I'm a Sr. AI/ML Engineer with 11+ years of experience delivering Agentic AI, Generative AI, ML, NLP, and enterprise automation solutions across banking, insurance, retail, and analytics. I build scalable Python-based microservices, design LLM orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation, and multi-agent systems to solve complex business problems. I enjoy collaborating with stakeholders and leading end-to-end ML initiatives from research and experimentation to production deployment while upholding governance and responsible AI practices. I excel at integrating AI/LLM solutions with microservices, REST APIs, and cloud-native architectures on Azure, AWS, and GCP. I’ve guided enterprise GenAI platforms, driven observability and security, and orchestrated autonomous workflows and tool-calling across large-scale enterprise apps, delivering measurable business outcomes and continuous improvement.

Manikanta B Sr.

I'm a Sr. AI/ML Engineer with 11+ years of experience delivering Agentic AI, Generative AI, ML, NLP, and enterprise automation solutions across banking, insurance, retail, and analytics. I build scalable Python-based microservices, design LLM orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation, and multi-agent systems to solve complex business problems. I enjoy collaborating with stakeholders and leading end-to-end ML initiatives from research and experimentation to production deployment while upholding governance and responsible AI practices. I excel at integrating AI/LLM solutions with microservices, REST APIs, and cloud-native architectures on Azure, AWS, and GCP. I’ve guided enterprise GenAI platforms, driven observability and security, and orchestrated autonomous workflows and tool-calling across large-scale enterprise apps, delivering measurable business outcomes and continuous improvement.

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I’m a Sr. AI/ML Engineer with 11+ years of experience delivering Agentic AI, Generative AI, ML, NLP, and enterprise automation solutions across banking, insurance, retail, and analytics. I build scalable Python-based microservices, design LLM orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation, and multi-agent systems to solve complex business problems. I enjoy collaborating with stakeholders and leading end-to-end ML initiatives from research and experimentation to production deployment while upholding governance and responsible AI practices.

I excel at integrating AI/LLM solutions with microservices, REST APIs, and cloud-native architectures on Azure, AWS, and GCP. I’ve guided enterprise GenAI platforms, driven observability and security, and orchestrated autonomous workflows and tool-calling across large-scale enterprise apps, delivering measurable business outcomes and continuous improvement.

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Language

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Work Experience

Lead AI/ML Engineer at Credit Suisse
November 1, 2023 - Present
Architected end-to-end GenAI platform on Azure (Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, AKS, Cosmos DB) to support secure AI-powered knowledge assistants across investment banking operations. Led design of multi-agent workflows and tool calling, built automated LLM evaluation pipelines, and implemented observability and automated recovery for production failures.
AI/ML Engineer at Athene
March 1, 2021 - October 1, 2023
Developed cloud-native AI and data engineering solutions on GCP (Vertex AI, BigQuery, Dataflow) to support enterprise modernization and intelligent automation. Built real-time data pipelines (Pub/Sub, Dataflow, BigQuery); designed GenAI copilots using Vertex AI and LangChain; implemented asynchronous FastAPI services for real-time scoring.
AI/ML Engineer at Bank of America
April 1, 2018 - February 1, 2021
Led enterprise conversational AI initiatives; designed RAG pipelines with vector search and enterprise knowledge repositories; performed intent classification, sentiment analysis, and entity extraction; built scalable chatbot orchestration and secure integration with internal banking systems; established governance and monitoring dashboards.
Data Scientist at Kroger
September 1, 2016 - March 1, 2018
Built ML models for fraud risk scoring and real-time transaction monitoring on AWS (SageMaker, Redshift, Kinesis, Lambda); developed real-time fraud pipelines (Kinesis, Spark Streaming); designed NLP pipelines for dispute classification; deployed REST-based inference APIs; automated model training and deployment via SageMaker pipelines.
Data Scientist at Efftronics
June 1, 2012 - August 1, 2014
Contributed to end-to-end analytics projects; built large-scale data pipelines using Hadoop, Hive, and Spark; developed predictive models in R and Python for segmentation and risk scoring; delivered dashboards and SQL-based reporting; implemented secure access controls and data governance measures.

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science at Kakatiya Institute of Technology & Science
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2012
Master's in Computer Engineering at University of Alabama, Birmingham
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2016
Master’s in Computer Engineering at University of Alabama, Birmingham
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2016
Bachelor’s in Computer Science at Kakatiya Institute of Technology & Science
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2012

Qualifications

SnowPro Core Certification - Snowflake
January 11, 2030 - June 29, 2026
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate
January 11, 2030 - June 29, 2026
SnowPro Core Certification - Snowflake
January 11, 2030 - June 29, 2026
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate
January 11, 2030 - June 29, 2026

Industry Experience

Financial Services, Software & Internet, Professional Services, Retail