Hi, I’m JHANSI KANDADIAI, a versatile AI/ML engineer with over 10 years of experience designing and deploying AI-powered applications, data pipelines, and scalable cloud-native solutions. I specialize in full-stack development, data engineering, and Generative AI, delivering measurable business value across banking, healthcare, and retail. I routinely lead cross-functional teams to architect multi-cloud ML platforms, fine-tune LLMs, build semantic search and RAG pipelines, and deploy scalable MLOps workflows. I’m passionate about mentoring engineers and driving enterprise adoption of responsible AI.

JHANSI KANDADIAI

Hi, I’m JHANSI KANDADIAI, a versatile AI/ML engineer with over 10 years of experience designing and deploying AI-powered applications, data pipelines, and scalable cloud-native solutions. I specialize in full-stack development, data engineering, and Generative AI, delivering measurable business value across banking, healthcare, and retail. I routinely lead cross-functional teams to architect multi-cloud ML platforms, fine-tune LLMs, build semantic search and RAG pipelines, and deploy scalable MLOps workflows. I’m passionate about mentoring engineers and driving enterprise adoption of responsible AI.

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Hi, I’m JHANSI KANDADIAI, a versatile AI/ML engineer with over 10 years of experience designing and deploying AI-powered applications, data pipelines, and scalable cloud-native solutions. I specialize in full-stack development, data engineering, and Generative AI, delivering measurable business value across banking, healthcare, and retail.

I routinely lead cross-functional teams to architect multi-cloud ML platforms, fine-tune LLMs, build semantic search and RAG pipelines, and deploy scalable MLOps workflows. I’m passionate about mentoring engineers and driving enterprise adoption of responsible AI.

