AI / ML Engineer  ·  Generative AI  ·  MLOps

Building AI Solutions
That Drive Real Impact

AI/ML Engineer at Capital One with 4+ years of experience building scalable, secure, and data-driven systems across fraud detection, Generative AI, and MLOps — at fintech and large-scale enterprise.

Location

New Jersey, USA

Open to Relocate

Experience

4+ Years

Capital One & HCLTech

Education

M.S. Computer Science

NJIT, Newark
Tharun Kumar Nagipogu, AI/ML Engineer professional headshot
CapitalOne
AI / ML Engineer
New Jersey, USA · 4+ Years Experience
12M+
Transactions Processed
Daily, at Capital One
< 80ms
p99 Inference Latency
Real-time Fraud Scoring
99.95%
Model Reliability SLA
Monitoring & Drift Detection
31%
Fraud Losses Reduced
Capital One Platform

Technologies I Work With

Py
Python
PT
PyTorch
Sp
Spark
Kf
Kafka
aws
AWS
Dk
Docker
K8
Kubernetes
LC
LangChain
XG
XGBoost
Pg
PostgreSQL
Pc
Pinecone
Git
Git
TF
TensorFlow
Tf
Terraform
Af
Airflow
ML
MLflow

Featured Projects

Credit Card Fraud Detection

Personal

End-to-end ML pipeline on 283K transactions (~0.17% fraud) — XGBoost, Platt-scaling calibration, FastAPI deployment.

PythonXGBoostScikit-learnFastAPI

Enterprise Financial RAG Assistant

Capital One

RAG over 2M+ compliance documents — cutting analyst research time by 46% with grounded, cited answers.

LangChainPineconeAWS BedrockClaude

Experience Highlights

Aug 2024 – Present
AI/ML Engineer · Capital One
Real-time fraud detection on 12M+ daily transactions; productionized a RAG assistant; MLOps release cycle 3 weeks → under 48 hours.
Jul 2020 – Jun 2023
Associate SWE – AI/ML · HCLTech
Document AI pipeline (1.5M+ docs/month, review ↓62%); BERT NLP ticket routing 71% → 92%; GPU inference throughput ↑3.4x.
Education
M.S. Computer Science · NJIT
Master's degree underpinning my production AI/ML and Generative AI engineering work.

Let's build something impactful together.

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