Hi, I'm Bhavana Kendhyala, an AI/ML Engineer with 4+ years of hands-on experience building LLM-based systems, agentic AI workflows, multimodal apps, and retrieval-augmented generation pipelines on GPU-accelerated infrastructure. I have deep hands-on experience with transformer models like LLaMA and BERT, fine-tuning with LoRA and SFT, and optimizing distributed inference with vLLM to serve models at scale. I've designed end-to-end ML systems spanning data pipelines, training workflows, evaluation frameworks, and production deployment with a focus on latency, scalability, and retrieval quality. My work blends research with practical deployment, collaborating across engineering teams to deliver robust AI solutions.

Bhavana Kendhyala

Hi, I'm Bhavana Kendhyala, an AI/ML Engineer with 4+ years of hands-on experience building LLM-based systems, agentic AI workflows, multimodal apps, and retrieval-augmented generation pipelines on GPU-accelerated infrastructure. I have deep hands-on experience with transformer models like LLaMA and BERT, fine-tuning with LoRA and SFT, and optimizing distributed inference with vLLM to serve models at scale. I've designed end-to-end ML systems spanning data pipelines, training workflows, evaluation frameworks, and production deployment with a focus on latency, scalability, and retrieval quality. My work blends research with practical deployment, collaborating across engineering teams to deliver robust AI solutions.

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Hi, I’m Bhavana Kendhyala, an AI/ML Engineer with 4+ years of hands-on experience building LLM-based systems, agentic AI workflows, multimodal apps, and retrieval-augmented generation pipelines on GPU-accelerated infrastructure. I have deep hands-on experience with transformer models like LLaMA and BERT, fine-tuning with LoRA and SFT, and optimizing distributed inference with vLLM to serve models at scale.

I’ve designed end-to-end ML systems spanning data pipelines, training workflows, evaluation frameworks, and production deployment with a focus on latency, scalability, and retrieval quality. My work blends research with practical deployment, collaborating across engineering teams to deliver robust AI solutions.

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AI/ML Engineer at AMD
January 1, 2025 - Present
AI/ML Engineer focused on building knowledge assistant and RAG-based solutions. Built a knowledge assistant with LangChain, LLaMA, and vector search over 280k+ documents, enabling 9,500 daily queries with citation-based retrieval for engineering docs. Fine-tuned open-source LLMs with LoRA and SFT on AMD GPU clusters, reducing adaptation time from 3 weeks to 9 days. Developed RAG services using BERT-based embeddings and FastAPI for 1,800+ users. Optimized inference with vLLM and batching on ROCm systems, improving token throughput by 34% and reducing latency. Engineered agentic AI workflows with LangChain and LangGraph, ReAct-style planning, and Kafka integration, automating multi-step reasoning tasks for 14,000+ weekly requests. Diagnosed GPU utilization issues with Prometheus and Grafana, resolving 45 production incidents and improving stability.
Machine Learning Scientist at Capgemini
October 1, 2020 - July 1, 2023
Architected fraud detection models with PyTorch, XGBoost, and BERT-based embeddings to analyze 1.8M monthly financial transactions; designed credit risk scoring and underwriting pipelines for 140k+ loan accounts; trained models for default prediction and customer segmentation; implemented batch and near real-time inference with Kafka and MLflow; built ETL pipelines across Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Snowflake with data validation; improved latency and regulatory reporting; managed ML deployment lifecycles with Docker and CI/CD; investigated model drift and production issues improving reliability and governance.

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
January 11, 2030 - July 3, 2026

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Computers & Electronics, Software & Internet, Financial Services, Professional Services