Portrait of Raj Purohith Arjun
AIML Engineer | Data Scientist

Building reliable AI systems from experimentation to production impact.

Machine Learning Engineer with 3+ years of experience across NLP, ranking systems, anomaly detection, MLOps, and applied statistics. Built production models on datasets of 2.3M+ records, improved CTR by 22%, and delivered systems contributing to measurable business outcomes.

Location: Bryan, TX (Open to Relocation) | Email: rajpurohitharjun58@gmail.com

Experience

AI Engineer Analyst — JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Jan 2026 – Present
  • Developing graph-based trade surveillance for ~3.2M daily equity trades and improving recall on flagged cases by 34%.
  • Built Kafka/Flink anomaly detection modules on ~200K events/sec streams with sub-second detection latency.
  • Implemented explainability workflows (SHAP + attention methods) aligned with SR 11-7 model-risk compliance.
Applied Machine Learning Engineer — Zeda AI (Remote)
Jul 2025 – Dec 2025
  • Led 5 engineers to build LLM-powered patient-trial matching and ad optimization systems.
  • Improved matching precision by 50% and doubled qualified conversions while reducing spend by 30%.
  • Implemented production monitoring for CTR, CPL, drift, and fairness in a HIPAA-aligned setup.
Machine Learning Engineer — IBM, India
Jun 2022 – Jul 2024
  • Built multi-label BERT classifier on 2.3M tickets with 91.4% micro-F1 and 68% MTTA reduction.
  • Deployed anomaly and escalation prediction services using Kafka + Isolation Forest + XGBoost.
  • Implemented Kubeflow/MLflow and data quality checks, reducing production failures by 43%.

Projects

AI-Powered Investigation & Decision Support (RAG)
FastAPI • AWS • FAISS • LLMs

Built an end-to-end RAG system for 10K+ documents with semantic retrieval and low-latency inference; reduced manual investigation effort by ~60%.

YOLO-Based Real-Time Vehicle Detection & Tracking
YOLOv8 • DeepSORT • ONNX • PyTorch

Developed a GPU-accelerated tracking system with 0.97 F1 and reduced latency by ~30%, sustaining 20–25 FPS.

Propensity & Uplift Modeling for Targeting
Python • XGBoost • SQL • Statistical Modeling

Implemented uplift modeling (T/S learners + A/B testing), achieving +18% conversion lift and reducing low-value outreach by 22%.

Skills

Programming & Data

PythonSQLC++BashPySparkPandasNumPyPostgreSQLSnowflake

ML & GenAI

Scikit-learnPyTorchTensorFlowTransformersBERTLightGBMXGBoostRAGLangChain

MLOps & Systems

DockerKubernetesMLflowKubeflowKafkaCI/CDA/B TestingModel Monitoring

Cloud & Visualization

AWSGCPSageMakerVertex AIBigQueryMatplotlibSeabornPower BI

Education

M.S. in Data Science — Texas A&M University
College Station, TX • GPA: 3.55/4.0
B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering (AI) — SRM Institute of Science and Technology
India • GPA: 3.92/4.0

Certifications

Leadership

Contact

Open to AI/ML Engineer, Data Scientist, MLE, and Data Engineering roles (Entry to Mid-level).

Email: rajpurohitharjun58@gmail.com
Phone: 979-326-5513
Location: Bryan, Texas, USA