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Melbourne Agentic AI Engineer AI + Data Engineering AWS & LLM Systems Analytics Automation

Hi, I am Meghana. I build AI automation, data pipelines, and backend workflows that turn complex information into useful systems.

Analytics and Data Engineering graduate with hands-on experience building cloud-based ETL pipelines, AI-powered automation systems, scalable data workflows, and backend APIs using Python, SQL, AWS, FastAPI, and LLM technologies. I am especially interested in healthcare analytics and AI-driven decision-making.

Data Science Graduate Available Immediately Full Work Rights (AU)
Meghana Ganapa
Meghana Ganapa
I am working in AI automation, data engineering, cloud workflows, and analytics.
Current Focus AWS, LLMs, and serverless systems
Recent Work GridFlex AI and WattWise

Projects

AI Coding Agent using Codex and LLM Workflows
AI-powered coding assistant for code generation, debugging, and developer workflow automation.
AI / LLM
  • Goal: Automate code generation, debugging, and developer productivity tasks with Codex-backed LLM workflows.
  • Backend: Built scalable FastAPI endpoints for prompt processing, context management, and AI-assisted workflow execution.
  • LLM workflow: Implemented prompt engineering, API integration, and response validation to improve code quality and reliability.
  • Architecture: Applied modular backend design and production-focused automation patterns for maintainability.
  • Timeline: Developed in May 2026.
PythonCodexFastAPIPrompt Engineering
GridFlex AI - Renewable Energy Optimisation Assistant
Simulated real-time smart grid assistant that recommends energy actions using AWS serverless services and Amazon Bedrock explanations.
AWS AI
  • Goal: Optimise household energy usage across solar generation, home load, EV charging, battery state, and electricity price signals.
  • Simulation: EventBridge Scheduler triggers a simulator Lambda that generates telemetry and stores readings in DynamoDB.
  • Decisioning: A decision Lambda reads the latest telemetry, detects renewable surplus or peak-price demand, and recommends whether to charge the EV, run appliances, charge the home battery, or avoid heavy usage.
  • Explainability: Amazon Bedrock generates a human-friendly reason for each action, with final recommendations stored in a separate DynamoDB table for traceability and dashboard display.
  • Future-ready: Designed for integration with smart meters, solar inverters, EV chargers, home batteries, and IoT devices.
AWS LambdaEventBridgeDynamoDBAmazon BedrockServerless
Fraud Claim Detection Agent with AWS Bedrock and Lambda
End-to-end insurance fraud screening agent combining machine learning, serverless deployment, and natural language explanations.
ML Agent
  • Goal: Screen insurance claims for fraud risk using claim details such as vehicle type, policy type, accident area, police report status, witnesses, and previous claims.
  • Model: Trained a majority-voting ensemble with Logistic Regression, XGBoost, LightGBM, and CatBoost on the insurance fraud dataset.
  • Deployment: Packaged the trained model and Lambda handler in Docker, pushed the image to Amazon ECR, and ran predictions through AWS Lambda.
  • Agent workflow: Connected Amazon Bedrock Agent to a Lambda action group so users can submit claims in natural language and receive a plain-English risk explanation.
  • Explainability: Returned fraud probability, risk level, recommendation, and warning flags such as no police report, no witness, high claim history, or policy holder at fault.
PythonMLDockerAWS LambdaAmazon ECRAmazon Bedrock
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Roo Jobs Daily - AI and Startup Jobs Aggregation Pipeline
Automated pipeline for collecting, ranking, and delivering AI and startup job opportunities.
Automation
  • Goal: Aggregate, filter, rank, and deliver AI and startup roles relevant to Australia and remote job seekers.
  • Pipeline: Built Python and FastAPI workflows to collect fresh listings, deduplicate results, and categorise roles by location and job type.
  • Delivery: Integrated Slack publishing for the top 7 curated jobs every day at 7:00am Australia/Melbourne time.
  • Quality: Added ranking, filtering, logging, monitoring, and failure-safe alerting to reduce noisy results.
  • Timeline: Developed in April 2026.
PythonFastAPIPostgreSQLSlack APIPlaywright
Retrieval-Augmented Generation System for Medical Textbooks
Semantic search and LLM question answering over large-scale medical textbook content.
AI / LLM
  • Goal: Enable AI-powered question answering over large-scale medical textbooks using semantic search and LLMs.
  • Pipeline: Implemented document chunking, embedding generation, vector similarity search, and grounded response generation.
  • Retrieval: Used vector databases and CrossEncoder reranking to improve retrieval accuracy and response relevance.
  • Impact: Reduced manual document search time by approximately 40%.
  • Timeline: Developed from Apr 2025 to Jun 2025.
