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Manali Latkar
Open to opportunitiesSenior Cloud & AI Engineer
I build production LLM services, evaluation pipelines, and Kubernetes platforms.
IndiaSenior Cloud & AI Engineer at IBM ISDL Labs
Experience
Senior Cloud & AI Engineer
Co-lead a 5-engineer squad building IBM's open-source AI services platform, including RAG chatbot, document digitization, summarization, and entity extraction. Built evaluation pipelines and tuned retrieval/generation parameters to improve accuracy and drive release decisions.
RAGVLLMLLM Inference OptimizationEmbeddingsLangGraphPrompt EngineeringEvaluation PipelinesGoPythonfastAPIPostgreSQLMilvusQdrantOpenSearchMongoDBKubernetesOpenShiftPodmanHelmCI CDJenkins
SDE-II
Designed and delivered a resource reservation system for Robin-based clusters, shipped serverless workflows, and led Velero-based backup and recovery for Kubernetes clusters. Architected notification queues and reduced DB round-trips by ~6x.
KubernetesVeleroS3MongoDBMongoDB Change StreamsAPI DesignCI CD
Contingent Engineer
Delivered a quality metrics dashboard and IoT data processing pipelines for John Deere, maintained Python test-execution packages, and drove Python 2 to 3 migration.
PythonPandasDatabricksJenkinsData Pipelines
Application Developer
Delivered enterprise integration customizations for an Australian bank, built full-stack features for a Ruby on Rails hotel-booking site, and raised test coverage of Stacktach from 57% to 85%.
Ruby on RailsPythonDjangoUnit TestingETLPentahoDatabase Optimization
Education
Army Institute of Technology, Pune
Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunications from Army Institute of Technology, Pune, completed in 2012.
Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunications from Army Institute of Technology, Pune, completed in 2012.