SAMEERAN PANDEY
Pune
Summary
Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
SDE-2
UBS
Pune
03.2025 - Current
- Primary developer on .NET Core-based self-service platforms used by 50K+ UBS employees worldwide, cutting TSD login-related tickets by ˜35%.
- Engineered secure middle-tier backend services integrating downstream systems; partnered with infra teams to harden a public-facing app secured via F5 WAF, reducing security incidents.
- Consolidated two enterprise web apps into a single integrated platform, saving ˜$35K annual infra cost and reducing deployment effort by 40%; designed routing and reusable class libraries for seamless migration.
- Designed an Azure PromptFlow POC that automated feedback analysis & GitLab ticket creation → saved ˜160 analyst hours/month, replacing a team of 4 Business Analysts.
- Partnered with Network Ops to deliver an AI-driven GSnow ticket resolution assistant, improving ticket resolution time by ˜40% using Splunk logs and historical data.
- Revived an out-of-service Pepper Robot without upgrading its OS, saving £3,000 in costs; programmed it (Python & Choregraphe) to interact with conference attendees, announce booths, and collect feedback at a UBS tech conference, aimed at improving booth engagement by ˜25%. Also integrated ChatGPT for AI enabled natural interactions.
SDE-1
UBS
Pune
07.2022 - 03.2023
- Actively developed and enhanced 2 high-traffic self-help frontend applications (internal & external), used by thousands of UBS employees daily, improving user experience for thousands of UBS employees and improving self-troubleshooting experience.
- Drove major security and compliance improvements, including remediation of vulnerabilities, strengthening authentication flows, and modernizing legacy apps by upgrading from ASP.NET Framework to ASP.NET Core 8. These efforts significantly improved system resilience and reduced audit findings.
- Helped build and integrate a User Information microservice using Service Principal based tokens, eliminating an extra DB dependency → ˜$12K annual cost reduction and eliminated a critical pre-auth data exposure risk.
- Represented frontend products at 3+ UBS Tech Conferences & Expos, earning commendations from senior leadership for driving innovation and automation.
- Participated in UBS Hackathon: Built a chatbot trained on 5K+ assist articles to improve self-help adoption, projected to save ˜5K tickets/month.
Internship
UBS
Hybrid-Pune
01.2022 - 07.2022
- Developed features in .NET Core web apps aiding authentication and self-service flows; received recognition for shipping production-ready code during internship.
- Consolidated multiple knowledge articles across platforms, verified accuracy & relevance, and decommissioned outdated content → improved article searchability and reduced employee confusion.
- Automated the yearly knowledge article indexing process by building a Python scraper, making it 12x faster (reduced weeks of manual work to hours) and enabling Azure Cognitive Services-based search optimization.
Internship
Turquoise Automation
Nagpur
10.2020 - 05.2021
- Researched and evaluated multiple OCR technologies (Tesseract, Google Vision, Microsoft Vision, AWS Textract) for extracting structured data from paper prescriptions.
- Benchmarked tools on accuracy, cost, and utility, recommending Google Vision API as the optimal choice (balanced high accuracy with cost-effectiveness).
- Developed custom logic to tabulate extracted text from scanned documents, mitigating the high cost of AWS Textract's native tabular extraction.
- Built a full-stack OCR web application: Backend: Implemented text detection and bounding-box extraction using Google Vision API. Frontend: Designed and developed a clean, intuitive React.js UI tailored for client requirements. Integration: Merged backend and frontend into a deployable commercial-ready product.
- Published a research paper encompassing the technical findings and benchmarking results, adding academic validation to the project outcomes.
Internship
iSMRITI - IIT Kanpur
Kanpur
06.2019 - 07.2019
- Built a machine learning model using audio fingerprinting to identify entire songs from just a few seconds of random clips, demonstrating early application of pattern recognition in media data.
- Built a self-driven automobile prototype using IoT sensors integrated with ML algorithms, demonstrating autonomous navigation capabilities at a prototype level.
- Designed a regression-based stock market prediction model, achieving promising accuracy on historical datasets and validating the potential of ML-driven forecasting.
- Gained hands-on exposure to end-to-end project execution - from data collection & preprocessing to model training, evaluation, and prototype deployment.
Education
B.Tech - Electronics and Communications Engineering
Vishwakarma Institute of Technology
Pune01.2022
Skills
- ASPNET Core
- Microsoft Azure
- ML
- JS
- C#
- SQL
- Python
- Angular JS
- Microservices architecture
- DevOps practices
- Agile methodology
Awards
- UBS Collaborators award, 2025
- UBS GOTO Innovation Star, 2024
- UBS Certificate for Innovation Star, 2023
Accomplishments
- Streamlined User Authentication, UBS, Reduced TSD login tickets by 35% for 50,000 UBS users globally.
- Cost-Effective Robotics Revamp, UBS, Saved £3,000 by revitalizing Pepper Robot for event engagement.
- Enhanced Operational Efficiency, UBS, Automation saved 160 analyst hours monthly by automating key processes.
- Research papers publications, VIT, Pune, Published research papers in ICEMS-2022, ICRTC-2022, and ICIOT-2022.
Affiliations
Published research paper in ICEMS-2022 on Desktop assistant with accompaniment chatbot.
Certification
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate, AZ-204
- Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate, AI-102
- UBS Certified Engineer - GOLD
- National Skill Development Corporation Certified Python Developer
Timeline
SDE-2
UBS
03.2025 - Current
SDE-1
UBS
07.2022 - 03.2023
Internship
UBS
01.2022 - 07.2022
Internship
Turquoise Automation
10.2020 - 05.2021
Internship
iSMRITI - IIT Kanpur
06.2019 - 07.2019
B.Tech - Electronics and Communications Engineering
Vishwakarma Institute of Technology