Soumya Das

Own backend services and REST APIs for an eCommerce platform across web and mobile, covering request routing, data modeling, and integration with downstream services. Moved AI image generation off the main request path into an async job queue, so slow inference no longer blocks checkout or browsing traffic.

AI Engineer - Befach International - Hyderabad, India

(2026-06)

• Own backend services and REST APIs for an eCommerce platform across web and mobile, covering request routing, data modeling, and integration with downstream services.
• Moved AI image generation off the main request path into an async job queue, so slow inference no longer blocks checkout or browsing traffic.

AI Engineer Intern - SuperAlign.ai - Hyderabad, India

(2025-11 - 2026-06)

• Architected a distributed model evaluation testbench for local benchmarking of generative and classifier models, featuring an opt-in leaderboard aggregating performance and hardware metrics for reproducible evaluation
• Crafted Prism, a context-aware PII/PHI/PCI redaction model; built an adversarial edge-case dataset achieving 72% accuracy vs. 47% for Microsoft Presidio by distinguishing benign policy references from sensitive disclosures.
• Compiled a DeBERTa-based detector to ONNX Runtime and quantized it to roughly 125MB for browser-extension deployment, cutting the API dependency and moving inference client-side.

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Communication Engineering - Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad (2022 - 2026)