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Aashna Kunkolienker - AI Engineer in San Ramon, CA

Aashna Kunkolienker

Junior AI Engineer specializing in agentic workflows and ML platforms

SearceNYUSan Ramon, CA2 Years ExperienceJunior LevelWorks On-Site

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Building a production LLM/agent system for a leading US dental provider that extracts rules from payer handbooks/portals and EDI 271 responses to validate and improve patient cost estimates. Combines GCP stack (BigQuery, GKE, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Vertex AI) with strong agent reliability practices (observability, validator agents, grounding, PII/hallucination guardrails, confidence scoring) and has led non-technical customer stakeholders on enterprise ServiceNow↔Aha sync and AI-powered enterprise search/summarization.

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Key Strengths

  • Built production LLM system to extract rules and validate dental procedure cost estimates using multiple payer data sources
  • Strong focus on reliability: validator agents, observability, grounding, PII/hallucination guardrails, and confidence scoring with manual-review flagging
  • Pragmatic solution design via constraints-first approach (latency/compute/error tolerance; agent vs traditional solution decisioning)
  • Experience scaling containerized AI services on GKE with autoscaling and CI/CD
  • Designed and delivered enterprise data ingestion/sync pipelines (full + incremental) integrating ServiceNow and Aha!
  • Led customer calls and translated technical architecture to non-technical stakeholders

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Experience

AI EngineerSearce Inc. · Jul 2025 – Present
Founding Software EngineerBalanceAI · May 2025 – Jul 2025
Software Engineering InternL&T Technology Services · May 2024 – Aug 2024internship
Systems Reliability Engineer InternNutanix Inc. · Jan 2023 – Jun 2023internship
Computer Vision InternSiemens Ltd. · Jul 2021 – Aug 2021internship
Teaching AssistantNew York University, Tandon School of Engineering · Sep 2023 – May 2025part-time

Education

NYUmaster, Computer Engineering (2025)
Manipal Institute of Technologybachelor, Computer Science and Engineering (2023)

Languages

English

Certifications

Google Cloud Certified Professional Machine Learning Engineer (GCP PMLE)AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty (AWS MLS-C01)NVIDIA Certified Associate - AI Infrastructure & Operations (NCA-AIIO)Google Cloud Certified Generative AI LeaderCisco Certified Networking Associate (CCNA 200-301)

Publications

1 publication

GPU-accelerated medical image processingFeature extraction (LNDP)

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Aashna KunkolienkerJunior AI Engineer specializing in agentic workflows and ML platforms