Pranav K. Sudhir AI Engineer

Six years, four teams

Open a role to see what I did there and the projects that came out of it.

Data Analyst

Mercedes-Benz · Vance, AL
11/2025 – Present
  • Built RAG assistants adopted by 200+ engineers and technicians, with 85% answer acceptance.
  • Extended the platform with tool-calling agents that write SQL, refresh dashboards and raise tickets with human approval.
  • Delivered anomaly-detection and failure-prediction models that cut unplanned downtime 15% on pilot lines.
  • Centralized 10+ plant data sources into an Azure Databricks lakehouse.
  • Ran the phased data-and-AI roadmap across 5 shops, tracking scope, risks and dependencies in Jira.

Data Scientist, Co-op

Veeco Instruments · San Jose, CA
07/2024 – 12/2024
  • Prototyped a LlamaIndex RAG chatbot that cut field engineers’ time-to-answer by 40% in pilot testing.
  • Flagged process drift 6 hours earlier than static alarms with Isolation Forest and autoencoders.
  • Reached 0.86 F1 on component-failure prediction and wired predictions to service tickets.
  • Built Power BI tool-health dashboards that informed maintenance planning for 3 product lines.

Member Technical Staff / Data Engineer

HCL Technologies · Bengaluru, India
02/2021 – 06/2023
  • Built AWS batch and streaming pipelines processing 2 TB+ of data daily for a Fortune 500 client.
  • Cut Spark and Redshift runtimes 45% and monthly compute costs 30%.
  • Migrated 40+ legacy SQL Server ETL jobs to AWS with zero data loss.
  • Ran sprint planning and client demos, wrote runbooks and onboarded 3 new engineers.

Trainee Software Engineer

Quest Global · Bengaluru, India
11/2019 – 10/2020
  • Built Python and SQL automation for data validation and report generation, cutting manual effort by 30%.