Machine Learning Engineer

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Innovation @ Southern Company || ML @ Georgia Tech

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

Agentic SystemsApplied NLPCloud-Ready MLOpsFull-Stack AI Products

Machine Learning Engineer and Software Developer shipping cloud-native AI products for healthcare, enterprise energy, and consulting organizations.

Impact

Production results across AI + enterprise systems

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Prototypes delivered

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Manual hand-offs reduced

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Runtime errors reduced

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IoT preprocessing improvement

Network

Teams, platforms, and ecosystems

Southern Company
AT&T
Georgia Tech
Cognizant
Elevance Health
AWS
LangGraph
Snowflake
Southern Company
AT&T
Georgia Tech
Cognizant
Elevance Health
AWS
LangGraph
Snowflake
Experience

Career Timeline

AI Integration Engineer

Southern CompanyAug 2025 - Present

  • Built and maintained low-latency .NET Core APIs to serve production ML inference.
  • Integrated model outputs into enterprise systems with reliability-first deployment standards.
  • Prototyped Swift iOS interfaces to surface real-time monitoring insights for energy teams.

Generative AI Architect

AT&TOct 2025 - Present

  • Designed deterministic, tool-driven LLM agents with LangChain and LangGraph.
  • Implemented validation layers that reduced runtime parameter failures by around 65%.
  • Shipped guarded human-gate approvals for critical autonomous actions in enterprise flow.

Machine Learning Engineer

CognizantJun 2025 - Aug 2025

  • Benchmarked model performance across multiple NVIDIA GPU generations for throughput tuning.
  • Applied quantization and pruning strategies for reduced memory footprint and stable latency.
  • Contributed custom runtime optimization approaches in C++ and ONNX Runtime.

Data Science Intern

Elevance HealthMay 2025 - Aug 2025

  • Designed rule-based anomaly checks across policy, provider, and coverage fields.
  • Built PDF-to-structured-data pipelines with pandas and robust extraction logging.
  • Containerized workflow in Docker for consistent handoff to operations and DevOps teams.

Software Engineer

Amazon Web ServicesMay 2024 - Aug 2024

  • Wrote and aligned technical design docs across product, security, and platform engineering.
  • Delivered high-coverage tests that lowered regression risk during deployment windows.
  • Improved telemetry and reduced average request latency in customer workloads by ~18%.

Software Engineer Intern

Nexcen GlobalAug 2023 - Dec 2023

  • Reduced binary startup time by 35% and crash frequency by 30% by reworking memory allocation patterns and fixing 20+ concurrency and lifetime defects.
  • Diagnosed and resolved critical memory safety issues using gdb, ASan/TSan, valgrind, and Linux core dump analysis.
  • Improved build pipeline reliability by refactoring CMake configurations and integrating sanitizer passes into CI for faster developer feedback.
Projects

Live project stack with card swap

LangGraph, Python, Postgres

Agentic Workflow Orchestration

Deterministic AI workflow engine with retrieval, triage, validation, and error correction layers for enterprise business processes.

>80% first-pass acceptance
Agentic Workflow Orchestration preview
Credentials

Expanded certification portfolio

PyTorch Essential Training: Deep Learning

LinkedIn Learning

Model architecture and practical neural network development

Hackerrank: Software Engineer Intern

HackerRank

Algorithmic problem solving and engineering fundamentals

Introduction to Prompt Engineering for Generative AI

Coursera

Prompt strategy design for reliable LLM output

Advanced NLP with Python for Machine Learning

Udemy

Tokenization, embeddings, and NLP pipeline optimization

Cloud Systems Software

Academic Certification

Distributed systems, deployment, and cloud runtime patterns

Databricks and Spark ML Workshop Completion

Enterprise Internal Program

Large-scale data processing and ML workflow orchestration

GPU Optimization for Inference Pipelines

Industry Workshop

ONNX Runtime acceleration, precision tuning, and CUDA optimization

Agentic Systems Design with LangGraph

Professional Learning Track

Deterministic agent graphs, tool selection, and validation layers

Languages

Flowing language profile

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Are you authorized to work in USA?

Yes, US Citizen.

Are you willing to relocate?

Yes, just not to Arkansas.

What kind of role do you prefer?

Software Engineering roles with strong AI/ML focus.

What is the best way to reach you?

Email: work.karan2001@gmail.com

Pineapple on Pizza?

Nah. (Non-negotiable)

Marvel or DC?

DC all the way!!