Rakesh Nandan Anantharam

About Rakesh Nandan Anantharam

Machine Learning Engineer with 4 years of experience building scalable, production-ready AI systems that serve millions of users. I specialize in LLMs, ranking/recommendation systems, and multimodal AI, with a focus on fairness, safety, and global impact.At Accenture, I designed recommendation and ranking models for Telus that boosted adoption by 15% and cut churn by 12%, and built fraud detection & credit risk models that reduced false positives by 20% and improved recall by 18%, directly lowering financial losses. I’ve also led enterprise-scale GenAI deployments using GPT, LLaMA, cutting manual effort by 60%+ through automation.Beyond model development, I’ve engineered evaluation pipelines with adversarial/perturbation testing, deployed RAG systems, Whisper STT, and LangChain agents, and partnered with compliance and policy teams to ensure safe and explainable AI in production.Skills: Ranking/Recommendation/Personalization | Model Evaluation | Multimodal AI | LLMs (GPT-4, LLaMA)| RAG | LangChain | HuggingFace | PyTorch | Whisper | Python | PySpark | AWS | Kubernetes | CI/CD | Fairness & Safety

Experience

1. Software Engineer, Machine Learning

   Meta

   Nov 2025 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

Education

• CVR College of Engineering, Hyderabad

  Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electronic and communications engineering

  2016 — 2020

• University at Buffalo

  Master of Science - MS, data science