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Work Experience

GenAI Engineer at Commerce Bancshares, Inc
July 1, 2024 - Present
Designed and deployed Generative AI-powered virtual assistant integrating GPT-4, BERT, Whisper, and domain-specific LLMs to handle customer queries, reducing query resolution time by 40%. Engineered RAG pipelines using LangChain, LangGraph, and LlamaIndex; connected with vector databases (Pinecone, Qdrant, Weaviate, Chroma, FAISS) to enable semantic search and fast knowledge retrieval. Generated and fine-tuned embeddings for banking knowledge bases, enabling context-aware responses and improving accuracy of domain-specific retrieval. Developed backend microservices in FastAPI and Flask, implementing REST and GraphQL APIs to interface with internal banking systems, ensuring scalability, security, and high availability. Implemented interactive UI with Streamlit and React.js for seamless end-user interaction and dashboards. Applied prompt engineering and LLM fine-tuning using QLoRA, PEFT, DeepSpeed, and Hugging Face Transformers, reducing AI hallucinations and improving response relevance
Data Engineer / GenAI Engineer at Medpace
June 1, 2024 - September 21, 2025
Designed and developed end-to-end ETL pipelines for clinical trial data, automated ingestion, transformation, and validation workflows using Apache Airflow and Python, reducing processing time and manual intervention. Built domain-specific embeddings for patient records and protocols to enable semantic search; generated AI insights to automate clinical reports and exploratory data summaries. Created real-time dashboards in Tableau and Power BI for enrollment metrics, site performance, and study KPIs. Maintained HIPAA/GxP compliance, performed data cleansing, normalization, and enrichment, and migrated legacy datasets to modern data platforms. Implemented data validation with Great Expectations and established proactive alerting for data issues.
Data Engineer at Superior HealthPlan, Inc
December 1, 2022 - September 21, 2025
Migrated Teradata healthcare claims data to AWS S3 Data Lake and automated ETL pipelines using Python, AWS Glue, and Lambda; designed Star/Snowflake schema models for Redshift and queried datasets via AWS Athena for ad-hoc reporting. Developed domain-specific embeddings for claims codes (CPT, NDC, HCPCS) to enhance semantic search and analytics. Built dashboards in Tableau and Power BI to monitor claims, utilization, and KPIs. Automated data quality checks, ensured HIPAA compliance, and optimized ETL queries for performance and scalability.
Big Data Engineer at Lowe’s Companies, Inc
February 1, 2020 - September 21, 2025
Developed dashboards in Tableau, Power BI, and Looker for real-time retail insights; automated report workflows with SSIS, Talend, and Python, reducing manual effort by 50%. Built ETL pipelines with Talend, Informatica, Python, and UNIX shell scripting, integrating SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Excel data. Implemented data quality frameworks, optimized ETL processes by 30–40%, and improved dashboard performance. Collaborated with analysts in JIRA/Confluence to translate business requirements into scalable analytics solutions.
Data Specialist at Mu Sigma, Inc
October 1, 2017 - September 21, 2025
Collected, cleaned, and validated datasets from SQL, Excel, and CSV sources; built predictive models using Python to improve targeting; developed dashboards and visualizations in Tableau and Power BI. Automated repetitive reporting tasks and performed statistical analyses, hypothesis testing, and A/B testing to guide business decisions. Generated ad-hoc analyses for client-specific questions and mentored teams on data handling and analytics.
Gen AI/Machine Learning Engineer at Commerce Bancshares, Inc
July 1, 2024 - Present
Collaborated with stakeholders to define AI/ML objectives, KPIs, and multi-cloud architecture for enterprise virtual assistant solutions. Conducted feasibility analyses, LLM benchmarking, and model selection (GPT-4, BERT, Whisper, Claude) for NLP, speech-to-text, and document intelligence pipelines. Designed end-to-end AI architecture integrating LangChain, LlamaIndex, and RAG pipelines with FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate, and Chroma to enable high-performance semantic search and knowledge retrieval. Ingested data from PostgreSQL, Cassandra, SQL Server, BPM/MTAS logs, APIs, and CSV/Excel sources; performed cleansing, normalization, feature engineering, tokenization, and embeddings. Implemented vectorization and preprocessing for document and chatbot tasks; developed supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning models for personalization, risk scoring, fraud detection, and churn prediction. Fine-tuned domain-specific LLMs with PEFT, DeepSpeed, QLoRA, Hugging Face Accelerate, and Optu
A.I/M.L Engineer/Data Engineer-Gen AI at Medpace
June 30, 2024 - October 9, 2025
Collaborated with clinical, compliance, and product stakeholders to define AI/ML objectives, KPIs, and enterprise deployment strategy for virtual patient engagement. Conducted feasibility analyses, model benchmarking, and tool selection using OpenAI GPT, Vertex AI, LangChain, Hugging Face Transformers, Whisper, and Tacotron 2. Designed end-to-end AI/ML architecture with RAG pipelines, embeddings, semantic search, and LLM workflows for automated clinical insights. Implemented agentic AI workflows for autonomous query triaging and dynamic task routing, enhancing virtual assistant response efficiency. Collected, ingested, and integrated structured, semi-structured, and unstructured clinical data from Hadoop clusters, SQL databases, CSV/Excel, and third-party providers. Performed data cleaning, normalization, missing value imputation, outlier detection, tokenization, and categorical encoding. Developed preprocessing pipelines for text and speech data; stop-word removal, lemmatization, feat
Data Scientist/Senior Data Engineer at Superior HealthPlan, Inc
December 31, 2022 - October 9, 2025
Collaborated with fraud prevention, risk, and compliance teams to define ML objectives and real-time fraud detection strategy for healthcare claims; designed end-to-end architecture integrating ML pipelines, GIS analytics, and LLM-based NLP modules. Ingested petabyte-scale datasets from on-prem systems, SQL, Snowflake, Azure Cloud, and third-party providers. Performed data cleaning, imputation, outlier handling, encoding; engineered fraud-detection features with PCA, t-SNE, one-hot encoding, and behavioral embeddings. Built supervised models (Random Forest, Gradient Boosting, Logistic Regression) to detect fraudulent transactions; addressed class imbalance with SMOTE and resampling. Distributed training with PySpark; NLP modules for complaint classification, sentiment analysis, and validation of fraud alerts. Deployed via SageMaker Pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, and AWS Fargate; ONNX for cross-platform deployment. Orchestrated real-time analytics with Apache Druid on Kubernetes; S
Big Data Engineer/Data scientist at Lowe’s Companies, Inc
February 29, 2020 - October 9, 2025
Developed scalable ETL pipelines for retail analytics; ingested data from POS, HR, and third-party feeds using Python, R, and SQL. Built predictive models for churn, branch sales, and product performance; applied clustering for segmentation; NLP pipelines for feedback. Deployed dashboards with Tableau and ggplot2; monitored data quality and model performance; mentored juniors. Worked with Hadoop ecosystem, Delta Lake, data warehousing, and data automation.
Data Analyst/Associate Data Scientist at Mu Sigma, Inc
October 31, 2017 - October 9, 2025
Translated client requirements into analytics deliverables; built predictive models using linear/logistic regression, decision trees, and clustering; developed R-based pipelines; created Tableau dashboards for KPI tracking. Built reusable data analysis frameworks; mentored junior team members; supported cross-functional reporting and business analysis.

