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Rakesh Deshalli Ravi

Mid-level Data Science & AI Engineer specializing in LLMs and cloud ML platforms

UpHealthDePaul UniversityLos Angeles, CA6 Years ExperienceMid LevelWorks On-Site

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Built and deployed an LLM-powered mental health therapy assistant at AppHealth that segments users by stress level and delivers personalized, non-medical guidance. Implemented healthcare-focused safety guardrails (secondary LLM output filtering) and a multi-agent router workflow validated via statistical tests and therapist review, then scaled training/inference on AWS (EC2/Lambda/DynamoDB) with Kubernetes.

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Key Strengths

  • Built and deployed a production mental-health therapy assistant using an LLM
  • End-to-end data acquisition strategy (online research + interviews + therapist-sourced data) to create representative training data
  • Iterative model improvement loop (testing, identifying failure modes, collecting more data, re-fine-tuning)
  • Implemented safety controls to prevent medical advice (output barrier + secondary LLM output checker)
  • Designed and evaluated a multi-agent workflow with a router agent; tested routing consistency across 50–150 similar queries
  • Validated subjective outputs with therapists to ensure alignment with professional guidelines
  • Scaled training/inference using AWS and Kubernetes; handled high API request volume via EC2 scaling
  • Balanced quality vs cost by managing token limits through prompt shortening and fine-tuning
  • Effective communication of LLM concepts and progress to non-technical stakeholders (therapists, CEO)

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Experience

LLM Evaluation & Code Review— Mercor IntelligenceMercor · Oct 2025 – Presentcontract
Computer Science AI/LLM TutorHandshake AI · Sep 2025 – Present
Data Science and AI EngineerUpHealth AI · Feb 2025 – Present
Consumer Data Analytics & AI InternBeats by Dre · Aug 2024 – Nov 2024internship
Data Science and Teaching AssistantDePaul University · Aug 2023 – Dec 2024part-time
Data Science Specialist - Retail Space PlanningLowe's · Sep 2022 – May 2023
Data ScientistAlpha Ventures · Jun 2021 – Sep 2022
Data AnalystMurugan Construction Works · Aug 2019 – May 2021

Education

DePaul Universitymaster, Data Science (2024)
Visvesvaraya Technological Universitybachelor, Engineering (2019)

Awards

  • Best Data Visualization and Stakeholder Communicator - Alpha Ventures
  • Summa Cum Laude - DePaul University
  • Merit Based Scholarship - DePaul University
  • First class with distinction - Visvesvaraya Technological University
  • Department Representative - Visvesvaraya Technological University

Languages

English

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Rakesh Deshalli RaviMid-level Data Science & AI Engineer specializing in LLMs and cloud ML platforms