# Swayam B.

> AI Solutions Engineer @ IBM

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/swayam

I'm a seasoned software engineer & technical solutions specialist with several years of experience building impactful, scalable solutions across startups and large tech companies. My background spans full-stack development, mobile app engineering, IoT integrations, and AI infrastructure—delivering real-world solutions that blend deep technical execution with a strong sense of user and business needs.

From developing AI-powered tools for smart energy management and building robust iOS features at LinkedIn, to creating platforms for AI benchmarking and customer-facing applications, my work has always been at the intersection of technology, product, and impact. I'm especially passionate about designing intelligent, user-centric systems that solve complex problems with elegance and efficiency.

Currently, I specialize in advanced AI technologies at IBM, supporting clients as they explore and adopt IBM’s watsonx ecosystem and agentic AI tools like Watson Orchestrate. In this role, I serve as a bridge between cutting-edge AI products and real-world business goals—translating technical potential into strategic implementation. I work closely with cross-functional teams and enterprise stakeholders to guide solution design, technical adoption, and successful deployment.

I'm always eager to collaborate on meaningful projects that push boundaries, enable smarter systems, and deliver lasting value.

## Work Experience
### AI Solutions Engineer - Client Engineering @ IBM
Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### AI Technical Specialist - watsonx @ IBM
Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Qureez
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025
● Full-Stack Development for Startup Clients: Delivered web/mobile applications for multitude of devices (i.e. IoT smart devices), collaborating with startups like ZOME Energy Networks. Used TypeScript, React, Next.js, AWS, Node.js, and MongoDB to drive energy reductions across large scale buildings (offices/apartments/refrigeration warehouses)
● Energy Dispatch Feature: Designed/implemented backend feature for ZOME integrating ERCOT API signals to manage customer energy consumption, achieving an energy reduction success rate of 80% during grid overloads
● RBAC System: Built Role-Based Access Control system for client applications to enhance user management/security for 100s of customer accounts. Led deployment of product on AWS Marketplace.
● AI Bench Studio: Created a one-stop platform for testing AI infrastructure on AWS marketplace, enabling clients to streamline model/DB testing using frameworks like YCSB/TSBS and visualize results utilizing Grafana.
● Customer Engagement/Product Management: Collaborated directly with customers on projects like ZOME, RBAC, and AI Bench Studio to understand needs, create PRDs (Confluence), and translate requirements into JIRA tasks (assign/track tasks)
● ZOME PWA Migration: Spearheaded a full migration to a PW A for ZOME project, boosting mobile app usage by ~ 50%.

### Customer Application Engineer @ Qureez
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | United States
- Utilized Swift/Objective-C to develop various client facing features on iOS client for the profile page on LinkedIn application
- Led monthly early-career meetups/syncs to aid peers in learning/ramping, engineering resources, and tracking career progress 
- Utilize LIX/T-REX tracking to setup A/B experiments for impact analysis on new/existing feature implementation/designs
- Led various projects in iOS client implementations through creation of reviewed implementation documents/RFCs, hosting/tracking documents for bug bashes, Project Retrospective documents, and contributions to metric readouts including:
   + Skills First Initiative: Introduce skill associations across profile sections (i.e. add skill to experience).  
   + Top Skills: Added capability to show top 5 skills in profile summary (About card).
   + Career Break Association: Added user capability to associate a career break with an existing experience.
   + Stateful Button in Action Component: Migrated old action buttons to reusable button component (i.e. “Connect”, “Follow”) that is used in several components on profile. 
   + Recommendations Next Best Action/Shareable Trigger: Projects add capability to show users prompts that best align with boosting users’ profile score after completing a profile update. 
   + Re-ordering Associated Skills: Design/Created new re-orderable component for iOS client that can be reused in multiple profile sections to migrate to API-driven development model.

### Software Developer @ ALNA Properties
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
- Created business tool using Python, Firebase, and rest.ai to analyze 1000s of MLS listings per day 
- Used image processing AI to determine distressed levels of properties and calculate the ARV (After Rehab Value) as new listings populate
- Automated manual listing review process reducing company cost of outsourcing task by 80%

### Software Quality Assurance Intern @ Earbuds
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area
- Created testing scripts and documentation system for iOS application (Manual and Automated Testing)
- Lead, documented, and organized QA efforts (i.e. Quarterly Team Bug Hunt to find on average 20-30 issues per hunt)
- Documented software defects using Jira bug tracking system and reported defects involving program functionality, output, app screen and content to software developer team
- Delivered QA testing reports that determined product quality and release readiness to TestFlight/App Store


## Education
### Bootcamp in Computer Science
Dominican University of California

### Coppell High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/swayam-barik

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Last updated: 2026-03-29