Likitha Rayapati
💡 AI/ML Engineer | 🤖 Generative AI & NLP Specialist | ☁️ Cloud & MLOps | Driving Scalable, Ethical, and Explainable AI Solutions
- Role
- Ai Ml Engineer at Apollo Global Management, Inc.
- Location
- Houston, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Likitha Rayapati
Hi, I’m Likitha Rayapati, an AI/ML Engineer with 4+ years of experience designing and…
Experience
Ai Ml Engineer
Apollo Global Management, Inc.
Jan 2024 — Present · US
Worked on a generative AI-powered portfolio intelligence assistant for summarizing memos, earnings calls, and LP communications using RAG and LLMs, improving analyst efficiency by 30% via collaboration with investment teams and requirement gathering sessions.• Built privacy-compliant ETL pipelines using Apache Airflow, AWS Glue, and Step Functions to process investment and market data into S3 lakes, improving data availability by 40% and working closely with compliance and data governance teams.• Engineered NLP and time-series features using spaCy, BERTopic, and transformer embeddings to extract credit signals and themes, increasing model precision by 22% and collaborating with research and strategy teams for domain insights.• Fine-tuned domain-specific LLMs on Amazon SageMaker using LoRA and QLoRA, reducing training time by 45% and improving financial summarization accuracy, while aligning with legal and compliance teams on internal privacy and risk controls.• Integrated Pinecone and LangChain-based RAG pipelines to enable secure document search across internal investment data, reducing manual retrieval effort by 60% and creating clear documentation for APIs, metadata filters, and integration patterns.• Scaled model training using Ray Train and AWS Trainium for credit and performance forecasting, managed experiments using MLflow and Optuna to ensure reproducibility and compliance for model validation and audit readiness.• Deployed containerized AI microservices on Amazon EKS using Docker, exposed secure APIs via API Gateway and App Mesh, and collaborated with DevOps to implement CI/CD with GitHub Actions and Terraform with full release and monitoring documentation.
Education
Vardhaman College of Engineering (VCEH)
Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
University of Houston, C.T. Bauer College of Business
Ms in Business Analytics , Business Analytics
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