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Likitha Kukunarapu - Applied AI Engineer in Remote, USA

Likitha Kukunarapu

Mid-level Applied AI Engineer specializing in data engineering and healthcare AI

Community Dreams NGONortheastern UniversityRemote, USA3 Years ExperienceMid LevelWorks On-Site

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Built production LLM agents spanning document Q&A, financial insight generation, and ERP-like operational data workflows, with a strong focus on reliability, grounding, and evaluation. Stands out for translating LLM systems into measurable business outcomes, including 70%–80% support workload reduction and a fallback-rate improvement from 18% to 8% through targeted RAG iteration.

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Key Strengths

  • Shipped production RAG agent with measurable support impact
  • Reduced support workload by 70%–80%
  • Built hallucination detection and safe fallback mechanisms
  • Designed end-to-end multi-step agent workflows with tool calling and structured outputs
  • Strong reliability engineering for LLM systems
  • Improved agent performance through evaluation-driven iteration
  • Cut fallback rate from 18% to 8% via layout-aware chunking
  • Experience with financial-data insight generation pipelines
  • Handled messy ERP-like data with canonical schemas and idempotent safeguards
  • Grounded LLM outputs with validation and faithfulness checks

Reference Highlights

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  • good understanding of AI
  • able to use GenAI to build agentic AI tools
  • able to evaluate model performance
  • designed metrics to improve the model
  • achieved over 80% on company identification/data extraction

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Experience

Applied AI EngineerCommunity Dreams NGO · Jun 2025 – Present
Data EngineerBayer · Jun 2024 – Dec 2024
Data AnalystBrane Enterprises · Jun 2022 – Aug 2023

Education

Northeastern Universitymaster, Data Analytics Engineering (2025)
Vellore Institute of Technologybachelor, Electronics and Communication Engineering (2022)

Languages

English

Certifications

AWS Solutions ArchitectIBM Data Science

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Likitha KukunarapuMid-level Applied AI Engineer specializing in data engineering and healthcare AI