About
Sameer Bhalerao
Analytics and data product leader who now builds AI products end-to-end. I've spent most of my career helping organizations turn complex data into decisions — and this year proving one person can own the full arc: data model, backend, intelligence layer, and deployment.
Career arc
I started at Mu Sigma in 2014, spending two years building segmentation, demand forecasting, and marketing mix models for Fortune 500 retail and airline clients. It was a strong foundation in applied analytics - learning how to frame problems, what good questions look like, and how to translate analysis into business action.
I joined Amazon in 2017 and spent nine years there. That tenure took me across payments and high-frequency commerce in India — first as a BA, then leading the analytics function — before moving to private brands in Luxembourg, and eventually the selection expansion team, where I was the sole BIE advising Director-level monthly business reviews on a ~$4B cross-border seller program across 17+ global stores.
What changed for me at Amazon was the scope. I went from building models to building systems - things that needed to run reliably, communicate clearly to many stakeholders, and hold up under business pressure. That experience fundamentally shaped how I think about analytics as infrastructure.
The current chapter is a deliberate one. After nine years inside large-scale analytics organizations, I chose to step back from full-time corporate work and build — to go hands-on with the kind of LLM-driven intelligence systems I'd spent a career scoping for others. I'm using this time to build real products and deepen my applied-AI craft, while looking for the right product or analytics leadership role to step into next. Open to consulting engagements along the way.
What I'm building now
The most complete is Vyoman — an aerial-photography venture whose infrastructure I built end-to-end: a public site and print store (Stripe + Gelato print-on-demand), a Django ops console with an LLM intelligence dashboard, a canonical data layer that serves as the single source of truth, and a creative pipeline prototype that grades footage and drafts the story. A change in the console goes live on the site in seconds, with no deploy. Commercial launch is pending business registration.
Alongside it: Disha Analytics — restaurant intelligence via an eight-agent LLM pipeline, with one pilot report walked through with a restaurant owner in New Delhi; ReasonTrail — an AML/KYC review workflow prototype for Luxembourg with four-eyes approval, an immutable audit trail and CSSF-format export, plus a designed AI drafting layer; CircleWorks — community trust infrastructure with LLM-powered pricing over a Telegram bot, piloted in one residential community in Bangalore; Soul Spark — multi-agent life intelligence that runs entirely on-device; and Narrate — a personal audiobook system that converts any PDF or document into narrated audio with voice personality per book, adaptive chapter conversion, and lock-screen controls. Each one starts from a real problem; they range from pilots to working prototypes to tools I use daily.
Building these end-to-end has made me fluent in what actually makes AI products work: canonical data layers and intelligence dashboards, multi-agent and LLM pipelines, the discipline of keeping a deterministic core while the LLM only drafts, and local-first privacy patterns. The throughline is the same one from my Amazon years — turn messy, real-world data into structured, decision-ready output.
How I work
Decisions over dashboards
A dashboard that doesn't drive action is just expensive decoration. I build for the question: what should someone do next?
Structure before tools
I spend time understanding the problem before choosing technology. The right metric design matters more than the right tech stack.
Fragmented signals, unified picture
The most interesting insights live at the intersection of domains that aren't usually connected. I like building systems that bridge that gap.
Clarity over cleverness
I'd rather build a system that ten people use every day than something impressive that no one understands.
Opportunities I find interesting
- Senior Product Manager — Data & AI
- AI Product Lead / Data Product Lead
- Head of Analytics / Director of Data & Analytics
- Senior Analytics Manager
- Companies building in data, AI, or applied intelligence
Background
- Experience
- 11+ years
- Focus
- Data & AI Product · Analytics
- Background
- Amazon · Mu Sigma
- Regions
- India, EU (Luxembourg)
- Now
- Building AI products · open to roles
- Location
- Luxembourg
What people say
Sameer excels at transforming complex, ambiguous problems into clear, actionable insights. His superpower lies in creating simplified models that keep the essential details while making challenging concepts accessible to business stakeholders.
Senior colleague
Amazon · Marketplace expansion
Sameer is the first person I would go to when I need to understand the right source or definition of any of our metrics.
Senior Category Leader
Amazon · Private Brands
His work with Finance gave us a smooth-running weekly business review, saving 5 to 6 hours a week that used to go on troubleshooting and reconciliations. It became the standard other teams copied.
Senior Finance Manager
Amazon · Private Brands
Sameer is the go-to person for BI and data analytics needs, not just for the European team but worldwide. He takes total ownership, knows exactly where to spend his time, and has the full trust of his colleagues.
Senior colleague
Amazon · Private Brands