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srikar kodakandla

@srikarkodakandla

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Machine Learning Engineer and Data Scientist specializing in production ML systems across NLP, CV, and Time-Series.

India

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What I'm looking for

I seek a full-time role building production ML systems (NLP/CV/Time-Series) with strong MLOps, collaborative teams, and opportunities to lead impactful projects.

I am a Machine Learning Engineer and Data Scientist with around 4 years of hands-on experience and over 3 years professionally building and deploying end-to-end ML systems in fast-paced startup environments.

I own the full ML lifecycle—from problem framing and data engineering to modeling, evaluation, and production on GCP and AWS—working across NLP, computer vision, and time-series domains.

My notable accomplishments include training and deploying ViT-based fashion pairing models, building custom image-tagging models to reduce latency and cost, and delivering state-of-the-art disposition extraction with a Longformer achieving a 0.91 F1 on diverse Indian court records.

I prioritize explainable models, robust MLOps (FastAPI, Docker, MLflow, GCP), and practical integrations (RAG, vector DBs, search) to deliver scalable, production-grade solutions that meet business needs.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Machine Learning Engineer

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Taffi

Feb 2024 - Oct 2025 (1 year 8 months)

Built end-to-end vision pipelines including a ViT-based fashion pairing model and an in-house multi-label image tagging system, reducing latency and cost while deploying models and services on GCP. Led development of an SQL EDA bot with multi-platform integrations to improve data interaction and API scalability.

Python PyTorch Transfer Learning fastAPI GCP Docker MLFlow Onnx

Machine Learning Engineer

IDfy

Oct 2022 - Feb 2024 (1 year 4 months)

Developed state-of-the-art NLP pipelines including a Longformer-based disposition extractor achieving 0.91 F1 and deployed multiple production LLM/RAG and NER systems on GCP serving enterprise clients. Rebuilt retrieval and ranking pipelines to improve search relevance.

Python PyTorch Transformers NLP RAG Pinecone fastAPI GCP Onnx

Data Scientist

Cognizant

Jan 2022 - Aug 2022 (7 months)

Delivered milestone-driven AI/ML solutions and a capstone project while executing hands-on model development and deployment tasks in an enterprise environment.

Python SQL Data Analysis TensorFlow PyTorch CI CD

AI/ML Engineer

SkyGoal

Jul 2021 - Oct 2021 (3 months)

Built and deployed an adaptive exam chatbot using BERT embeddings and a KD-tree KNN for similarity matching, integrating with AWS and IBM Watson across multiple messaging platforms.