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Delhi CantonmentPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The first thing that shaped my expectations was how the role was described.

The focus was on building intelligent content and media platforms, designing and developing scalable backend systems and APIs, and testing and deploying software across containers, edge compute, and hybrid cloud environments. The description also included work on frontend technologies for high-performance UI, plus collaboration with data scientists, product teams, and designers.

What stood out to me was the breadth of modern topics they seemed to care about—AI/ML, NLP, generative AI, real-time streaming, edge computing, and applied problems like content personalization, recommendation

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