Gowtham V | Principal Data Scientist & GenAI Engineer

About Me

I'm a Principal Data Scientist & GenAI Engineer with 11+ years of experience building scalable, enterprise-grade AI and data infrastructure. My passion is turning complex data challenges into elegant, production-ready solutions that drive measurable business impact.

Over my career, I've led cross-functional teams, designed cloud-native platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP, and deployed GenAI systems that reduced costs by millions. From healthcare to finance, I've consistently delivered solutions that scale, perform, and translate business strategy into technical reality.

What I bring: Strategic thinking + hands-on execution. Deep technical expertise in LLMs, distributed systems, and database architecture, paired with proven ability to mentor teams and drive organizational transformation.

Experience

Robert Bosch GmbH, Data Scientist

Bengaluru, India (Feb 2021 – Dec 2024)

Led development of a GenAI workflow automation system using LLMs, improving project coordination and raising team efficiency by 16%.
Engineered an Azure ETL pipeline for database operations, cutting query turnaround from 6 minutes to 1.8 seconds and eliminating manual processing.
Built classification and clustering models from sales and operations data, contributing to an 8% increase in annual revenue margins.
Maintained 99.999% availability across MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, and Redis for 70 enterprise clients, supporting up to 5 TB databases.
Recovered a ransomware-locked MongoDB instance with a full backup and restore process, preserving a production client dataset with zero data loss.

University of North Texas, Graduate Research Assistant

Denton, TX (Aug 2025 – Present)

Conduct applied research on LLM hallucination mitigation for healthcare, grounding responses in scientific literature using RAG and achieving 20-second end-to-end retrieval.
Benchmark retrieval and prompt engineering strategies to improve factual consistency and interpretability of clinical LLM outputs against curated medical Q&A.

Cognizant Technology Solutions, Database Administrator

Client: CapitalOne, Chennai, India (Mar 2016 – Feb 2021)

Resolved a MongoDB split-brain incident on a 6-node replica set in under 30 minutes with zero business impact.
Built Python and shell monitoring scripts across 120 servers, detecting infrastructure anomalies in 35 seconds and replacing a manual review process.
Applied AWS SysOps expertise to support high-availability database deployments in CapitalOne production environments.

Wipro Technologies, Oracle Database Administrator

Client: Citi, Chennai, India (Jul 2013 – Feb 2016)

Administered 800+ Oracle databases across US and Mexico operations, maintaining 99.99% uptime for mission-critical banking workloads.
Resolved high-severity production incidents while ensuring strict SLA compliance for disaster recovery and performance tuning.

Core Expertise

AI & Machine Learning

✨ GenAI & LLMs (OpenAI, Gemini, Claude)

🔄 RAG & Prompt Engineering

🧠 NLP & Computer Vision

📊 ML Model Development & Tuning

Cloud & Infrastructure

☁️ AWS (EC2, RDS, Lambda, S3, SageMaker)

☁️ Azure (Cognitive Services, ML, Databricks)

☁️ GCP (Vertex AI, BigQuery)

🐳 Kubernetes & Docker

Databases & Data Engineering

🗄️ MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL

🗄️ Oracle, MSSQL, Redis

📈 Spark, Databricks, BigQuery

⚡ ETL & Real-time Streaming

Leadership & Domain

👥 Team Leadership & Mentoring

🏥 Healthcare AI & HIPAA Compliance

💰 Financial & Enterprise Solutions

🚀 MLOps & System Design

Flagship Projects

FinSight – Multi-Agent Wealth Management

Production-grade wealth management platform with 3 LLMs, 7 AI agents, and a Random Forest engine delivering 87% accuracy across 800+ tickers and sub-second portfolio sync.

Python LLMs Azure AKS CI/CD Random Forest

GitHub → Built for real-time advisory workflows.

Featured Project

NaviDoc – Multimodal Clinical AI

Safety-first clinical AI system with medical image analysis and RAG retrieval, achieving 35% ROUGE/BLEU and presented at Texas Health Informatics Alliance and Texas Medical Center.

FastAPI PyTorch MongoDB RAG Medical AI

GitHub → Presented at clinician and researcher forums.

Featured Project

Clinical Assistant AI

RAG-based healthcare assistant analyzing clinical documentation and patient context in real time, with a demo-ready workflow for care teams.

Python LLMs RAG Gemini Azure OpenAI

GitHub → ▶ Watch Demo

Video Included

Mental Health Wellness Chatbot

Multimodal mental health chatbot with real-time voice interaction, crisis detection, and automated email alerts, built on Google Gemini 2.0 Flash.

Python FastAPI Voice AI Crisis NLP Google Gemini

GitHub → ▶ Watch Demo

QuitBuddy – AI Smoking Cessation

Teen-focused quitting platform with Azure avatar streaming, speech recognition, and validated AI coaching for substance abuse recovery.

React TypeScript Azure Speech Avatar Streaming LLMs

GitHub → Validated at 80%+ faithfulness by external evaluation.

Public Presentations & Community Engagement

Highlights from recent public demos, community leadership, and student innovation events that reinforce my role as a hands-on AI leader.

Heart health demo using Azure AI – presented to sponsors of UNT’s Data Science department.
Dallas community engagement post – featured interaction with respected U.S. leaders at a Dallas Indian Club event.
Student AI conference event post – documenting a conference organized by SSAI for student innovation in AI.

Eagle Award ceremony highlight

A short video from the Eagle Award ceremony where SSAI was honored as Best New Student Organization of the Year.

Publications & Posters

Conference Poster: "NaviDoc: A Multimodal RAG-Based Clinical Chatbot for Contextual EHR Analysis." Texas Health Informatics Alliance Conference (2025); Texas Medical Center (2026).
Journal Article (Under Review): "Integrating AI into Healthcare Cybersecurity: A Survey of Current Practices and Future Potential." (Cybersecurity).
Journal Article (Under Review): "Student Perceptions of AI-Assisted Cybersecurity Education in High School." (Co-author; submitted for peer review).

Full details and preprints available upon request.

Certifications

Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate
Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900)
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist Associate (DP-100)
Advanced Data Science & AI – IIT Madras
AWS SysOps Administrator

Leadership & Community Impact

Founder & President – Society for Student AI Innovation (SSAI)
Organized and hosted an AI conference for 120+ attendees, driving student innovation and technical collaboration.
Led healthcare AI collaborations with a Texas-based hospital.
Team Lead at Bosch and mentor to junior engineers.
Led robotics competitions during undergraduate studies.