Sailesh Panda

Software Engineer specializing in Machine Learning, Agentic AI, Backend Systems, Cloud, and Full-Stack Applications.

Associate Software Engineer at MAQ Software (2026-01 – 2026-06)

• Developed and deployed AI agents using Copilot Studio, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, Azure AI Foundry, and Microsoft 365 services.
• Developed hybrid RAG systems over enterprise knowledge bases with semantic retrieval and RBAC.
• Built enterprise Lakehouse solutions in Microsoft Fabric, leveraging OneLake, Data Factory Pipelines, PySpark, Spark SQL, and Delta Lake for scalable data ingestion and transformation.
• Optimized distributed backend workloads through partitioning, caching, broadcast joins, and query optimization in PySpark/Spark SQL, reducing pipeline execution time and improving compute utilization.

Software Engineering Intern at RWSS, Odisha (2025-05 – 2025-07)

• Built and consumed REST APIs with Spring MVC, Feign, and RestTemplate to connect external services.
• Optimized backend performance via asynchronous processing and thread-pool tuning, improving API response times by over 30%.

B.Tech in Information Technology (Business Informatics) – Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad (2022-11 – 2026-06)