I am an AI/ML engineer with 3+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, and deploying scalable AI solutions for financial services and enterprise platforms. I specialize in large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, NLP, and real-time ML pipelines, with a strong focus on production-ready architectures and MLOps. I collaborate with stakeholders, data engineers, and compliance teams to deliver explainable, governance-aligned AI solutions. I enjoy turning complex data into actionable insights, building intelligent automation, and continuously improving model performance and deployment reliability.

Shankar Guttula

I am an AI/ML engineer with 3+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, and deploying scalable AI solutions for financial services and enterprise platforms. I specialize in large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, NLP, and real-time ML pipelines, with a strong focus on production-ready architectures and MLOps. I collaborate with stakeholders, data engineers, and compliance teams to deliver explainable, governance-aligned AI solutions. I enjoy turning complex data into actionable insights, building intelligent automation, and continuously improving model performance and deployment reliability.

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I am an AI/ML engineer with 3+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, and deploying scalable AI solutions for financial services and enterprise platforms. I specialize in large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, NLP, and real-time ML pipelines, with a strong focus on production-ready architectures and MLOps.

I collaborate with stakeholders, data engineers, and compliance teams to deliver explainable, governance-aligned AI solutions. I enjoy turning complex data into actionable insights, building intelligent automation, and continuously improving model performance and deployment reliability.

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Language

Bashkir
Advanced
Javanese
Advanced

Work Experience

AI/ML Engineer at Northern Trust
July 1, 2025 - Present
Designed and deployed enterprise-scale Generative AI solutions, built Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipelines with vector databases and embedding models, and implemented real-time data processing and scalable inference pipelines to support investment research and governance needs.
ML Engineer at Experion Technologies
May 1, 2021 - December 1, 2023
Developed end-to-end ML solutions for banking and financial clients (fraud detection, customer analytics, credit risk). Built real-time fraud monitoring with Kafka and Spark, implemented feature engineering, model evaluation, and deployed services on AWS.

Education

Master of Science in Data Science at Southern Arkansas University
January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2025
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at Sathyabama University
June 1, 2019 - May 31, 2023

Qualifications

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2025 Certified Data Science Professional
January 1, 2025 - June 29, 2026
Data Analytics Essentials – Cisco
January 11, 2030 - June 29, 2026

Industry Experience

Financial Services, Software & Internet

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