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Yukta Chikate

Yukta Chikate

AI Product Leader & Senior AI/ML Engineer

Program Manager · Insight Global

yuktachikate14@gmail.com

Engineering trust into intelligent systems.

I work at the intersection of machine learning infrastructure and product strategy — building the evaluation layers, observability pipelines, and agentic architectures that let enterprise AI systems operate reliably in healthcare and finance, where failure has real consequences.

Over the past five years I've led cross-functional teams from 0-to-1 prototypes through production hardening — reducing hallucination risk, cutting inference latency, and shipping the safety rails that let organizations trust what their models say.

Roles, research & internships

  • Insight Global logo

    Insight Global

    Program Manager

    July 8, 2026 — Present

    Lead program reporting, analytics, and process improvement initiatives — building Power BI dashboards, defining KPIs, automating recurring reports, and translating operational data into clear insights for leadership decision-making.

    Power BI dashboards KPI definition Automated reporting
  • CVS Health and Aetna logos

    CVS Aetna — EXL

    Assistant Engineering Manager & Agentic AI Lead

    Feb 2026 — July 2026

    Led a 12-person cross-functional team across UX, data engineering, and frontend to ship enterprise AI and source-traceability interfaces, directing BigQuery semantic search and automated contract validation at scale.

    12-person team led BigQuery semantic search
  • SnapLogic logo

    SnapLogic

    Software Engineer, System Health & Reliability

    June 2025 — Oct 2025

    Designed automated agentic test-case execution and deployed Prometheus/OpenTelemetry observability across the release pipeline, cutting QA effort and recurring production failures in the same quarter.

    -60% QA effort -25% production failures
  • Barclays logo

    Barclays Investment Bank

    Data Analyst & ML Engineer

    Feb 2021 — Aug 2022

    Built anomaly detection pipelines watching 10M+ daily financial transactions — where I first learned that a model's confidence is only as good as its evaluation harness.

    +26% detection precision 10M+ daily transactions
  • CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) logo

    CSIR-NEERI

    Research Scientist

    June 2019 — Dec 2020 · Nagpur, India

    Computed GLDAS data and carried out detailed calculation and analysis in ArcGIS using advanced Python programming.

    GLDAS ArcGIS Python
  • Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) logo

    Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

    Intern

    Oct 2019 — Feb 2020

Where I studied

  • Northeastern University seal

    Northeastern University

    M.S. in Information Systems

    Graduate

    Dean's Graduate Research Assistant

  • Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering logo

    Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering

    B.S. in Computer Science

    Undergraduate

    Published research with ISRO & NEERI — see Research