Omkar Chittar

Resume

Software Engineer

Building full-stack applications, backend services, developer tools, and reliable data pipelines. Experience delivering production software across media, enterprise workflows, and search infrastructure.

Work Experience

Lead Software Engineer

NBCUniversal · Orlando, FL

Nov 2025 — Present

  • Independently designed and built a full-stack estimating and takeoff platform (Python backend, React/TypeScript frontend): document-ingestion pipeline, OCR, spatial registration, and a geometry-aware computation engine with AI-assisted extraction; cut takeoff time from 6 hours to 30 minutes, backed by approximately 900 automated tests
  • Led software delivery across Universal Creative and UDX, partnering with stakeholders across 6 business functions to gather requirements and author PRDs, shipping 10 products from concept into production
  • Architected 8+ production systems spanning estimating, legal, engineering, safety, finance, and operations — designing shared patterns for service routing, validation, access control, and human-in-the-loop approval
  • Led development of a centralized contract lifecycle platform, building ETL and a unified search layer over 10,000+ documents from SharePoint, databases, and enterprise repositories; reduced first-draft contract generation from approximately 2 weeks to under 48 hours
  • Built retrieval and evaluation infrastructure over 5,000+ pages of legal documents with semantic search, automated citation validation, and deterministic checks; achieved full citation coverage at an approximately 2% review-error rate
  • Delivered a cost-intelligence platform over historical cost data with structured retrieval, query routing, provenance tracking, and a conversational UI; reduced cost-research time 95%
  • Built and deployed a production CI debugging agent using Python, FastAPI, GitHub Actions, and LLM tool calling to analyze failed builds, identify likely root causes, and recommend code fixes
  • Full-stack software
  • Production AI
  • Technical leadership

AI Engineer

FOX Sports · Redmond, WA (Remote)

Aug 2024 — Nov 2025

  • Built and deployed production video understanding pipelines on GCP using Python, FFmpeg, CLIP/SigLIP, and TimeSformer, generating 100K+ searchable clip embeddings monthly; integrated FAISS/HNSW and BigQuery for semantic retrieval, contributing to 30% higher retrieval accuracy across the multimodal search platform
  • Engineered production speech transcription and speaker diarization pipelines using Python, FFmpeg, Whisper, VAD, and speaker-embedding clustering, processing 800+ hours of audio monthly; generated timestamp-aligned, speaker-labeled transcripts and multilingual metadata, contributing to a 40% reduction in manual media search effort across the platform
  • Decreased issue resolution time 35% by building an event-driven monitoring service (AWS Bedrock, Lambda, Slack API) for ML pipelines, surfacing drift alerts, exceptions, and health insights in real time
  • Reduced ad-hoc reporting effort 40% by building a natural-language-to-SQL assistant (FAISS, Bedrock) serving producers at p95 approximately 1.3s latency
  • Built an automated evaluation and regression harness (synthetic queries, oracle sets, precision@k) integrated into the iteration workflow; improved top-5 retrieval by 12 percentage points
  • Cut per-request serving cost 28% without quality loss via response caching and lightweight request routing on Databricks
  • Engineered and deployed production Apache Airflow DAGs on GCP for 100K+ video segments monthly: FFmpeg preprocessing, Whisper transcription, CLIP/SigLIP embeddings, and BigQuery ETL; parallel execution, automated retries, SLA monitoring, and idempotent backfills achieved 99%+ pipeline success and 50% fewer manual interventions
  • Streamlined operations on 2M+ digital assets by automating metadata extraction and ETL (BigQuery, Spark, Cloud Functions); features powered engagement forecasting (LSTM, transformers) that lifted user retention 25%
  • AI systems
  • Evaluation
  • MLOps

Earlier Work

Software Engineer

Sakar Robotics · Pune, India

Jun 2019 — Jun 2022

  • Developed reusable computer-vision and 3D-processing modules using OpenCV, Open3D, stereo depth, ICP, and multi-camera calibration; improved robotic pick success 18% and reduced pose error 22%
  • Implemented TSDF mapping and 6-DoF tracking services, lowering re-localization time during occlusions by 35%
  • Developed reinforcement-learning components for robotic manipulation using DDPG + HER, improving task precision by 30%
  • Computer Vision
  • 3D Vision
  • Robotics

Skills

Languages

Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, SQL, C++

Backend & Web

Node.js, Flask, FastAPI, REST APIs, gRPC, React, Next.js

Cloud & Data

AWS (Bedrock, Lambda, SageMaker, S3), GCP (BigQuery, Vertex AI, Cloud Functions), Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, Spark, Apache Airflow, Kafka, Postgres, NoSQL, Redis, SQL query tuning, warehouse data modeling

MLOps/DevOps

MLflow, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Git/GitHub, GitHub Actions, Linux, unit/integration/end-to-end testing, vector stores & databases

GenAI/LLMs

RAG, agentic AI & tool calling, vector search, embeddings, guardrails, LLM evaluation (Ragas), prompt engineering & caching, LangChain, LangGraph, OpenAI, Claude, Hugging Face, MCP

ML/DL

NLP, Computer Vision, Whisper, CLIP/SigLIP, TimeSformer, PyTorch, TensorFlow

Publications

Education

Master of Engineering in Robotics

University of Maryland, College Park

Aug 2022 — May 2024

CGPA: 3.97

Machine Learning · Deep Learning · Reinforcement Learning · Computer Vision

Teaching & Community

Mentor

First Lego League (FLL)

Jan 2024 — Present

Helping middle school students design and code robots

Proprietor

Sai Classes, Pune

Founded and taught the computer science and mathematics curriculum

Recruitment & Retention Manager

Department of Transportation Services, University of Maryland