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Shamala Chandrappa

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in agentic AI, LLM systems, and healthcare AI

Basata.aiSan Jose State UniversitySan Francisco, CA5 Years ExperienceMid Level

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Healthcare-focused ML/AI engineer who has built production voice agents and clinical question-answering systems end-to-end, from experimentation through deployment, observability, and iteration. Particularly strong in making LLM systems reliable in real workflows via RAG, fine-tuning, guardrails, evaluation pipelines, and shared Python tooling; cites ~20% clinical QA accuracy gains and ~40% faster physician decision turnaround.

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Key Strengths

  • owned production healthcare voice AI systems end-to-end
  • strong LLM/agent evaluation and observability design
  • translated agentic AI research into reliable production workflows
  • deep healthcare GenAI and clinical QA experience
  • combined fine-tuning and RAG for grounded clinical answers
  • improved clinical Q&A accuracy by around 20%
  • reduced physician decision turnaround time by around 40%
  • iterative production optimization using real conversation failure analysis
  • balanced latency, cost, quality, and safety tradeoffs in real-time AI systems
  • built reusable Python evaluation services that improved team velocity
  • established shared metrics across agents for regression detection and reliability

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Experience

AI Engineer - AI & LLM SafetyBasata.ai · Oct 2025 – Mar 2026
AI Researcher: LLM Evaluation & BenchmarkingMercor · Dec 2025 – Jan 2026
AI/ML Engineer - AI & LLM SafetySan José State University Research Foundation · Jan 2025 – Oct 2025
Data and AI EngineerPeoplelens.ai · Jun 2024 – Aug 2024
Senior Software Engineer - Development, ML & Data PlatformsFIS · Jul 2019 – Jul 2023

Education

San Jose State Universitymaster, Data Science (2025)
CMR Institute of Technologybachelor, Computer Science and Engineering (2019)

Awards

  • Best Employee of the Quarter Award - FIS Global
  • Exceptional Female Employee Award - FIS Global
  • Multiple Shout-outs for excellence in project delivery - FIS Global

Languages

English

Certifications

AI Agents and Agentic AI in Python: Powered by Generative AI Specialisation by Vanderbilt UniversityIBM Python for Data Science, AI, and Development Professional CertificateDatabases and SQL for Data Science with PythonGoogle Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure

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Shamala ChandrappaMid-level AI Engineer specializing in agentic AI, LLM systems, and healthcare AI