Hemanth Ratakonda

Senior AI Engineer

Salary / Daily rate

Luxembourg

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Skills

PythonMachine Learning

Languages

EnglishHindiSwedishTamilTelugu

About me

Intro

Senior AI Engineer with 10+ years in machine learning and data engineering. Specialized in developing AI-powered chatbots using OpenAI/Azure and implementing MLOps practices for enterprise solutions. Expert in building scalable data pipelines across diverse industries, helping organizations leverage AI for efficiency gains and enhanced user experiences.

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Work experience

Senior AI Engineer

European Investment Bank (EIB)

Oct 2024 - Present

2 years 1 month

Luxembourg · Hybrid

1. Developed and deployed AI-powered chatbots using OpenAI's ChatGPT, significantly enhancing customer engagement and automating support workflows. 2. Designed and implemented advanced NLP algorithms, including text summarization models, resulting in more efficient and accurate information retrieval. 3. Utilized Microsoft Azure cloud services to build scalable and low-latency AI solutions, optimizing model performance and deployment speed. 4. Collaborated with cross-functional teams to identify and implement strategic AI use cases, leading to measurable increases in user interaction and satisfaction. 5. Led user testing and feedback initiatives to iteratively improve chatbot responsiveness and summarization precision based on real-world usage. 6. Performed data engineering tasks, including data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL), ensuring efficient data pipelines and storage solutions. 7. Extracted text from images and PDFs using OCR and machine learning techniques, improving document analysis and data retrieval efficiency.

Co-Founder

Fair Gambling Cømpany

Aug 2023 - Present

3 years 3 months

Estonia · Remote

Founder and CEO

Helixhorizon Private Ltd

Oct 2021 - Present

5 years 1 month

Stockholm, Sweden

HelixHorizon serves as your dedicated technology development collaborator. We collaborate closely with you to create and sustain digital products, platforms, and applications. Our approach revolves around accommodating your needs communicating in your language, operating within your time zone, and adhering to your terms. We align with your methodologies, actively participate in your meetings, and provide status updates through your preferred tools. Our commitment extends to investing in our team and fostering strong client partnerships, ensuring that each collaboration is mutually beneficial and improves through transparent communication. At the core, we are developers who nurture the growth of developers. Operating seamlessly across borders like any proficient digital service, we excel in execution. Our business model is strategically designed to offer the capabilities your business requires at a cost that facilitates scalability. Consider the possibilities for your business with enhanced tech talent. We are eager to share our expertise and explore the optimal ways to leverage it within your business.

Senior AI Data Engineer

Coop Sverige

Jun 2023 - Oct 2024

1 year 5 months

Stockholm, Sweden

1. Write ETL, ELTs using databricks, ADF, delta-lake 2. Create ETL processes to extract images from the CRM and execute AI algorithms to detect and prevent fraudulent activities. 3. Implemented MLOps practices, including continuous monitoring and improving data engineering processe 4. Led and mentored junior data engineers, providing guidance on best practices and development methodo 5. Managed lifecycle elements of ETL development, from robust testing to final deployment.

Co-Founder

Prolympia

Nov 2023 - Mar 2024

5 months

Remote, OR 97458, USA

Co-Founder and CTO

Doorevo

Nov 2022 - Oct 2023

1 year

Remote, OR 97458, USA

After navigating the challenges of the real estate market, I regrettably acknowledge that my startup venture in real estate did not achieve the success I had envisioned

Senior Data Engineer

Ericsson

Dec 2021 - Mar 2023

1 year 4 months

Stockholm, Sweden

. Design and Develop Data Pipelines using snowake, Databricks. . Develop ETLs, ELTs using spark, ADF, NIFI, Devops . Clean data and extract large datasets with more than 500 attributes Evaluate various ML Platforms. . Design and implemented Model ops Architecture . Monitored incoming data analytics requests, executed analytics and eciently distributed results to support strategies. . Tested and validated models for accuracy of predictions in outcomes of interest.

Machine Learning Engineer

SEB

May 2020 - Dec 2021

1 year 8 months

Stockholm, Sweden

1. Transformed raw data to conform to assumptions of machine learning algorithm. 2. Developed advanced graphic visualization concepts to map and simplify analysis of heavily-numeric data and reports. 3. Researched, designed and implemented machine learning applications to solve business problems affecting Millions of users. 4. Leveraged artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms for standalone products and enhanced existing product offerings. 5. Design and develop Model Ops using Open Source ML-Flow, openshift, GCP 6. Design and develop pipelines using spark, scala, Python, Nifi, presto on CDP platform 7. Prototyped machine learning applications and quickly determined application viability 8. Tuned systems to boost performance 9. Authored code fixes and enhancements for inclusion in future code releases and patches

