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General Information

Full Name Venkata Manideep Patibandla
Location New Haven, CT
Email venkatamanideep.analytics@gmail.com

Education

  • 2024 - 2025
    M.S. Computer Science
    Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
    • GPA: 3.8/4.0
    • Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) Honor Society
  • 2019 - 2023
    B.Tech Information Technology
    GMR Institute of Technology, Vizianagaram, India
    • GPA: 8.30/10

Experience

  • Aug 2025 - Present
    Data & ML Engineer
    Infosoft Solutions (Remote)
    • Optimized ETL pipelines feeding ML feature stores, reducing daily processing latency from 8s to 4.4s (45%) across 10K+ records.
    • Trained and deployed a Random Forest classifier on 50K+ user behavioural records achieving 92% accuracy — 23% improvement over prior rule-based system.
    • Built model monitoring dashboards in Tableau tracking accuracy drift and data quality metrics, surfacing 35% more upstream discrepancies before production.
  • Nov 2022 - Apr 2023
    Data Analyst
    ION Technology Solutions (Remote)
    • Built an end-to-end Azure SQL to Python ML pipeline ingesting 300K+ records across 180 tables; lifted revenue prediction R² from 0.44 to 0.80, accurate to within $120.
    • Identified 2.3× revenue multipliers on multi-artist events and established commission structure as the single strongest revenue predictor.

Open Source Projects

  • 2024 - now
    CostGuard
    • Production-grade LLM reliability proxy with circuit breakers, Prometheus metrics, and $0.000001-precision cost tracking across 12 models and 5 providers. Cuts LLM spend 10–20× vs GPT-4o defaults.
  • 2024 - now
    RealDataAgentBench
    • Open-source LLM benchmark — 1,180+ runs across 12 frontier models on 39 data science tasks. Surfaced the correctness vs. statistical-validity gap. GPT-4.1 delivers 97% of GPT-5 at 1/15th the cost.
  • 2024
    LoRA Fine-tuning of DeepSeek-R1
    • Fine-tuned DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B with LoRA on GSM8K. 58.2% accuracy on a 1.5B model, 98.8% parameter reduction, 2× inference throughput with Unsloth.

Technical Skills

  • LLM Systems
    • LLM evaluation & benchmarking, statistical validity scoring, RAG, MCP, Prompt Engineering
    • LangChain, LangGraph, LoRA fine-tuning (Unsloth, PEFT), Hugging Face, Pinecone, OpenAI API, Anthropic API
  • Reliability & Observability
    • Real-time LLM proxying, circuit breakers, Prometheus, Grafana
    • Structured logging, drift detection, alerting (Slack/webhooks)
  • Engineering
    • Python, FastAPI, Streamlit, Docker, CI/CD, Railway, AWS (EC2, ECR, S3), Azure, SQL, REST APIs, Pytest
  • ML & Data
    • scikit-learn, PyTorch, Regression, Random Forest, XGBoost, MLflow
    • Pandas, NumPy, statistical analysis, Tableau