Deepak Mishra-Lead ML Platform Engineer
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Lead ML Platform Engineer
Billie GmbH
- Mentor team of 6 ML platform engineers through weekly 1:1s, technical design reviews, and best practices, improving team velocity by 35% through structured sprint planning and skill development programs
- Define 2025–2026 ML platform roadmap in collaboration with Data Science, Cloud Engineering, and Product teams, prioritizing automated model governance, cost attribution systems, and multi-environment deployment strategies
- Partner with Data Science, SRE, and Product stakeholders to align ML platform capabilities with business objectives, reducing data scientist deployment friction by 60% through self-service platforms
- Architect and deliver production-grade MLOps platform supporting 50+ models in production with automated promotion pipelines, versioning, and rollback capabilities, achieving 99.5% platform uptime SLA
- Design distributed ML pipeline architecture using Metaflow and Argo Workflows (Vertex Pipelines-compatible), reducing model training time by 30% and deployment cycles from 2 weeks to 3 days through full CI/CD automation
- Build containerized ML services on Kubernetes with auto-scaling policies, resource quotas, and multi-tenancy isolation, optimizing infrastructure costs by $180K annually (25% reduction)
- Implement monitoring, alerting, and performance tracking using Prometheus, Grafana, and custom instrumentation, reducing model debugging time by 50% and establishing model performance SLOs
- Lead development of RAG-based document intelligence platform using LangChain, LangGraph, and vector databases, implementing agentic AI workflows for automated financial document processing
- Implement Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform for reproducible environment provisioning and GitOps workflows, reducing infrastructure drift incidents by 80%
- Design role-based access control for ML platform, implement model lineage tracking, and establish audit trails for regulatory compliance aligned with enterprise IAM best practices
Lead Machine Learning Engineer
TwoTronic GmbH
- Mentor squad of 3 ML engineers on computer vision model development, deployment practices, and production best practices; conduct code reviews and technical design sessions
- Architect and deliver production-ready computer vision pipelines for vehicle damage detection and information extraction, processing 100K+ images daily with 95% accuracy; own full ML lifecycle from data annotation to production monitoring
- Build multi-tenant and single-tenant architecture supporting 5+ enterprise clients with isolated model inference pipelines on Kubernetes; implement autoscaling reducing infrastructure costs by 30%
- Establish automated ML pipelines for model retraining, A/B testing, and gradual rollouts; reduce model update cycle from 4 weeks to 1 week through full automation
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Latana GmbH
- Design and deploy automated ML pipelines using Metaflow for distributed training and batch inference at scale, processing 10M+ survey responses monthly with reproducible, versioned workflows
- Establish Agile/Scrum processes for a 12-person Data Science team, facilitate sprint planning and retrospectives, and collaborate with DevOps on deployment automation, reducing release cycles by 40%
- Integrate monitoring, logging, and debugging tools directly in production code, reducing mean time to resolution by 55% and improving model reliability to 99.2% uptime
- Partner with Data Engineering, DevOps, and Product teams to align ML model requirements with business metrics and infrastructure capabilities
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Candis GmbH
- Architect scalable ML infrastructure supporting 8+ production models with hybrid cloud deployment (AWS and on-premise Kubernetes); establish model versioning, A/B testing framework, and deployment standards
- Mentor and upskill 4 junior ML engineers on production ML best practices, code quality, and system design; achieve 2 promotions to mid-level roles within 18 months
- Deliver Invoice Classification & Extraction (93% F1 score), Transaction Fee Parsing, Fraud Detection (reduce fraud by 40%), Customer Metrics Tracking, and NLP pipelines using deep neural networks, graph algorithms, and embeddings
- Implement end-to-end deployment pipelines on AWS (SageMaker, Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk) and on-premise Kubernetes using Helm Charts, Spinnaker, and Terraform; establish CI/CD, monitoring, and observability best practices
- Leverage graph-based algorithms for transaction relationship modeling, embedding techniques for semantic document search, and distributed training for large-scale neural networks
Machine Learning Engineer
Lesara GmbH
- Serve as sole ML engineer delivering end-to-end ML solutions within Agile sprints, including recommendation engines (20% CTR improvement), CLV estimation, real-time gender prediction using Bayesian models, and Google Ads bidding optimization (15% ROAS improvement)
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Experienced in Information Technology, Product Development, Business Intelligence, and Project Management.
Summary
Lead ML Platform Engineer with 8+ years architecting scalable ML infrastructure, leading engineering squads, and delivering production-ready AI/ML solutions. Proven expertise in building end-to-end MLOps platforms, mentoring engineering teams of 5-8 members, and defining technical strategy for ML systems serving millions of users. Deep experience with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP-ready), Kubernetes orchestration, ML workflow automation (Airflow, Metaflow, Vertex Pipelines-compatible), and modern AI technologies (LLMs, RAG systems, Vector DBs). Track record of reducing deployment cycles by 40%, improving model reliability to 99.5% uptime, and driving $200K+ annual cost optimizations through infrastructure automation.
Skills
- Ml Platform Architecture
- Distributed Systems
- Vector & Graph Databases
- Engineering Leadership
- Workflow Orchestration
- Llms, Rag, Generative Ai
- Cloud Infrastructure (Gcp/Aws)
- Model Governance
- Team Mentoring & Strategy
- Kubernetes & Containerization
- Cost Optimization
- Terraform & Iac
- Mlops & Ci/Cd Pipelines
- Python, Go (Learning)
- Observability & Monitoring
- Cloud Platforms: Aws (Sagemaker, Ec2, Lambda, S3, Dynamodb, Redshift, Step Functions)
- Gcp-Ready: Vertex Ai (Training, Pipelines, Model Registry, Feature Store), Gke, Cloud Run, Bigquery, Dataflow, Cloud Storage, Iam
- Ml & Ai: Tensorflow, Pytorch, Scikit-Learn, Xgboost, Llms (Gpt, Claude), Rag Systems, Langchain, Langgraph, Agentic Ai (Mcp), Computer Vision (Opencv), Nlp, Generative Ai, Model Governance
- Orchestration & Workflow: Metaflow, Argo Workflows, Airflow, Kubeflow (Vertex Pipelines-Compatible), Aws Step Functions
- Infrastructure & Devops: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Helm Charts, Spinnaker, Gitops, Ci/Cd (Github Actions, Gitlab Ci), Infrastructure-As-Code
- Databases: Postgresql, Vector Dbs (Pgvector, Pinecone-Ready), Graph Dbs (Neo4j), Redis, Mongodb, Snowflake, Bigquery, Dynamodb
- Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Cloudwatch, Logging, Alerting, Model Monitoring, Performance Tracking, Slo/Sla Management
- Programming: Python (Expert), Typescript, C, Go (Learning), Sql
- Distributed Systems: Distributed Training, Data Pipelines, Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, Scalability Patterns
- Ml Governance: Model Lineage, Versioning, A/B Testing, Feature Engineering, Experiment Tracking, Reproducibility, Audit Trails
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Kiel University
Master of Science in Digital Communication · Digital Communication · Kiel, Germany
Ganpat University
Bachelor's Degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering · Electronics and Communications Engineering · India
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