Salil Borkar

Salil Borkar

Technical Program Manager | Cloud Data & AI Infrastructure | AWS

Managing high-signal technical programs & projects shipping technical products that solve real problems.

Technical Projects

Cost Sentinel

A zero-to-one local FinOps VS Code extension. Uses offline AST (Abstract Syntax Tree) parsing to provide real-time SQL cost estimation, intercepting runaway cloud spend with zero latency or PII/PHI risk.

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Enterprise RAG Pipeline

Secure knowledge retrieval architecture. Engineered chunking strategies and established evaluation frameworks for vector databases to minimize hallucination rates for proprietary data ingestion.

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Experience Highlights

Thought Leadership

The Data Ledger

A high-altitude briefing on engineering modern data platform strategy, focusing on shift-left FinOps, deterministic AI infrastructure, and platform primitives.

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