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Janakiraman Giridhar Sivasailam

Janakiraman Giridhar Sivasailam

AI Product Manager
Bengaluru,Karnataka

Summary

AI/ML engineering leader with over 10 years of experience in developing and deploying production-grade ML platforms across fintech, healthcare, and retail sectors. Achieved 33% automation and 92% model accuracy by delivering scalable AI solutions that process millions of records. Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define requirements and measure business impact, resulting in significant MTTR reduction and cost savings. Holds an executive PG diploma in management and AI from IIM Indore, with a focus on product strategy and agile methodologies, transitioning to AI product management to drive vision and roadmaps for ML platforms.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Staff Software Engineer

Ivanti
Bengaluru
04.2021 - Current
  • Oversaw dexi scoring for sentiment analysis and anomaly detection; carried out market research to prioritize features; built ETL pipelines (AWS Glue/Azure Functions) handling over 1 million daily records analyzed Hugging Face transformers (accuracy raised from 70% to 85%) integrated explainability frameworks; launched with Docker/ML Ops (MLflow) for CI/CD, minimizing operational costs by 15% (₹20 lakhs/year) and undetected fraud by 22%.
  • Reengineered ETL infrastructure from AWS to Azure; organized backlog with RICE framework and addressed impediments in 2 weeks via Agile sprints (JIRA); maximized scalability to accommodate over 100,000 transactions each day.
  • Implemented evaluation pipeline featuring offline benchmarks, A/B tests with three variants, and shadow deployments on Azure; achieved 33% auto-resolution, 21% reduction in mean time to resolution, and 18% decrease in SLA breaches.
  • Engineered real-time dashboards using Power BI/Neurons to track KPIs, monitored drift through human-in-the-loop reviews, and addressed bias/privacy issues in compliance with GDPR, resulting in threefold increase in leadership decision speed and 28% reduction in manual triage.
  • Developed Azure Bot Service chatbot for Teams integration: Gathered user insights to define scope, engineered with GenAI for KB/forums access; ran PoCs with A/B experiments, iterated based on retention metrics; enabled 40% faster query resolution for customer success teams.
  • Analyzed transformer models for AI scenarios; established test pipelines featuring synthetic data and human insights, evaluated results to shape roadmap initiatives; encouraged design thinking in collaborative teams (10-15 members), leading to 20% improvement in model accuracy across projects.

Senior Software Engineer

Nous Infosystems
Bengaluru
06.2015 - 04.2021
  • Led Clinical Trial Phase Transition Prediction for Lokavant: Translated R&D needs (GO / NO-GO decisions) into product requirements; built predictive models (Spark-MLlib/Python) on 7,000+ anonymized records, performed feature engineering/cross-validation/hyperparameter tuning; created Databricks visualizations for stakeholders, implemented RESTful APIs for integration; achieved 92% accuracy, enabling measurable ROI in trial portfolio management.
  • Owned ReDi DW Migration for ACI Worldwide: Defined migration roadmap with Lambda architecture (Hadoop/Spark/Hive/Kafka/Snowflake); prioritized features via user research, designed ETL flows (NiFi/Spark-JDBC) for real-time/batch data (processing time reduced 30%); mentored team on tools, ensured data governance/IP protection; improved query performance 40% and scalability for reporting.
  • Developed Flight Delay Prediction Chatbot PoC: Conducted market analysis to identify opportunities; integrated ML models (Azure ML Studio/Scikit-Learn) with DialogFlow/Google Assistant; ran A/B tests on variants, balanced cost vs. accuracy; deployed with Firebase, achieving 85% prediction accuracy and demonstrating GTM potential.
  • Built Sentiment Analysis Pipeline for Social Media: Gathered requirements for operational efficiency; designed Flume/HBase/Hive/Python pipeline processing 1TB+ data; incorporated NLP/A/B variants, visualized insights in Qlik Sense; reduced operational costs 15%, provided actionable trends for customer engagement.
  • Directed Predicting Customer Churn for ACI Worldwide: Analyzed data to define success metrics; engineered features/labeled data, built models (Decision Tree/Random Forest/Python/Hadoop); iterated with tuned parameters for highest accuracy; enabled retention strategies with 20% model improvement.
  • Supported ATJJS Search System: Configured Solr/Nutch/Hadoop for web crawling/indexing; fine-tuned based on search results (A/B testing), supported front-end integration; ensured scalability for large-scale data, contributing to efficient reporting.

