Hi, I’m Vinnie Yerramadha, an AI/ML Engineer based in San Francisco with about 6 years of experience building end-to-end ML systems across NLP, computer vision, and predictive analytics. I enjoy turning data into scalable solutions, collaborating with cross-functional teams to align ML outcomes with business goals, and delivering reliable ML infrastructure with strong governance and explainability.

Vinnie Yerramadha

Hi, I’m Vinnie Yerramadha, an AI/ML Engineer based in San Francisco with about 6 years of experience building end-to-end ML systems across NLP, computer vision, and predictive analytics. I enjoy turning data into scalable solutions, collaborating with cross-functional teams to align ML outcomes with business goals, and delivering reliable ML infrastructure with strong governance and explainability.

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Hi, I’m Vinnie Yerramadha, an AI/ML Engineer based in San Francisco with about 6 years of experience building end-to-end ML systems across NLP, computer vision, and predictive analytics.
I enjoy turning data into scalable solutions, collaborating with cross-functional teams to align ML outcomes with business goals, and delivering reliable ML infrastructure with strong governance and explainability.

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Work Experience

AI/ML Engineer at Shopify
May 1, 2023 - Present
Designed and deployed real-time fraud detection pipelines using XGBoost, anomaly detection, and Kafka + Spark ML, reducing false positives by 25% and saving millions in merchant losses. Built a personalized recommendation engine with deep learning and reinforcement learning, improving upsell and cross-sell conversions by 18%. Developed dynamic pricing and demand forecasting models (Prophet, ARIMA, LSTMs) on millions of transactions to help merchants maximize revenue. Fine-tuned LLMs on merchant support data to automate Tier-1 queries, cutting manual workload by 40% and improving response times. Enhanced search relevance with NLP embeddings (BERT, Sentence Transformers) to improve product discovery. Automated MLOps workflows with MLflow, Docker, Kubernetes, and SageMaker to speed deployment. Delivered explainable AI dashboards in Tableau/Power BI for fraud, personalization, and pricing.
AI/ML Engineer at NVIDIA
June 1, 2019 - September 1, 2022
Developed and deployed GPU-accelerated ML models (NLP and CV) using PyTorch Lightning, TensorFlow, and TensorRT, reducing inference latency by 35% in fraud detection and autonomous systems. Fine-tuned transformer models (BERT, GPT, mBERT, XLM-R) for multilingual NLP tasks, boosting accuracy by ~20%. Built real-time fraud detection pipelines with Kafka + Spark ML, incorporating anomaly detection and graph ML for risk scoring across 10M+ transactions daily. Collaborated with IT data engineering to design high-throughput pipelines on Snowflake, AWS, and Spark, ensuring ML datasets are reliably available. Trained CNN and YOLO-based object detectors for autonomous vehicles, optimized for GPU edge devices, reducing inference time by 40%. Integrated LLMs with customer data lakes via RAG, enabling contextual insights for segmentation and cross-sell analytics. Implemented MLOps using MLflow, Airflow, Docker, and Kubernetes for scalable deployment.

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science at University of North Texas
January 11, 2030 - January 5, 2026
Bachelor in Computer Science at Malla Reddy Institute of Technology and Science
January 11, 2030 - January 5, 2026
Master’s of Science in Computer Science at University of North Texas
January 11, 2030 - January 27, 2026
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at Malla Reddy Institute of Technology and Science
January 11, 2030 - January 27, 2026

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Retail, Financial Services, Professional Services