Likith Kumar DundigallaData Scientist (LLMs, data engineering, AI systems) United States of America, Illinois, Naperville likith.kumar.dundigalla@bld.ailikithkumard04@gmail.com | Work ExperienceWorldpacJanuary 2026 - PresentJanuary 2026 - Present Data Scientist EdmentumJune 2025 - January 2026June 2025 - January 2026 Data Scientist - DE Team Lead ● Led migration of 800 tables from SQL Server to PostgreSQL, averting $5M in potential licensing costs. ● Upgraded Databricks and moved to managed storage, cutting costs by 11% and speeding up pipelines by 20% ● Refactored pipelines and moved configurations from DynamoDB to S3, reducing infra costs by 31%. CFG HealthMay 2025 - August 2025May 2025 - August 2025 Data Engineer ● Built and maintained ETL pipelines; delivered dashboards for KPI tracking and operational decisions. Acts4Unity FoundationFebruary 2025 - May 2025February 2025 - May 2025 AI Engineer ● Engineered an AI companion to support mental health, with video responses achieving 75% satisfaction. ● Built a multimodal AI pipeline using Google speech-to-text and Gemini, prompt-engineered for responses under 20secs. ● Implemented Chain-of-Thought(COT) prompting, reducing illogical responses by 70% compared to base models. McGraw Hill EducationMay 2024 - December 2024May 2024 - December 2024 Data Science Intern ● Automated content tagging for 1000+ learning materials using Gemini, reducing manual work by 40%. ● Accelerated concept retrieval by 30% via Neo4j graph with BERT embeddings, cutting student search time. ● Built RAG chatbot for topic exploration, increasing learning engagement by 25% among students. University of ArizonaJanuary 2024 - December 2024January 2024 - December 2024 Student Worker ● Built a full-stack web app to automate university catering event planning and resource management. ● Developed data pipelines to sync event details with staff scheduling and kitchen inventory. ● Implemented a RAG on PostgreSQL, allowing non-technical users to query data using natural language. HealthEdgeJanuary 2023 - June 2023January 2023 - June 2023 Data Engineer ● Modernized batch-processing to real-time pipeline cutting processing time by 95% under HIPAA. ● Developed automated checks and Datadog monitoring, reducing outages by 40% ensuring data integrity. ● Wrote SQL Stored Procedures to automate data transactions, ensuring accurate data for downstream teams. ● Scaled the end API to handle 1000+ EHR requests/minute with 99.9% uptime. ● Designed a Kafka/RabbitMQ proof-of-concept to enhance messaging system flexibility and scalability. Informa MarketsApril 2022 - January 2023April 2022 - January 2023 Data Engineer ● Engineered Spark workflows to unify 50+ event data sources, powering executive-level analytics dashboards. ● Migrated data from DocumentDB to PostgreSQL, reducing storage costs by 25% and querying ease. ● Built interactive DOMO dashboards with embedded data quality checks, eliminating 99% of reporting delays. ● Implemented metadata documentation in DataHub, improving data lineage tracking and easy user onboarding. EducationUniversity of ArizonaJanuary 2024 - December 2024January 2024 - December 2024 Graduate Certificate in Natural Language Processing Degree in University of ArizonaAugust 2023 - December 2024August 2023 - December 2024 M.Sc in Data Science Degree in SkillsAWS Bedrock AWS SageMaker Azure Blob Storage Azure Cognitive Search Azure OpenAI Bash Chain-of-Thought (CoT) Data Engineering Docker Domo BI Elasticsearch FAISS FastAPI Fine-tuning (LoRA) Git GitHub Actions Hugging Face Kubernetes LLMs Matplotlib MongoDB Neo4j Node.js Pandas Pinecone PostgreSQL Postman Power BI Prompt Engineering PyTorch Python RAG React SQL SQL Server Seaborn Spark Tableau TensorFlow Transformers vLLM | ||