Kotesh Kumar Yelamati

About Kotesh Kumar Yelamati

Software Engineer and AI/ML Developer with 4+ years of experience building scalable…

Experience

1. Machine Learning Engineer

   Genworth

   Oct 2024 — Present · US

   Coordinated cross-functional teams to plan and execute machine learning projects under Agile methodology, conducting sprint planning and retrospectives to boost delivery efficiency by 10%. • Designed and deployed a predictive risk assessment model using XGBoost and SHAP to forecast long-term care insurance claims, improving early risk detection by 28% and reducing false positives by 15%. • Built an NLP pipeline with BERT and spaCy to extract insights from unstructured medical documents and underwriting notes, leading to 20% faster claims review by automating feature extraction. • Integrated a real-time fraud detection system using Isolation Forest and Autoencoder models, identifying anomalous claim patterns and reducing fraudulent payouts by $2M annually. • Led the migration of model training workflows to AWS SageMaker, implementing CI/CD with AWS Code Pipeline and reducing deployment time from days to hours. • Developed an Explainable AI (XAI) framework for underwriters using LIME and SHAP, enhancing model transparency and gaining regulatory approval for AI usage in decision-making. • Collaborated with actuarial and compliance teams to create fair and bias-mitigated ML models using Fairlearn, ensuring demographic fairness across age and gender groups.

Education

• NTTF (Nettur Technical Training Foundation)

  Diploma, diploma in mechatronics

  2015 — 2018

• Saveetha School of Engineering

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

• Indiana Wesleyan University

  Master of Science - MS, Data Analytics