About

Hi, I’m Swati Modi, a Software Engineer 👩‍💻, passionate about products and a maker at heart 🚀 I like to explore new things and am always up for challenging opportunities.

Work

Looking for challenging roles in distributed systems, database design, and large-scale data warehousing, with a focus on building high-performance, scalable backend solutions.

Full-time Roles

  • Last9 (last9.io) [Jun 2022 – Mar 2024]
    Time-Series Data Warehouse - Levitate (Link)
    Built a scalable time-series warehouse handling 1 trillion samples per month with five 9’s of reliability. Designed an ingestion gateway for real-time metrics and events, supporting 1.5 billion time-series and 400 million events per minute. Developed a custom alerting system and implemented an efficient real-time aggregation solution for materialized views of complex queries.

  • Delhivery (delhivery.com) [Mar 2021 – May 2022]
    Logistics SaaS - OS1 (Link)
    Developed OS1, a logistics SaaS platform used by Delhivery to optimize supply chain processes. Worked on improving the system’s scalability and reliability to support high-volume logistics operations.

  • Fynd (fynd.com) [Oct 2019 – Mar 2021]
    Virtual Makeup & Face Filters SaaS SDK - Glamar (Link)
    Built Glamar, a virtual makeup and Snapchat-like face filter SDK. Developed a facial landmark stabilization system and image segmentation tools for hair color, makeup, nail art, and face filters, ensuring real-time performance and cross-platform compatibility.

Consulting Experience

  • PL AI (pl.ai) [Jan 2021]
    Provided consulting to troubleshoot and enhance machine learning model performance.

  • Personify (personifyinc.com) [Apr 2021 – Jan 2022]
    Developed an on-device, real-time background removal ML model running at 30FPS Chroma Cam. Integrated the solution into a web SDK and to another product Presenter.

  • HyperOnline (hyper.online) [Aug 2021 – Sept 2021]
    Built a hand-tracking pipeline and iOS plugin for real-time hand gesture recognition.

  • MoveAhead (moveahead.io) [May 2024 – July 2024]
    Built a real-time motion analysis integration pipeline for game videos.

I also have a very keen interest in Entrepreneurship and always open to working on exciting ideas and projects.

Tech I have worked on or find interesting so far 🧐

  • Distributed systems
  • On-device ML
  • WebAssembly and AR

I strongly believe in end-to-end productivity and having a holistic product vision than just ticking feature boxes.

I like reading books, both fiction and non-fiction 🌠 🕵️‍♀️ 📚, and writing about tech @swati-modi.

I enjoy running, biking, and pretending to meditate :) 🏃‍♀️🧘‍♀️