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Harshavardhan Garikala

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and MLOps

Red HatOklahoma Christian UniversityNJ, USA4 Years ExperienceMid Level

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Red Hat ML/LLM engineer who designed and deployed a production LLM-powered customer support automation system using RAG, improving latency by 30% via PEFT and vector search optimization. Built security and governance into retrieval (access-level filtering, encrypted Pinecone/ChromaDB) and delivered SHAP-based explainability via a dashboard for non-technical stakeholders. Experienced orchestrating distributed ML/RAG pipelines across AWS SageMaker and OpenShift with Airflow/Prefect, plus multi-agent workflows using CrewAI and LangGraph.

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Key Strengths

  • Reduced vector search response time by 30% without degrading contextual relevance
  • Production deployment of LLM/RAG system automating customer service responses
  • Strong security-by-design for RAG (access-level filtering + encrypted vector stores)
  • Explainability implementation using SHAP with stakeholder-facing dashboard
  • Orchestrated 15+ ML workflows using Airflow + MLflow
  • Scalable distributed pipeline design across AWS SageMaker and OpenShift using containerized tasks
  • Reliability engineering in orchestration (retries, SLAs, health checks, monitoring)
  • Multi-agent workflow design with clear roles and measurable success metrics
  • End-to-end evaluation approach (unit/integration tests, offline benchmarks, online A/B tests)

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Experience

AI/ML EngineerRed Hat · Jan 2024 – Present
Junior ML EngineerCRED · Jan 2020 – Jul 2022

Education

Oklahoma Christian Universitymaster, Computer Science (2024)
Vellore Institute of Technologybachelor, Computer Science (2021)

Languages

English

Certifications

Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer AssociateAWS Certified Machine Learning – SpecialtyTensorFlow Developer Certificate

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Harshavardhan GarikalaMid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and MLOps