Kusumakumari Vanteru

Product Engineer

Sunnyvale, California, United States8 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Proven expertise in developing personalized content recommendation systems.
Strong background in backend development using Java and Spring.
Experience in managing customer data in fintech applications.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Developer with strong expertise in Data Engineering and Fintech applications.

Contact

kusuma95@yahoo.co.in LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Data EngineeringRest ApiBackend DevelopmentJavaWeb ServicesMachine Learning

Other Skills

API DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsBig DataBitbucketBusiness AnalysisCCascading Style Sheets (CSS)CommunicationCommunity EngagementContent PersonalizationData StructuresEmployee EngagementGroup WorkHTML

About

I am a Senior AI Engineer at Target AI working in the Personalization space. I have ~3 years of professional experience in Java web-services, Cloud-based applications and academic research in Data Mining, Machine Learning looking for exciting full-time Backend/Software Engineering opportunities. I am a MS in CS student from Arizona State University, graduated in May 2021. My area of interest is in Data-Engineering and Analytics on Big Data. Prior to my Masters, I worked for 2 years as a Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase, Hyderabad, India. I worked in a team that developed and maintained web-services to manage the entire customer data of the firm, in order to introduce new features in Customer-facing applications. Additionally, I have academic experience in a wide range of data mining problems like Frequent Pattern Mining, Feature Extraction, and Classification of microarray datasets, Web-log mining, etc.

Experience

8 yrs

Total Experience

2 yrs

Average Tenure

5 yrs

Current Experience

Ieee computer society

Graduate Student Member

Jun 2024 – Present · 2 yrs

Target

2 roles

Senior AI Engineer

Mar 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 3 mos

Working as a Senior AI Engineer as part of the Data Engineering team in the Content Personalization organization under Target AI. The primary goal of this role is to develop API s, deploying them, and enabling personalized and non-personalized Content recommendations to the customers of Target.
Some of my major contributions include:
Built an enhanced architecture to improve content creators’ visibility to Content metadata derived by PRZ team with minimal latency and encourage continuous feedback and adoption of Content personalization algos.

REST APIData EngineeringContent Personalization

Senior AI Engineer

Jun 2021 – Present · 5 yrs

Working as a Senior AI Engineer as part of the Data Engineering team in the Deals Personalization organization under Target AI. The primary goal of this role is to develop API s, deploying them, and enabling personalized and non-personalized deals recommendations to the customers of Target.
Some of my major contributions include:
Prototyped and deployed gRPC Java micro-services for storing and recommending various common/personalized Offers to customers, which creates shopping ease, builds the basket, and drives conversion.
Improved performance of a high TPS micro-service for recommending eligible products for a given Offer, by reducing response time by 50% and resulting in faster personalized Promo experience for guests.
Re-designed application to ingest Offer metadata from multiple Kafka streams/Target Bigdata tables, aggregate them into a meaningful format and build our Offer database system, to serve real-time data to guest-facing partner teams.
Migrated sources-of-truth for Target Circle Offers to improve guest conversion rate by recommending relevant Offers.

gRPCJavaKafkaBig DataBackend DevelopmentData Engineering

Arizona state university

4 roles

Computer Science Grader

Jan 2021 – May 2021 · 4 mos · Tempe, Arizona, United States

Grader for CSE-446 (SW Integration & Engineering) in Spring 2021, under Prof. Yinong Chen.

Computer Science Grader

Jan 2021 – May 2021 · 4 mos · Tempe, Arizona, United States

Grader for CSE-445 (Distributed Software Development) in Spring 2021, under Prof. Janaka Balasooriya.

Computer Science Grader

Aug 2020 – Dec 2020 · 4 mos · Tempe, Arizona, United States

Grader for CSE-445 (Distributed Software Development) in Fall 2020, under Prof. Yinong Chen.

Grader

Feb 2020 – May 2020 · 3 mos · Tempe, Arizona, United States

Grader for CSE-445 (Distributed Software Development) in Spring 2020, under Prof. Janaka Balasooriya.

Amazon

Software Development Engineer Intern

May 2020 – Aug 2020 · 3 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States

Designed, implemented and deployed a metrics instrumentation framework in Java for emitting Data-Quality (Cache-Hit) and Operational (Latency, TPS and Error-Rate) metrics, which helped to save time and effort of partner teams in the AdTech space.
Using the above metrics, developed Ruby code to automatically generate Monitors, Alarms and Dashboards (end-to-end). This helped to avoid manual intervention and ensure auditing of updating the thresholds of Monitors and Alarms.

Jpmorgan chase & co.

2 roles

Software Engineer

Jul 2017 – Aug 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

I was part of a team that developed and maintained web-services to manage the entire customer data of the firm and introduce new features in the Customer-facing application, in primarily 2 domains - KYC and Digital platforms.
Experience in Java technologies like Spring/EJB, Hibernate/JPA, SOAP/REST APIs, private Cloud,
Major projects include the addition of new features to Chase QuickPay, Account opening on Chase.com, Personal Banking, Managing private ATM's for businesses, various kinds of due-diligences to adhere to the regulatory guidelines, adding new functionalities to banker applications, sending alerts and notifications to Customers, etc.
Also, designed and developed a hybrid model to identify and classify customer PII data,
using Machine Learning and pattern matching techniques, as part of All-India Code-a-thon 2018 and won the 1st position. This model was effective in preventing data misuse/leakage and reducing audit fines.

Software Engineer Intern

May 2016 – Jul 2016 · 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Worked on automation of the testing of 5 major workflows of a banker application, using the Selenium framework and Java. This greatly reduced a lot of testing time and manual effort required.

JavaSpringHibernateSOAPRESTBackend Development+1

International institute of information technology, hyderabad

Summer Research Intern

May 2015 – Jul 2015 · 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Learnt various scripting languages like HTML, CSS, JS, PHP, AJAX, SQL and implemented them in CodeIgniter (MVC) framework.
Designed and developed a web application i.e. farmer and farm registration forms using these languages, for the 'e-Sagu' project, which is a personalized IT-based agro-advisory system for farmers.