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Sanjay Neela

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I am a Generative AI and machine learning engineer with more than four years of experience building enterprise-scale solutions with retrieval-augmented generation, large language models, FastAPI, and cloud platforms.

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I am a Generative AI and machine learning engineer with more than four years of experience building enterprise-scale solutions with retrieval-augmented generation, large language models, FastAPI, and cloud platforms. I specialize in designing complete RAG pipelines, including document ingestion, chunking, metadata enrichment, embeddings, vector indexing, hybrid search, and grounded response generation. I enjoy turning complex unstructured data into reliable, useful knowledge experiences for healthcare, financial services, and retail organizations.

I have built secure, scalable AI platforms using Python, Azure OpenAI, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and asynchronous processing. My work includes developing healthcare applications with HIPAA-aligned access controls, improving search relevance, reducing inference costs, optimizing latency, and creating evaluation and monitoring frameworks for production AI systems. I am passionate about practical, trustworthy AI and enjoy collaborating with teams to deliver solutions that are both technically strong and genuinely helpful to end users.

  • 4 years' experience
  • Joined October 2026

Industry experience

  • Healthcare
  • Financial Services
  • Retail
  • Software & Internet
  • Computers & Electronics

Work experience

AI/ML Engineer – Generative AI & RAG Systems · OptumAug 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos

Architected and delivered enterprise healthcare RAG systems covering ingestion, chunking, metadata enrichment, embedding generation, vector indexing, hybrid search, and grounded response generation. Built secure asynchronous FastAPI services and integrated Azure OpenAI for clinical summarization, question answering, and workflow automation. Developed hallucination mitigation, response validation, token optimization, LLM evaluation, monitoring, RBAC, and HIPAA-aligned security controls. Containerized workloads with Docker and deployed scalable services to Azure Kubernetes Service with autoscaling and background embedding workers.

Senior Software Engineer – AI/ML Platforms · Capital OneJun 2022 – Jul 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Designed Python and FastAPI backend systems for ML inference and NLP workloads, supporting high-volume financial applications. Implemented semantic search using embedding-based similarity, created preprocessing pipelines for feature extraction and embedding preparation, and built REST APIs for downstream banking systems. Improved inference latency and throughput through Redis caching and asynchronous execution. Standardized deployment of containerized ML services using Docker and Kubernetes.

Machine Learning Engineer – Retail AI Systems · KrogerApr 2021 – May 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

Built end-to-end machine learning pipelines for data ingestion, preprocessing, feature engineering, model training, and AWS deployment. Developed NLP-based product classification and embedding-based search ranking improvements to enhance retail catalog discoverability. Used vector indexing and Redis caching to improve search performance and implemented CI/CD pipelines to automate model deployments and accelerate production releases.

Education

M.S. in Management Information Systems, Specialization in Artificial Intelligence · University of Nebraska at Omaha2024 – 2026

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