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Durai Rajamanickam

Hartford, CT | (860) 266-3912

Professional Summary

Hands-on AI/ML executive with 20+ years building production systems across financial services, healthcare, and legal tech. Deep experience leading GenAI (LLMs, RAG, agentic workflows), Causal ML, and cloud-scale MLOps at enterprise level. Track record of delivering measurable outcomes—cost takeout, revenue uplift, risk reduction—through regulatory-grade AI governance, modern data platforms, and cross-functional delivery (product, risk, security, and compliance).

Core Competencies

AI Strategy & Governance

  • • Enterprise AI Strategy & Roadmaps
  • • KPI/ROI Frameworks
  • • Model Risk & Responsible AI (policy, audit, explainability)

GenAI & Agentic Systems

  • • GPT/LLaMA integration, RAG, retrieval governance
  • • Evals, prompt/security hardening
  • • Agentic workflows and tool use

Causal ML & Experimentation

  • • ATE/CATE, uplift modeling
  • • A/B & sequential testing
  • • Observability and measurement

MLOps at Scale

  • • MLflow/SageMaker/Databricks
  • • Feature stores, CI/CD, monitoring
  • • Model catalogs and registries

Data Platforms

  • • Lakehouse on Azure/AWS
  • • Streaming, Delta/Iceberg
  • • Cost governance/FinOps

Leadership

  • • Org design (up to 60 FTE/contractors)
  • • Vendor management, budgeting
  • • Executive communications

Professional Experience

Independent Consultant, Author

Hartford, CT
AI Consultant2025 – Present

Leading Financial Wellness Organization

Hartford, CT
AVP, AI/ML & GenAI Platform2019 – 2025
  • • Owned enterprise AI/ML strategy and regulatory-grade delivery across retirement, wealth, and benefits lines—partnering with risk, legal, and compliance to operationalize Responsible AI policies and model risk controls
  • • Delivered portfolio of 30+ production models and GenAI services; created KPI stack tying model outcomes to business P&L. Examples: 40% faster regulatory reporting cycle; 25–35% reduction in manual review for service/claims; 10–15% uplift in digital engagement
  • • Modernized data & ML platform to Lakehouse (Azure + Databricks + MLflow + Delta); instituted model registry, feature store, and automated lineage/monitoring—cut model refresh time by 40%+ and infrastructure costs by five figures annually
  • • Built AI Evals and Retrieval Governance for RAG/agentic apps (grounding integrity, hallucination guardrails, prompt security, PII redaction, audit logging)
  • • Established GenAI Center of Enablement; trained 200+ practitioners; standardized patterns for LLM apps (prompt packs, tool use, chain reliability)
  • • Quantified value realization with finance: $10M+ cumulative value through cost avoidance, retention lift, and productivity gains; published quarterly AI scorecards to exec staff

Largest Global Consulting Company

Boston, MA
Lead Data Scientist / Manager, Applied Intelligence2018 – 2019
  • • Led AI programs for banking/insurance clients: claims automation, fraud propensity, and next-best-action; moved pilots to production with CI/CD and monitoring
  • • Delivered uplift models driving 3–5% conversion increase; introduced experiment design and incremental ROI measurement to executive steering groups

US-Based Digital Consulting Organization

Boston, MA
Senior Manager, Executive AI/ML Transformation Consulting2017 – 2018
  • • Shaped C-suite AI roadmaps for FS clients; prioritized use-cases by ROI and feasibility; set up governance, data foundations, and delivery playbooks

US-Based Technology Consulting Organization

Hartford, CT
Consulting Role (Data Engineering and Data Science)2004 – 2017
  • • Built large-scale NLP/IR systems on legal/financial corpora (NER, ranking, summarization); productionized models and search relevance pipelines
  • • Optimized ingestion/annotation workflows over 100TB+ content; achieved double-digit relevance gains on editorial search tasks
  • • Engineering roles across healthcare and enterprise data platforms (2005 – 2013)

Education & Research

PhD Candidate (Information Science, Causal ML)

University of Arkansas at Little Rock

M.S., Software Engineering

BITS Pilani

B.E., Mechanical Engineering

Bharathiar University

CORe Certificate

Harvard Business School Online

Technical Skills

AI & ML

PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, MLflow, Databricks, SageMaker, DoWhy, EconML

GenAI/Agentic

GPT/LLaMA integration, RAG pipelines, LangChain/LlamaIndex, tool-use/agents, evals

Data & MLOps

Azure/AWS, Delta Lake/Iceberg, Spark, Kafka, feature stores, CI/CD, model monitoring/observability

Governance

Model risk management, explainability (SHAP/LIME), privacy/PII controls, audit trails, policy enforcement

Publications

The AI Inflection Point – Volume 1: Financial Services

Infinidatum Press, 2025

Evidence-based case studies with ROI and decision frameworks. Available on Amazon.

Causal Inference for Machine Learning Engineers

Springer, 2025

A Practical Guide to Causal ML for production systems. Available on Amazon.

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