Samuel Ramdas - AI Engineer, Rondreis

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Work Background

TrilogyAI Innovation Specialist

Apr. 2024United StatesTrilogy Harnesses LLMs to revolutionize how businesses operate, improving efficiency and effectiveness. → Led the development of an AI extension for a legacy product to enhance user productivity. This reduced the time to create a challenge from hours to a few seconds. → Implemented an AI Bot with GPT in help desk software, deflecting 60% of tickets through level 1 and level 2 support, significantly reducing the need for agent intervention.

CircleUpFull Stack Engineer

Nov. 2021 - Oct. 2023San Francisco, California, United StatesCircleUp is an investment platform that provides capital and resources to innovative, early-stage consumer brands. → Spearheaded the expedited development of a sophisticated application with Django and PostgreSQL, marketing data for millions of consumer brands. Achieved a substantial five-fold increase in monthly active users, underscoring the project’s impact. → Implemented ETL pipelines to extract, transform, and load financial data from APIs into the credit application system; optimizing lead acquisition and reducing credit risk for client companies by 40%. → Integrated machine learning models in the Analytics application to provide brand insights and performance over a while. This increased the product’s information advantage by 10% over competitive data sources. → Optimized internal admin tools by integrating background jobs with RabbitMQ, enabling bulk operations on external user data; decreased operation time from 4 hours to just a few minutes, boosting operational efficiency exponentially.

BoostBack End Software Engineer

Oct. 2020 - Sep. 2021New York, United StatesBoost enables companies in any industry to offer digital insurance products to customers through a fully integrated experience embedded in a front-end environment. → Revamped the tech stack by transitioning services from Flacon to Django framework, enhancing system flexibility and scalability, leading to a 50% decrease in load times and a 40% increase in overall system efficiency. → Enhanced admin tools to get new partners launched much faster by a factor of 3. This also helped remove engineers from the operational aspect of the product. → Implemented and deployed APIVersioning Middleware, empowering partners to seamlessly switch between different API versions without facing compatibility issues; this strategic tool played a pivotal role in maintaining seamless operations for partners.

BricklaneSoftware Engineer

Jan. 2020 - Sep. 2020London, England, United KingdomBricklane is an online investment platform enabling everyone to invest in expertly chosen homes, earning property returns, without the drawbacks of investing in property directly. → Spearheaded the integration of advanced real estate visualization tools, enabling investors to identify high-yield property locations in the UK market, leading to a 25% increase in property acquisition success rates. → Integration of machine learning algorithms for rental value estimation, delivering a 40% boost in accuracy for rental revenue projections and a notable reduction in property screening time. → EngineeredperformancemetricalarmsinAWSCloudWatchtomonitormachinelearningmodel;enhanced anomaly detection by 25%. → Automated data extraction, transformation, and loading tasks using Luigi ETL software to measure and track property valuation KPIs, leading to a 20% improvement in data quality and consistency across valuation reports.

AndelaSoftware Engineer

Nov. 2018 - Jan. 2020KenyaA combo of partner experience, engineer experience, and staff experience. The tool of scale for Andela as an organization and as a business. → Orchestrated project initiatives and was instrumental in influencing strategic decisions at the pillar level, tackling technical debt and driving a 15% increase in development efficiency. → Managed and coordinated regular design and code review sessions with a focus on enhancing cross-team collaboration, leading to a 20% decrease in deployment delays and a 30% improvement in feature implementation accuracy. → Analyzed technical implications of proposed initiatives, influencing decisions that contributed to a 15% increase in software performance and scalability, positively impacting user experience and customer satisfaction. → Orchestrated weekly code review sessions and provided constructive feedback that led to a 30% improvement in coding efficiency and a 15% reduction in software deployment errors.

GoWestFull Stack Engineer

Sep. 2017 - Oct. 2018Amsterdam, North Holland, NetherlandsGoWest is a Dutch travel booking app that integrates flights, hotels, road trips, and cruises. → Pioneered the overhaul of the app’s interface structure by migrating from outdated HTML and JQuery to a responsive UI framework using React, driving a notable 35% enhancement in user satisfaction metrics. → Orchestrated the breakdown of a monolithic system into backend and frontend services, facilitating parallel development cycles; optimized resource allocation and decreased time-to-market by 40%. → Executed the creation of a CI/CD pipeline, transitioning from a manual approach to empower developers in coding and system monitoring; raised deployment frequency by 45% and slashed deployment errors by 30%.

The Mediae CompanyWeb Developer

Jun. 2014 - Aug. 2017KenyaiShamba is Mediae’s innovative SMS/call centre-based agricultural information service for Kenyan farmers. → Enhanced iShamba’s platform front end by rearranging components, decreasing user action steps by 40%, and improving user experience, resulting in a 20% increase in customer satisfaction and a 15% growth in revenue. → Liased with technical lead to redesign and implement a new CRM for a different SMS platform from the ground up. This scaled the company from 10,000 customers to 100,000 customers. → Redesigned Mediae’s TV show websites reducing page load times by close to 3 times and reducing bounce rates by close to half. →Developed a robust uploader-backup service in collaboration with the technical lead, enabling scheduled uploads of diverse video episodes to YouTube channels and ensuring secure backups to a centralized backup center.