Shiva Ram Pinnama

Software Engineer

Seattle, Washington, United States3 yrs 11 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Expert in building scalable AI-driven solutions.
Proficient in cloud technologies and REST API development.
Significant experience in optimizing CI/CD processes.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Engineer with expertise in AI and cloud technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ai-driven Product OptimizationRest ApisLarge Language Models (llm)PythonContinuous IntegrationContinuous Delivery (ci/cd)

Other Skills

Cloud TechnologiesRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)AWSGitHub ActionsProduction SupportInfrastructure ManagementMongoDBDockerBERT (Language Model)MLOpsGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)AngularJSAgile MethodologiesContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Elasticsearch

About

Results-driven Engineer with expertise in building scalable systems, optimizing performance, and working with cross-functional teams. Proficient in REST API development, cloud technologies (AWS, GCP), and automation. Skilled in Python and Java, with hands-on experience in microservices, GenAI, Embeddings, RAG, CI/CD pipelines, and AI-driven product optimization. Passionate about driving innovation and solving complex technical challenges.

Experience

3 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 9 mos

Average Tenure

5 mos

Current Experience

Lexisnexis legal

Data Scientist II

Jun 2023 – Dec 2025 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Building Lexis+ AI, a multilingual Generative AI assistant for legal drafting, combining NLP, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and LLMs.
Improved grounded retrieval accuracy by implementing custom chunking strategy and hybrid search system combining semantic and keyword-based retrieval for legal document processing.
Deployment of production Machine Learning models on AWS SageMaker.
Cut Docker image build time by 66% by implementing parallel builds and layer caching.

PythonLarge Language Models (LLM)Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)AWS

Allegis group

Software Developer

Jun 2022 – Jun 2023 · 1 yr · Baltimore, Maryland, United States · Hybrid

Migrated CI/CD pipelines from Bitbucket Pipelines to GitHub Actions, reducing build times and increasing deployment reliability.
Developed automation scripts for on-demand deployments, improving release velocity and cutting manual deployment overhead by 60%.

Continuous IntegrationContinuous Delivery (CI/CD)GitHub Actions