Bhargavi Kurukunda is AI/ML Engineer, 2 years of experience, with expertise in Agent Orchestration, AWS, C++, Chroma, Claude, Claude Code, CNNs, Cursor, Docker, ETL Pipelines, FastAPI, Feature Engineering.
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An AI/ML engineer with expertise in shipping production LLM and ML systems at scale. Proven track record in optimizing latency, improving user engagement, and implementing robust machine learning models for large-scale applications.
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Machine Learning Researcher — UCSB
Jun 2025 → Jul 2026
Reduced manual sensor-location labeling effort by 90% using CNNs and VLMs while developing predictive models for equipment failure detection.
Software Engineer — Virtual Labs
Aug 2023 → May 2024
Increased student engagement and course completion by deploying an ML model for personalized experiment matching and optimized cloud infrastructure costs.
Software Development Intern — Franklin Templeton
Jun 2023 → Aug 2023
Reduced real-time financial data latency from 200ms to 32ms for 2M+ users by redesigning the update pipeline with custom binary encoding.
featured projects
ML Stock Ranking & Insights MCP
XGBoost · SHAP · MCP · SQLite
Developed an XGBoost ranking model for stock outperformance and exposed insights via MCP tools for LLM-grounded rationale generation.
WhatsApp Notification Router
Multimodal LLM Routing · Groq · Gemini
Built a multimodal LLM routing pipeline achieving 96.7% accuracy across 110 messages with per-row fault isolation.
education
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) — MS, Computer Science
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIITH) — BTech, Computer Science and Engineering
profile questions
What does Bhargavi Kurukunda specialize in?
Bhargavi Kurukunda lists Agent Orchestration, AWS, C++, Chroma, Claude, Claude Code, CNNs, Cursor, Docker, ETL Pipelines, FastAPI, Feature Engineering, Gemini, GitHub Actions, Grafana, Groq, LLM APIs, MCP, Model Evaluation, Node.js, Prompt Engineering, Python, PyTorch, RAG, React, Redis, REST API, scikit-learn, SHAP, SQL, Supabase, TypeScript, Vector Retrieval, VLMs, XGBoost as professional skills.
What roles has Bhargavi Kurukunda worked in?
Bhargavi Kurukunda has experience in Machine Learning Researcher, Software Engineer, Software Development Intern across organizations including UCSB, Virtual Labs, Franklin Templeton.
AI/ML Engineer
- AI/ML Engineer
- LLM APIs Claude Gemini
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