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Maitraiyee Gautam

Anaheim,CA

Summary

Full-Stack Machine Learning Engineer with 7 years of experience delivering scalable AI solutions, from data pipelines to production deployment. Hands-on experience in entity resolution, recommendation systems, semantic search, and generative AI (RAG, LLM fine-tuning). Skilled in MLOps, big data technologies, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver measurable business impact.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Fetch Rewards Inc.
LA, CA
08.2024 - Current

Stack: PyTorch, NLP, Longformer, BERT, AWS SageMaker, LangChain, LangGraph, CometML, Grafana.

  • Trained HuggingFace Hydranet model via AWS SageMaker on 80K+ HTML e-receipts for structured extraction.
  • Implemented LLM-driven validation using LangGraph and LangChain, automating rerouting of invalid receipts to Labelbox with error-tagged comments, reducing QA triage time by 30%.
  • Deployed SageMaker inference endpoint managing over 100K receipts daily, validated with Locust benchmarking and shadow deployment across four environments.
  • Boosted discount field accuracy by 21%, improving entity linking match rate by 2% in basket- and item-level audits.
  • Monitored inference through Grafana, CloudWatch Logs, CometML, Slack Alerts, and PagerDuty to track volume, drift, and latency.
  • Mentored junior engineers on best practices in machine learning, coding standards and agile engineering principles.

Machine Learning Engineer

Fetch Rewards Inc.
LA, CA
10.2022 - 07.2024

Stack: Python, deep learning, NLP, LangChain, RAG, vector search, SageMaker, Bitbucket Pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes.

  • Trained the YOLOv8 model on over 60,000 receipt images using OCR and NER outputs to identify product group regions for entity linking.
  • Automated data preprocessing and training workflows in SageMaker, enabling real-time monitoring with Comet ML, and CloudWatch.
  • Deployed SageMaker inference endpoint, processing millions of receipts daily for over 12M users, including shadow traffic validation and A/B testing.
  • Achieved 4% improvement in accuracy match and 2.1% gain in product group accuracy, validated against 4K+ audited receipts.
  • Designed RAG pipeline utilizing LangChain and FAISS to retrieve answers from 500+ Confluence documents through semantic similarity.
  • Deployed Mistral 7B on SageMaker GPU endpoint, delivering real-time completions with sub-second latency.
  • Collaborated with DevOps to automate deployment of RAG microservice using Bitbucket CI/CD, Docker, and Kubernetes.
  • Integrated Slack SDK, reducing documentation-related engineering queries by approximately 40%.

Data Engineer - Machine Learning & AI Platforms

Fetch Rewards Inc.
LA, CA
10.2021 - 09.2022

Stack: Python, AWS, Vector search, Kafka, Flink, Airflow, Kubernetes, CI/CD (Bitbucket Pipelines), Apache Hudi, Spark, EMR, Snowflake

  • Engineered automated FAISS index update DAG, ingesting approximately 500 new retailers weekly to sustain current canonical store names.
  • Enforced precision of 98% and recall of 95% using dynamic and static evaluations to block low-performing updates.
  • Developed Kafka and Flink event-driven streaming pipelines, delivering real-time campaign metrics for advertiser optimization strategies.
  • Reduced decision time from seven days to hours by providing low-latency data feeds deployed on Kubernetes.
  • Constructed user purchase aggregate pipeline using SNS, Lambda, and SQS (DLQ) to process over 5 million daily purchase events with 99% delivery reliability.

Analytics Engineer

Fetch Rewards Inc.
LA, CA
06.2021 - 09.2021

Stack: Apache Hudi, Apache Spark (EMR), Amazon S3, Snowflake, AWS Glue, SQL.

  • Developed batch ingestion backup for offer contributions utilizing Apache Hudi on S3 with Spark on EMR, achieving 60% reduction in outage recovery time.
  • Integrated Hudi datasets into Snowflake, resulting in 35% decrease in ingestion costs and 40% enhancement in BI query performance.

Machine Learning Intern

Feeding America
Chicago, IL
06.2020 - 12.2020

Stack: Python, Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, XGBoost, Jupyter Notebook, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Recommendation, and Ranking.

  • Developed hybrid recommendation system to suggest optimal food categories for 200+ food banks in Feeding America network.
  • Applied collaborative filtering to analyze usage similarity and identify relevant candidates.
  • Trained XGBoost ranking model to score category-resource pairs based on cost, impact, fit.
  • Evaluated model performance using Recall@K and NDCG, achieving 23% improvement in top-5 recall over baseline.

Data Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
Mumbai, India
03.2017 - 05.2019

Stack: SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, MS SQL Server, T-SQL, Tableau, OLAP, Windows Server.

  • Built data pipelines and reporting architecture using SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, and SQL to process and analyze data from more than 9 banks.
  • Led reporting automation and OLAP cube design, reducing manual effort by 55%, and boosting regulatory reporting throughput 3x.

Education

Master of Science - Business Analytics

University of Illinois At Chicago
Chicago, IL
05.2021

Bachelor of Technology -

Rajasthan Technical University
India
06.2016

Skills

  • Languages: Python, Java, C, Go, Scala
  • Machine Learning & AI: PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, Scikit-learn, Hugging Face, JAX, CUDA, ONNX, NumPy, Pandas, OpenCV
  • Generative AI & LLMs: LangChain, LangGraph, LLaMA, Mistral 7B, LoRA/QLoRA Fine-tuning, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Prompt Engineering, Vector Databases (FAISS, Milvus), Semantic Search, OpenAI API
  • MLOps & Deployment: AWS SageMaker, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Helm, Apache Airflow, Bitbucket CI/CD, Grafana,Prometheus, CloudWatch, Comet ML
  • Data Engineering & Processing: Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Apache Spark, Kafka Connect, Hive, Hadoop, Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi, Trino, dbt
  • Databases & Storage: Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB, S3, HDFS
  • Certifications: Snowflake Certified Data Engineer

Timeline

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Fetch Rewards Inc.
08.2024 - Current

Machine Learning Engineer

Fetch Rewards Inc.
10.2022 - 07.2024

Data Engineer - Machine Learning & AI Platforms

Fetch Rewards Inc.
10.2021 - 09.2022

Analytics Engineer

Fetch Rewards Inc.
06.2021 - 09.2021

Machine Learning Intern

Feeding America
06.2020 - 12.2020

Data Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
03.2017 - 05.2019

Master of Science - Business Analytics

University of Illinois At Chicago

Bachelor of Technology -

Rajasthan Technical University
Maitraiyee Gautam