Big Data Engineer

Qliro

Sep 2019 - May 2020

9 months

Stockholm, Sweden

1. Write ETL job and Develop application using spark scala Applications. 2. Aws Cloud Migration, setting up MSK, EMR, Databricks 3. Helping Data Scientist to productionize the algorithms. 4. Design airflow DAGs 5. Productionize the algorithms (Deep and wide, neural networks, CF, random forests) along with etl jobs. 6. Cross functional with offshore teams and communicate day today activities 7. Write data pipelines to bring the data from API(paymentiq, Zendesk and Google Analytics) and ingest into Data Lake. 8. Design data models and build cloud based data lake for Qliro. 9. Involved in CDC design and implement the data pipelines to make use CDC

Machine Learning Engineer

H&M

Mar 2019 - Aug 2019

6 months

Stockholm, Sweden

1. Develop etl tasks along with models deploy them in Azure 2. Generate recommendations for customers 3. Productionize the models

Big Data Developer

Kindred Group plc

Mar 2017 - Mar 2019

2 years 1 month

Stockholm, Sweden

1. Bring the data to Hadoop from Solace/JMS Source to Hadoop using flume. 2. Wrote Custom interceptors to convert to protobuf to avro . 3. Involved in wirting UDFs 4.perform analytics using Datameer 5. Data governance. 6. Developing application that comply GDPR guide lines. 6. Deploy using Gocd (pipelines). 7. Bridge between the data engineering team and data science team. 8. Did POC on Kubernetes to make sure we can run containerized applications. 9. Develop application governing GDPR guide lines

Big Data Engineer

Kogentix Inc.

Jul 2016 - Mar 2017

9 months

Hyderabad Area, India · On-site

Project Description: The aim of the project to perform trend analytics on customers in the current market. 1. Convert the Pl/Sql functionality to Scala code. 2. Create the Hive tables and load them with data from oracle. 3. Involved in end to end testing of applications. 4. Fine tune the performance of the applications. 5. Review the scala code. 6. Did POC on Apache Kudu to fit as alternative to Hive. 7. Worked closely with cloudera team to gain knowledge on Apache kudu and implemented Apache kudu in Dev Environment.

Big Data Consultant

Akamai Technologies

Feb 2016 - Jul 2016

6 months

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Project Description: The aim this project is to perform media analytics, with mobile advancing rapidly media analytics plays vital role. we have content providers around the globe, and needs to analyze logs quickly and provide accurate statistics on internet traffic. Akamai being pioneer among content deliver operators we have to store data and perform analytics on top of the data we host in our servers. Responsibilities: . Downloading the logs to hdfs from netstorage and filtering them asper asname. . Process the logs and extract the data required to the business for Analysis. . Analyzing data and creating data for the clients from the live data available. . Downloading the data from hdfs to local server and to extract the data as per requirement and visualize it for business. . Provide insights of reports . Part of NEA (Network Experience Analytics) product development team, to develop a tool for network performance analysis. . Parquet file generations from gz files.

Application Developer

IBM

Jan 2014 - Jan 2016

2 years 1 month

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Responsibilities: 1. Involved in functional requirement review. 2. Processed BigData using a Hadoop cluster 3. Involved in the PIG script development for data processing. 4. Involved in development of MR jobs. 5. Extensively used HIVE for querying large datasets. Creating hive tables and working on them. 6. Writing Scoop jobs for moving data between Relational Databases and HDFS. 7. Involved in Migration of code from Dev to Production Environment. 8. Involved in unit testing, system integration testing for the Hadoop jobs and prepared test cases. 9. Working in 24/7 environment to fix the production issues and identify root causes. 10. Derive insights from the analysis for the purpose of making recommendations.


Education

IU International University of Applied Sciences

Master's degree

2023 - 2024

1 year 1 month

JNTU Anantapur

Bachelor of Technology - BTech

2009 - 2013

4 years 1 month


Licenses & certifications

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

Issued: Feb 2025

Certified by Microsoft

Academy Accreditation - Generative AI Fundamentals

Issued: Jun 2024

Certified by Databricks

Academy Accreditation - Generative AI Fundamentals

Issued: Jun 2023

Certified by Databricks

Academy Accreditation - Databricks Lakehouse Fundamentals

Issued: Mar 2023

Certified by Databricks

Introduction to AWS for Non-Engineers: 1 Cloud Concepts

Issued: Aug 2022

Certified by LinkedIn

Scania Cloud Onboarding

Issued: Jun 2022

Certified by Scania Group

Moving Data in to Hadoop

Issued: Feb 2016

Certified by IBM

Big Data Spark Foundations

Issued: Feb 2016

Certified by IBM

Acessing Hadoop Data Using Hive

Issued: Feb 2016

Certified by IBM

Big Data - Programming

Issued: Aug 2015

Certified by IBM

Big Data Hadoop Foundations

Issued: Jun 2015

Certified by IBM

Big Data - Fundamentals

Issued: Jun 2015

Certified by IBM

IBM CERTIFIED DB2 ASSOCIATE

Issued: Sep 2014

Certified by IBM

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