Poornima D.

About Me

Dynamic AI/ML Engineer with extensive experience in developing and deploying advanced AI solutions across healthcare and cloud environments. Engineered a RAG chatbot that reduced response latency from 30 seconds to under 3 seconds, significantly enhancing user engagement and satisfaction. Designed and implemented a personalized recommender system for the Psoriasis community, achieving a 75% reduction in output latency through MLOps techniques. Expert in Python, TensorFlow, and distributed computing, with a proven track record in building scalable AI systems and mentoring junior engineers.

AI, ML & LLM

AWS Bedrock MLFlow XML Deep Learning Machine Learning Large Language Models (LLMs) OpenAI LangChain LlamaIndex Langgraph

Frontend

Backend

Database

DevOps

Workflow

Other

Qdrant Kubeflow Al Agents Prompt Engineering Langfuse Recommender Systems Data Analytics Distributed Computing Model Deployment Tensorflow Natural language processing Computer Vision GenAI Linux Keras Scikit Learn Agentic Al CrewAl LLaMA

Work history

Inspire Analytics
Machine Learning Engineer
2022 - 2026 (4 years)
Remote
  • Engineered and launched a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) chatbot for healthcare, achieving user-friendly, accurate responses to queries by grounding answers in User Generated Content (UGC) and minimizing hallucinations.

  • Designed and implemented a RAG-based recommender system that integrates external health information with internal data, successfully recommending relevant posts, communities, and articles to various user segments.

  • Mentored junior engineers on Al principles and best practices, promoting a culture of ongoing learning and teamwork and ensured compliance with healthcare and organizational regulations by implementing data privacy measures and conducting regular audits.

RAG Qdrant ChromaDB MLOpsPython
HCL Technologies
Lead Software Engineer
2018 - 2022 (4 years)
Remote
  • Achieved successful object detection and tracking in Computer Vision by building various stages of the ML lifecycle using TensorFlow, Keras, and YOLO.

  • Enhanced model training efficiency by developing distributed training code for TensorFlow/Keras, optimizing performance on both CPU and GPU environments.

  • Created deployable ML workloads for production clusters with Kubeflow, while effectively tracking performance metrics using MLFlow and facilitated secure application deployment across multiple cloud environments by leveraging Cisco's CloudCenter Suite.

Axcensa Technologies Pvt Ltd
Python Developer
2018 - 2018
Remote
  • Created efficient Python and XML code for Cornerstone Wines, Singapore, resulting in improved system performance and user experience.

  • Streamlined sales processes by integrating multiple platforms with the Odoo Framework, enhancing operational efficiency.

  • Customized web pages using JavaScript, CSS, Python, and XML, leading to a more engaging and user-friendly interface and conducted thorough testing for Chameleon Codewing Limited, UK, identifying and resolving issues to ensure high-quality software delivery.

PythonXMLJavaScriptCSSOdoo Framework

Education

Education
Safe and Reliable Al via Guardrails
Deeplearning.ai
Education
Multi Al Agent Systems with CrewAl
Deeplearning.ai
Education
Building and Evaluating Advanced RAG
Deeplearning.ai
Education
Finetuning LLMs
Deeplearning.ai
Education
Advanced Retrieval for Al with Chroma
Deeplearning.ai
Education
Bachelor of Engineering
St.Peter's College of Engineering And Technology
2014