PythonSentenceTransformersVector DatabasesCrossEncoder
AI-Driven Polyp Analysis and Colonoscopy Recommendation System
NLP and machine learning pipeline for clinical extraction and follow-up recommendation support.
NLP
  • Goal: Extract clinically relevant information from unstructured pathology reports.
  • Models: Used BERT and BiLSTM models to identify polyp size and histology from clinical text.
  • Engineering: Built custom text parsing and feature extraction for complex clinical dimensional expressions.
  • Deployment: Deployed Flask APIs to convert unstructured reports into structured healthcare datasets.
  • Result: Achieved approximately 85% classification accuracy and reduced manual clinical review by approximately 30%.
PythonBERTBiLSTMTensorFlowPyTorch
Early Mortality Prediction in Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)
ML pipeline on ICU data to identify predictors and support clinical insights.
ML
  • Problem: Predict early mortality risk for AKI patients using ICU data (MIMIC-IV).
  • Data work: Performed cleaning, imputation, feature engineering, and LASSO feature selection.
  • Modeling: Trained 7 ML models; best model was XGBoost with AUC = 0.890.
  • Explainability: Used SHAP + LIME to identify key drivers (e.g., GCS, BUN, urine output, age).
  • Outcome: Produced interpretable insights suitable for clinical decision support.
PythonSQLXGBoostSHAP/LIME
AI-Powered Legal Assistant
Legal tech platform to analyze case text and predict outcomes (80% accuracy).
AI
  • Problem: Legal professionals need faster ways to analyse case documents and estimate outcome likelihood.
  • Approach: Built NLP classification pipeline for case outcome prediction and case analytics.
  • Data ingestion: Used TypeScript crawlers to collect and preprocess legal text for modelling.
  • Deployment: AWS-backed platform with dashboards for exploring case insights.
  • Result: Achieved ~80% accuracy for outcome prediction on legal text.
PythonTypeScriptAWSNLP
AWS Cloud Data Pipeline for ML-Ready Data
Automated ETL to transform raw CSV data into validated Parquet datasets.
Data Eng
  • Problem: Raw CSVs were inconsistent and not optimised for analytics/ML workflows.
  • Approach: Built an automated ETL pipeline converting CSV → validated, ML-ready Parquet datasets.
  • Quality: Implemented schema inference, validation checks, normalization, and partitioning strategies.
  • Performance: Optimised storage and access via columnar formats to speed downstream feature generation.
  • Outcome: Improved reliability and usability of datasets for analytics and experimentation.
S3GlueRedshiftParquet
Netflix Analytics Engineering Project
dbt + Snowflake pipeline that transforms raw data into analytics-ready models.
Analytics Eng
  • Problem: Raw datasets weren’t standardised for reporting and consistent metrics.
  • Approach: Built analytics engineering pipeline to transform raw tables into curated models.
  • dbt: Implemented models, tests, snapshots, macros to enforce data quality and historical tracking.
  • Warehousing: Used Snowflake for scalable analytical queries and a single source of truth design.
  • Outcome: Improved governance, consistency, and analytics readiness of datasets.
SQLdbtSnowflakeTesting
Sales Performance Analytics Dashboard
Power BI dashboards with star schema modelling and KPI tracking.
BI
  • Goal: Provide stakeholders a self-serve view of sales performance and KPI trends.
  • Model: Built star-schema model across products, regions, and customer segments.
  • Dashboards: Created interactive pages with slicers, drilldowns, trend views, and KPI cards.
  • Metrics: Tracked Total Revenue (336M) and Sales Quantity (847K) with validated datasets.
  • Outcome: Improved accessibility of insights for non-technical users and reporting accuracy.
Power BIDAXPower QuerySQL
Insurance Performance Dashboard
Advanced Excel dashboard for policy performance, claims trends, and revenue metrics.
Excel
  • Goal: Build an end-to-end insurance analytics dashboard without BI tooling (Excel-only).
  • Analysis: Evaluated policy performance, claim trends, and revenue metrics with KPI summaries.
  • Techniques: Pivot Tables, XLOOKUP/VLOOKUP, conditional formatting, calculated fields.
  • Reporting: Enabled dynamic views for ad-hoc analysis and business-friendly reporting.
  • Outcome: Delivered an easy-to-use reporting solution for business users.
ExcelPivot TablesXLOOKUPReporting
Melbourne Magic: Interactive Tourism Analytics Platform
Interactive maps + dashboards for tourism, transport, and location-based insights.
Dashboards
  • Goal: Help Victorian travellers explore tourism, transport, and location-based trends interactively.
  • Data: Integrated multiple public datasets into a single analytics experience.
  • Build: Developed dashboards with maps, filters, summaries for non-technical users.
  • Insights: Converted patterns into actionable planning and comparison decisions.
  • Outcome: Delivered a user-friendly analytics platform for exploration and decision support.
RRShinyTableauData Integration

