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Hitesh Kalwani

Having 8+ Years of extensive experience as a Senior Software Engineer, I have designed, developed, and owned multiple end-to-end projects, mentored junior developers and interns, wrote training materials, managed and optimized AWS infrastructure budgets for my team.
  • Role

    Sr.Software Engineer / Tech Lead

  • Years of Experience

    10 years

  • Professional Portfolio

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Skillsets

  • MLOps
  • FAISS
  • GitHub Actions
  • Grafana
  • gRPC
  • JavaScript
  • Kinesis
  • Lambda
  • LangChain
  • LangGraph
  • LLMs
  • Microservices
  • Express
  • OpenAI APIs
  • Oracle DB
  • Pinecone
  • PostgreSQL
  • Prometheus
  • rag
  • RDS
  • Redshift
  • Rest APIs
  • S3
  • SQLite
  • AWS
  • Python - 7 Years
  • Kubernetes - 2 Years
  • Redis
  • WebSocket
  • FastAPI - 2 Years
  • Computer Vision
  • Django
  • TypeScript
  • NLP
  • Node.js
  • Apache pulsar
  • Docker - 6 Years
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • WebRTC
  • API Gateway
  • AWS Step Functions
  • CI/CD
  • Claude apis
  • Code Pipelines
  • DynamoDB
  • ECS
  • event-driven architecture

Professional Summary

10Years
  • Apr, 2022 - Present4 yr 2 months

    Sr.Software Engineer / Tech Lead

    Eagle Eye Networks
  • Oct, 2020 - Mar, 20221 yr 5 months

    Sr.AI Engineer / Tech Lead

    Vebuin Co.
  • Apr, 2019 - Oct, 20201 yr 6 months

    Full Stack ML Engineer

    Vebuin Co.
  • May, 2016 - Dec, 2016 7 months

    Trainee Engineer

    Volansys Technologies
  • Jan, 2017 - Apr, 20192 yr 3 months

    Software Engineer

    Persistent Systems

Applications & Tools Known

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    Django

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    Flask

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    Docker

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    Machine Learning

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    Deep Learning

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    Computer Vision

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    AWS CloudFormation

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    FastAPI

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    PyTorch

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    AWS Lambda

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    EC2

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    ECS

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    S3

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    Redshift

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    RDS

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    SNS

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    SQS

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    CloudFormation

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    Cloudwatch

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    Step Functions

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    IAM

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    VPC

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    Quicksight

Work History

10Years

Sr.Software Engineer / Tech Lead

Eagle Eye Networks
Apr, 2022 - Present4 yr 2 months
    Built a ChatOps AI assistant integrated with Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines, enabling natural language based deployments, log retrieval, and system diagnostics. Reduced manual DevOps effort by60% using LLM function-calling and automated workflows. Developed an internal AI engineering copilot using FAISS, LangChain, and Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling contextual querying across distributed system documentation, runbooks, and codebases. Processed large-scale document corpora for semantic retrieval across engineering knowledge bases, implemented document chunking, embedding pipelines and hybrid retrieval (semantic + keyword), improving answer accuracy by35% and reducing onboarding time by ~50%. Designed a real-time distributed system connecting2M+ users to network speakers using WebSocket, WebRTC, and async Python. Achieved high-throughput, low-latency communication using Kubernetes, Redis, and distributed architecture. Built a high-scale job scheduling system handling10,000+ jobs/sec using Apache Pulsar and Node.js, improving system scalability by30%. Led sensor integration platform supporting100,000+ devices, enabling real-time monitoring and improved decision-making.

Sr.AI Engineer / Tech Lead

Vebuin Co.
Oct, 2020 - Mar, 20221 yr 5 months
    Built a near real-time analytics platform ingesting4M+ events/day using AWS Kinesis, Lambda, and Redshift. Designed serverless data pipelines powering dashboards for10M+ users across multiple regions. Developed a Computer Vision + NLP-based cost optimization system (Mask RCNN, OCR), reducing manual processing and improving workflow efficiency. Improved API performance by60% using optimized microservices architecture on AWS ECS, Lambda, AWS Step Functions and HTTP API with API Gateway. Led AI team across full SDLC, including system design, CI/CD implementation, and delivery of scalable ML solutions.

Full Stack ML Engineer

Vebuin Co.
Apr, 2019 - Oct, 20201 yr 6 months
    Built a receipt entity recognition system using Python, Django, REST APIs, AWS, Sagemaker, NLP, OCR, and deep learning (PyTorch), reducing processing time by50%+. Developed a driver safety prediction system using real-time data (weather, vehicle health), achieving 89.93% accuracy. Delivered ML pipelines integrated into production systems for large-scale enterprise use cases.

Software Engineer

Persistent Systems
Jan, 2017 - Apr, 20192 yr 3 months
    Built high-volume insurance systems processing1M+ requests/day and managing1B+ records. Developed analytics tools processing10M+ records using .NET, SQL Server, and ETL pipelines. Designed REST APIs and workflows for enterprise systems, improving delivery efficiency and system scalability. Secured 2nd Rank in internal hackathon for building a traffic signal recognition system using OpenCV, NVIDIA Digits, Python, Machine Learning and Deep Learning.

Trainee Engineer

Volansys Technologies
May, 2016 - Dec, 2016 7 months
    Contributed to distributed systems supporting3M+ devices using Node.js, ElasticSearch, Angular and CouchDB. Built end-to-end testing pipelines improving system reliability and deployment quality.

Achievements

  • Qualified for Google CODEJAM-2015 2nd round in 36% of 35000 participants from all over the world.
  • Organized a competitive programming competition on the platform of Hacker Earth as a programming club activity for the programming initiatives.
  • Started Programming club named WOCO (We Only Code Once) for all the students to aspire for competitive programming.
  • Honorable Mention for ACM-ICPC Asia Region, Onsite round, IIT-Kharagpur 2015, our team secured 49th rank in India.

Major Projects

3Projects

Receipt Entity Recognition System

    AI-driven solution for receipt type detection, leveraging Natural Language Processing and RCNN object detection.

Driver Safety Module

    Machine learning pipeline predicting real-time driver safety alerts, improving protocols and reducing risk.

Traffic Signal Recognition Module

    Developed an ML solution for autonomous vehicles to detect traffic signals, achieving 72.48% accuracy.

Education

  • Bachelor of Technology (Computer Engineering)

    Charotar University of Science and Technology (2016)
  • Diploma (Computer Engineering)

    Government Polytechnic Jamnagar (2013)