - Mar, 20143 yr 7 months
    Received Outstanding Contributor Award in 2012. Automated posting Goods Receipts in SAP of MARS chocolates with interactive PDF. Reduced MARS bureaucracy costs with PDF innovation. Guided and trained 50 employees in Java. Rated PBC 1 for exceptional performance. Collaborated with teams in France and China. Developed training modules for SAP Material Management. Designed high quality PDF invoices during SAP SD development for MARS. Implemented Create Opportunities module of KPMG's CRM system in Java. Served as consultant in KPMG AMS project. Participated in SAP Web Dynpro trainings.

Achievements

  • AIR 6191 in AIEEE 2006
  • State rank 168 in EAMCET 2004
  • Outstanding Contributor Award from IBM India Private Ltd CEO in 2012
  • Merit scholarship by the Chief General Manager of Naval Armament Depot from 2003-04
  • Merit scholarship by the Commander-in-chief Eastern Naval Command in class X, XII
  • Certified Scrum Master(CSM)
  • Software Engineering Manager
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect
  • State rank of 39 all over Andhra Pradesh in ICET-2014 out of 1.29 lakh aspirants (Top 0.04%le)
  • Secured an AIR rank of 6191 in AIEEE-2006 out of 4.9 lakh aspirants (Top 1.26 %le )
  • Achieved a state rank of 168 in AP EAMCET-2006 out of 1.38 lakh aspirants (Top 0.01%le )
  • Ranked 54 all over Andhra Pradesh in CEEP-2004 out of 0.51 lakh aspirants (Top 0.105%le)
  • Awarded Merit scholarship by the Chief General Manager of Naval Armament Depot from 2003-04
  • Secured a state rank of 25 in Andhra Pradesh APRJC-2004 examination
  • Awarded Merit scholarship by the Commander-in-chief Eastern Naval Command in class X, XII
  • Scored 149/150 in Mathematics in class XI, 150/150 in Mathematics in class XII
  • Specialized in Finance by pursuing 8 major finance credits
  • Achieved a B+ grade in Corporate Valuation and Restructuring in second year finance elective
  • Achieved a B grade in Financial Derivatives and Risk Management course in second year elective
  • Achieved a B+ grade in Corporate Finance despite coming from a non-financial background
  • Achieved a B+ grade in Investment Banking and Financial Services in a second-year finance elective
  • Achieved an A grade in Corporate Banking and Risk Management in a second-year finance elective
  • Achieved an A- grade in Commercial Banking Management in a second-year finance elective
  • Valued the book value of equity of Maruti Suzuki India by using the Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) model and compared it with the market value of equity calculated using Relative or Multiples Valuation
  • Extracted half-hourly Option prices of NTPC from Bloomberg, calculated the Greek alphabets and demonstrated a Bull spread and Butterfly spread for a whole one-month trading period of BSE
  • Performed Segment analysis and reporting, Reformulated income statements and balance sheets, calculated Economic Value Added, analyzed specific issues like Off-Balance Sheet transactions, Intercorporate Investments, Foreign Currency Translation, Earnings Management, valued book value of equity using Residual Income Valuation and Abnormal Earnings Growth of TCS and Infosys for the financial year 2016
  • Forecasted a Buy or Sell decision on EROS International stock using a few Technical analysis tools like Moving Averages Convergence Divergence (MACD), Stochastics Oscillator, Price Volume patterns, Relative Strength Indicator, Point and Figure Chart, Bollinger bands, Commodity Channel Index
  • Predicted the Probability of default (PD) or Expected Default Frequency (EDF) of L&T using Altman Z score, Merton Model and Logit Regression by using data from its financial statements
  • Studied the detailed impact of Basel III norms on Loan spreads of a developing country like India
  • Extracted data from Statistical Handbook of Indian Economy 2014, regressed Disposable Income of India for 25 years against the Consumption pattern of Indian economy, calculated the Marginal Propensity to Consume which was low and deduced that India is a saving economy
  • Extracted data about the Money supply in Indian economy, segregated it to Reserve Money, Narrow Money, Broad Money, calculated the Money Multiplier(M3/M0), Velocity of Money (GDPMP /M0) over time and studied how RBI policy rates affect the liquidity in Indian economy
  • Consumption, Government expenditure, Investments, Exports, Imports contribution to Indian GDP is studied for a period of 50 years, Household consumption is deduced as the main contributor to GDP, and the effect of Fiscal Stimulus Programme by the government on the economy is observed
  • Studied Public Finances: a Governments Receipts and Expenditures, identified the Governments Revenue and Capital accounts and deduced that the Indian governments daily expenditures (Revenue accounts) are greater than the investments in long term assets (Capital Accounts) which increase the capability to earn revenues in the future
  • Studied the acquisition process of Tata Power Renewables and Welspun Renewables over the entire acquisition period by collecting data like Exchange ratio, Deal structuring from SDC Platinum database
  • The major parts of study include Corporate strategy of Acquirer, M&A motive, Due diligence done by Tata Power, Post-Merger Integration, Market Reaction i.e share price fluctuation for -4 to +4 days and -7 to +7 days of the acquisition process, Cumulative Average Return (CAR) and Event analysis of both Tata Power and Welspun stock
  • CRISIL Young Thought Leader competition on Payment Banks and their future contribution to the Indian Financial Services Industry
  • State rank of 39 all over Andhra Pradesh in ICET-2014
  • Secured an AIR rank of 6191 in AIEEE-2006
  • Achieved a state rank of 168 in AP EAMCET-2006
  • Ranked 54 all over Andhra Pradesh in CEEP-2004
  • Awarded Merit scholarship by the Chief General Manager of Naval Armament Depot
  • Awarded Merit scholarship by the Commander-in-chief Eastern Naval Command

