Anas Junedahmed Puthawala

Available to hire

Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Founder, AI Automation Specialist at Sentrella AI Automation Agency
April 1, 2025 - Present
Started AI Automation Agency model in my free time to help deliver AI-driven solutions to businesses around the world. Delivered an automated itinerary extraction engine using n8n for a Travel Agency and a reconciliation agent to ensure validity of extraction and oversight. Reduced time-to-insight by approximately 90%. Tools used: Postgres, n8n, Gemini APIs.
Senior Data Scientist, Specialist at The Vanguard Group
August 1, 2023 - Present
Developed a Generative AI solution using RAG-based techniques to automate ETL script lineage extraction, optimize data governance and reduce manual effort. Built an end-to-end SageMaker pipeline integrating LangChain-based LLM chaining, FAISS vector-store, and AWS Lambda + EventBridge for scalability. Delivered a POC & MVP in 7 months, projected to generate $1M in Y1 revenue by reducing FTE hours.
Data Scientist Co-Op at Liberty Mutual Insurance
January 1, 2023 - August 1, 2023
Implemented Bayesian Networks for probabilistic inference in-tandem with NLP models to enhance semantic search and underwriting policies. Built Bayesian network + cross-encoder classification model to identify NAICS codes and deployed to ECS + Streamlit & Github Actions.
NLP Data Scientist Intern at Verusen
September 1, 2022 - August 1, 2023
Developing NLP solutions in the supply chain—deduplication, topic modeling (LDA, BERTopic), and text summarization. Implemented MinHash + Locality-Sensitive Hashing to detect near-duplicates on millions of inventory items; improved RFQ matching with cross-attention model. Built time-series forecasting with Transformer TFT and LSTM; deployed MVP on Streamlit with AWS Lambda + SageMaker pipelines.
Founder, Data Scientist at FundMatch LLC
July 1, 2022 - August 1, 2023
Building a platform that leverages Generative AI for grant-writing. Delivered MVP in Streamlit; backend ETL ingesting gigabytes of funding opportunities; on-boarding customers; achieved $100 MRR peak.
Data Science Intern at VIASAT INC.
May 1, 2022 - August 1, 2022
Analyzed historical feedback data; developed a Neo4j data model to optimize data warehousing; performed sentiment analysis using HuggingFace transformer models; built an API in Python on AWS Lambda to automate workflows.
Data Science Intern at MAYO CLINIC
June 1, 2021 - August 1, 2021
Utilized TensorFlow with Keras for medical image processing and segmentation; analyzed model errors and loss curves to assess performance.

Education

Master of Science at Illinois Institute of Technology
January 11, 2030 - May 1, 2023
Bachelor of Science at Illinois Institute of Technology
January 11, 2030 - May 1, 2022

Qualifications

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Industry Experience

Healthcare, Financial Services, Software & Internet, Professional Services, Education