Education

Executive Post Graduate Diploma in Management And Artificial Intelligence - Artificial Intelligence And Management

Indian Institute of Management, Indore
Indore, MP, India
01-2024

Master of Computer Applications - Computer Applications

SCSVMV University
Kanchipuram, TN, IN
04-2015

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science, Physics And Mathematics

National College Basavangudi
Bengaluru, KA, IN
04-2013

Skills

  • Machine learning and predictive modeling
  • Natural language processing and A/B testing
  • Hyperparameter tuning and model validation
  • Principal component analysis and dimensionality reduction
  • ETL development and data visualization
  • Data warehousing
  • Cloud architecture and Azure functions
  • Agile methodologies and problem solving
  • Anomaly identification
  • Cross-functional collaboration and team leadership

Projects

  • Digital Employee Sentiment Intelligence Platform (Ivanti, 2024-Present): Built full-stack GenAI solution for summarizing unstructured ITSM/EXM data → p95 latency ~1.5s → cost $0.005/request → eval precision/recall 0.85 (offline benchmarks/synthetic tests) → GPT-4o + RAG + LangChain + PineconeDB + Power BI → Ops: Azure/Docker, CI/CD (MLflow), drift monitoring/alerts → Reduced manual triage 28% via caching/chunking optimizations; postmortem: Addressed hallucinations by grounding in enterprise docs, improving confidence 30%.
  • ITSM Ticket Auto-Triage & Resolution (Ivanti, 2021-2023): Developed multilingual classification system for automating triage/routing/resolution → p95 inference
  • Clinical Trial Phase Transition Prediction (Nous, 2019-2020): Created predictive models for go/no-go R&D decisions → eval AUC 0.92 → cost $0.01/query → precision/recall 0.88 (cross-validation) → Spark-MLlib + Python + Databricks → Ops: REST APIs, monitoring notebooks → Improved decision speed 3x; postmortem: Handled imbalanced data with oversampling, raising minority class recall 15%.
  • Payment Fraud Detection PoC (Personal/Ivanti-Inspired, 2023): Built real-time anomaly detection pipeline → p95 ~150ms → cost $0.004/transaction → eval F1-score 0.90 → XGBoost + Flask + Redis + Kafka → Ops: Docker/CI, alerts for degradation → Reduced false positives 47%; postmortem: Optimized I/O bottlenecks with stream processing, cutting latency 25%.
  • Smart Vision-Based Vending Machine PoC (Personal, 2022): Designed touchless purchase system → p95 checkout 1.7s → cost $0.003/transaction → detection accuracy 96.4% → YOLO + Raspberry Pi/Nvidia Jetson + MongoDB + Flask APIs → Ops: Edge deployment, live pilots → Increased user satisfaction 78%; postmortem: Mitigated low-light errors with data augmentation, improving robustness 20%.
  • ReDi DW Migration (Nous, 2017-2021): Migrated legacy to scalable DW → processing time reduced 30% → query performance +40% → Hadoop + Spark + Hive + Kafka + Snowflake + NiFi → Ops: Lambda arch, CI/CD, data governance checks → Enabled real-time reporting; postmortem: Resolved integration delays via impediment removal, ensuring on-time delivery.

Certification

Machine Learning - Coursera

Timeline

Staff Software Engineer

Ivanti
04.2021 - Current

Senior Software Engineer

Nous Infosystems
06.2015 - 04.2021

Executive Post Graduate Diploma in Management And Artificial Intelligence - Artificial Intelligence And Management

Indian Institute of Management, Indore

Master of Computer Applications - Computer Applications

SCSVMV University

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science, Physics And Mathematics

National College Basavangudi
Janakiraman Giridhar SivasailamAI Product Manager