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Manish Vemula

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in real-time pipelines and NLP/GenAI

DiscoverCentral Michigan UniversityTX, USA4 Years ExperienceMid LevelWorks On-Site

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ML/MLOps practitioner from Discover Financial who built and deployed a real-time AI fraud detection platform (LSTM + VAE) on AWS SageMaker with Docker/FastAPI and Jenkins-driven CI/CD. Demonstrated measurable impact (30% accuracy lift, 25% fewer false alerts) and deep expertise in class-imbalance mitigation, drift monitoring, and orchestration (Airflow/Kubeflow), plus strong stakeholder adoption via Power BI dashboards for fraud/compliance teams.

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Key Strengths

  • Deployed production fraud detection system at Discover using LSTM + VAE (real-time)
  • Improved detection accuracy by 30% and reduced false alerts by 25%
  • Handled extreme class imbalance (<2% fraud) using SMOTE/undersampling + weighted/focal loss; improved fraud recall by 20%+ without increasing false positives
  • Built MLOps deployment and retraining automation (Docker, FastAPI, SageMaker, Jenkins CI/CD)
  • Orchestrated end-to-end retraining with Airflow DAGs; reduced retraining cycle from 2 days to a few hours
  • Strong reliability practices: modular pipelines, validation checkpoints, unit tests, A/B tests, shadow deployments, drift monitoring with automated retraining triggers
  • Effective communication with non-technical stakeholders; built Power BI dashboard translating model performance into business metrics

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Experience

ML Engineer (AI)Discover Financial Services · Sep 2024 – Present
Associate Machine Learning EngineerNexova · May 2020 – Jul 2022

Education

Central Michigan Universitymaster, Business Administration (2025)
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological Universitybachelor, Computer Science (2021)

Languages

English

Certifications

Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist AssociateAWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty

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Manish VemulaMid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in real-time pipelines and NLP/GenAI