Education

Bachelor’s of Technology in Computer Science at Amity University
July 1, 2010 - May 1, 2014

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Healthcare, Financial Services, Retail, Professional Services
    paper Gen Ai Engineer

    • Designed and deployed AI agent testing frameworks integrating GPT-4, BERT, Whisper, and domain-specific LLMs to validate multi-agent workflows and ensure accurate, context-aware responses.
    • Engineered RAG pipelines using LangChain, LangGraph, and LlamaIndex with vector databases (Pinecone, Qdrant, Weaviate, Chroma, FAISS) for semantic search, knowledge retrieval, and functional validation of LLM-powered agents.
    • Generated and fine-tuned embeddings for banking knowledge bases, improving retrieval accuracy and testing context-aware AI responses by 45%.
    • Developed backend microservices in FastAPI and Flask with REST and GraphQL APIs to simulate agent interactions with internal systems and support automated testing scenarios.
    • Implemented interactive dashboards using Streamlit and React.js with Tailwind CSS and Material UI to monitor AI agent performance, conversation logs, and test results.
    • Applied advanced prompt engineering and LLM fine-tuning using QLoRA, PEFT, DeepSpeed, and Hugging Face Transformers to evaluate and reduce AI hallucinations by 20%, ensuring relevance and reliability.
    • Ensured AI safety, compliance, and auditability with Guardrails.ai, differential privacy, and secure handling of sensitive banking data during testing workflows.
    • Managed multi-cloud deployment (AWS, Azure OpenAI, GCP Vertex AI) and containerized testing environments with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm for reproducible agent testing.
    • Implemented CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, and Terraform to automate deployment, rollback, and version control of LLM-based testing frameworks.
    • Built analytics and observability pipelines capturing test case execution, conversation metrics, and model performance using Python, Pandas, NumPy, Streamlit, Plotly, ELK Stack, Prometheus, and Grafana.
    • Developed escalation and validation workflows to route complex or failed test scenarios to human review, improving QA coverage and reducing error handling overhead by 35%.
    • Conducted LLM benchmarking, functional testing, and performance optimization for latency, accuracy, and cloud efficiency, achieving ~30% improvement in processing speed.
    • Mentored junior engineers and collaborated with stakeholders via JIRA and Confluence, providing guidance on Python, FastAPI, Streamlit, embeddings, multi-agent testing, and AI validation best practices.

    paper Gen Ai Engineer

    • Designed and deployed AI agent testing frameworks integrating GPT-4, BERT, Whisper, and domain-specific LLMs to validate multi-agent workflows and ensure accurate, context-aware responses.
    • Engineered RAG pipelines using LangChain, LangGraph, and LlamaIndex with vector databases (Pinecone, Qdrant, Weaviate, Chroma, FAISS) for semantic search, knowledge retrieval, and functional validation of LLM-powered agents.
    • Generated and fine-tuned embeddings for banking knowledge bases, improving retrieval accuracy and testing context-aware AI responses by 45%.
    • Developed backend microservices in FastAPI and Flask with REST and GraphQL APIs to simulate agent interactions with internal systems and support automated testing scenarios.
    • Implemented interactive dashboards using Streamlit and React.js with Tailwind CSS and Material UI to monitor AI agent performance, conversation logs, and test results.
    • Applied advanced prompt engineering and LLM fine-tuning using QLoRA, PEFT, DeepSpeed, and Hugging Face Transformers to evaluate and reduce AI hallucinations by 20%, ensuring relevance and reliability.
    • Ensured AI safety, compliance, and auditability with Guardrails.ai, differential privacy, and secure handling of sensitive banking data during testing workflows.
    • Managed multi-cloud deployment (AWS, Azure OpenAI, GCP Vertex AI) and containerized testing environments with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm for reproducible agent testing.
    • Implemented CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, and Terraform to automate deployment, rollback, and version control of LLM-based testing frameworks.
    • Built analytics and observability pipelines capturing test case execution, conversation metrics, and model performance using Python, Pandas, NumPy, Streamlit, Plotly, ELK Stack, Prometheus, and Grafana.
    • Developed escalation and validation workflows to route complex or failed test scenarios to human review, improving QA coverage and reducing error handling overhead by 35%.
    • Conducted LLM benchmarking, functional testing, and performance optimization for latency, accuracy, and cloud efficiency, achieving ~30% improvement in processing speed.
    • Mentored junior engineers and collaborated with stakeholders via JIRA and Confluence, providing guidance on Python, FastAPI, Streamlit, embeddings, multi-agent testing, and AI validation best practices.