Sameer Bhalerao

About

Sameer Bhalerao

Analytics leader who now ships LLM-native products end-to-end. I've spent most of my career helping organizations turn complex data into decisions — and the last few years proving it's possible to own the full arc: data model, backend, intelligence layer, and production 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 ship real products and deepen my applied-AI craft, while looking for the right analytics or AI leadership role to step into next. Open to consulting engagements along the way.

What I'm building now

The most complete is Vyoman — an AI-native aerial-photography business I built and operate 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 an LLM + vision model creative pipeline that grades footage and drafts the story. A change in the console goes live on the site in seconds, with no deploy.

Alongside it: Disha Analytics — a live B2B SaaS that turns restaurant data into structured intelligence reports via an eight-agent LLM pipeline; ComplyLens — AML/KYC compliance intelligence for Luxembourg, where the LLM drafts CSSF-auditable reasoning and a human signs; CircleWorks — community trust infrastructure with LLM-powered pricing over a Telegram bot; 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 solves a real problem, not a proof-of-concept.

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

  • Head of Analytics / Chief Data Officer
  • Senior Analytics Manager / Lead BI Engineer
  • Director of Data & Analytics
  • AI Product Lead / Head of AI Product
  • Companies building in data, AI, or applied intelligence

Background

Experience
11+ years
Focus
AI & Analytics Leadership
Background
Amazon · Mu Sigma
Regions
India, EU (Luxembourg)
Now
Shipping LLM-native products
Location
Luxembourg

What people say

Sameer excels at transforming complex, ambiguous problems into clear, actionable insights. His superpower lies in creating simplified models that maintain essential details while making challenging concepts accessible to business stakeholders. This combination of analytical simplification and strategic communication makes him particularly effective in bridging technical and business perspectives.

Senior Peer

Amazon Selection Expansion · Forte Review 2025

Carried the load as the single BI resource for a 50-member team for 10 months. Sameer's superpowers are Ownership and Dive Deep — he is the first person I would go to when I need to understand the right source or definition of any of our metrics.

Category Leader (L7)

Amazon Private Brands · Promotion Assessment

His collaborative efforts with Finance resulted in a smooth-running WBR process saving nearly 5 to 6 hours of work weekly which was earlier spent on troubleshooting and reconciliations. This WBR process became the gold standard for other PB teams to replicate.

Senior Finance Manager (L7)

Amazon Private Brands · Promotion Assessment

Sameer is the go-to person for any BI and data analytics needs — not just for EU HPB but for WW APB. He has total ownership of his activities, knows exactly where to dedicate time, and delivers results with full trust from his colleagues.

Senior Peer

Amazon Private Brands · Forte Review 2023