2026

Shashwat
Sarkar

AI Researcher & DevOps Engineer

About me

I'm passionate about advancing AI research while building reliable infrastructure. My research spans Computer Vision, Medical AI, Document Analysis, and Multimodal Learning, with contributions published at leading international conferences and journals. Beyond research, I design cloud-native platforms on AWS, automate infrastructure with DevOps practices, and build scalable systems that bring research ideas into production.

// Experience & Impact

Experience

SDE (DevOps Engineer)

jun 2024 – present

NCompass

2 yrs

jun 2024 – present

●Designed and managed AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform and CloudFormation, reducing configuration drift by 50%+.
●Led CI/CD modernization with AWS CodePipeline and Bitbucket, enabling 30% faster zero-downtime deployments.

Deep Learning Researcher

jan 2024 – present

Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

2 yrs 5 mos

jan 2024 – present

●Worked on DATR (Domain-Agnostic Text Recognizer), improving recognition accuracy and domain generalization across diverse datasets.
●Conducted research in text recognition, document analysis, and multimodal learning, resulting in publications at leading international venues.

SDE Intern

jan 2024 – may 2024

NCompass

4 mos

jan 2024 – may 2024

●Developed and deployed 10+ secure APIs with authentication and authorization using JWT and bcrypt.
●Contributed to backend services and user management systems with a focus on security and scalability.

Research Intern

jun 2023 – dec 2023

Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

6 mos

jun 2023 – dec 2023

●Contributed to DITS (Domain-Independent Text Spotter), achieving improved text spotting performance across challenging domains.
●Designed deep learning models for end-to-end text spotting and text recognition tasks.

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// Research topics I have worked upon...