Shreyas Waghmare

Senior Software Engineer · SCALER AI LABS · Bengaluru, IN · available · 2026

Contact: hi@shreyas.se

Currently: building RL environments, authoring SWE-Bench tasks, wiring up data pipelines, shipping internal AI tools, shipping voice agents, tuning sub-ms search.

About

Engineer. Builder. Curious about how things scale.

I work on AI infrastructure, realtime systems, and the internal tools companies live inside. Started as an intern at Scaler in 2023; full-time soon after. Now at Scaler AI Labs — founding team, building RL environments, eval tasks (SWE-Bench, Terminal-Bench), data pipelines, and the AI tooling the research team runs on.

I care about the unglamorous parts: the call that answers in 800ms, the search that returns under a millisecond, the CRM your team doesn't dread opening. If a product feels effortless, someone did the hard work under the hood. That's the part I enjoy.

Outside work: a first-principles thinker, occasional hackathon winner, and Bengaluru-based optimist about the next decade of software.

  • 50+ eng — org I build with
  • $10M+ — revenue generated
  • 5.4 cr+ — annual costs cut
  • 7+ yrs — experience

Experience

Senior Software Engineer · Scaler AI Labs (current)

Aug 2025 to present · Bengaluru

  • Led engineering for the enterprise data vertical — processing terabytes of data through high-throughput distributed pipelines for PII/BII detection & removal at scale.
  • Designed a reusable RL-environment framework, cutting environment setup time by ~70% and enabling repeatable task setups across 10+ AI trainers.
  • Built a Ray-based distributed compute platform for baselining RL tasks, cutting experiment turnaround 3x; internal platforms run hundreds of concurrent experiments.
  • LLM-based evaluation pipelines with deterministic graders — reliable scoring at scale with <2% variance across runs.
  • Automated validation checks replacing manual review, improving data approval rates by 40%.
  • Dockerized environments for external AI partners, adopted across 5+ partner integrations; added auth, structured logging & alerting (PagerDuty/Datadog) to reduce MTTD.
  • Architected & shipped the internal task-management platform from scratch within a 4-person team, on schedule.

Senior Software Engineer · Scaler Academy

Jan 2024 to Jul 2025 · Bengaluru

  • Led the in-house CRM from inception — secure auth, reusable permission templates, and lead management (filtering, stage tracking, email, owner assignment).
  • Built an AI-powered Sales Training platform (ElevenLabs + Gemini + Deepgram), improving sales productivity 1.5x and cutting ramp-up by 2 weeks.
  • Led the Internal Meetings Platform — watermarking and interactive elements (polls, quizzes, surveys) serving 50,000+ active learners.
  • Built an admin panel for assisted live-class workflows, cutting instructor onboarding 30% across 200+ instructors.
  • Owned critical on-call (DB CPU/IOPS, Sidekiq queue depth); upgraded AWS RDS/Lambda to remove maintenance overhead.

SDE II · Content Manager · Scaler Academy

Nov 2021 to Dec 2023 · Bengaluru

  • Led the Scaler Topics CS curriculum — maintained an average article rating of 4.6 across 1000+ articles.
  • Managed 4 topics/quarter (Linux, Data Structures, OS, DBMS, React…), set up writer/reviewer hiring, and personally reviewed 25% of published articles.
  • Led the USA launch of Scaler Academy — backend & frontend changes for the US region.
  • Drove the Scaler Neovarsity initiative with Woolf University — hands-on low-level design & implementation.
  • Hardened the platform with expanded Cypress + RSpec coverage and tracking across major flows.

Product Engineer · Borderfree Technology

Aug 2020 to Oct 2021 · Hyderabad

  • Product Lead for the mobile app — interactive live-video commerce that doubled (2x) user engagement.
  • Led the React Native team — shipped a full iOS + Android app from scratch (React + Golang) with custom native components; integrated Google/Facebook APIs for live streaming to social platforms.
  • Deployed Jitsi Meet on EC2 autoscaling — 500 concurrent users/session at 99.9% uptime.
  • AWS: Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, CloudWatch, EC2, CloudFormation, S3, MediaLive, Route 53.

