Sai Anirudh Siddi
EDUCATION
Master of Engineering, Computer Science · University of CincinnatiAug 2024 to Dec 2025
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science · Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, HyderabadJul 2020 to May 2024
SKILLS
Languages Python, SQL, Java, C, C#, Go, Rust, Scala, R, CSS
Frameworks PyTorch, Transformers, LangChain, scikit-learn, TensorFlow, FastAPI, Node.js, Streamlit
AI/ML systems LLMs, RL (RLHF, RLVR), reward modeling, LLM evaluation, red-teaming, adversarial prompting, rubric design, mechanistic interpretability, RAG, agentic AI, FAISS, MLOps
Backend and infra Kubernetes, REST APIs, microservices, GPU inference pipelines, RunPod, Docker, CI/CD
Data engineering Spark, Hadoop, ETL, pipelines, validation, feature engineering, Pandas, NumPy
Cloud and platforms AWS, GCP, Azure, Snowflake, Git, Linux, MongoDB, MySQL
Observability Arize Phoenix, Sentry, experiment tracking, model evaluation, Tableau, Power BI, Looker
EXPERIENCE
AI Fellow · Handshake AI
Aug 2026 to present- Author adversarial evaluation sets and reinforcement learning environments for frontier LLMs, writing domain-specific scenarios, questions and rubric-based reward functions; over 50% stumping rate on multi-step quantitative reasoning tasks.
- Build and curate labeled evaluation datasets, refining prompts against model responses and reasoning traces to separate genuine reasoning gaps from prompt ambiguity.
- Score and analyze outputs against calibrated rubrics that serve as RL reward signals, surfacing systematic weakness patterns for the next round of environment design.
Data Engineer · Great American Insurance Group, Predictive Analytics
May 2025 to Jan 2026- Analyzed 1M+ underwriting and litigation records using SQL and Python to surface data inconsistencies and workflow bottlenecks, improving decision accuracy by 10%.
- Built optimized data management pipelines and reporting across multiple systems, improving data accessibility and operational efficiency.
- Validated an AI-assisted analytics tool with business stakeholders, improving processing efficiency by 60%.
Software Engineer · DRDO, Defense Research and Development of India, Digital Forensics
Aug 2023 to Nov 2023- Processed and analyzed 700+ structured and unstructured forensic artifacts per run.
- Designed data ingestion, management and validation pipelines for downstream analysis.
- Documented schemas and processing logic while testing outputs, improving reliability and investigative efficiency by 30%.
Data Engineer · Dsign Code LLC, IT
May 2022 to Sep 2022- Developed SQL and PL/SQL reporting workflows across 20+ enterprise modules.
- Analyzed 50K+ monthly transactional records, improving system performance by 15%.
- Partnered with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and validate reporting outputs.
PROJECTS
Toki · On-device AI meeting assistant
- Fully offline meeting intelligence chaining ASR, speaker diarization and a 4-bit quantized Qwen3-4B for note generation; zero cloud inference cost, no data egress.
- GPU inference pipeline for a 0.6B ONNX ASR model and 4B LLM on a 4GB-VRAM consumer GPU; live transcription latency from 21s to ~1s, diarization at 0.014 RTF.
- Sole engineer from model selection to a packaged Windows release; 9.2% WER, retrieval precision@1 from 82.9% to 87.5%.
GlassBox · Mechanistic interpretability
- Mech-interp system for medical LLMs on Gemma 3 4B/2B, surfacing 15+ SAE feature activations with real-time uncertainty and harmfulness tracking.
- FastAPI and RunPod GPU microservices with Claude agents, Arize Phoenix and Sentry for live interpretability monitoring.
ExoSeeker · AI prediction platform
- Exoplanet detection on Kepler data, over 90% accuracy, with PyTorch and scikit-learn pipelines.
- Best Use of NASA Data, NASA Space Apps Challenge (2,000+ participants); represented Cincinnati at the Global Challenge.
NeedleHelp · MedTech
- End-to-end IoT + ML system for real-time robotic control, over 90% system accuracy.
- 1st Place, Best Project Overall, Ohio's largest hackathon (140+ teams, 800+ participants).