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MUNI KOTESWARA
GENERATIVE AI - LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS - DATA SCIENCE
Data scientist with a foundational analytical background, enriched by a recent focus on generative AI. Committed to leveraging data for insightful decisions and driving AI innovation. Ready to bring my blend of experience and passion for continuous learning to a team dedicated to advancing data-driven technologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS
o Programming Language & Tools: Python, SAS E-Miner, NumPy, Pandas, Streamlit, Flask
o Generative AI and Frameworks: Gen AI, Llama 2, OpenAI, Falcon, Mistral, Huggingface Transformers, LangChain, LlamaIndex
o Vector Embedding Models: Sentence Transformers, text-embedding-ada, Huggingface
o Databases: Vector Database, ChromaDB, Milvus, Pinecone, Weaviate
o DevOps & Deployment: AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, SAS Visual Analytics, GCP including EC2, VMs, Sagemaker, Vertex AI, AML, ACR, ACI, Compute Engines etc
o Visualization Tools: Power BI, Matplotlib, Seaborn,
o Deep and Machine Learning Algorithms and Packages: Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, k-Nearest Neighbors (k-NN), k-Means, Decision Tree, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Ensemble Methods (Random Forest, Gradient Boosting, Bagging, AdaBoost), Dimensionality Reduction (PCA, Factor Analysis, Matrix Factorization), Recommendation Systems, Support Vector Machines (SVM), , SciPy, OpenCV, Theano, Keras, Spacy

EDUCATION
Master s Degree (Master of Computer Applications)
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India
Bachelor s Degree (Statistics & Mathematics)
Andhra University, India
PROFILE SUMMARY
o Generative AI Expertise: Proven track record in developing and scaling AI solutions using advanced frameworks like LangChain and LlamaIndex, driving innovation in generative technologies.
o Database Optimization: In-depth experience in managing and optimizing vector databases such as ChromaDB and Pinecone, significantly enhancing data retrieval processes for AI applications.
o LLM Customization: Competent in implementing and fine-tuning a variety of LLM models (open-source and proprietary), tailoring generative solutions to align with specific project needs and performance benchmarks.
o Cloud Deployment: Demonstrated proficiency in utilizing AWS & Azure services along with on-prem infra for the deployment of AI models, ensuring scalability and reliability in cloud services for complex AI operations.
o Project Leadership: Strong leadership in cross-functional teams, delivering data-driven solutions and insights that have consistently surpassed strategic goals in fast-paced environments.
EXPERIENCE
Data Scientist, Gen AI
Centene Corporation, USA Oct 2023 Till Date
o Collaborated with diverse business units and stakeholders to elicit requirements, develop initial LLM model blueprints, and refine the proposed design in collaboration with architects.
o Engineered and implemented an advanced customer service chatbot utilizing Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance user engagement and streamline support functions.
o Optimized predictive model accuracy by meticulously adjusting prompt engineering, chunking size, experimenting different Embedding techniques
o Spearheaded the enhancement of a Retrieval-Augmented Generation RAG model by implementing advanced re-ranking algorithms, significantly improving response accuracy and relevance in complex query scenarios
o Analyzed the business, its products, customer base, and market landscape to plan a cost-effective and secure LLM model that facilitates user interaction
o Develop the model in Pycharm & test prior to creating docker images.
o Create docker images & push to respective cloud platform like Az Container Registry or Google Artifact Registry
o Tag the images to AZ App services, or VMs for compute in Azure or App Engines in google and AWS ELastic Beanstalk.
o Automated ML lifecycle with integrated models in Azure DevOps for version control, CI/CD, and deployment.
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o Closely work with Annotators to produce the Annotations on the selected data which is crucial to evaluate the output accuracy during the model build & testing.
o Work with DevOps teams on the model deployment, monitor the deployment & performance.
o Regular interactions with the business teams on the impact of newly deployed products to monitor the model efficiency.

