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Naga Venkata Padala

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI, RAG, and real-time fraud detection

U.S. BankUniversity of Massachusetts Dartmouth4 Years ExperienceMid LevelWorks On-Site

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GenAI/ML engineer who has shipped production agentic systems in highly regulated and high-throughput environments, including an AWS Bedrock-based fraud/compliance workflow at U.S. Bank with PII redaction and hallucination detection that cut investigation time by 50%+. Also built and evaluated RAG and recommendation systems at Target, using RAGAS-driven testing, hybrid retrieval with re-ranking, and SHAP explainability dashboards to align model behavior with merchandising business KPIs.

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Key Strengths

  • Deployed AWS Bedrock agentic system for fraud/compliance, cutting manual investigation time by 50%+
  • Built compliance-grade GenAI safeguards (hallucination detection, PII redaction) for regulated banking use cases
  • Designed low-latency real-time ML pipelines (Spark Structured Streaming sub-second scoring) at high volume
  • Optimized model inference performance using ONNX and quantization
  • Production MLOps/infra delivery with Terraform + FastAPI on Kubernetes with autoscaling
  • End-to-end ML lifecycle automation with Airflow + MLflow (retraining, dependencies, versioning)
  • Metric-driven agent/RAG evaluation using golden datasets and RAGAS to prevent regressions
  • Operational monitoring for latency and concept drift using Prometheus/Grafana
  • Strong retrieval strategy design (hybrid keyword+semantic search with re-ranking) to improve precision and control cost
  • Effective cross-functional collaboration: aligned recommender optimization to business KPIs and delivered SHAP explainability dashboards

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Experience

AI Software EngineerU.S. Bank · Jan 2024 – Present
Machine Learning EngineerTarget · Jul 2023 – Dec 2023
Data ScientistInfosys · Jan 2021 – Oct 2022

Education

University of Massachusetts Dartmouthmaster, Data Science
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeethambachelor, Mechanical Engineering

Languages

English

Certifications

AWS Certified AI PractitionerAWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer AssociateTensorFlow Developer CertificateHugging Face AI Agent Fundamentals

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Naga Venkata PadalaMid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI, RAG, and real-time fraud detection