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Hruthik Gonuguntla

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I’m a Senior Data Scientist and AI/ML professional with 11+ years of experience building production-grade machine learning and Generative AI solutions across cloud platforms like Azure and AWS.

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I’m a Senior Data Scientist and AI/ML professional with 11+ years of experience building production-grade machine learning and Generative AI solutions across cloud platforms like Azure and AWS. I specialize in end-to-end RAG pipelines and enterprise knowledge assistants—covering document ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector search, reranking, and grounded response generation to improve relevance while reducing hallucinations.

Beyond RAG, I build agentic AI and conversational systems using LLM tool/function calling and orchestration patterns, along with predictive and analytical ML models for forecasting, classification, anomaly detection, and decision support. I enjoy translating complex business requirements into scalable Python services (FastAPI/Flask) with strong MLOps practices, rigorous evaluation, and deployment pipelines that are reliable in real-world environments.

  • 12 years' experience
  • Joined September 2026

Industry experience

  • Healthcare
  • Financial Services
  • Government
  • Software & Internet
  • Professional Services
  • Computers & Electronics

Work experience· 10 roles

Senior Data Scientist · Blue Cross Blue ShieldJul 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 5 mos

Designed and implemented enterprise-scale AI/ML and Generative AI solutions leveraging RAG, MCP-enabled architectures, agentic AI, LLMs, NLP, and Transformers in AWS environments. Architected end-to-end RAG pipelines with ingestion, chunking, metadata extraction, embeddings, vector indexing, semantic retrieval, reranking, contextual prompting, and grounded response generation. Built AI agents and chatbots using multi-step reasoning, tool calling/function invocation, planning, memory, and orchestration patterns. Developed NLP pipelines for healthcare text preprocessing and analysis, and built scalable semantic search and knowledge-retrieval architectures using embeddings and vector databases (e.g., FAISS). Implemented GenAI automation for summarization, extraction, classification, QA, and knowledge discovery, and optimized inference and retrieval quality with evaluation frameworks. Exposed ML/LLM capabilities through secure REST APIs (FastAPI/Flask), integrated with enterprise systems,

Senior Data Scientist · Blue Cross Blue Shield, CAJul 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 5 mos

Designed and implemented enterprise-scale AI/ML and Generative AI solutions leveraging RAG, MCP-enabled architectures, agentic AI, NLP/Transformers, and LLMs on AWS. Built end-to-end RAG pipelines for ingestion, chunking, metadata extraction, embeddings, vector indexing, retrieval, reranking, contextual prompting, and grounded response generation. Developed tool-using AI agents for multi-step workflows, planning, memory, and orchestration with secure tool calling. Created member-facing conversational AI and chatbot backends via REST services. Engineered semantic search and knowledge-retrieval systems using embeddings, FAISS/vector DBs, and evaluation frameworks to reduce hallucinations and improve answer relevance. Built LLM-powered document intelligence workflows (summarization, extraction, classification, QA) and implemented model optimization and systematic evaluation using precision/recall, F1, AUC-ROC, and retrieval/grounding metrics. Delivered scalable Python APIs with FastAPI/Fl

Data Scientist · State of CaliforniaMay 2021 – Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Developed enterprise AI and ML solutions on Azure combining NLP, LLMs, intelligent search, conversational AI, deep learning, and predictive modeling. Built chatbots and knowledge-search applications using intent classification, entity extraction, dialogue management, contextual embeddings, and retrieval-based techniques. Designed intelligent search and navigation strategies using heuristic and pathfinding algorithms (A*, BFS, DFS, etc.) alongside semantic similarity and ranking. Built Transformer-based NLP pipelines for classification, semantic similarity, question answering, and summarization. Implemented embedding and semantic-search pipelines using vector indexing for context-aware retrieval across large unstructured datasets. Delivered ML-ready datasets using PySpark/SQL, deployed model-serving APIs with FastAPI/Flask, and improved reliability through systematic evaluation (AUC-ROC, precision/recall, F1, cross-validation).

Data Scientist · State of California, CAMay 2021 – Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos
AI Engineer · Citi BankSep 2018 – Apr 2021 · 2 yrs 8 mos
AI Engineer · Citi Bank, NYSep 2018 – Apr 2021 · 2 yrs 8 mos
Software Engineer · PfizerJul 2016 – Aug 2018 · 2 yrs 2 mos
Python Developer · MetLifeFeb 2014 – Jun 2016 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Education

Master's in Computer Software Engineering · University of Houston-Clear Lake2030 – 2026
Bachelor's in Computer Science and Engineering · Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University2030 – 2026
Master's in Computer Software Engineering · University of Houston-Clear Lake2030 – 2026
Bachelor's in Computer Science and Engineering · Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University2030 – 2026

Certifications and awards· 6

Microsoft Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-102)2030 – 2026
Microsoft Azure Data Scientist Associate (DP-100)2030 – 2026
TensorFlow Developer Certificate2030 – 2026
Microsoft Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-102)2030 – 2026

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