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Jhansi Kandadi

@jhansikandadi

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AI/ML and Generative AI engineer delivering scalable, production-grade data and LLM solutions.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek roles building production-grade Generative AI/ML systems, emphasizing scalable MLOps, cross-functional collaboration, and regulatory-compliant solutions.

I am an AI/Machine Learning engineer with 10+ years of experience building end-to-end AI/ML and Generative AI systems, data pipelines, and cloud-native production deployments across banking, healthcare, retail, and clinical trials. I design and deploy LLM workflows, RAG pipelines, vector search, and MLOps solutions using tools like LangChain, Hugging Face, Pinecone, FAISS, Terraform, Kubernetes, and cloud ML services.

I have led engineering efforts for enterprise virtual assistants, clinical trial automation, and fraud detection, optimizing model performance with techniques such as QLoRA, PEFT, DeepSpeed, and Optuna while ensuring HIPAA/SOC2 compliance. I mentor junior engineers, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and deliver observable, secure, and scalable AI products that improve efficiency and business outcomes.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Gen AI/Machine Learning Engineer

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Commerce Bancshares, Inc

Jul 2024 - Present (1 year 3 months)

Designed and deployed an enterprise Smart Virtual Assistant using LLMs and RAG pipelines, improving semantic search and customer support automation while ensuring SOC2/HIPAA-compliant production MLOps.

Python Pinecone Kubernetes Kafka OpenAI API MLFlow

AI/ML Engineer / Data Engineer

Medpace

Jan 2023 - Jun 2024 (1 year 5 months)

Built GenAI and LLM-driven clinical trial ETL and virtual patient engagement systems, implementing RAG pipelines, ASR/TTS workflows, and secure MLOps to automate clinical insights and improve patient interaction efficiency.

Vertex AI Whisper Python Kubernetes Airflow Spark

Data Scientist / Senior Data Engineer

Superior HealthPlan, Inc

Mar 2020 - Dec 2022 (2 years 9 months)

Led healthcare claims data lake and ETL modernization, developing distributed fraud-detection models and real-time analytics pipelines to reduce false positives and accelerate anomaly detection.

Pyspark Sagemaker Snowflake Apache Druid MLlib Python Tableau MLFlow

Big Data Engineer / Data Scientist

Lowe’s Companies, Inc

Dec 2017 - Feb 2020 (2 years 2 months)

Developed ETL automation and predictive models for retail analytics, delivering dashboards and ML pipelines to predict churn, optimize inventory, and inform executive decision-making.

Python R SQL Hadoop Tableau scikit learn ETL Predictive Analytics

Data Analyst / Associate Data Scientist

Mu Sigma, Inc

Aug 2014 - Oct 2017 (3 years 2 months)

Translated client requirements into analytics solutions, building predictive models and Tableau dashboards to drive retail and finance decision-making and reduce operational costs.

R SQL Tableau Clustering Predictive Analytics