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Balavardhan Sripuram

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I’m Balavardhan Sripuram, a Senior AI Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing and deploying GenAI, LLM, and RAG-based solutions.

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I’m Balavardhan Sripuram, a Senior AI Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing and deploying GenAI, LLM, and RAG-based solutions. I’ve built multi-agent systems and scalable AI platforms across finance, aviation, manufacturing, and education, focusing on performance, cost optimization, and governance.

I thrive on turning complex data into actionable intelligence—architecting cloud-native pipelines, vector search, MLOps workflows, and enterprise-grade governance. I’m passionate about responsible AI, collaboration, and delivering measurable ROI through AI transformation initiatives.

  • 15 years' experience
  • Joined May 2026

Industry experience

  • Financial Services
  • Software & Internet
  • Transportation & Logistics
  • Education
  • Professional Services
  • Manufacturing
  • Media & Entertainment

Work experience· 8 roles

Senior AI Engineer (GenAI /LLM /Agentic AI) · Kaplan (Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex)Oct 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

Designed and implemented enterprise-grade Generative AI systems using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for intelligent knowledge retrieval and conversational AI. Built multi-agent AI workflows using LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, and Agentic AI frameworks, enabling autonomous task execution. Led AWS Bedrock-based Agentic AI platforms, including a multi-agent portfolio optimization MVP for financial intelligence use cases. Architected vector databases and scalable pipelines, and delivered Azure OpenAI-powered chatbots for internal automation. Implemented MLOps pipelines via MLflow, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, and Databricks-based data pipelines; optimized cloud costs and governance.

Senior AI Engineer · KaplanOct 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

Designed and implemented enterprise-grade Generative AI systems using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for knowledge retrieval and conversational interfaces. Built multi-agent AI workflows with LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, and Agentic AI frameworks to orchestrate autonomous tasks. Developed AWS Bedrock-based Agentic AI platforms, including a multi-agent portfolio optimization MVP for financial intelligence use cases. Created and deployed LLM-based applications leveraging OpenAI GPT-5.x, Anthropic Claude, and Google Gemini 2.5 Pro. Architected vector databases (FAISS, Pinecone-like, Weaviate-style) for semantic search and enterprise knowledge retrieval. Designed scalable RAG pipelines with embedding strategies, prompt engineering, chunking optimization, and context retrieval tuning. Implemented MLOps pipelines (MLflow, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes) for CI/CD of GenAI models. Led cloud architecture design, cost optimization, governance, and ROI analysis for AI transform

Sr. Cloud Engineer (AI /Cloud /Data Platforms) · American Airlines (Tulsa, OK)Jul 2018 – May 2023 · 4 yrs 11 mos

Designed scalable AWS cloud architectures for enterprise aviation analytics; built big data pipelines with PySpark/SQL; delivered predictive analytics and ML models for forecasting and optimization; developed early-stage RAG prototypes for enterprise knowledge search and document intelligence; implemented real-time and batch data ingestion (S3, Lambda, EKS); containerized ML systems; improved Databricks workloads; supported migration to cloud-native microservices; built ARR/financial models; experimented with Agentic AI using AWS Bedrock.

Sr. Cloud Engineer · American AirlinesJul 2018 – May 2023 · 4 yrs 11 mos
Sr. Systems Engineer (AI /Data Engineering /ML) · Delasoft Inc. (New Castle, DE)Nov 2013 – Jul 2018 · 4 yrs 9 mos
Sr. Systems Engineer · Delasoft Inc.Nov 2013 – Jul 2018 · 4 yrs 9 mos
Windows /VMware Engineer · Novisync Solutions IncFeb 2012 – Nov 2013 · 1 yr 10 mos
Programmer Analyst /Wintel Administrator · HCL Global Systems IncJun 2010 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr 8 mos

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science · Lamar University2007 – 2010
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science · Osmania University2003 – 2007
Master of Science in Computer Science · Lamar University2007 – 2010
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science · Osmania University2003 – 2007

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