Dhana Lakshmi Duddukunta

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Language

English
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Work Experience

AI Engineer at HSBC Bank
May 1, 2024 - Present
Architected modular, agent-based AI systems with CrewAI; standardized LLM context via MCP; designed robust prompt and tool-call strategies; built scalable ingestion/indexing pipelines on AWS (Lambda, Step Functions, S3); enhanced retrieval with Titan/OpenAI embeddings; fine-tuned open-source LLMs (LoRA/QLoRA) on SageMaker; deployed low-latency secure microservices with FastAPI on EKS/Lambda; instituted production observability (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, LangSmith, RAGAS) and fintech-grade security; implemented CI/CD with GitHub Actions and Terraform.
Data Scientist at Accenture
June 1, 2020 - December 1, 2022
Contributed as part of enterprise data science initiatives in Hyderabad, focusing on ML/AI workloads and data-driven solutions across business units.
AI/ML Engineer at Cardinal Health, USA
February 1, 2023 - May 1, 2024
Standardized production NLP serving with Hugging Face, spaCy, and AWS SageMaker; containerized ML services with Docker and deployed to Amazon EKS with auto-scaling and zero-downtime deployments; implemented model monitoring, drift detection, and performance tracking with MLflow and CloudWatch, reducing degradation by 50% through proactive retraining; collaborated with product, data, and security teams to ensure governance and compliance.
Data Scientist at Accenture – Hyderabad, India
June 1, 2020 - December 1, 2022
Designed, built, and deployed production-grade ML and deep learning pipelines on AWS SageMaker for classification, recommendation, NLP, and information retrieval workloads; established robust MLOps practices and monitoring to ensure reliability and traceability; enabled scalable model serving for 100K+ monthly inferences; contributed to transformer-based NLP solutions and end-to-end data processing pipelines across regulated environments.

Education

Master's at Saint Louis University
January 11, 2030 - December 1, 2024
Master’s at Saint Louis University
January 11, 2030 - December 1, 2024

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Industry Experience

Financial Services, Healthcare, Professional Services, Software & Internet