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I am a versatile AI, Data & Automation Engineer with 14+ years of experience spanning business analysis, full-stack development, cloud engineering, data science, and AI automation. I excel at bridging the gap between complex business processes (BPMN) and technical execution, delivering end-to-end automation that reduces operational overhead and speeds decision-making. I specialise in scalable, cloud-native data solutions on AWS, AI/LLM adoption (RAG, LangChain), computer vision, and process improvement. I enjoy facilitating stakeholder workshops, enabling teams through training, and driving governance-aligned transformations across manufacturing and enterprise environments.…I am a versatile AI, Data & Automation Engineer with 14+ years of experience spanning business analysis, full-stack development, cloud engineering, data science, and AI automation. I excel at bridging the gap between complex business processes (BPMN) and technical execution, delivering end-to-end automation that reduces operational overhead and speeds decision-making. I specialise in scalable, cloud-native data solutions on AWS, AI/LLM adoption (RAG, LangChain), computer vision, and process improvement. I enjoy facilitating stakeholder workshops, enabling teams through training, and driving governance-aligned transformations across manufacturing and enterprise environments.

Raju Shiva Shankar Donkena

Data Scientist, Full Stack Developer, AI Developer, +2

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I am a versatile AI, Data & Automation Engineer with 14+ years of experience spanning business analysis, full-stack development, cloud engineering, data science, and AI automation. I excel at bridging the gap between complex business processes (BPMN) and technical execution, delivering end-to-end automation that reduces operational overhead and speeds decision-making. I specialise in scalable, cloud-native data solutions on AWS, AI/LLM adoption (RAG, LangChain), computer vision, and process improvement. I enjoy facilitating stakeholder workshops, enabling teams through training, and driving governance-aligned transformations across manufacturing and enterprise environments.…I am a versatile AI, Data & Automation Engineer with 14+ years of experience spanning business analysis, full-stack development, cloud engineering, data science, and AI automation. I excel at bridging the gap between complex business processes (BPMN) and technical execution, delivering end-to-end automation that reduces operational overhead and speeds decision-making. I specialise in scalable, cloud-native data solutions on AWS, AI/LLM adoption (RAG, LangChain), computer vision, and process improvement. I enjoy facilitating stakeholder workshops, enabling teams through training, and driving governance-aligned transformations across manufacturing and enterprise environments.

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I am a versatile AI, Data & Automation Engineer with 14+ years of experience spanning business analysis, full-stack development, cloud engineering, data science, and AI automation. I excel at bridging the gap between complex business processes (BPMN) and technical execution, delivering end-to-end automation that reduces operational overhead and speeds decision-making.

I specialise in scalable, cloud-native data solutions on AWS, AI/LLM adoption (RAG, LangChain), computer vision, and process improvement. I enjoy facilitating stakeholder workshops, enabling teams through training, and driving governance-aligned transformations across manufacturing and enterprise environments.

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Work Experience

Data, AI & Automation Engineer at Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL)

January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2025

Designed and deployed AI, data, and automation-driven solutions across manufacturing and enterprise domains. Integrated payment systems and built secure, scalable APIs for management-facing dashboards. Developed data extraction pipelines from diverse sources: Oracle databases, filesystems, emails, and online portals. Deployed solutions on AWS with cloud security and scalability best practices. Built and hosted local LLM inference for secure, offline AI usage. Developed a RAG application (LangChain + local LLM) for querying policy and GRC documents, reducing clause search time from hours to seconds. Implemented ML-based web scraping of the GeM portal for automatic bid discovery, eliminating manual work for 7 employees in spares. Delivered a computer vision solution (OpenCV + high-resolution camera) to detect deviations in heat exchanger plate drilling, reducing inspection time by ~99%. Upgraded legacy applications from Java 7 to Java 21 and Spring 3.x to Spring 6.x. Served as ISMS Core

Full Stack Developer at Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL)

January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2020

Developed full-stack enterprise applications using Java, Spring, and Python while retaining ownership of business analysis and stakeholder coordination. Led large-scale process digitisation initiatives, transforming entire departments from manual to online systems and automating workflows that reduced staffing requirements from 40 to 8. Built APIs exposing real-time fuel-level data from Honeywell systems, enabling offsite ordering and improving operational agility. Championed modernisation of legacy JSP applications and Adobe Flash to modern HTML, Java-based architectures, improving security, maintainability, and scalability.

Business Analyst at Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL)

January 1, 2014 - December 31, 2017

Conducted end-to-end business analysis including current-state assessments, gap analysis, and process redesign. Modelled business processes using BPMN and supported continuous process improvement initiatives. Facilitated functional and non-functional requirements gathering through workshops and stakeholder interviews. Managed stakeholders and supported internal/external audits and compliance activities. Authored test cases and supported UAT. Developed small web applications (JSP) to digitise processes such as training feedback and evaluation.

Junior Business Analyst at Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL)

January 1, 2011 - December 31, 2014

Supported senior analysts with requirements documentation, process familiarisation, and reporting. Built foundational understanding of large-scale manufacturing operations and enterprise processes.

Independent Consultant – RebarTrack at Self-Employed

January 1, 2021 - Present

Designed ML-driven pipelines for extracting and validating structured data from complex engineering PDFs (RebarTrack).

Independent Consultant – Wazup.site at Self-Employed

January 1, 2021 - Present

Built a cloud-hosted collaboration platform using AWS, serverless architecture (Netlify) and managed databases (Supabase).

Independent Consultant – GStarCA Australia at Self-Employed

January 1, 2021 - Present

Analyzed customer onboarding workflows and supported data-driven improvements to platform adoption and operational efficiency.