Major Projects

12Projects

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline

Oct, 2024 - Present1 yr 6 months
    Designed a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline using Apache Kafka, Kafka Connect and AWS Elastic Consumer Service (ECS) for a major Digital Marketing client in the United States.

Toyota Connected India Pvt. Ltd(TCIN)

Jun, 2023 - Aug, 20241 yr 2 months
    Supported TCIN build an iOS/Android remote vehicle connectivity mobile application hosted on AWS Elastic Container Services(ECS) with 30 microservices.

Book My Ticket platform

Jun, 2023 - Aug, 20241 yr 2 months
    Supervised the AWS architecture implementation to create a scalable, distributed system to handle spikes in ticket booking and streaming right from scratch.

AFL Fujikura ECSite

Jun, 2023 - Aug, 20241 yr 2 months
    Enhanced ECSite Command Line Interface(CLI) to build backend Local, Development, QA, Production servers.

Candidate Workflow

Jan, 2022 - Nov, 2022 10 months
    A set of Java Spring boot microservices which are used to track the Candidate journey right from registration to offer stage.

Offline Job Recommendation systems

Jan, 2022 - Nov, 2022 10 months
    Architected, developed, and delivered an Offline job recommendation system which accepts previous job applications of a candidate and suggests similar jobs weekly.

Enterprise Communication Services

Jan, 2022 - Nov, 2022 10 months
    Architected, developed, and delivered a centralized email sending system to key external/internal stakeholders.

Canvas (On Premise to SaaS conversion)

Jan, 2022 - Nov, 2022 10 months
    Architected, developed and delivered the conversion of On premise web application to SaaS version by creating a Role framework.

Standardized Inbound Invoice Management (SIIM)

Apr, 2020 - Jan, 20221 yr 9 months
    Architected and built an Activiti Java SpringBoot Workflow to get an invoice approved by multiple stakeholders.

Commercial Project Management

Jul, 2019 - Mar, 2020 8 months
    Built a web application called Commercial Project Management to track multiple WBS in a project.

Procurement web application

Apr, 2018 - Apr, 20191 yr
    Built a Procurement web application for a US-based educational administration called Minneapolis public schools.

Loan Management workflow System (LMS)

Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2018 11 months
    Built a Loan Management workflow System (LMS) based on SpringBoot and SpringMVC for different loan products.

Education

  • PGDM

    IIM Lucknow (2017)
  • B. Tech (ECE)

    JNTU Hyderabad (2010)
  • XII (AP Board)

    Sri Chaitanya Junior College (2006)
  • X (ICSE)

    St. Anns High School (2004)

Certifications

  • Aws solutions architect associate

  • Certified scrum master