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Deepa Menon

@deepamenon

AI/ML Engineer at Western Alliance Bank building production ML pipelines and RAG systems for financial workflows.

At Western Alliance Bank, I design production machine learning models and end-to-end pipelines for credit risk, fraud detection, and financial decisioning. I also build RAG pipelines for semantic search and context-aware responses across enterprise documents.

Previously, I developed LLM applications and agent workflows at Cisco, and AI/ML backend applications at Oregon Coast Bank. My work has included Python services and APIs, cloud deployments, and integrating machine learning and generative AI into enterprise applications.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

AI/ML Engineer

Current

Western Alliance Bank

Jan 2026 - Present (10 months)

Designed and developed production-grade machine learning models for credit risk, fraud detection, and financial decisioning. Built end-to-end ML pipelines and implemented MLOps practices using MLflow, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Python TensorFlow scikit learn XGBoost MLFlow Docker Kubernetes fastAPI Kafka NLP Generative AI RAG Faiss Redis SHAP

AI/ML Engineer

Cisco

Jul 2025 - Dec 2025 (5 months)

Designed and deployed LLM-powered AI applications using OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, and Anthropic models with RAG architectures. Built AI agent workflows using LangChain and developed scalable REST APIs with FastAPI.

OpenAI Azure OpenAI Anthropic RAG Lang Chain fastAPI Pinecone ChromaDB Faiss Docker Kubernetes Jenkins Cloudwatch

AI/ML Developer

Oregon Coast Bank

Dec 2023 - Jun 2025 (1 year 6 months)

Developed AI/ML-powered backend applications using Python and integrated machine learning models with REST APIs and microservices. Implemented semantic search and similarity retrieval using FAISS and Pinecone.

Python REST APIs Microservices Docker Kubernetes AWS OpenAI LLM Prompt Engineering Faiss Pinecone Redis CI CD

Python Developer

Pacific Specialty Insurance

Jan 2022 - Nov 2023 (1 year 10 months)

Developed scalable backend services using Python, Django, and Django REST Framework. Designed and implemented REST APIs and integrated AWS services including S3, RDS, and IAM.

Python Django Django REST Framework REST APIs AWS S3 RDS IAM Angular MySQL PostgreSQL

Python Developer

Credit One Bank

Feb 2020 - Dec 2021 (1 year 10 months)

Developed backend applications and REST APIs using Python, Django, and Django REST Framework. Built authentication and authorization modules and automated deployments using Jenkins and CI/CD pipelines.

Python Django Django REST Framework REST APIs Jenkins CI CD AWS EC2 S3

Python Developer

Blue Nile

Dec 2018 - Jan 2020 (1 year 1 month)

Developed backend APIs and web applications using Python and Django. Built serverless APIs using AWS Lambda and performed data analysis with Pandas.

Python Django AWS Lambda Pandas REST APIs

Python Developer

Pennymac

Oct 2017 - Nov 2018 (1 year 1 month)

Developed full-stack web applications using Python, Django, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Optimized SQL queries and integrated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Git.

Python Django HTML CSS JavaScript SQL Jenkins Git