Business Technology Analyst · ZS Associates

Jun 2019 to Jul 2020 · Pune

  • Delivered 4 end-to-end software projects with cross-functional teams of 5–15 across data engineering and operations.
  • Designed & deployed a field-facing automation tool for a multi-country pharmaceutical client — adopted by 5,000+ field users across 3 countries.
  • Built automation scripts boosting operations efficiency, with successful large-scale go-lives.

Projects

01 · Real-time voice agent for sales calls

flagship · 2025

A low-latency calling platform that picks up, holds a real conversation, and books meetings. Built on Gemini + Deepgram + ElevenLabs, tuned for 15+ concurrent calls without sounding like an IVR.

Stack: Gemini, Deepgram, ElevenLabs, Node.js, Redis, WebRTC

Role: Lead engineer · architecture, latency, orchestration

  • <800 ms — avg latency
  • 15+ — concurrent calls
  • 24/7 — uptime

02 · In-house CRM that replaced a ₹5.4 Cr vendor

scale · 2024

Architected the in-house CRM that retired LeadSquared in 4 months. Zero-conflict RBAC across 12+ modules, sub-millisecond filtering on 3M+ leads, a no-code workflow builder, and double-digit concurrent A/B tests from day one.

Stack: Next.js, TurboRepo, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, React Flow, Kafka

Role: Frontend architecture · search infra · RBAC · workflow engine

  • 90% — cost reduction
  • 3M+ — leads indexed
  • 100% — team adoption

03 · Call audit pipeline at 10K calls/month

compliance · 2024

Built the automated call-intelligence layer. Every sales and support call gets transcribed, classified, scored against a compliance policy, and fed back as a coaching nudge. LLMs catch the issues a manual QA pass tends to miss.

Stack: Python, FastAPI, OpenAI, AWS MSK, Postgres, OpenSearch

Role: Pipeline architecture · LLM prompting · review tooling

  • 10K+ — calls/month
  • 94% — precision flagging
  • 3 d — review-to-prod loop

04 · Sales AI simulator: agents that role-play as leads

training · 2025

An internal training arena where AI agents role-play as buyers across personas, objections, and stalling tactics. Reps practice live, get scored, and walk into the real call already warmed up.

Stack: Gemini, TypeScript, Next.js, Postgres, pgvector

Role: End-to-end · prompts, eval harness, frontend

  • 6 wks — rep ramp-up cut
  • 40+ — persona library
  • 5x — practice volume

05 · Founding work at Scaler AI Labs (current)

current · founding · 2025–

RL environments (single + multi-agent) for computer-use agents, SWE-Bench and Terminal-Bench eval tasks, data pipelines, and the internal AI tools the research team runs on. Founding team — started Oct '25 inside Scaler, workspace spun out Apr '26.

Stack: Python, TypeScript, Playwright, Docker, RL · PPO/GRPO

Role: IC Senior Software Engineer · mentor to junior eng across workstreams

  • 50+ — engineers in org
  • 3 — research partners
  • 7 — workstreams

Now — Scaler AI Labs · founding team

Splitting the week across RL environments for computer-use agents, authoring SWE-Bench and Terminal-Bench eval tasks, the data pipelines that feed them, and the internal AI tools the research team relies on. Partnering with 3 global AI research labs — the bar keeps moving, which is the fun part.

  • reading: DeepMind's SIMA paper, again. This time for the eval harness.
  • learning: PPO tuning + process supervision for browser-use tasks.
  • listening to: A lot of Khruangbin while the GPUs spin.

Skills

  • Generative AI: Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic, Computer-use agents, RL (PPO/GRPO), LangChain, Deepgram (ASR), ElevenLabs (TTS)
  • Languages: TypeScript, Python, JavaScript, Ruby, C++, SQL
  • Frameworks: Next.js, React, Node.js, FastAPI, Ruby on Rails, GraphQL
  • Libraries: Redux / RTK Query, React Flow, Prisma, Sentry, TurboRepo
  • Infrastructure: AWS, ECS / EC2 / RDS, OpenSearch / Elastic, MSK · Kafka, Docker, Jenkins, Redis
  • Patterns I love: Event-driven, RBAC / Zero-conflict, A/B + feature flags, Workflow engines
  • Learning next: Rust, native CUDA, iOS / Swift
  • Currently learning: Process supervision, Eval design, WebGPU

Links

  • LinkedIn
  • GitHub (personal)
  • GitHub (work)
  • LeetCode
  • Résumé (PDF)
Shreyas Waghmare