Chandrika Arekuti

AI Engineer with 3.5 years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years building production GenAI features end-to-end. Hands-on with LLM orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), document ingestion, semantic and vector search, prompt optimisation, guardrails and response evaluation using OpenAI APIs and Hugging Face models. Ships AI systems as engineered products FastAPI services, PostgreSQL and Redis data layers, Docker deployments, monitoring, human-in-the-loop escalation and rollback-ready releases rather than notebooks.

Seeking an AI Engineer / GenAI Engineer role in Hyderabad.

Software Engineer - AI at Morine Tech (2024-05 – Present)

• Built production AI product features using custom LLM orchestration over OpenAI APIs, including authenticated chat sessions and automated email summarization, served through Python and FastAPI.
• Developed RAG workflows and document ingestion pipelines that extract, classify, validate and retrieve unstructured PDF content, returning grounded responses through semantic and vector search.
• Improved response quality and cost efficiency through prompt optimisation, cache-augmented generation and guardrails, with evaluation checks before release.
• Implemented human-in-the-loop escalation paths and safe fallbacks so uncertain model outputs route to manual review instead of reaching end users.
• Built AI-driven backend pipelines for web scraping, lead qualification and automated insight generation, improving lead-generation efficiency by 15% and reducing manual intervention by 20%.
• Applied AI-assisted development workflows to generate, review and refine code, with manual validation and production-quality checks retained throughout.

Software Engineer at Wipro Limited (2021-08 – 2022-07)

• Built backend services for an enterprise invoicing and fraud-anomaly detection platform using Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs and microservices.
• Implemented JWT-based authentication supporting identity propagation and secure API communication across distributed services.
• Resolved critical defects and streamlined service workflows, improving system stability by 30% and reducing issue resolution time by 40%.

Software Engineer Intern at ITC Limited (2021-01 – 2021-07)

• Built forecasting systems that helped agricultural supply chain teams predict crop demand and improve distribution planning.
• Designed scalable ETL pipelines using Apache Spark to process high-volume market and supply data for downstream analytics and modelling workflows.
• Developed Java REST APIs to surface real-time demand forecasts and operational reporting data, and delivered dashboards that surfaced 10% savings in logistics costs.

M.S. in Computer Science – State University of New York, New Paltz (2022-07 – 2024-05)

B.Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering – Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology (2017-08 – 2021-05)