Summary
Prathyusha Reddy is a Lead AI Engineer based in Richardson, Texas, with nine years of software and data engineering experience and over six years focused on architecting AI/ML solutions. She has risen through multiple roles at Target—from data engineering intern to Lead AI Engineer—delivering production systems that bridge large-scale Hadoop/Hive pipelines, similarity engines, and internal search services. Comfortable across the stack, she combines classical backend skills (Scala, Akka HTTP, Postgres, Docker) with modern ML engineering practices to operationalize similarity and recommendation workloads. Her academic grounding as a CS master’s student at UT Dallas complements practical experience building enterprise-grade integrations and automation workflows. Pragmatic and product-minded, she has a track record of turning complex data ecosystems into usable features for large retail operations.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Keshav Memorial Institute of Technology
English, Hindi, Telugu