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Kappala Saikumar

Machine Learning Engineer with 3.5+ years of experience building enterprise-scale AI systems using LLMs,

agentic architectures, knowledge graphs, and ontologies. Specialized in representation learning,

contrastive learning, and end-to-end automated ML pipelines that enable multi-hop reasoning, semantic

normalization, and AI-driven decision making across HR and talent intelligence platforms.

  • Role

    Product Development Engineer I

  • Years of Experience

    3.5 years

  • Professional Portfolio

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Skillsets

  • Python
  • Elasticsearch
  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • FastAPI
  • LangChain
  • Januggraph
  • AWS
  • Bitbucket
  • Confluence
  • Docker
  • Git
  • MongoDB
  • PyCharm
  • Vscode

Professional Summary

3.5Years
  • Jun, 2022 - Present3 yr 9 months

    Product Development Engineer I

    Phenom People
  • Dec, 2021 - Apr, 2022 4 months

    Machine Learning Intern

    Phenom People
  • Jun, 2021 - Jul, 2021 1 month

    Data Science Intern

    ExamLounge

Applications & Tools Known

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    Git

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    AWS

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    Bitbucket

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    Confluence

Work History

3.5Years

Product Development Engineer I

Phenom People
Jun, 2022 - Present3 yr 9 months
    Part of a team building an Employee Relationship Management (ERM) app for HRBPs to access comprehensive employee data, manage promotions, recommend courses and mentors, and provide company-level insights. Created a web-based chatbot for ERM-related queries, providing instant access to company data and ongoing development of a multi-level query answering global chatbot. Developing a graph-based enterprise level embedding model for candidate and job recommendations, and built a BERT transformer model for role level prediction, enhancing progression recommendations. Built a Streamlit-based web app in Python to analyze job market trends, skills demand, and load company data into ERM, enhancing data-driven decision-making.

Machine Learning Intern

Phenom People
Dec, 2021 - Apr, 2022 4 months
    Engaged in understanding and developing machine learning technologies essential for product development. Designed and implemented a data preprocessing service for integrating data from NoSQL and graph databases. Initiated the training of an enterprise-level transformer model for generating text embeddings.

Data Science Intern

ExamLounge
Jun, 2021 - Jul, 2021 1 month
    Developed user-level update and question recommendation projects. Utilized Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT) to recommend personalized sets of questions to users. Applied Item Response Theory (IRT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) models to estimate relevant parameters for recommendations. Updated user proficiency levels using a mathematical model based on their performance. Enhanced user engagement and accuracy of question difficulty prediction.

Achievements

  • Won a Silver medal and finished in the top 100 out of 2600 participants in Google Brain-Ventilator Pressure Prediction Competition
  • Received Certificate of Merit for finishing in the top 10 percentile (top 2 from NIT Rourkela) out of around 1000 participants in the private leaderboard of The GHF Hackathon, organized by Univ.AI.

Education

  • Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering

    National Institute of Technology Rourkela (2022)