I am a Generative AI Engineer / AI-ML Engineer / Data Scientist with 9+ years of experience designing, developing, deploying, and supporting enterprise-grade Generative AI, LLM applications, RAG pipelines, machine learning, deep learning, NLP, predictive analytics, and data-driven automation across banking, financial services, retail, healthcare, telecom, and enterprise technology domains. I specialize in building production-grade LLM-powered applications, end-to-end Retrieval-Augmented Generation architectures, and agentic AI patterns for secure, governed enterprise deployments. I thrive on turning complex data into practical AI-enabled decision support and scalable automation. I’ve designed and deployed banking policy assistants, fraud investigation tools, enterprise knowledge search platforms, document summarization workflows, virtual assistants, semantic search systems, and AI-powered workflow automation. My focus includes retrieval orchestration, grounded response generation, prompt engineering, LLM evaluation, and robust MLOps/LLMOps practices to ensure reliable, explainable, and compliant AI at scale.

Drona Chaitanya Reddy Gangarapu

I am a Generative AI Engineer / AI-ML Engineer / Data Scientist with 9+ years of experience designing, developing, deploying, and supporting enterprise-grade Generative AI, LLM applications, RAG pipelines, machine learning, deep learning, NLP, predictive analytics, and data-driven automation across banking, financial services, retail, healthcare, telecom, and enterprise technology domains. I specialize in building production-grade LLM-powered applications, end-to-end Retrieval-Augmented Generation architectures, and agentic AI patterns for secure, governed enterprise deployments. I thrive on turning complex data into practical AI-enabled decision support and scalable automation. I’ve designed and deployed banking policy assistants, fraud investigation tools, enterprise knowledge search platforms, document summarization workflows, virtual assistants, semantic search systems, and AI-powered workflow automation. My focus includes retrieval orchestration, grounded response generation, prompt engineering, LLM evaluation, and robust MLOps/LLMOps practices to ensure reliable, explainable, and compliant AI at scale.

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I am a Generative AI Engineer / AI-ML Engineer / Data Scientist with 9+ years of experience designing, developing, deploying, and supporting enterprise-grade Generative AI, LLM applications, RAG pipelines, machine learning, deep learning, NLP, predictive analytics, and data-driven automation across banking, financial services, retail, healthcare, telecom, and enterprise technology domains. I specialize in building production-grade LLM-powered applications, end-to-end Retrieval-Augmented Generation architectures, and agentic AI patterns for secure, governed enterprise deployments. I thrive on turning complex data into practical AI-enabled decision support and scalable automation.

I’ve designed and deployed banking policy assistants, fraud investigation tools, enterprise knowledge search platforms, document summarization workflows, virtual assistants, semantic search systems, and AI-powered workflow automation. My focus includes retrieval orchestration, grounded response generation, prompt engineering, LLM evaluation, and robust MLOps/LLMOps practices to ensure reliable, explainable, and compliant AI at scale.

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Generative AI Engineer at First Citizens Bank
February 1, 2023 - Present
Design and deploy enterprise-grade Generative AI and ML solutions using Python, AWS Bedrock/SageMaker, LangChain, LlamaIndex, and FastAPI to automate banking workflows, support fraud detection and risk analytics, enable document search, and provide AI-assisted decision support.
AI/ML Engineer at Albertsons
March 1, 2021 - January 1, 2023
Developed AI/ML models for demand forecasting, pricing optimization, promotions, and customer personalization. Built time-series forecasting, anomaly detection, NLP for feedback, and production-ready model-serving services with FastAPI; implemented MLOps.
AI/ML Engineer at Maxim Healthcare
November 1, 2019 - February 1, 2021
Developed AI/ML-based predictive analytics for patient risk assessment, disease progression, and readmission risk; built medical image analysis and clinical NLP workflows; ensured HIPAA-compliant data handling and governance; deployed scalable inference endpoints.
Data Scientist at AT&T
June 1, 2017 - November 1, 2019
Led predictive maintenance, churn, and network analytics; built real-time anomaly detection and recommender systems; processed large-scale telecom data with Spark/Hadoop/Kafka; implemented end-to-end data pipelines and deployment using Airflow and CI/CD.
Data Scientist at DMS
August 1, 2016 - January 1, 2017
Supported predictive modeling, ETL, NLP basics, and data analytics for customer insights; designed data processing workflows and dashboards for decision support.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science at SRM Institute of Science and Technology (SRMIST), India
June 1, 2012 - May 10, 2016

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Financial Services, Retail, Healthcare, Telecommunications, Software & Internet, Professional Services