Balaji Srikar Bobbiganipalli
Minneapolis,MN
Summary
AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative and Agentic AI, focused on delivering intelligent automated solutions for complex business challenges. Expertise in designing scalable AI frameworks that optimize operations and enhance decision-making, resulting in measurable business impact. Currently advancing research in multimodal systems to develop adaptable, enterprise-grade intelligence.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr. AI/ML Engineer
Best Buy
Minneapolis, Minnesota
02.2023 - Current
- Developed multiple GenAI applications integrating closed-source and open-source LLMs for order management and logistics forecasting, enhancing cross-team decision workflows.
- Developed and optimized domain-specific LLMs through advanced fine-tuning and distributed training on NVIDIA A100 clusters, enhancing contextual reasoning and efficiency in production-scale GenAI systems.
- Deployed custom LLM solutions for enterprise logistics systems, serving over 10,000 daily operations with automated fulfillment insights.
- Built multi-agent systems for intelligent inventory planning and logistics coordination, enabling real-time operational alignment and reducing stock imbalances by ~25% through proactive decision automation.
- Developed a hybrid RAG framework integrating dense, sparse, and knowledge-graph retrieval strategies to enhance contextual grounding and cut generative hallucination by 30%.
- Architected and optimized agentic pipelines using specialized Small Language Models (SLMs) for high-speed, context-aware reasoning—reducing latency by ~40% and enabling real-time, data-driven logistics automation.
- Delivered over 20 PoCs and more than 5 MVPs in GenAI, Forecasting, and NLP for logistics intelligence; achieved 48% cost savings and improved forecast accuracy by 37%.
- Constructed forecasting models and improving logistics efficiency by 33% and generating $2.4 million in annual operational savings.
Machine Learning Engineer
Optum
Eden Prairie, Minnesota
10.2018 - 01.2023
- Developed encoder-based Transformer models (BERT, ClinicalBERT, T5) to auto-extract key fields from EHRs and prefill claim forms, accelerating claim submission by 62 %.
- Built GenAI-powered NLP assistants to summarize medical documentation and flag inconsistencies for eligibility verification, increasing operational throughput by 47 %.
- Built early GenAI models for clinical summarization and context-aware entity extraction, improving documentation efficiency and forming the foundation for enterprise-scale medical text understanding—boosting processing throughput by ~35%.
- Designed and deployed predictive models for patient readmission, cost forecasting, and utilization trends using gradient-boosted trees and temporal feature engineering, improving forecasting precision by 28 %.
- Developed ML pipelines for anomaly detection and risk stratification, reducing false-positive alerts by 35 % and enabling faster claims validation.
- Implemented MLOps frameworks on AWS (SageMaker + Airflow + MLflow) with continuous monitoring and automated retraining, achieving 99.8 % uptime across production models.
- Partnered with cross-functional teams to productionize ML workflows via containerized deployments, version-controlled releases, and automated drift detection—cutting manual maintenance by 40 %.
Front End Developer
Walt Disney Studios
Orlando, Florida
11.2017 - 09.2018
- Architected large-scale micro-frontend ecosystem with React 18 and TypeScript, utilizing Webpack Module Federation and NX monorepos to reduce integration overhead by 40 percent.
- Implemented enterprise design system and component library in Storybook with Tailwind CSS and TypeScript interfaces, achieving pixel-perfect consistency across 10 Disney+ web properties.
Front End Engineer
Office Depot Inc
Boca Raton, Florida
05.2017 - 10.2017
- Redesigned e-commerce platform architecture with React, TypeScript, and Redux Toolkit.
- Migrated legacy JavaScript modules to a modular codebase, improving build stability by fifty-five percent.
Education
Master of Science - Electrical Engineering
San Francisco Bay University
San Francisco, CA08-2016
Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical And Electronics Engineering
SCSVMV University
Kanchipuram, India05-2014
Ph.D. - Computer Engineering
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FLSkills
Data Preprocessing & Feature Engineering
Python, PySpark, Pandas, NumPy, SQL, Airflow, Prefect, Scikit-learn Pipelines, Featuretools
Machine Learning
Scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM, CatBoost, SHAP, LIME, Optuna
Deep Learning
PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, Hugging Face Transformers
Time-Series Forecasting
Prophet, N-BEATS, PatchTST, TimesNet, TiDE, ARIMA
Generative & Agentic AI
- Frameworks: LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, LlamaIndex
- Prompting & Orchestration: ReAct, Reflexion, Chain-of-Thought, Tree-of-Thought, PromptTemplate, RAG, Function Calling
- Evaluation & Tools: LangSmith, PromptFlow, Weights & Biases, MLflow
Fine-Tuning & Adaptation
LoRA, QLoRA, PEFT, SFT, DPO, PPO, TRL, Axolotl
Vector Databases & Retrieval Systems
FAISS, Qdrant, Pinecone, ChromaDB
Knowledge Graphs
Neo4j, NetworkX
Multimodal Systems & Cross-Domain AI
CLIP, BLIP-2, LLaVA, Whisper
Orchestration & MLOps
Docker, Kubernetes, MLflow, Airflow, Ray, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, FastAPI
Cloud & Deployment
AWS (Bedrock, SageMaker, Lambda, EC2, ECS, S3), Azure ML, GCP Vertex AI
Visualization & Front-End Integration
Plotly, Tableau, Streamlit, Gradio, React, Nextjs, TypeScript, Redux
Certification
Deep Learning Specialization - DeepLearning.AI
TensorFlow Developer Certification - DeepLearning.AI
Building RAG Agents with LLMs - NVIDIA
Rapid Application Development with Large Language Models (LLMs) - NVIDIA
Introduction to Transformer-Based Natural Language Processing -NVIDIA
Timeline
Sr. AI/ML Engineer
Best Buy
02.2023 - Current
Machine Learning Engineer
Optum
10.2018 - 01.2023
Front End Developer
Walt Disney Studios
11.2017 - 09.2018
Front End Engineer
Office Depot Inc
05.2017 - 10.2017
Master of Science - Electrical Engineering
San Francisco Bay University
Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical And Electronics Engineering
SCSVMV University
Ph.D. - Computer Engineering
Florida Atlantic University