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Nagraj Deshmukh

Data Scientist & AI Engineer · Chicago, IL

I build data and AI systems that go to production — NLP pipelines, LLM evaluation frameworks, real-time ML models. Five years across fintech, healthtech, and research. Currently at Alliant Credit Union leading enterprise AI.

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Experience
Data Scientist · Alliant Credit Union
Feb 2025 – present
  • Led NLP-driven NPS and call analytics pipelines — insights drove 12% YoY reduction in member care calls
  • Proactively led GPT-3.5 → GPT-4o migration across teams, preventing downstream production failures
  • Designed LLM evaluation framework using DeepEval to monitor performance and regressions across enterprise AI
  • Winner, Alliant Innovation Challenge for Underwriting AI Assistant concept
AzureDatabricksPythonSQLLLMsDeepEval
AI Engineer · Nedl Labs
Sep 2024 – Feb 2025
  • Built ETL copilot using transformer models to extract unstructured data from financial reports — improved data accessibility by 70%
AzureFastAPITransformersPython
Data Scientist · Prediction Guard
Feb 2022 – Mar 2023
  • Engineered an autonomous LLM marketing agent that boosted post frequency 40% and engagement 25%
  • Built prompt-chaining and RAG pipeline using open-source LLMs, achieving semantic alignment score of 0.8
  • Presented at INFORMS Analytics Conference 2024; co-authored paper at International Conference on Data Science
PythonLLMsLanceDBFastAPIRAG
Data Scientist · Spry Therapeutics
Feb 2022 – Mar 2023
  • Optimized pose detection models — 200% speed improvement, 65% accuracy gain
  • Led exercise categorization project that scaled the product from 5 to 400+ exercises
  • Directed 4-person DS team on RTM tool that secured $7M in funding
PythonOpenCVLightGBMAWSMediaPipeFastAPI
Software Engineer · Société Générale
Aug 2020 – Oct 2021
  • Delivered Credit Risk Monitoring application used by 1,100+ clients
  • Resolved 6 categories of OWASP security vulnerabilities
  • Led C++ → Java module migration in 2 months; built documentation pipeline cutting team response time 30%
JavaSpring BootSQLAWS
Researcher · RAMAN Laboratory
Jul 2019 – May 2020
  • Developed metaheuristic optimization algorithms for high-dimensional problems
  • Published 2 papers (20 citations) in Evolutionary Intelligence (Springer) and Knowledge Based Systems (Elsevier)
PythonOptimizationResearch

Selected Projects
NPS & Call Analytics Pipeline12% call reduction YoY

NLP-driven pipeline analyzing member feedback and call transcripts at Alliant Credit Union. Drove 12% YoY reduction in member care call volume.

PythonAzureDatabricksNLP
LLM Evaluation FrameworkDeployed across enterprise AI

Enterprise AI monitoring system using DeepEval to track performance regressions across GPT-4o deployments. Enables automated quality gates for AI outputs.

DeepEvalLLMsPythonAzure
ETL Copilot70% data accessibility improvement

Transformer-based system to extract structured data from unstructured financial reports. Replaced manual extraction workflows at Nedl Labs.

TransformersFastAPIPythonAzure
Pose Detection & Exercise Engine200% speed gain · $7M funding

Optimized MediaPipe + LightGBM pipeline for real-time exercise categorization. Helped scale Spry Therapeutics from 5 to 400+ exercises, supporting a $7M funding round.

MediaPipeLightGBMOpenCVPython

Skills
LanguagesPython · SQL · Java
ML / AILLMs · NLP · RAG · Transformers · Computer Vision · DeepEval
DataDatabricks · Spark · LanceDB · Supabase
Cloud & InfraAzure · AWS · FastAPI · Spring Boot · Docker
ToolsLangChain · MediaPipe · OpenCV · LightGBM

Contact

Open to senior IC roles in AI/ML engineering, data science, or applied research. Fintech and healthtech domains preferred. Based in Chicago; remote-friendly.

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