I am Sai Yasheswini Kandimalla, an AI/ML Engineer with 4 years of experience designing, deploying, and operating production machine learning systems in healthcare and client-facing environments. I build end-to-end ML pipelines using Python, AWS SageMaker, MLflow, and FastAPI, transforming data into actionable insights and delivering measurable business impact such as 30% faster deployment cycles, large-scale data processing speedups, and improved predictive performance across risk modeling, NLP, and time-series forecasting. I own production monitoring, data drift checks, and retraining pipelines to ensure long-term model stability and regulatory compliance.

Sai Yasheswini Kandimalla

I am Sai Yasheswini Kandimalla, an AI/ML Engineer with 4 years of experience designing, deploying, and operating production machine learning systems in healthcare and client-facing environments. I build end-to-end ML pipelines using Python, AWS SageMaker, MLflow, and FastAPI, transforming data into actionable insights and delivering measurable business impact such as 30% faster deployment cycles, large-scale data processing speedups, and improved predictive performance across risk modeling, NLP, and time-series forecasting. I own production monitoring, data drift checks, and retraining pipelines to ensure long-term model stability and regulatory compliance.

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I am Sai Yasheswini Kandimalla, an AI/ML Engineer with 4 years of experience designing, deploying, and operating production machine learning systems in healthcare and client-facing environments.

I build end-to-end ML pipelines using Python, AWS SageMaker, MLflow, and FastAPI, transforming data into actionable insights and delivering measurable business impact such as 30% faster deployment cycles, large-scale data processing speedups, and improved predictive performance across risk modeling, NLP, and time-series forecasting. I own production monitoring, data drift checks, and retraining pipelines to ensure long-term model stability and regulatory compliance.

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Experience Level

Expert
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Expert

Work Experience

AI/ML Engineer at Cigna
November 1, 2014 - Present
Designed, trained, and deployed supervised and ensemble ML models for healthcare risk and utilization prediction; built end-to-end production ML pipelines on AWS SageMaker with MLflow-based model versioning; reduced deployment turnaround time by 30%; performed large-scale EDA and statistical validation to improve robustness; developed time-series forecasting models (ARIMA, Prophet) to predict seasonal utilization; implemented NLP pipelines using Hugging Face Transformers and BERT for clinical and claims text classification and entity extraction; owned production monitoring and automated data drift checks and retraining pipelines to ensure long-term stability and regulatory compliance.
ML Engineer at Infinite Infolab
October 1, 2020 - July 1, 2023
Delivered production ML solutions across retail and operations domains; built distributed data processing pipelines using PySpark and Apache Spark; developed supervised and unsupervised models (Decision Trees, Random Forest, Gradient Boosting, K-Means) to improve segmentation, forecasting, and business decision-making; designed and analyzed A/B experiments; implemented MLOps workflows using MLflow and FastAPI for experiment tracking, model versioning, and API-based serving; collaborated cross-functionally with product managers and analysts to align ML solutions with real operational constraints.

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science at University of Illinois at Chicago
January 11, 2030 - May 1, 2025
Bachelor in Computer Science at SRM University, AP, India
January 11, 2030 - May 1, 2023

Qualifications

Gold Medal for Research Excellence in AI/ML, NLP, and Data Science (SRM University)
January 11, 2030 - February 9, 2026
Four research publications in Scopus-indexed journals
January 11, 2030 - February 9, 2026

Industry Experience

Healthcare, Software & Internet, Professional Services, Retail