AdityaVelpula
Idon'tjustanalyzedata.Iarchitectsystemsthatthink.
M.S. Data Analytics · George Mason University · 2024 to 2026
Building AI Systems That Scale
1,630 Policy Sources → Actionable Intelligence
I ship production AI applications, scalable ETL pipelines, and the engineering rigor (1,481 automated tests, Langfuse observability, eval-driven LLM routing that cut spend ~80%) that keeps real systems trustworthy. Pulse, my live public AI platform with Claude streaming, is up at global-pulse-ai.site. Daily Python, advanced SQL, AWS production (S3, Glue, RDS, Lambda, Bedrock), LLMs (Claude, GPT-4, Gemini), RAG + embeddings, dimensional modeling, Power BI, Docker, GitHub Actions CI/CD.
Where I've Built
Three roles, one through-line: shipping intelligent systems from first principles.
AI / Data Engineer · 4-LLM Routing + ETL + Production AI
Hybrid RAG Pipeline
Hybrid search engine built on SQLite FTS5 + FAISS + Reciprocal Rank Fusion, with authority-weighted reranking and self-correcting retrieval loops (the pipeline detects low-confidence results, rewrites the query, and retries before anything reaches the LLM). Hit nDCG@5 = 0.832 and Precision@5 = 0.954 on a hand-built evaluation suite. A 7-stage async LLM orchestration pipeline on the OpenAI SDK runs with checkpoint recovery, per-model circuit breakers, and Langfuse observability; cut average API cost ~80% by routing simple queries to GPT-5-nano.
Shipped to production on a GMU OpenStack VM with FastAPI + SSE streaming, Docker behind nginx, token auth, and rate limiting. 1,481 automated tests across retrieval, scoring, and composition certified the system for hand-off to NSI under the DAPSE 3.0 program. Lesson learned: production AI is a systems problem first and a model problem second; the model is one node in a graph of retrieval, ranking, orchestration, evals, and recovery.
Graduate Teaching Assistant · AIT-580 Data Analytics
Supported 100+ students for Prof. Harry Foxwell across Python, SQL, applied analytics, and data modeling. Coached daily on translating business questions into structured data solutions. Taught across 4 sections over 2 semesters, redesigned grading rubrics that cut regrade volume and shaved roughly 30% off grading time per assignment, and overhauled the lab guides plus supplementary Jupyter notebooks (assignment scores lifted ~15% vs. the prior cohort).
Software / Data Engineer · Full-Stack
Built Python + FastAPI services and SQL transformations against PostgreSQL backends, plus TypeScript / JavaScript frontends powering customer-facing geospatial analytics. Ran early prompt-engineered LLM experiments on field-ops summaries. Stood up the team's first Git-based pull-request workflow with linting, unit tests, and CI/CD checks, cutting code-review cycle time from roughly 3 days to under 24 hours across a 5-engineer team.
Cyber Security Specialist · Internship
Built foundational skills in identifying vulnerabilities, testing web applications, and understanding security workflows. Hands-on experience with Burp Suite, Wireshark, DNS Discovery, and Bugcrowd for web application penetration testing and vulnerability identification.
Web Development Intern
Built responsive, user-friendly websites end to end using WordPress, HTML, and CSS. Completed multiple full website builds applying modern design principles and responsive layout techniques.
Six Stages, One Query
Scroll through the pipeline. Each stage is a real piece of the system in production.
Ingest
PDF, HTML, and DOCX policy documents pulled from 21 countries, then cleaned and normalized into a single schema with provenance tagging on every artifact. The catalog grew through the DAPSE 3.0 hand-off cycle.
Chunk
Section-aware segmentation with parent-child chunking, plus contextual headers prepended before embedding. Policy docs are full of structural meaning (treaty articles, footnotes, schedules), so naive paragraph splits would wreck retrieval. 25,634 policy objectives are extracted from the same pass.
Embed + Index
OpenAI embeddings stored in FAISS for dense semantic search. SQLite FTS5 provides the lexical sidecar over the same chunks. Two indexes, one query plane, both on the same VM.
Hybrid Retrieve
FTS5 + FAISS results blend through Reciprocal Rank Fusion, with authority-weighted reranking on top. Self-correcting retrieval loops detect low-confidence results, rewrite the query, and retry before anything reaches the LLM. Lands nDCG@5 = 0.832 and Precision@5 = 0.954 on the hand-built eval suite.
Verify
Every source carries a tier (binding legal, official non-binding, trusted secondary, other). The tier rides through retrieval, reranking, and composition, then 5 quality gates downgrade or kill any finding that doesn't hold up. Evidence-First reasoning enforces a 3-sentence BLUF cap on every brief.
Respond
FastAPI + SSE streams the response token-by-token from a GMU OpenStack VM behind Docker + nginx. Every claim traces back to a retrieved chunk with a clickable citation. Saves an estimated 90% on policy-lookup time vs. the manual workflow; 1,481 passing tests certified the system for hand-off under DAPSE 3.0.
Things I've Shipped
Seven projects, end-to-end. Tap any card for the architecture, metrics, and stack.

