I am a Senior Gen AI and ML Engineer with 10+ years of delivering production-grade AI, ML, and data science solutions across healthcare, banking, airlines, and retail. I translate complex business problems into scalable AI systems and own the AI lifecycle end-to-end, from data ingestion to monitoring and governance. I specialize in building large language model-powered applications, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, AI agents, copilots, and conversational interfaces using OpenAI, Claude, LLaMA, Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain, and vector databases. I lead cross-functional teams to deliver secure, compliant, and high-performance AI solutions, emphasizing explainability, bias monitoring, and responsible AI practices.

Ahalya Dasari

I am a Senior Gen AI and ML Engineer with 10+ years of delivering production-grade AI, ML, and data science solutions across healthcare, banking, airlines, and retail. I translate complex business problems into scalable AI systems and own the AI lifecycle end-to-end, from data ingestion to monitoring and governance. I specialize in building large language model-powered applications, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, AI agents, copilots, and conversational interfaces using OpenAI, Claude, LLaMA, Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain, and vector databases. I lead cross-functional teams to deliver secure, compliant, and high-performance AI solutions, emphasizing explainability, bias monitoring, and responsible AI practices.

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I am a Senior Gen AI and ML Engineer with 10+ years of delivering production-grade AI, ML, and data science solutions across healthcare, banking, airlines, and retail. I translate complex business problems into scalable AI systems and own the AI lifecycle end-to-end, from data ingestion to monitoring and governance.

I specialize in building large language model-powered applications, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, AI agents, copilots, and conversational interfaces using OpenAI, Claude, LLaMA, Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain, and vector databases. I lead cross-functional teams to deliver secure, compliant, and high-performance AI solutions, emphasizing explainability, bias monitoring, and responsible AI practices.

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Work Experience

Senior AI Solutions Architect (GenAI) at Cardinal Health
February 1, 2024 - Present
Designed end-to-end AI/ML workflows for claims processing, clinical summarization, and supply chain optimization using AWS SageMaker, Lambda, Step Functions, S3, and RDS; implemented preprocessing pipelines for structured and unstructured data; generated contextual embeddings and semantic representations; fine-tuned Clinical BERT, LLaMA 2, and T5 for summarization and QA; built retrieval-augmented generation pipelines with LangChain, LlamaIndex, FAISS, and ChromaDB; deployed low-latency inference via FastAPI and Docker; applied SHAP/LIME for interpretability and monitored models with SageMaker Model Monitor for HIPAA-compliant governance; designed agentic AI pipelines and CCi workflows for contact centers; integrated monitoring and observability with CloudWatch and Prometheus.
Generative AI Engineer at Bank of America
May 1, 2022 - January 1, 2024
Developed AI-driven workflows for claims adjudication, policy analysis, and customer service automation; adapted Azure OpenAI, ClinicalBERT, and LLaMA-based models for domain-specific text understanding and retrieval; built RAG pipelines with LangChain, LlamaIndex, and in-VPC FAISS; implemented Contact Center Intelligence; engineered end-to-end pipelines on Azure ML and Databricks; PySpark and SQL feature engineering; fine-tuned LLMs for summarization, intent classification, and Q&A; built multimodal models for fraud detection; created dashboards in Streamlit and Power BI; prototyped agentic reasoning with ReAct; containerized deployment on Azure with Docker and Kubernetes; ensured security and regulatory governance.
Senior Data Scientist | ML Engineer at Amazon
July 1, 2020 - April 1, 2022
Ingested large-scale e-commerce data from SQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Snowflake, and AWS RDS; built data cleaning and preprocessing pipelines; conducted EDA with Python, R, Tableau; engineered behavioral and temporal features for recommendation and demand forecasting; built regression and classification models with Scikit-Learn and XGBoost; developed embedding-based deep learning models with PyTorch/TensorFlow for personalized ranking; designed LSTM/Prophet/GBM time-series forecasts; trained in Databricks and SageMaker with distributed GPUs; implemented ETL with Airflow and Kafka; deployed real-time endpoints with SageMaker Hosting and API Gateway; monitored drift and performance with SageMaker Model Monitor and CloudWatch; collaborated with cross-functional teams to integrate ML outputs into production.
Data Scientist at Delta
April 1, 2018 - June 1, 2020
Designed end-to-end data pipelines and built predictive models for classification and forecasting; developed distributed PySpark processing on AWS EMR; automated ETL with Airflow; containerized ML workflows with Docker; built RESTful APIs to serve model outputs; created dashboards in Tableau and Power BI; collaborated with data engineers, analysts, and product teams to ensure reliability, quality, and actionable insights; implemented testing, validation, and monitoring for enterprise-scale analytics.
Software Developer at MSys Technologies
December 1, 2015 - February 1, 2018
Built data pipelines using Python and PySpark to process large datasets; integrated PySpark with Talend; worked with SQL/Oracle databases; created RESTful APIs using Django REST Framework; managed cloud-based workflows with AWS S3 and EMR; implemented automated testing with PyTest; used Linux and Git; supported end-to-end data workflows and analytics.

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science at Anna University, Chennai, India
January 11, 2030 - February 16, 2026

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Industry Experience

Healthcare, Financial Services, Travel & Hospitality, Retail, Software & Internet, Professional Services