AI/ML Engineer with 5+ years of experience designing, developing, and deploying production-grade AI and machine learning solutions across telecom and enterprise applications. Experienced in building and deploying LLM-powered applications, agentic AI workflows, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, AI microservices, NLP pipelines, and backend services using Python, FastAPI, Azure OpenAI, LangChain, LangGraph, and cloud technologies.

Gopinadh Ainala

AI/ML Engineer with 5+ years of experience designing, developing, and deploying production-grade AI and machine learning solutions across telecom and enterprise applications. Experienced in building and deploying LLM-powered applications, agentic AI workflows, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, AI microservices, NLP pipelines, and backend services using Python, FastAPI, Azure OpenAI, LangChain, LangGraph, and cloud technologies.

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AI/ML Engineer with 5+ years of experience designing, developing, and deploying production-grade AI and machine learning solutions across telecom and enterprise applications. Experienced in building and deploying LLM-powered applications, agentic AI workflows, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, AI microservices, NLP pipelines, and backend services using Python, FastAPI, Azure OpenAI, LangChain, LangGraph, and cloud technologies.

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Work Experience

Sr Generative AI Engineer at AT&T
August 1, 2025 - Present
Designed, developed, and deployed production-grade generative AI solutions for telecom applications, improving customer support efficiency by 30%. Architected RAG pipelines using LangChain, Azure OpenAI, PostgreSQL, embeddings, and vector search to improve retrieval accuracy by 25% and reduce manual search effort. Engineered FastAPI-based AI microservices and REST APIs for secure, low-latency inference. Designed agentic AI workflows using LangGraph, Azure OpenAI, and tool calling to automate multi-step business processes with improved orchestration and reliability. Optimized retrieval pipelines and prompt engineering to reduce response latency by 35% while improving relevance. Built LLM evaluation frameworks, AI guardrails, and human-in-the-loop validation to reduce hallucinations. Developed data pipelines (PySpark/SQL/Pandas/Snowflake) for high-volume telecom datasets and deployed/optimized Azure workloads with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD to reduce deployment time by 40%.
AI Engineer at Cognizant
October 1, 2024 - July 31, 2025
Developed and deployed AI-powered applications using Python, FastAPI, and Azure OpenAI, improving business process efficiency. Built LLM-powered assistants with LangChain and prompt engineering for document understanding, question answering, and enterprise knowledge retrieval. Designed scalable REST APIs and backend services to integrate AI models securely and reliably. Developed NLP pipelines for classification, entity extraction, semantic search, and summarization, reducing manual processing by 30% and improving information discovery. Implemented ML models using Scikit-learn and XGBoost, improving prediction accuracy by 18%. Improved model reliability through preprocessing, feature engineering, and evaluation workflows. Containerized AI applications with Docker and deployed to Azure, enhancing consistency and scalability, and contributed to CI/CD automation, testing, and monitoring.
Deep Learning Engineer at Virtusa
August 1, 2020 - July 31, 2024
Designed and trained NLP models for text classification and sentiment analysis achieving over 85% accuracy on customer feedback datasets. Developed CNN and transfer learning pipelines using pre-trained architectures to improve accuracy and reduce development time. Built scalable data preprocessing and feature engineering using Python, Pandas, NumPy, and OpenCV for structured/unstructured datasets. Implemented training, hyperparameter tuning, cross-validation, and evaluation with Scikit-learn for robust performance. Delivered computer vision solutions with OpenCV, reducing manual review effort by 40%. Integrated deep learning models into FastAPI-based REST APIs, reducing inference time by 30%. Containerized applications with Docker and supported cloud deployment workflows; documented architectures and results with Git-based version control and Agile practices.

Education

Master of Science in Business Analytics at Kent State University
January 11, 2030 - May 1, 2025

Qualifications

Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900)
January 11, 2030 - August 20, 2026
Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300)
January 11, 2030 - August 20, 2026
Courses: AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
January 11, 2030 - August 20, 2026
Courses: Google Generative AI Fundamentals
January 11, 2030 - August 20, 2026
Courses: Google Machine Learning Fundamentals
January 11, 2030 - August 20, 2026

Industry Experience

Telecommunications, Software & Internet, Professional Services