Data Scientist
Digi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd, HCL, India Mar 2021 - Sep 2023
o Optimized predictive model accuracy by meticulously adjusting hyperparameters, resulting in a significant improvement in the F1 score.
o Addressed the challenged outputs with various experiments using different text splitters, chunking techniques, RAG methodologies & prompt templates etc
o Fine tune the RAG outputs with the help of RAGAS, Reranking, Recall techniques.
o Experimented additional Embedding models for vector embedding including Cohere, OpenAI ada, HuggingFace as part of streamlining the overall pipeline.
o Based on input data, trial, test & evaluate which chunking strategies works well, which embedded model could give better semantic indexing & how to manipulate the output using different ways of prompt templates, RAG architecture.
o Research on what other models are available in the market with respect to security, pricing, accuracy & efficiency etc & provide the analysis to business units based on their requirements & budgets.
o Coordinate with multiple departments to collect relevant historical data, work with Data engineers for data processing & sit with stakeholders to finalize the business requirements.
o Engineering and deploying a potent Deep Neural Network using Python to forecast customer churn, fortifying customer retention efforts. This would involve using Python's rich ecosystem of machine learning libraries like Keras or Scikit-Learn. Maintained a centralized model registry for versioning and sharing machine learning models.
o Built data-driven solutions leveraging ML, Generative AI (Llama 2), and Deep Learning to tackle business challenges.
o Streamlined large-scale data analysis via integrated ML models in Azure Databricks
o Optimized NLP workflows by integrating re-ranking mechanisms into RAG models, achieving a marked increase in precision for dynamically generated content across diverse datasets.
o Spearheaded the enhancement of a Retrieval-Augmented Generation model by implementing advanced re-ranking algorithms, significantly improving response accuracy and relevance in complex query scenarios
o Automated ML lifecycle with integrated models in Azure DevOps for version control, CI, and deployment.
o Evaluate the RAG performance using metrics including Accuracy, Faithfulness, Answer Relevancy etc for generation quality.
o Utilized AWS sagemaker and titian foundation models to build, train, and deploy machine learning and LLM models at scale.
o Closely work with Annotators to produce the Annotations on the selected data which is crucial to evaluate the output accuracy during the model build.
o Work with DevOps teams on the model deployment, monitor the deployment & performance.
o Regular interactions with the business team on the impact of newly deployed products to monitor the model efficiency.
o Identified and rectified deficiencies in existing business protocols by applying predictive analytics to strengthen churn detection capabilities.
o Analyzed claims data to uncover diverse churn scenarios, including geo-location patterns, location-specific frauds, duplicate billing, upcoding, and excessive modifier usage.
o used clustering techniques to classify based on their usage, location, subscription packages
o Optimized the output by working on weights & Biases, back propagation & epochs.

Data Science, Associate Consultant
Manulife Insurance, DXC Technology, Malaysia Dec 2018 Feb 2021
o Work with Data engineers to collect and organize datasets, including images, and metadata.
o Coordinate with engineers for data clean and preprocess data using Python libraries like Pandas and NumPy for normalization, handling missing data
o Implemented an automated extraction and analysis of key details from accident reports, streamlining the claims verification process and improving the accuracy
o work with the Architect on the model design & associate with the team on the model development with respective algorithms like CNN & YOLO.
o Deploy the model in cloud based service with DevOps team on the services including AWS S3, EC2, Lambda, IAM, CloudWatch
o Maintain comprehensive documentation of the development process & manage code versions and collaborate using GitHub.
o Monitor model performance using Amazon CloudWatch, adjust models and algorithms based on performance data & retraining the procedures.
o Reduced fraudulent claims by 20% through automated image analysis of accident scenes, leading to significant cost savings for the company.
o Enhanced processing speed by 30%, improving claim resolution times and customer satisfaction.

