Ajay Varma Uppalapati
Ajay Varma Uppalapati

Senior AI/ML Engineer

Actively looking · Member since 13 Nov 2026
Location
New Haven, United States
Desired salary
Unspecified
Work preference
Remote Only
Experience level
Senior

About

Professional summary

I am an AI/ML Engineer with nearly five years of experience building production machine learning, generative AI, and MLOps systems for healthcare, finance, and telecommunications organizations.

I specialize in designing scalable LLM applications, including RAG pipelines, RLHF-based fine-tuning, agentic AI workflows, prompt engineering, and vector-search solutions. My work has supported high-volume services handling hundreds of thousands of daily queries and millions of daily transactions.

I have deep hands-on experience with Python, machine learning frameworks, distributed data engineering, cloud platforms, and production model deployment. I build end-to-end solutions from data preparation and feature engineering through model serving, monitoring, drift detection, and automated retraining.

I have delivered measurable business outcomes, including surfacing $8.2M in fraudulent claims, eliminating $1.3M in annual rework costs, preserving $3.1M in contract value, and reducing deployment and processing cycles substantially.

I am experienced in regulated environments and healthcare data standards, including HIPAA, FHIR, HL7, ICD-10, EHR data, and clinical NLP. I focus on building reliable, monitored, low-latency AI systems that translate prototypes into scalable business solutions.

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Experience

Career history

AI/ML Engineer Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS)

I engineered a BERT-based clinical NLP pipeline for multi-label ICD-10 code mapping across 2.3 million unstructured member records. The solution eliminated 14,000 manual review hours and $1.3M in annual rework costs.

I architected a real-time fraud detection ensemble using XGBoost, LightGBM, and Isolation Forest over Apache Kafka event streams. The production system surfaced $8.2M in fraudulent claims within 90 days while sustaining sub-80ms inference latency across 1.4 million daily transactions.

I built an end-to-end MLOps platform with MLflow, automated monitoring, drift detection, and Apache Airflow retraining workflows, reducing deployment cycles from 21 days to 4 days across 18 production models. I also fine-tuned Llama 2 with RLHF for a member-benefits chatbot serving 400,000 daily queries and delivered a LangChain and Pinecone RAG solution for clinical-document retrieval.

ML Engineer / System Engineer Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

I developed a Random Forest churn prediction system with SHAP explainability and automated weekly retraining for a Fortune 500 telecommunications client. The system identified 87,000 at-risk subscribers from a 4.2 million-member base and helped preserve $3.1M in annual contract value.

I delivered a distributed ETL pipeline using Apache Spark and Azure HDInsight to process 6 TB of daily transactional data. This reduced preprocessing latency from 11 hours to 42 minutes and enabled same-day retraining for seven downstream ML pipelines.

I orchestrated ML inference microservices with Docker and Kubernetes, enabling horizontal scaling for 3,500 concurrent API requests. I also implemented self-healing retraining workflows with Grafana, Prometheus, and Apache Airflow, and developed an Azure ML feature-store architecture for standardized, point-in-time-correct feature management.

Software Engineer KPMG India

I built a Python and Django audit risk-scoring engine using supervised-learning anomaly detection for audit analytics. The solution reduced auditor sampling effort by 6,200 hours annually across 14 active client accounts processing 480,000 records per cycle.

I engineered RESTful APIs using FastAPI and PostgreSQL to expose audit analytics to downstream BI platforms. Through query optimization and Redis caching, I improved query response times from 18 seconds to 1.4 seconds for 220 concurrent analysts.

I implemented an NLP-based contract review pipeline using spaCy named-entity recognition and TF-IDF vectorization. The platform streamlined review of 94,000 financial contracts, reducing document review time from 4.2 hours to 38 minutes and producing $940K in annual productivity savings.

Education

Learning history

University of New Haven

Master of Science, Business Analytics

GITAM University

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science Engineering

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