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Sai Chandra Palle

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Machine Learning Engineer with 5+ years of experience building scalable, production-grade AI systems, including LLM-powered recommendation and multilingual NLP platforms across high-impact environments.

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Machine Learning Engineer with 5+ years of experience building scalable, production-grade AI systems, including LLM-powered recommendation and multilingual NLP platforms across high-impact environments. Proven track record of improving retrieval diversity, engagement, and latency using generative AI techniques, transformer architectures, and ANN-based semantic search at scale.

Strong expertise in end-to-end ML and GenAI systems, from data pipelines and model training to real-time inference and cloud-native deployment on AWS infrastructure. Adept at designing distributed, high-throughput systems that combine AI/ML with robust backend engineering to deliver measurable business impact.

  • 5 years' experience
  • Joined June 2026

Languages

  • EnglishFluent

Industry experience

  • Software & Internet
  • Media & Entertainment
  • Professional Services
  • Computers & Electronics

Work experience

Machine Learning Engineer · PinterestAug 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

Led LLM-powered generative retrieval and semantic ranking initiatives to boost diversity and engagement; implemented dense embedding pipelines for semantic search and RAG-based retrieval; developed ANN-based candidate generation with Faiss (IVF-HNSW) for scalable, high-quality recommendations; designed distributed data pipelines on AWS EMR with Spark; built scalable multi-stage inference workflows and microservice-based ML architectures (TorchScript deployment) to improve throughput and latency; leveraged AWS S3 and Iceberg on S3 for feature storage and experiment tracking.

Machine Learning Engineer · Amazon IndiaJan 2020 – Jul 2023 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Enhanced multilingual query understanding by 34% for code-mixed inputs; reduced API latency by 29% via optimized real-time inference pipelines and caching; increased data processing efficiency by 38% with scalable ETL on AWS Glue and S3 for multilingual datasets. Built and fine-tuned transformer-based models (XLM-R, mT5) for multilingual NLP tasks, deployed on AWS (EC2, SageMaker) with monitoring (CloudWatch) and robust backend services.

Education· 6

Master of Science in Computer Science · Southern University and A&M2030 – 2026
Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering · Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology2030 – 2026
Master of Science in Computer Science · Southern University and A&M2030 – 2026
Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering · Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology2030 – 2026

Certifications and awards

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Generative AI Professional — Focused on LLMs, embeddings, and enterprise-scale Generative AI applications2030 – 2026
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Generative AI Professional — Covered cloud-based AI services, model deployment, and scalable AI system design2030 – 2026
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Generative AI Professional2030 – 2026
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Generative AI Professional2030 – 2026

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