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Kushwanth Chowdary Kandala

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Principal AI Engineer | Agentic AI & Generative AI Leader | ML/LLM Expert | AI Software Engineering | Driving Scalable AI Solutions & Innovation
Washington, United States

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  • PointClickCare
    Principal AI Engineer
    PointClickCare
    May 2026 - Current (4 months)
  • Tmobile
    Principal Data Scientist, Agentic & Gen AI | AI Innovation Labs | T-Life App Easy Switch
    Tmobile
    May 2025 - May 2026 (1 year 1 month)
    Leads end-to-end Agentic AI system design and production engineering for T-Mobile’s T-Life app. Owns full delivery lifecycle from POC through production deployment, including architecture, microservices design, security hardening, TDD strategy, compliance, and observability at enterprise scale serving millions of customers. Selected accomplishments: ▸Architected CEO-announced Easy Switch feature (Formula 1 Las Vegas, Nov 2025) — 5-layer agentic pipeline enabling carrier switching in 15 minutes for 23M+ monthly active users across 90M+ app installs. ▸Built two-service microservices architecture on Kubernetes — established as T-Mobile AI Innovation Labs reference architecture adopted across teams. ▸Designed custom GraphRAG recommendation e
  • The Walt Disney Company
    Lead ML & Feature Engineer | Disney+ Account Sharing Detection & Subscriber Conversion
    The Walt Disney Company
    Feb 2025 - May 2025 (4 months)
    Led end-to-end ML system design and engineering for Disney+ account sharing detection and fraud prevention as a contract engagement: owning full pipeline architecture, feature store, MLOps infrastructure, and production deployment across hundreds of millions of accounts spanning US, Canada, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Selected accomplishments: ▸Rebuilt fraud detection and account-sharing pipeline from ground up — Python + Spark, feature store, MLOps infrastructure across hundreds of millions of accounts. ▸Engineered account detection system — ML-driven conversion pipeline directly attributed to migrating 5M+ password-sharing users to paid Disney+ subscriptions. ▸Owned full MLOps lifecycle — continuous training, drift detection, model optim
  • Tmobile
    Senior GenAI FullStack Data Scientist | Network Copilot Knowledge Services
    Tmobile
    Mar 2024 - Feb 2025 (1 year)
    Led design and production deployment of T-Mobile’s first multimodal conversational RAG system for Network Copilot, internal tooling serving T-Mobile engineering teams for automated network command generation and compliance validation against MOC/MOP procedures, supporting multi-turn reasoning over text and diagram-heavy documentation. Selected accomplishments: ▸Architected multimodal RAG pipeline — text, OCR, and image understanding over network diagrams using GPT-4o Vision; hybrid retrieval with semantic reranking always surfacing latest document versions. ▸Implemented multi-turn conversational AI — engineers ask follow-up questions naturally without losing context across the conversation, including reasoning over complex network diagram
  • Amazon
    Senior Software Engineer – Data, GEN AI/ML | Amazon FinTech | Real-Time Remittance Matching
    Amazon
    Aug 2021 - Mar 2024 (2 years 8 months)
    Designed and led delivery of Amazon FinTech’s real-time remittance matching system — a hybrid ML + Graph + GenAI financial reconciliation engine processing billions in remittances at petabyte scale across millions of daily transactions for Amazon’s global financial operations. Selected accomplishments: ▸Architected two-stage hierarchical ML matching system — serverless AWS deployment driving 5x productivity increase across Amazon FinTech finance engineering teams. ▸Designed GraphRAG retrieval layer over knowledge graph — graph-filtered retrieval dramatically reduced false positives and improved auto-match precision across billions in remittances at petabyte scale. ▸Built GenAI augmentation layer for ambiguous matching cases — dual-thresh
  • Duke Energy Corporation
    Senior Data & ML Engineer | Energy Grid Optimization & Customer Analytics
    Duke Energy Corporation
    Oct 2020 - Aug 2021 (11 months)
    Led ML engineering for energy grid optimization and customer analytics at Duke Energy — owned end-to-end pipeline design, model development, and production deployment in a regulated utility environment. Selected accomplishments: ▸Built end-to-end ML pipeline for energy grid optimization — improved forecasting accuracy by 20%, reduced energy costs by 20%. ▸Engineered churn prediction ML system — reduced pipeline processing time by 45% through architectural optimization. ▸Established MLOps standards for regulated utility environment — ensuring model reliability and compliance across grid operations.
  • Bank of America
    Application Programmer V | Credit Card Fraud Detection
    Bank of America
    Oct 2017 - Oct 2020 (3 years 1 month)
    Led ML engineering for credit card fraud detection at Bank of America — owned full model lifecycle from feature engineering through production deployment, real-time fraud signal processing, and cross-functional stakeholder reporting across a high-volume financial platform. Selected accomplishments: ▸Architected ML fraud detection system — real-time streaming and alerting dashboards; achieved 60% decrease in financial losses from fraud-related disputes. ▸Built end-to-end data pipeline integrating enterprise data sources with AWS — reduced data processing time by 45%. ▸Established MLOps standards and reporting — improving reporting efficiency by 25% across a high-volume financial platform.
  • Marlabs
    Software Engineer – Data/ML | Credit Risk & Loan Default Modeling
    Marlabs
    Feb 2017 - Oct 2017 (9 months)
    Built ML solutions for credit risk assessment and home loan default prediction at Marlabs — collaborated with underwriters, loan officers, and legal teams to translate credit risk requirements into production-grade models. Selected accomplishments: ▸Built credit risk ML models for home loan default prediction — reduced default-related financial losses by 30%. ▸Collaborated with underwriters and legal teams to translate credit risk requirements into production-grade ML solutions.
  • AM Logic Corp
    Software Engineer
    AM Logic Corp
    Aug 2016 - Dec 2016 (5 months)
    Delivered AI/ML solutions across insurance and healthcare client engagements at AMLogic — built data science products supporting cross-functional product teams. Selected accomplishments: ▸Delivered ML solutions across insurance and healthcare — improved customer experience by 25%, built 10 products reducing customer effort by 60% across 4 industries.
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  • University of Central Missouri
    Master's degree, Computer Science
    University of Central Missouri
  • Udacity
    Nano Degree, Computer Science
    Udacity
    Completed the Nano Degree by solving real-world Complex problems with vast understanding and knowledge in the area of Algorithms and Data Structures. Python scripting: for data manipulations, processing, Validation, and Analysis. Data Structures: using Lists, LinkedList, Trees, Map, and Hashing. Basic Algos: using Binary search, tries, heaps, sorting algos, divide and conquer algos. Advanced Algos: with Greedy Algos, Graph Algos, Dynamic programming and heuristic Approach (A*)
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