AI/ML Engineer with 3+ years of experience delivering end-to-end model development and migrating legacy ML systems to cloud-native architectures (AWS/Azure) across financial services and healthcare technology. Specialized in productionizing fraud detection and real-time inference at scale, and building generative AI/RAG solutions from prototype to deployment. Led high-impact systems including fraud detection over 10M+ daily transactions and clinical NLP for 50K+ medical notes, achieving measurable business improvements such as 22% reduction in NPAs and 65% reduction in manual review time. Strong in MLOps, LLM orchestration (RAG via LangChain/LlamaIndex), monitoring, and secure, compliant deployments.

Nikitha Gummadi

AI/ML Engineer with 3+ years of experience delivering end-to-end model development and migrating legacy ML systems to cloud-native architectures (AWS/Azure) across financial services and healthcare technology. Specialized in productionizing fraud detection and real-time inference at scale, and building generative AI/RAG solutions from prototype to deployment. Led high-impact systems including fraud detection over 10M+ daily transactions and clinical NLP for 50K+ medical notes, achieving measurable business improvements such as 22% reduction in NPAs and 65% reduction in manual review time. Strong in MLOps, LLM orchestration (RAG via LangChain/LlamaIndex), monitoring, and secure, compliant deployments.

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AI/ML Engineer with 3+ years of experience delivering end-to-end model development and migrating legacy ML systems to cloud-native architectures (AWS/Azure) across financial services and healthcare technology. Specialized in productionizing fraud detection and real-time inference at scale, and building generative AI/RAG solutions from prototype to deployment.

Led high-impact systems including fraud detection over 10M+ daily transactions and clinical NLP for 50K+ medical notes, achieving measurable business improvements such as 22% reduction in NPAs and 65% reduction in manual review time. Strong in MLOps, LLM orchestration (RAG via LangChain/LlamaIndex), monitoring, and secure, compliant deployments.

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AI/ML Engineer at Stripe
March 1, 2024 - Present
Led end-to-end fraud detection pipeline on AWS SageMaker for payment transaction monitoring (10M+ daily transactions), improving precision by 21% and reducing false positives by 35%. Built and productionized document intelligence using fine-tuned LayoutLMv3 to extract structured data from 50K+ financial documents, reducing manual review time by 65% and saving 400+ analyst hours monthly. Architected a RAG application with LangChain, GPT-4, and Pinecone for internal policy/API Q&A achieving 91% response accuracy and reducing resolution time by 55%. Implemented real-time merchant risk stratification using gradient-boosted models on AWS Kinesis, reducing chargeback losses by 18%. Established MLOps workflows with MLflow and Docker for retraining/versioning and drift monitoring; integrated inference into FastAPI/Kubernetes microservices with sub-100ms latency and reliable 10M+ daily requests. Ensured PCI-DSS/SOC2 compliance with encryption, anonymization, and RBAC.
Machine Learning Engineer at Axis Bank
June 1, 2022 - July 31, 2023
Developed and deployed credit risk scoring models on 2M+ customer records using XGBoost and Random Forest, improving AUC from 0.74 to 0.89 and reducing NPAs by 22%. Built BERT-based NLP pipelines for sentiment analysis and complaint classification over 10,000+ daily interactions, reducing resolution time by 40%. Designed real-time fraud detection on Kafka streams with Isolation Forest and autoencoders (96% precision, sub-200ms latency). Built churn prediction models that supported retention campaigns reducing quarterly churn by 15% and retaining $3M annual revenue. Migrated on-prem ML pipelines to Azure Databricks/Azure ML Studio, reducing release cycle time from 4 weeks to 6 days. Implemented explainability with SHAP/LIME for regulatory-compliant decisions, and deployed scalable REST APIs on AKS with 99.9% uptime. Conducted A/B testing across 12+ model variants and integrated feature store workflows using Feast.

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science at Southern Illinois University Carbondale
January 11, 2030 - July 23, 2026
Bachelor of Technology in Artificial Intelligence at Anurag Group of Institutions
January 11, 2030 - July 23, 2026

Qualifications

AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty
January 11, 2030 - July 23, 2026
TensorFlow Developer Certificate – Google
January 11, 2030 - July 23, 2026

Industry Experience

Financial Services, Healthcare, Software & Internet, Professional Services