salashvijay@gmail.com +91 98493 33365
Experience

Where the work happened

Healthcare AI at Optum, BI foundations earlier, and personal Coolify products.

Feb 2017 – Present

Data Scientist (AI/ML & GenAI)

Optum Global Services · Hyderabad · Team M&R

  • Shipped ATS Copilot, Claims Recon, AOR Detector, Case Setup RAG, and PDF Q&A into production.
  • Owned Python/FastAPI services, Azure OpenAI, IIS deployment, monitoring, and Responsible AI governance.
  • Secured AIRB approvals; fairness reporting across SVI, age, and gender.
Nov 2013 – Jan 2017

Software Engineer — Statistics & BI

Optum Global Services · Hyderabad · 3RDD & CFR

  • Converted Informatica/DataStage ETL to Python; Essbase cubes for reporting and forecasting.
  • Statistical analysis with R, SAS, Python, Excel, Matplotlib, Hyperion.
Sep 2010 – Nov 2013

Associate & Software Engineer

Magna Infotech Pvt. Ltd. · Hyderabad · CFR

  • Unix jobs and TWS scheduling for Essbase financial-reporting operations.
Skills

Tools I use to ship

Languages

Python, SQL, UNIX shell, JS, HTML, CSS

ML / NLP

scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, spaCy, Transformers, LSTM, XGBoost

GenAI / RAG

Azure OpenAI, LangChain, AutoGen, BM25, ChromaDB/FAISS, MCP, agents

Document / OCR

Azure Document Intelligence, PyMuPDF, Tesseract, EasyOCR, PaddleOCR

APIs & Cloud

FastAPI, Flask, Express, Docker, Coolify, Azure, MLflow, IIS

Responsible AI

Demographic parity, ECE/Brier, PSI drift, audit reporting

Education

  • Advanced Certification in Generative AI — upGrad (2024)
  • PG Diploma in Machine Learning and AI — IIIT Bangalore (2023–24)
  • B.Tech (EEE) — SVEC, JNTU (2007)