Devender Babu

About Devender Babu

Hands-on AI Architect, Solutions Engineering Lead, Data Product at Shutterfly, Agentic AI, MCP, A2A, ACP, Generative AI, Certifications in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft Azure Cloud. I specialize in creating cutting-edge applications that use Generative AI (GenAI), e.g. Chat GPT, Google Gemini etc, Large Language Models (LLM), Meta AI, Snowflake LLM Snowpark, Vector Embeddings, Vector Search, Vector Databases, Facebook AI Similarity Search (FAISS), Chroma, Weaviate, Pinecone, Qdrant, AI, ML, Natural Language Processing (NLP), such as a private GenAI Chat Q&A Knowledge Base system. I have a total of 15+ years experience as a hands-on Enterprise Software Architect, Designer and a Lead Engineer. I also have experience, deep skills and knowledge in Reference Architectures, Cloud Security \"Frameworks\", API Marketplace \"Platforms\", providing technology modernization Roadmaps, Capacity Planning, Cost Optimization, Standards and Best Practices, as well as Data Science, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Deep Learning (DL). I am proficient in training, fine-tuning, and deploying LLMs, ML models on-premise and in cloud environments, using \"frameworks\" such as PyTorch and TensorFlow. My mission is to define, design, and develop architectures and solutions that involve LLMs and associated \"frameworks\", data integration \"platforms\", and hybrid cloud and on-premise infrastructure. I have strong communication and team collaboration skills, and I enjoy leading and executing complex security projects, optimizing performance, cost, and scalability, and modernizing technology and business

Experience

1. Enterprise Ai Architect, Solutions Engineering, Data Product - Devsecops, Ml Ops

   Shutterfly

   Jan 2020 — Present · Redwood City, CA, US

   Provided Enterprise Architecture, Strategy, Data Product Management, Palantir Foundry, ERP, DevSecOps, ML Ops, Go To Market (GTM) Strategy, Designed, and built POCs, Data Engineering, a private Gen Ai Chat Q&A Knowledge Base system using Large Language Model (LLM), LlaMA, Lang Graph, Lang Chain, Llama Index, Llama Hub, Spark, Elastic Vector Search, by integrating corporate custom Knowledge Base.# Managed the services/applications/programs portfolio and collaborated across divisions and withexecutives to drive strategy, APM, EPM, Engineering roadmap, prioritizing features.# Provided Architecture, designed the framework, and built POC for an API marketplace platform.# Designed & built Architecture-Fitness-Tests, to be performed after each unit testing in code pipelines.# Provided architecture, design and supervision for eCommerce solutions, for BorrowLenses.com, a division of Shutterfly ecommerce rental website & mobile App.KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:Modernized infrastructure. Achieved 40% more performance efficiency, 60% better security, and 30% improved cost optimization by migrating Applications from the legacy infrastructure to Google Cloud. Improved reliability and stakeholder trust. Enhanced reliability by 80% through hosting credit card payment forms externally and meeting Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS). Reduced cart abandonment rate. Resolved issue of 80% shopping cart abandonment. Refactored Cart and Checkout Flow (CCO) by dividing application into micro services, such as product inventory and schedule verification, that work in parallel; resulting in retaining 40% more customers.Eliminated API call redundancy. Resolved issue causing 600 API calls to check product availability for specified dates. Redesigned architecture of application, optimizing number of API calls, and cached old results to eliminate need for additional calls. Enhanced customer experience by improving page response time, reducing it from 20 to 10 seconds.

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

  Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical & Electronics and Communications Engineering

Skills

• Big Data
• Mahout
• Java
• Logstash
• Representational State Transfer (Rest)
• Cloudera
• Hortonworks
• Mapreduce
• Data Modeling
• Apache Spark
• Databases
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Etl
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Sprint Planning
• Soa
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Scala
• Scalability
• Data Science
• Cloud Computing
• Spark Streaming
• C
• Kibana
• Business Intelligence
• Solution Architecture
• Hbase
• Api Development
• Integration
• Elasticsearch
• Cassandra
• Mllib
• Hadoop
• Project Management
• Web Services
• Product Management
• Architectures
• Software Project Management
• Crm