Sourabh Awasekar — Applied AI & Product Systems Engineer

About & Engineering Philosophy

Sourabh Awasekar builds data infrastructure and AI products that turn raw warehouse architectures into high-performance semantic layers, autonomous text-to-SQL harnesses, and scalable software. His engineering foundation started at BITS Pilani with a dual degree in Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, complemented by a Minor in Finance. Over the last 5+ years, he has architected production systems that operate with minimal friction, strict unit economics, and measurable business leverage.

Flagship Shipped Systems & Production AI

amber Ocean — AI Data Product & Text-to-SQL Harness

Devised and architected a natural-language AI data harness powered by amber's centralized Semantic Layer, agentic query routing, and a custom MCP server over AWS Redshift.

Under $100 per 15,000 user sessions via strict token and model routing optimizations
3,000+ production queries processed with near-zero compute overhead (~$30)
Eliminated 80%+ of ad-hoc SQL backlog across company departments

amber Radar — Commercial B2B SaaS & ML Forecasting

Architected an end-to-end predictive market intelligence platform combining automated daily ELT scrapers, machine learning predictive models, and an interactive Next.js application.

Revenue-generating B2B SaaS licensed by international accommodation providers
Compressed research and reporting cycles from several weeks to minutes

amber Prism — Sales Pipeline Transcript NLP Engine

Engineered an automated communication transcript analysis pipeline using local LLM inference (Ollama) and NLP vector classification, alerting sales managers to high-risk deals via n8n multi-channel webhooks.

100% automated transcript QA coverage across the global sales pipeline
Real-time deal-risk notifications dispatched directly to sales management

plectrum.live & PlectrumLabs — Audio Systems & Web Platform

Built plectrum.live with client-side ML (TensorFlow.js, ONNX Runtime Web, Tone.js) plus a family of 5 native C++17/JUCE 8 desktop DSP audio plugins (PluckMaster, PluckBoard, PluckStem, PluckNote).

18+ browser audio tools running client-side with $0 server-side ML compute
5 native desktop audio products shipped with signed .dmg and AU/VST3 plugins
Sub-millisecond latency local DSP running on macOS and Windows

5X Data Platform — Enterprise SaaS & Data Apps

Spearheaded end-to-end agile product engineering across custom Streamlit data apps, in-house usage billing, and enterprise identity & access governance.

$20,000/month in new enterprise revenue from API-first data SaaS
$10,000/month added revenue from enterprise IAM rollout
$2,000/month saved by eliminating third-party billing dependencies

Career Flightpath & Chronology

May 2025 – Present: Lead — Data & Analytics (+ AI Data Products), amber (Pune, India)
Nov 2024 – May 2025: Lead Business Analyst & Business Analyst, Turing (Palo Alto, Remote) — Led MMMU benchmark RLHF evaluations and AI content detection
Oct 2023 – Sep 2024: Associate Product Manager, 5X Data (Singapore, Remote) — Built usage billing, IAM, and enterprise data SaaS
Jan 2023 – Apr 2023: Associate Product Manager, Crimson AI (Mumbai, India) — Optimized Trinka AI Word Add-in load latency by 40%
Jun 2021 – Nov 2022: Product Analyst, Junglee Games (Gurugram, India) — Poker GTM launch (₹1.2L daily revenue in 18 days) and retention microservices
Aug 2015 – May 2021: BITS Pilani (Goa Campus) — Dual Degree: B.E. Chemical Engineering + M.Sc. Chemistry with Minor in Finance

Contact & Hiring

Available for high-impact Applied AI Engineering, AI/ML Product Engineering, and Forward-Deployed Engineering roles, as well as selective technical advisory.

Email: work@awasekar.com · LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/awasekar