Skills

Python FastAPI Flask REST APIs LLMs RAG Prompt Engineering PostgreSQL MongoDB Vector Databases SQL AWS Amazon Bedrock DynamoDB OpenAI Base44 Energy Analytics AI Product Strategy UX Prototyping Azure GitHub Actions Power BI Tableau
Programming & Querying
Python, SQL, R, Java, TypeScript, REST APIs, FastAPI, Flask, PostgreSQL, Git, and backend workflow automation
Analytics & Statistics
Data analysis, reporting, semantic data modelling, stakeholder communication, data cleaning, validation, and KPI reporting
BI & Visualisation
Power BI, DAX, Power Query, Tableau, KPI dashboards, self-service BI, stakeholder reporting
Data Engineering
ETL/ELT pipelines, data modelling, star schema design, dbt concepts, data governance, data validation, data quality automation, and workflow optimisation
Machine Learning & NLP
Machine learning, NLP, LLMs, RAG, prompt engineering, AI automation, predictive modelling, OpenAI-assisted prototyping, BERT, BiLSTM, TensorFlow, and PyTorch
AI Product & Energy Tech
WattWise concept development, energy-efficiency decision support, NatHERS 7-star upgrade framing, Base44 prototyping, OpenAI credits pitch delivery, and sustainability-focused product storytelling
Cloud & Platforms
AWS S3/Glue/Lambda/Redshift/EC2, EventBridge, DynamoDB, Amazon Bedrock, Azure, GitHub Actions, Docker basics, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Neo4j, Qdrant, Jupyter, and VS Code

Experience

Agentic AI Engineer
Enspyr - May 2026 to Present
Melbourne, Victoria
  • Built and tested model-as-a-judge evaluation workflows using Claude, OpenAI, and Gemini APIs to evaluate model agreement, reasoning quality, escalation decisions, latency, and cost-performance tradeoffs across coding and reasoning tasks.
  • Experimented with HumanEval and BBH benchmarking harnesses, resolved bugs in the HumanEval evaluation dataset workflow, and improved JSONL logging, parser/scoring validation, failure diagnostics, and reproducible LLM benchmarking pipelines.
Research Intern
Melbourne Data Analytics Platform · Feb 2023 – May 2023
  • Compared ImageJ vs Pixel Annotation Tool for labelled image workflows.
  • Implemented a CNN in Python, improving tissue classification accuracy by 15%.
Associate Software Engineer
Qentelli Solutions · Sep 2022 – Dec 2022
  • Automated workflows using REST APIs (30% reduction in manual effort).
  • Optimized SQL queries to improve data retrieval performance.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into data-driven automation and API solutions.
Software Engineer Intern
Accolite Digital · Feb 2022 – Aug 2022
  • Built MVC architecture with Spring Boot + MongoDB.
  • Improved dev velocity (30%) and system reliability (25%); reduced prod errors.

Education & Certifications

Master of Data Science
The University of Melbourne · Feb 2023 – Dec 2024
GPA: 7.8
Achievements
  • Watt the Hack Pitching Challenge Winner: Won with team FLAMING CHEETOS for WattWise, an AI-powered mobile app helping buyers and sellers of older homes identify practical energy-efficiency upgrades that improve property value, move closer to NatHERS 7-star standards, and earned $10,000 USD in OpenAI credits.
  • Published two research papers (Springer): “Cognitive Baby Care Solutions for Smart Parenting” and “Effective Prediction of Brain Tumor Using Machine Learning Algorithms”.
  • Participated in Smart India Hackathon-2018, I-Innovate, and IBM hackathons.
  • Peer-to-Peer Mentor (Data Science): supported students with coursework challenges.
Certifications
  • AWS Cloud Practitioner
  • AWS Certified AI Practitioner / Generative AI Developer - In Progress
Domain
Energy analytics, consulting, healthcare analytics, AI-driven decision-making, cloud ETL, workflow automation, and data quality automation

Contact

Want to chat about analytics, data engineering, AI automation, or software roles? Email me, call me, or connect on LinkedIn.