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I build enterprise AI platforms from concept to production.

I'm Sai Srujan Simhadri — an AI Solutions Architect and Enterprise AI Engineer. My path runs from data platform engineering and predictive ML through analytics leadership to architecting multi-tenant AI products. I care about the whole system: the data pipelines, the models, the APIs, the security, and the product people actually use.

From developer to enterprise AI architect.

I started where most engineers do shipping features. But I kept being drawn to the harder questions behind them: How does this scale to a thousand tenants? How do we keep every customer's data provably isolated? How do we make an AI system that a recruiter, a CTO, and an auditor all trust?

Over time I moved from writing features to owning architecture designing multi-tenant SaaS platforms, document AI pipelines, and cloud-native systems on Azure. Today I work as an AI Solutions Architect, building AI-powered enterprise software end-to-end: the data, the models, the platform, the security, and the product.

I enjoy difficult business problems because that's where architecture actually matters. The satisfying part isn't the model it's turning a messy, real-world workflow into a system that quietly does its job at scale.

Start from the business problem

Great architecture is invisible. I begin with the outcome a business needs and work backward to the simplest system that delivers it reliably.

Design for tenancy, scale & trust

Multi-tenancy, security and observability aren't features you bolt on later — they're the foundation every enterprise product is built on.

Ship end-to-end, not just features

From data pipelines and model serving to the UI and deployment, I own the whole product surface so the pieces actually fit together.

Make AI explainable

For AI that people must trust, the answer isn't enough — the reasoning is the product. I build systems that show their work.

An interactive timeline of the work.

Education, career, projects and milestones — filter to trace a single thread through the story.

  1. 2020Education

    B.Tech, Computer Science Engineering

    Raghu Institute of Technology

    Graduated May 2020 — the engineering foundation (algorithms, data structures, ML) behind everything that came after.

  2. 2020Projects

    Crop Yield Prediction

    B.Tech Capstone

    Regression + gradient-descent model predicting agricultural yield — the award-winning capstone project.

  3. 2020Career

    Data Platform Engineer & ML Systems Developer

    Crisp Croft

    Built cloud ETL pipelines on Azure and Snowflake and ML forecasting systems for crop yield and demand prediction.

  4. 2021Career

    Risk Analyst

    Amazon Development Center

    Developed predictive ML models for driver safety over 500,000+ events, reaching 95% prediction accuracy.

  5. 2021Projects

    PeopleSoft Enterprise Recruiting

    Enterprise / ERP

    Delivered eRecruit enhancements with PeopleCode and SQL — recruiting workflow automation and applicant screening.

  6. 2022Projects

    Driver Safety AI

    Predictive Analytics

    K-Means clustering and Random Forest classification to profile driver risk, trigger alerts and drive coaching.

  7. 2023Career

    Operations & Analytics

    DePaul University

    Owned analytics across 15+ buildings and 1,000+ assets, automating reporting for 40% faster turnaround.

  8. 2024Education

    M.S. in Business Analytics

    DePaul University

    Graduated with a Master's in Business Analytics — the bridge from data analysis to AI platform architecture.

  9. 2024Projects

    AI Resume Intelligence Engine

    HR Technology

    Document-AI for PDF/DOCX parsing, entity extraction with confidence scoring and resume-to-job semantic matching.

  10. 2024Projects

    Trading AI Platform

    Machine Learning

    Real-time /predict ensemble pipeline, CALLS/PUTS decision engine and EDGAR XBRL fundamental analysis.

  11. 2024Projects

    Tesla vs GM — Financial Analytics

    Financial Analytics

    Profitability, leverage, liquidity and efficiency ratio analysis framed as an investment thesis.

  12. 2025Career

    Systems Engineer & Data Platform Developer

    VR IT Resources · Sterling, VA

    Architect and build enterprise AI and data platforms end-to-end — SQL analytics, AI recruiting and conversational AI.

  13. 2025Projects

    TalentPike — Enterprise AI Recruiting

    Founding Architect

    Architected a multi-tenant AI recruiting platform: semantic matching, vector embeddings and ML candidate ranking.

  14. 2025Projects

    Conversational AI Assistant

    Applied AI

    NLP-based service discovery, knowledge retrieval and document lookup on Azure to reduce call-center load.

  15. 2025Projects

    AI Marketing Platform

    SaaS Platform

    Outbound sales platform with lead management, AI outreach drafts and a human approval queue on a CRM-ready architecture.

  16. 2025Milestones

    AI Solutions Architect

    Enterprise AI

    Building enterprise AI platforms end-to-end — from data pipelines and local LLM workflows to secure, multi-tenant SaaS.

Impact across the enterprise stack.

Roles where I owned architecture and outcomes — with the business impact and technologies behind each.

Feb 2025 — Present

Systems Engineer & Data Platform Developer

VR IT Resources · Sterling, VA

Architect and build enterprise AI and data platforms end-to-end — from large-scale SQL analytics pipelines to AI recruiting intelligence and conversational assistants.

PythonSQLFastAPIPostgreSQLpgvectorAzureNext.jsLocal LLMs
  • Built large-scale SQL analytics pipelines processing 170,000+ records, improving data accuracy by 51%.
  • Architected an AI recruiting intelligence platform with semantic matching, vector embeddings and ML candidate ranking at sub-second inference.
  • Developed a conversational AI assistant using NLP knowledge retrieval to streamline internal service access.
  • Automated enterprise workflows and data integration, saving 20+ hours per month of manual effort.
Mar 2023 — Nov 2024

Operations & Analytics

DePaul University · Chicago, IL

Owned analytics and reporting across a large facilities portfolio, automating pipelines and enabling faster, data-driven decisions.

SQLPythonAnalyticsAutomated ReportingData Modeling
  • Built SQL analytics pipelines spanning 15+ buildings and 1,000+ managed assets.
  • Automated reporting workflows, delivering 40% faster reporting turnaround.
  • Designed inventory tracking and resource-allocation processes, plus vendor-evaluation workflows.
  • Mentored team members on analytics tooling and process.
Nov 2021 — Nov 2022

Risk Analyst

Amazon Development Center · Hyderabad, India

Built predictive ML models and analytics for driver safety and operational risk at scale.

PythonSnowflakeSQL ServerTableauRandom ForestK-Means
  • Developed 30+ Tableau dashboards over 500,000+ event records for safety and operations.
  • Built predictive ML classification models achieving 95% prediction accuracy for driver risk.
  • Drove a 25% reduction in repeat safety violations through driver performance scoring and root-cause analysis.
  • Optimized Snowflake and SQL Server queries for a 20% latency reduction, saving ~25 hours/month.
Apr 2020 — Oct 2021

Data Platform Engineer & ML Systems Developer

Crisp Croft · Hyderabad, India

Built cloud data platforms and ML forecasting systems on Azure and Snowflake.

Azure Data FactoryAzure SQLSnowflakeDBTPythonTime-Series
  • Engineered ETL pipelines with Azure Data Factory, Blob and Azure SQL, cutting latency by 25%.
  • Built crop-yield prediction models from weather and soil data using regression modeling.
  • Developed restaurant demand prediction and inventory optimization with time-series forecasting.
  • Implemented DBT transformations that improved database throughput by 35%.

The academic foundation.

From computer science engineering to a Master's in Business Analytics — the bridge between data and business impact.

M.S. in Business Analytics

DePaul University

Chicago, IL · Dec 2024

B.Tech in Computer Science Engineering

Raghu Institute of Technology

India