Sharmisha Yelapati
Professional Summary
AI Platform Engineer with 6 years of experience designing cloud-native data platforms, production-grade Python services, and agentic AI applications. Experienced in building MLOps pipelines, RAG/LLM orchestration, Databricks/Spark processing, streaming systems, and observability across regulated healthcare and financial domains. Delivered solutions processing 20+ TB/day, supported 5M+ healthcare claims/day, and improved release cadence and analytical latency through automation and platform reliability.
Technical Skills
Work Experience
- Engineered integrations and production Python services for an enterprise agentic AI platform (Sierra) used in commercial-card decline voice workflows, improving orchestration reliability for contact-center interactions.
- Owned triage and debugging across agent orchestration, API interactions, and async execution paths, isolating root causes using traces and transcripts to reduce incident triage time.
- Implemented bilingual journey-driven agent behaviors (English/Spanish) using dynamic tool invocation and contextual reasoning to support self-service and human-agent escalation.
- Integrated platform capabilities on GCP with secure gateways, REST interfaces, microservices, telephony systems, and WebSockets across six+ architectural layers to enable real-time voice experiences.
- Established observability across transcripts, traces, tool-invocation logs, and latency telemetry to identify conversational defects, integration failures, and performance bottlenecks.
- Contributed to MLOps readiness and CI/CD across development, staging, and production environments—adding prompt/version governance, simulations, automated validation, and snapshot-based release flows to meet audit requirements.
- Modernized the Payment Accuracy Management ecosystem using Azure Data Factory, Synapse Analytics, and Databricks to process 5M+ healthcare claims daily and accelerate anomaly detection by 40%.
- Designed distributed Python and Spark workloads processing 20+ TB/day with resilient orchestration, retries, and monitoring to sustain 99.9% SLA adherence for critical claims pipelines.
- Operationalized 50+ ML features with MLflow-style versioning and lifecycle governance, enabling production feature stores and controls that contributed to preventing $2M+ in payment leakage.
- Improved release engineering across dev/stage/prod using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Docker, and IaC, reducing deployment cycles by 40% and lowering release failures.
- Streamlined batch and streaming ingestion using Kafka, PySpark, and Airflow to improve downstream data availability by 35% for analytics and ML consumers.
- Implemented 20+ automated Great Expectations rules and PHI/PII safeguards to reduce production defects by 35% and strengthen HIPAA-aligned audit readiness.
- Spearheaded Spark and Kafka-based processing for 20+ TB of healthcare data, cutting downstream availability delays by 45% for near-real-time analytics.
- Designed AWS-based ingestion and storage patterns using S3 to scale processing across 100+ governed assets and support AI-ready datasets.
- Reengineered dbt transformations for 100+ datasets, introducing modular models and semantic layers that improved delivery efficiency by 30%.
- Automated deployments with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform to reduce release failures by 40% and accelerate delivery by 50%.
- Centralized observability across lineage, structured logging, and performance telemetry to shorten root-cause analysis by 40%.
- Consolidated feature-ready datasets and reusable models to reduce reporting complexity by 20% and broaden support for predictive healthcare analytics.
- Built 10+ enterprise data marts using SQL and cloud-oriented design patterns, improving financial and regulatory report generation efficiency by 30%.
- Refactored 15+ Python services and ETL workflows to cut execution time by 25% and remove 20+ manual hours/month through automation.
- Leveraged Azure analytics capabilities to support governed financial workloads and improve scalable access to curated datasets for reporting teams.
- Implemented automated anomaly detection checks across regulated financial data to lower reporting discrepancies by 15% and increase downstream trust.
- Produced model-ready datasets for forecasting workflows that improved predictive accuracy by 20% through standardized transformations and validation.
- Accelerated ingestion and business-request fulfillment by 25% using reusable processing components and standardized data access patterns.
- Analyzed customer behavior for 15+ marketing campaigns, improving audience targeting effectiveness by 20% through segmentation and statistical analysis.
- Automated extraction and transformation of 500+ GB of data using Python, eliminating 70% of repetitive manual effort and establishing reusable ETL components.
- Revamped executive dashboards covering 10+ business KPIs to accelerate reporting cycles by 30% and improve stakeholder self-service.
- Improved customer segmentation performance by 15% via feature engineering, exploratory analysis, and statistical modeling.
- Reduced ML data-prep time by 25% through reusable preprocessing and feature-generation frameworks.
- Partnered with cross-functional product teams to translate analytics findings into prioritized product and marketing actions.
- Improved manufacturing throughput by 12% through SQL-driven operational analysis and statistical performance measurement.
- Reduced resource waste by 15% via process studies across three critical production workflows and targeted process changes.
- Modeled industrial datasets using Python and Spark to identify bottlenecks and lower production-cycle duration by 10%.
- Designed predictive-maintenance experiments to surface equipment-reliability insights from structured telemetry and usage data.
- Quantified operational performance across workflow categories to prioritize improvements and enable continuous process monitoring.
- Delivered data-backed recommendations that informed scheduling and resource allocation, improving overall equipment effectiveness.
Education
Achievements
- Databricks Data + AI Summit 2026 — Apps & Agents for Good Hackathon participant — 2026: Completed training in Building Agentic Applications and Deploying & Monitoring Agents on Databricks; demonstrated an agentic healthcare routing prototype.
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