Sameer Bhalerao

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Sameer Bhalerao

Analytics and data product leader. Nine years at Amazon. Building AI products since May 2026. Open to Senior PM roles in AI, data and decision systems, in Luxembourg or EU remote.

Summary

Analytics and data product leader with 12 years of experience, including nine years at Amazon across $9B+ of programmes, with €200M+ in opportunities surfaced and €33M in cost savings delivered. Built decision tools and analytics products used across Europe, North America, Japan and India, owning requirements, data, launch metrics and adoption. Since May 2026, independently building AI products and prototypes across agentic workflows, local LLMs and human-in-the-loop systems. Combines enterprise-scale analytics leadership with hands-on AI product development, from problem discovery and requirements through build, launch and adoption.

Independent AI Product Work · May 2026 – Present

Owned each product from problem to working build. In decision-sensitive workflows, kept scoring and decision logic deterministic, used AI for research and drafting, and retained human approval for consequential actions.

Disha Analytics

Prototype

Restaurant intelligence

Turns public restaurant data into a structured intelligence report in about five minutes, compressing two analyst-days of research. Deployed on Hetzner; one pilot report walked through with a restaurant owner in New Delhi.

  • Eight specialist AI agents (competitor, financial, review, menu, hypothesis verifier, validation, synthesis, owner narrative) over 8 public data sources. Scoring stays in code; the LLM does research and drafting.
  • Three delivery modes: Public Scan, Validated Report (owner financials) and Owner Walkthrough (decision deck), each producing a ranked action plan, competitor benchmark and hypothesis checklist.
  • Built end to end: Django 5 REST API, React 18 + Vite, PostgreSQL, Celery + Redis, WeasyPrint PDF reports.
Django 5React 18PostgreSQLCeleryRedisAnthropic APIHetzner

CircleWorks

Pilot

Local services marketplace

Job matching and trust scores for informal workers in residential communities. Residents post jobs, get an AI-assisted price and pay workers directly via UPI. The platform never touches money.

  • Django 5.1 backend on Railway, a Telegram bot for worker onboarding and job alerts, and one web portal for residents, workers and admins. Visual-first design for low-literacy users.
  • Claude API for job-intent parsing and pricing recommendations from job category, location and historical rates.
  • Pilot at Blueberry Homes, Bangalore, run with on-ground partner Alok; SOPs, job lifecycle and dispute handling documented.
Django 5.1PostgreSQLRailwayTelegram Bot APIClaude APIPython

ReasonTrail

Prototype

AML/KYC review workflow

Review workflow for Luxembourg AML/KYC teams: four-eyes approval, immutable audit trail and CSSF-format export. Password-gated demo at reasontrail.vercel.app.

  • Three modules on a shared FastAPI + PostgreSQL backend: RiskRationale (risk classification with CSSF-mapped evidence fields), ReviewMemo (11-section periodic review memo + audit ZIP export) and AlertDesk (alert disposition with four-eyes approval).
  • Designed the AI-assisted drafting layer: the model drafts, the analyst decides and signs, and every determination stays auditable by a regulator. The demo runs on a seeded synthetic scenario (Meridian Holdings).
FastAPINext.js 15PostgreSQLRailwayVercelWeasyPrintCeleryRedis

Soul Spark

Working prototype

Personal intelligence

Multi-agent personal advisor across nine life domains (finance, health, career, social, growth, library, travel, inner self, mindset). All LLM inference runs locally via Ollama; personal data stays on the device.

  • Python + Streamlit app with multi-agent orchestration, DuckDB for structured personal data and one advisor interface across all domains.
PythonStreamlitDuckDBOllamaLangGraph

Vyoman

In build

Aerial photography venture

Drone photography business infrastructure built end to end: portfolio site and print store, operations console, mission intelligence and a creative pipeline. Commercial launch pending business registration.

  • Next.js 15 site and print store (Neon Postgres + Drizzle) with Stripe checkout, Gelato print-on-demand, DHL tracking and digital image licensing.
  • Canonical data layer (VSIN registry) plus a Django 5.2 console on Railway: order ops, lifecycle emails, LLM dashboard and vision-model matching against the product registry. Console changes reach the site via ISR, no deploy needed.
  • Vantage (vantage.vyomanaerials.com): LLM mission intelligence built in 3 days, with streaming briefs, airspace WMS checks, weather scoring and FLUX shot references.
Next.js 15Django 5.2Neon PostgresDrizzleStripeGelatoCloudflare R2ClaudeFLUX

Narrate

Personal tool

Audiobook pipeline

Converts any PDF or EPUB into a narrated listening experience. Built for daily personal use, designed for anyone facing barriers to reading.

