AI/ML Engineer · Project Manager, AI Operations

Rakshith Roy
Gantagogula

Building production AI: RAG, agents, and LLM platforms. Leading AI Ops and full-stack GenAI delivery.

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About Me

Senior AI/ML engineer and technical lead with 3+ years delivering production-grade machine learning and generative AI across financial services, healthcare, and enterprise technology. I architect and ship scalable systems—distributed LLM training and inference, RAG pipelines, agent orchestration, and MLOps—and lead cross-functional AI Operations teams to measurable outcomes in productivity, cost efficiency, and reliability.

Spotlight

Featured highlights

  • Production AI & RAG

    Customer-facing chatbot with RAG, LangGraph, BigQuery/Neon, and Azure AI Foundry on Cloud Run.

  • Scalable LLM platform

    Multi-billion parameter LLMs; GPT-4/Claude agents; CrewAI PR agent cutting review time by 30%.

  • MLOps & ETL at scale

    DynamoDB to PostgreSQL ETL, FastAPI + React UI; Pulumi, Docker, Bedrock & Azure ML.

  • AI Operations leadership

    Leading cross-functional AI Ops teams; roadmap planning, sprint execution, and production reliability.

  • Full-stack GenAI delivery

    Backend (Python, APIs, agent architecture) and frontend (React, TypeScript) for AI-enabled applications.

Work & research

Projects

A showcase of my academic and personal projects demonstrating practical solutions and technical depth.

LLM Assistant (RAG Pipeline)

Jan 2023 – May 2023

The University of Texas at Dallas (Masters)

Built a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline using LangChain and Opensearch to reduce hallucinations in LLM outputs. Designed prompt templates and evaluators to improve response accuracy and relevance.

LangChainOpensearchPythonRAG
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Clinical RAG Assistant for Provider Notes

Jan 2024 – May 2024

The University of Texas at Dallas (Masters)

Built a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) assistant for clinical notes using LangChain, FAISS, and OpenAI/Claude for summarization and Q&A. Implemented chunking (recursive), metadata filtering, and prompt templates with guardrails to reduce hallucinations. Achieved ~32% reduction in time-to-answer in a class study.

LangChainOpenAIClaudeFAISSPythonFastAPI
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ETL Job Monitor with LLM Alerts

Aug 2023 – Dec 2023

The University of Texas at Dallas (Masters)

Designed an ETL monitoring dashboard with anomaly detection and LLM-based natural language alerts. Pipe raw logs → DynamoDB → Postgres; exposed status APIs and a React UI. Added a small GenAI layer for 'Explain this failure' powered by prompt chains.

AWSDynamoDBPostgreSQLReactLangChainPythonFastAPI
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H&M Personalized Fashion Recommendations

Jan 2023 – May 2023

The University of Texas at Dallas (Masters)

Engineered a recommendation engine combining collaborative filtering and lightweight transformers on product text. Preprocessed millions of interactions with Pandas/NumPy; evaluated with MAP@K.

PythonPandasNumPyScikit-learnPyTorch
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Experience

Production AI, platform engineering, and technical leadership across startups and enterprises.

Current

Advanced Management USA, LLC· Full-time · 6 mosUSA

Project Manager, AI Operations

Present · Current

Led AI Operations initiatives as Project Manager, managing a cross-functional team of 4–5 engineers and overseeing roadmap planning, sprint execution, and production reliability.

LeadershipAI OperationsProject ManagementTeam LeadershipRoadmap Planning

AI Application Developer

Sep 2025 – Dec 2025 · 3 mos

Architected and deployed a production-grade AI chatbot integrated into a customer-facing application using RAG and YAML-configured GPT tool endpoints enabling real-time data retrieval from BigQuery and Neon (PostgreSQL), including autonomous SQL query generation.

Application DevelopmentPythonReactLangGraphRAGAzure AI Foundry

Jul 2024 – Sep 2025

CGI Inc.USA
AI/ML Engineer

Worked on AI/ML platform for scalable distributed training, finetuning, and inference supporting multi-billion parameter LLMs and hundreds of AI Agents.

PythonLangChainCrewAIFastAPIAWS BedrockAzure MLPulumiDocker

Jan 2024 – Jul 2024

Xnode.aiUSA
AI Engineer Intern

Developed secure microservices in FastAPI for Slack integration, enabling storage and retrieval of messages in SQLite.

PythonFastAPILangChainAzure Key VaultJWTSQLite

Dec 2021 – Mar 2022

Hexaware TechnologiesIndia
Machine Learning Engineer Intern

Designed and deployed an automated churn prediction system using ML algorithms (Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, Gradient Boosting), improving customer retention by 25%.

PythonScikit-learnBERTFlaskETL

Background

Education

Formal training in AI/ML, cloud, and software engineering.

The University of Texas at Dallas

Master's in Information Technology and Management

The University of Texas at Dallas

Texas, USAAug 2022 – May 2024

Focus on AI, ML, and cloud systems. Built RAG pipelines (LangChain, Opensearch), prompt templates, and evaluators; coursework in ML, data engineering, and distributed systems.

Relevant coursework

Machine Learning & Generative AICloud Computing & Big DataAdvanced Database ManagementData Structures & AlgorithmsDistributed Systems

Bachelor's in Computer Science and Engineering

Pragati Engineering College

Andhra Pradesh, IndiaJun 2018 – May 2022

Foundation in algorithms, databases, and software engineering.

Relevant coursework

Systems ProgrammingDatabasesSoftware Engineering

Expertise

Skills & Technologies

A curated showcase of technical expertise—click nodes to explore categories and connections.

Programming
ML & AI
MLOps & APIs
Cloud
Data

Credentials

Certifications & Achievements

Continuous learning keeps me ahead in tech. These credentials validate my skills in cloud, DevOps, and software engineering.

Databricks

Databricks Generative AI Fundamentals

Databricks

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Amazon Web Services

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Amazon Web Services

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HashiCorp

HashiCorp Terraform Associate (003)

HashiCorp

Certification Badge
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Life

Beyond Work

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Exploring the world fuels my creativity. Traveling to different places, capturing breathtaking landscapes, and embracing new cultures is what inspires me beyond writing code. Every journey is a story, and every photo is a memory frozen in time.