Senior System Specialist
Dnata, DXC Technology, Malaysia Aug 2018 Dec 2018
o CAT1 tickets to work on Wintel related tasks
o Plan cluster VM migrations to avoid concurrent moves of active & passive nodes.
o Performed ESXI host patching from VMware update manager.
o Deployed VMware Horizon VDI Instances and creating over 10,000+ desktops by building an entirely new infrastructure of Horizon View 7.x also integrated with existing Infrastructure
o Installed and configured VMware Horizon VDI View Connection Servers
o Image life cycle management for VDI deployment in the infrastructure with respect to project & departments
o Supported VMware farm hosted on Nutanix hyperconverged platform thru Prism Element/Central.
o Troubleshoot issues over ESXi hosts, VCSA thru PuTTy CLi and also HW console for HP & Dell etc
o vSwitch, port groups, Storage, cluster HA & DRS configurations


Infra Project Engineer
Visa Worldwide, Geco, Singapore Jun 2017 Mar 2018
o Implemented Zerto tool for on-prem to cloud migration project & completed the project earlier than project timeline.
o Weekly decks presentation to customer on capacity for existing infrastructure including Compute & storage for both cloud & non-cloud platforms.
o Quarterly security pathing for hosts using LCM & addressing the vulnerabilities identified by periodic scanning of servers.
o Configuring and managing ESXi Clusters with HA Settings and Customizing HA for Virtual Machines.
o Work with datacenter field engineers for new server setup & installations & coordinate for Hardware related issues along with Vendor support.
o Upgrade HP iLO, Dell iDRAC FW & HW components including array, NW, HBA card etc from respective vendor bundles followed by Server OS version & Firmware.
o Based on business requests, convert physical servers to virtual (P2V) & V2V for case to case requirements.
o Perform DR/BCP along with SAN replication, Network, applications, DB, App servers failover etc.
o Support GPO Group Policies, AD schema, Organization Units (OU) etc


Project Engineer
Schroders Investment Management, Robert Walters, Singapore Jan 2015 Jun 2017
o Plan, design new architecture where necessary to enhance existing vSphere VC infrastructure.
o Overall responsible for end-to-end project related tasks mainly in technical areas where to find out legacy systems, analyze the criticality, dependencies, negotiate with stakeholders, application & server owners on the design, schedule, capacity planning of new HW & in Virtual platform.
o Setup new HW in datacenter, configure RAID, Install ESXi & vCenter servers, configure cluster HA, DRS & deploy VMs with respective guest OS.
o Managing multiple vCenters with over 2000 esxi hosts in various regions hosting thousands of virtual machines including critical applications, databases, web servers etc.
o Installing, configuring & managing Virtual Center server. Experience on configuring data stores to ESX server using SCSI, iSCSI or LUN.
o Expertise in installation, configuration, and administration of Windows and VMWare servers
o Cluster configurations & maintenance for Windows, ESXi, SQL, File servers etc.
o Orchestrate ESXi host patch updates via Lifecycle manager
o Monitor vSphere farm using vROPs alerts & highlight issues identified to management for pro-active measurements.
o vCenter cluster configuration for HA, DRS, vMotion, SvMotion, affinity rules to keep mission critical VMs availability.
o Extract the WWPN & WWN from new hosts & existing hosts for additional/external storage provisioning.
o Work with SAN team for Zoning w.r.t ESXi hosts & storage device controllers
o Host grouping & storage LUNs provisioning based on cluster or standalone hosts requirements.
o Configure datastores in ESXi hosts & clusters & plan for datastore migrations from EMC to Pure storage.
o Troubleshoot vSphere related issues including vCenter, ESXi hosts & VMs. Collect detailed issue info from vROPs & fix the issues or raise a VMware support case accordingly.
o Propose latest technology & automate tasks to reduce infra resources by saving cost, resources, manpower.
o Analysis and negotiation on user requirements on the server resources for better capacity planning
o Work with the PMO team on new hardware procurements. Involve in delivery, set up of HW in DC & support discussions with vendors

System Engineer
Hewlett Packard, MindTeck, Singapore Jul 2014 Dec 2014
Project Engineer
CIMB Bank Berhad, Hanodale, Malaysia Jan 2012 Feb 2014

CERTIFICATIONS:
Amazon Web Services Cloud Architect certified
Microsoft Azure certified
VMware vSphere VCP certified
Keywords: continuous integration continuous deployment artificial intelligence machine learning business intelligence sthree database active directory rlang hewlett packard Arizona

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