Pulse · Real-Time Global News Intelligence Globe
Public 3D-Earth platform that aggregates 1,000+ live events from 45+ sources (GDELT 2.0, 45 subreddits, 45+ RSS feeds including Reuters, BBC, AP, Al Jazeera, NHK, Hacker News), geolocates and clusters them onto the globe, and streams Claude Opus 4.7 analyst briefings (what happened, why it matters, key actors, severity, 12-hour forecast) on cluster click. Next.js 16 + React 19 + Three.js with 8K NASA textures and custom GLSL shaders for day/night terminator, atmosphere, and sentiment-reactive auroras. Fingerprint cache + per-IP rate limit + lazy AI keep the Claude bill sane.

DAPSE · Arctic Policy Intelligence Engine
Production RAG backend for a national-security JAG decision-support system, ingesting 1,630 policy sources across 21 countries into 257K embedded chunks. Saves an estimated 90% on policy-lookup time for end users. Hybrid search (SQLite FTS5 + FAISS + RRF) with authority-weighted reranking and self-correcting retrieval loops hits nDCG@5 = 0.832 and Precision@5 = 0.954 on a hand-built eval suite. 7-stage async LLM pipeline on the OpenAI SDK with checkpoint recovery and per-model circuit breakers; routing simple queries to GPT-5-nano cut average API cost ~80%. Shipped to a GMU OpenStack VM (FastAPI + SSE, Docker behind nginx) and certified for NSI hand-off via 1,481 automated tests.
RAG + Agentic AI Assistant
Hybrid RAG assistant that embeds structured and unstructured operational records, serves retrieval through FAISS + pgvector, and grounds every LLM answer in cited evidence spans. Exposes analytics tools to the agent via Model Context Protocol (MCP) with guarded loops and per-call token budgets, so the agent can ask the database real questions instead of hallucinating the answer.
Multi-Cloud LLM Evaluation Harness
Cross-provider evaluation harness that scores Claude, GPT, and Gemini on a fixed prompt set plus gold-answer references. Powers the model-selection decisions behind DAPSE's production 4-LLM router. Pytest-driven, Langfuse-traced, and deterministic across runs so a regression in one provider doesn't quietly leak into production.
Real-Time Streaming Anomaly Detection on AWS
Ingests high-frequency event streams through AWS Kinesis Data Streams into Lambda consumers. Each event is scored by an Isolation Forest + LSTM-autoencoder ensemble, and alerts persist to DynamoDB. Sub-second p95 latency end to end so a downstream pager actually fires while the anomaly still matters.
NLP Sentiment + Topic Classifier
Fine-tuned DistilBERT on 50K+ labeled reviews for multi-class sentiment plus topic tagging. Served via FastAPI with batched inference and ONNX runtime acceleration, lifting throughput roughly 3x over the unoptimized PyTorch baseline.
Time-Series Demand Forecasting + Inventory Optimization
Hierarchical forecasting across product and region using a Prophet + LightGBM stacked ensemble with SARIMA as a deterministic baseline. Optuna runs the hyperparameter search, MLflow tracks every trial, and reorder recommendations surface through a Power BI ops dashboard.
End-to-End MLOps Pipeline
CI/CD pipeline that trains, evaluates, and registers models in MLflow + SageMaker Model Registry. Evidently AI runs drift detection on inputs and predictions; Prometheus alerts wired into a retraining trigger fire automatically when input distributions shift. Docker + GitHub Actions hold the whole thing together.
Predictive Analytics + BI Dashboard
Dimensional model and canonical dataset over 5,000+ ops records, XGBoost forecasting with SHAP explainability for feature-level reasoning, and a Power BI dashboard with drill-down so operators can self-serve. Built end-to-end so the model output isn't a black box: every prediction comes with the top drivers an operator can act on.
Wildfire Risk Prediction
ML pipeline fusing MODIS satellite fire data, NOAA climate variables, and NDVI vegetation indices to predict wildfire risk. Random Forest + XGBoost with careful feature engineering reached AUC-ROC 0.99. Python visualisations of high-risk zones and key predictors (elevation, humidity, thermal anomalies) support proactive response.
U.S. Electricity-Rate Analytics
Analysed 320K+ electricity rate records (2020 to 2023) through the DIKW framework, using Python, SQL, and statistical testing (t-tests, regression) to expose material pricing differences between IOU and Non-IOU utilities across sectors and states. Cluster models + forecasts highlight geographic trends and inflation effects for regulators.
License Plate Detection
Real-time license plate recognition combining YOLO object localization with Tesseract OCR for character extraction, plus OpenCV preprocessing (binarization, denoising, perspective correction) for plates under motion blur or low contrast. Boosted detection accuracy through dataset augmentation and bounding-box refinement. B.Tech capstone project.
Hybrid Movie Recommender
Hybrid recommendation engine blending content-based filtering, collaborative filtering, sentiment analysis, and Jaccard similarity for diverse personalised suggestions. Responsive Flask web app with real-time search, tunable parameters, and evaluation metrics for diversity, novelty, and serendipity.
Cloud Data Warehouse + ETL Pipeline on AWS
End-to-end ETL on CDC BRFSS data using PySpark over raw, clean, and curated layers (medallion architecture) into AWS S3 + Glue + RDS (PostgreSQL). Dimensional modeling, automated data-quality checks, and an R statistical analysis layer on top. Supervised by Prof. Harry Foxwell at GMU.
Support Circle
Full-stack virtual support platform helping people fight addictions. React frontend for a responsive chat-first UX, Python backend handling auth, data management, and secure real-time messaging + notifications so users get continuous peer support during recovery.
Skills & Stack
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