# Sree Sushma Damineni > AI/ML Engineer | LLMs, NLP & Fraud Detection | PySpark, AWS, MLOps | Building Scalable AI Systems for Financial Analytics Location: Florence, Kentucky, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/sreesushmadamineni AI/ML Engineer with 3+ years of experience developing machine learning, NLP, and LLM-based systems for financial and insurance analytics. Built distributed data pipelines and predictive models processing datasets exceeding 120M+ transaction and policy records to support fraud detection and risk modeling. Implemented scalable model deployment and monitoring workflows that supported 50+ production ML services across cloud environments, improving reliability of enterprise AI systems. ## Work Experience ### AI/ML Engineer @ FIS Jan 2025 – Present | United States • Engineered data preprocessing and feature engineering pipelines using PySpark and Databricks to process high-volume transaction and customer data for fraud detection and credit risk analysis, improving pipeline efficiency by 35%. • Integrated machine learning models for credit risk scoring and anomaly detection using LightGBM and Pandas, performing feature engineering, validation, and optimization to improve risk prediction performance. • Fine-tuned transformer-based NLP models for document classification using PyTorch and Hugging Face Transformers, extracting insights from reports, regulatory filings, and transaction narratives, improving accuracy by 22%. • Modeled RAG-based knowledge retrieval and QA systems using LangChain, FAISS, and Sentence Transformers, enabling contextual search across internal policies, financial documentation, and enterprise knowledge bases. • Developed and deployed LLM inference APIs using FastAPI and Docker, integrating model serving workflows with GitHub Actions CI/CD to automate deployments and reduce release time by 40%. • Orchestrated AI/ML training and deployment workflows using Kubernetes, Apache Airflow, and AWS SageMaker, supporting scalable model training and reducing deployment cycles by 30%. ### AI/ML Associate @ DXC Technology Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | India • Formulated data conditioning and feature generation pipelines for insurance claims and policy datasets using Python, Pandas, and NumPy to support risk prediction modeling, reducing data preparation time by 30%. • Architected insurance risk classification and claims severity prediction models using Scikit-learn and XGBoost, applying feature selection, cross-validation, hyperparameter tuning, and SHAP explainability to interpret underwriting risk drivers. • Designed and trained deep learning models to detect fraud and predict policyholder behavior using TensorFlow and PyTorch, implementing neural network architectures and batch training to improve fraud detection accuracy by 18%. • Conducted model experimentation and version-controlled ML development workflows using Git and GitHub, tracking experiments and improving reproducibility of machine learning development pipelines. • Containerized insurance analytics and fraud detection pipelines using Docker and MLflow, enabling experiment tracking and scalable deployment of underwriting and claims models, supporting 25+ training experiments per month. • Managed large-scale insurance policy and claims data pipelines using Snowflake and AWS Glue, integrating cloud warehousing with distributed processing workflows for actuarial analytics, processing 8M+ policy and claims records. • Built NLP pipelines for insurance claim notes using NLTK and ONNX, enabling entity extraction for fraud detection, processing 120K+ documents and testing federated learning for privacy-preserving models. ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science University of Missouri-Kansas City ### Bachelor of Technology - BTech in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering Shri Vishnu Engineering College for Women, Vishnupur, Kovvada Village, Bhimavaram, PIN-534202(CC-B0) ### Intermediate in Science Narayana Junior College - India ### Secondary School Education in General Studies Sanskriti Vidya Mandir ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sree-sushma-damineni --- Source: https://flows.cv/sreesushmadamineni JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/sreesushmadamineni/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-16