  • 9-rule text preprocessing (punctuation repair, citation stripping, caption removal), AI chapter titling, adaptive buffered TTS, lock-screen captions and AI cover art. Cloudflare R2 as the only data layer.
Next.js 15TypeScriptOpenAI TTSCloudflare R2DALL-E 3

Experience

Senior Business Intelligence Engineer (L6) · Data Product Lead

Jan 2024 – Apr 2026

Amazon · Global Marketplace Selection Expansion · Luxembourg

  • Sole analytics lead for Amazon's $11.5B global marketplace selection program, embedded with PMs, TPMs and SDMs. Fixed systemic data integrity failures, restoring source-of-truth reporting for 20+ downstream teams. Managed 3 interns and mentored a BIE, a data engineer and an SDE.
  • Wrote the multi-year analytics vision BRD and launch (P0) BI requirements for an $11.1B cross-border listing migration, then built its measurement from pilot (Oct 2025) to global rollout (Dec 2025) in 32 days. Co-authored the analytics side of PR/FAQs for Sell Across Europe and the cross-border selection funnel.
  • Rebuilt the quarterly business review across 4 cycles and 17+ stores: added selection and pricing quality metrics, cut preparation from 3-4 days to one, and moved leadership focus to the selection funnel.
  • Built the financial model for a $2.5B seller-growth initiative and a 4-phase BI strategy for the $1.8B Lighthouse Big Bet, approved by Amazon's Europe VP.

BI Engineer → Senior BI Engineer (L5 → L6) · Data Product Lead

Jan 2021 – Dec 2023

Amazon · Private Label Commerce · Luxembourg

  • Built the EU Private Brands analytics function from scratch, solo for 10 months; scope grew to Worldwide Private Brands (NA, Europe, Japan). Promoted to L6 in 2022; managed 5 direct reports (3 BIEs, 2 interns).
  • Co-authored the PR/FAQ and built DART, a deal recommendation tool for Category Managers (deal type, price, vendor funding, units) with margin and stock guardrails and a Finance approval step for exceptions. Saved ~100 hours a year.
  • Launched the Deals Performance Dashboard in 6 weeks for Black Friday; adopted by 90+ users in 10 countries and 12 job families as the worldwide source of truth, saving 350+ hours a year.
  • Owned the team roadmap: wrote the 2022 BI roadmap and 2023 annual plan (OP1), and co-led a cross-team working group that RICE-scored 17 requests.
  • Found a ~€110M annual revenue opportunity through a catalogue defect tracker, adopted by senior leadership in quarterly planning.
  • Automated the Supply Chain MBR (~1,000 hours a year saved) and built a Pricing Dashboard estimated to save ~2,000 hours a year. Ran a SQL training programme so 20+ business users could self-serve.

Lead Business Analyst (L5)

Apr 2019 – Jan 2021

Amazon · Digital Payments & Commerce · Bengaluru, India

  • Designed the downstream-impact Go/No-Go framework for 5 product experiments ($30M GMV at stake); became the standard launch-readiness method for the payments portfolio.
  • Analysed product A/B tests for payments features; caught instrumentation gaps before launch and drove the fixes.
  • Built a self-serve customer segmentation tool for ~100 campaigns a month (setup time cut 70%, ~3,000 hours a year saved) and fraud rules that auto-cancelled ~100K abusive orders a month. Led 3 analysts.
  • Identified INR 5.2 Cr in recoverable refunds through a gift-card refund audit.

Business Analyst (L4)

Jan 2017 – Apr 2019

Amazon · Digital Payments & Commerce · Bengaluru, India

  • Built the data and reporting foundation for a $2B digital commerce business from scratch: pipelines, 5 dashboards and a self-serve query library supporting 8 category launches.
  • Identified INR 0.5 Cr in accounting corrections.

Decision Scientist (Analyst → Senior Analyst)

2014 – 2016

Mu Sigma Business Solutions · Bengaluru, India

  • Built customer segmentation, demand forecasting and marketing mix models for Fortune 500 retail and airline clients.

Education

B.E. - Electrical and Electronics

Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra

Ranchi, India · 2010 – 2014

First Class with Distinction

Skills

Product

DiscoveryRequirements (BRDs)PR/FAQsRoadmapsRICE prioritisationA/B testingLaunch metricsWBR/QBR

AI

LLM applicationsAgentic workflowsRAGHuman-in-the-loopLocal models

Data & BI

SQLPythonRRedshiftdbtSparkDuckDBQuickSightTableau

Build

AWSNext.jsFastAPIDjangoDockerVercel

Certifications

  • dbt Analytics Engineering
  • AWS BI Technology Specialist
  • AI For Everyone - DeepLearning.AI