Prototypes delivered
Machine Learning Engineer
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Innovation @ Southern Company || ML @ Georgia Tech
Atlanta Metropolitan Area
Machine Learning Engineer and Software Developer shipping cloud-native AI products for healthcare, enterprise energy, and consulting organizations.
Production results across AI + enterprise systems
Manual hand-offs reduced
Runtime errors reduced
IoT preprocessing improvement
Teams, platforms, and ecosystems
Career Timeline
AI Integration Engineer
Southern Company • Aug 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&T • Oct 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
Cognizant • Jun 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 Health • May 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 Services • May 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 Global • Aug 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.
Live project stack with card swap
Agentic Workflow Orchestration
Deterministic AI workflow engine with retrieval, triage, validation, and error correction layers for enterprise business processes.

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
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!!