Machine Learning Engineer with 4+ years building and deploying production AI/ML systems, specializing in Generative AI, LLMs, and RAG architectures for financial services. Proven impact through fine-tuning LLaMA 3 (LoRA/QLoRA), building multi-agent pipelines with LangGraph, and optimizing LLM inference with vLLM and quantization to reduce costs and meet high uptime and latency SLAs.

Niharika Amilineni

Machine Learning Engineer with 4+ years building and deploying production AI/ML systems, specializing in Generative AI, LLMs, and RAG architectures for financial services. Proven impact through fine-tuning LLaMA 3 (LoRA/QLoRA), building multi-agent pipelines with LangGraph, and optimizing LLM inference with vLLM and quantization to reduce costs and meet high uptime and latency SLAs.

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Machine Learning Engineer with 4+ years building and deploying production AI/ML systems, specializing in Generative AI, LLMs, and RAG architectures for financial services.

Proven impact through fine-tuning LLaMA 3 (LoRA/QLoRA), building multi-agent pipelines with LangGraph, and optimizing LLM inference with vLLM and quantization to reduce costs and meet high uptime and latency SLAs.

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Work Experience

Machine Learning Engineer at S&P Global
October 1, 2024 - Present
Architected an enterprise RAG-based financial intelligence platform using Python, LlamaIndex, and Pinecone, implementing semantic chunking and hybrid search to reduce analyst research turnaround time by 28%. Developed multi-agent AI workflows using LangGraph with tool-calling and self-correction loops to automate complex document analysis and eliminate manual risk compliance workflows. Fine-tuned LLaMA 3 with LoRA/QLoRA on proprietary financial corpora using Hugging Face and Weights & Biases, integrating DeepSpeed for multi-GPU training to improve entity extraction accuracy by 22%. Optimized inference via AWQ/INT8 quantization and structured pruning, deploying with vLLM to cut inference costs by 40% and achieve sub-150ms P99 latency. Engineered scalable LLM infrastructure on AWS EKS and Kubeflow, enabling 10,000+ daily evaluations with 99.5% uptime. Built production LLMOps pipelines integrating TruLens for evaluation and Arize for drift monitoring, automating CI/CD with Docker and Terr
Machine Learning Engineer at Freshworks
June 1, 2020 - July 1, 2023
Productionized fraud and risk detection services using Random Forest and LightGBM, reducing false alert rates by 22% and delivering over $1M in annual cost savings through optimized inference and threshold tuning. Deployed an AWS-native ML pipeline using S3, SQS, EC2, and SageMaker for real-time scoring across 500K+ daily records, cutting infrastructure overhead by 28% while sustaining 99.8% SLA. Designed unsupervised anomaly detection systems using Isolation Forest and Autoencoders to uncover 2.5M in hidden fraudulent activity. Built statistical A/B testing frameworks with Python and StatsModels to evaluate 35+ models, improving detection recall by 15%. Optimized time-series forecasting pipelines using SQL, Python, ARIMA, and Prophet, improving prediction accuracy by 30% via automated feature engineering and retraining loops. Established an MLOps framework using MLflow and Kubeflow for tracking, reproducibility, and governance, accelerating compliance approval for new models by 25%.

Education

Master’s in Information Systems at University of Illinois Chicago
January 11, 2030 - July 8, 2026
Bachelor’s in Computer Science at GITAM University
January 11, 2030 - July 8, 2026
Master’s in Information Systems at University of Illinois Chicago
January 11, 2030 - July 8, 2026
Bachelor’s in Computer Science at GITAM University
January 11, 2030 - July 8, 2026
Master’s in Information Systems at University of Illinois Chicago
January 11, 2030 - July 8, 2026
Bachelor’s in Computer Science at GITAM University
January 11, 2030 - July 8, 2026
Master’s in Information Systems at University of Illinois Chicago
January 11, 2030 - July 8, 2026
Bachelor’s in Computer Science at GITAM University
January 11, 2030 - July 8, 2026

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Industry Experience

Financial Services, Software & Internet, Professional Services