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Arpan Kumar Mahapatra

I build reliable systems where AI, infrastructure, and software engineering meet.

Software engineer building reliable systems at the intersection of AI, infrastructure, backend platforms, and applied machine learning.

Selected work

  • Cloud Infrastructure

    Cloud Health Alerting

    An organization-wide cloud health alerting platform that routes AWS Health events to the right teams before they become incidents.

    • Targeted at least 95 percent production coverage.
    • Targeted critical alert delivery in under three minutes.
    AWS HealthAmazon EventBridgeOutlookMicrosoft Teams
    View case study
  • Enterprise AI

    Sage Enterprise AI Platform

    A secure, RAG-powered enterprise AI platform that makes engineering knowledge discoverable across GitHub, Confluence, and Stack Overflow.

    PythonFastAPIRAGEmbeddingsRBACMCPOAuth 2.0PKCEGitHubStack OverflowConfluenceMicrosoft Teams Bot FrameworkMulti-tenant architecture
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  • Applied ML Research

    AnnotateAnyCell

    Purdue research on efficient digital-pathology annotation combining segmentation, clustering, and interactive labeling.

    • Improved nuclei-labeling efficiency by approximately 30%.
    • Reduced labeled-data requirements by approximately 60%.
    SegmentationSAMCellposeClusteringSemi-supervised learningDeep learningInteractive labelingDigital pathology
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  • Production Engineering

    Optum Engineering Automation

    API, UI, data-validation, and CI automation systems built at Optum Global Solutions.

    • Automated approximately 20 REST APIs.
    • Reduced testing cycle time by approximately 40 percent.
    JavaSerenity BDDJenkinsREST APIsCucumberCypressSelenium WebDriver
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Experience

  1. Senior AI Engineer

    January 2026 – Present

    Eli Lilly and Company

    Building cloud health alerting and enterprise AI knowledge platforms for Cloud Engineering, spanning event-driven infrastructure monitoring and secure RAG-based knowledge retrieval.

    • Design event ingestion, normalization, severity classification, deduplication, and ownership-based routing for AWS Health alerts delivered over Outlook and Microsoft Teams.
    • Build a secure, RAG-powered enterprise AI platform with a Python FastAPI backend, RBAC, OAuth 2.0 with PKCE, and MCP integrations across GitHub, Stack Overflow, and Confluence — currently generalizing it into a self-service, multi-tenant platform any team can provision its own instance of.
    • Develop Microsoft Teams Bot Framework integrations with rich-card responses for enterprise knowledge search.

    Public descriptions omit internal repositories, account structures, credentials, endpoints, and proprietary operational details.

  2. Tech Intern

    May 2025 – August 2025

    Eli Lilly and Company

    Built a multi-agent RAG onboarding assistant, an AI-ready knowledge registry, and a computer-vision brand-compliance pipeline.

    • Built a multi-agent RAG onboarding assistant with FastAPI, REST APIs, tool orchestration, and real-time retrieval, containerized for deployment.
    • Built Python ingestion pipelines with metadata-driven tagging and automated classification for an AI-ready knowledge registry of internal technical documents.
    • Developed a computer-vision pipeline using frame-sequence analysis to detect brand-compliance violations in video.

    Public descriptions omit internal repositories, account structures, credentials, endpoints, and proprietary operational details.

  3. Research Assistant

    February 2024 – May 2025

    Purdue University

    Digital-pathology annotation research advised by Prof. Ananth Grama.

    • Combined SAM- and Cellpose-based segmentation with clustering and semi-supervised learning to reduce manual annotation effort.
    • Built an interactive labeling workflow for digital-pathology nuclei annotation.
    • Co-authored the AnnotateAnyCell preprint.
  4. Software Engineer

    June 2021 – December 2023

    Optum Global Solutions

    Automated REST APIs and reduced manual UI and data-validation testing using Java-based BDD test automation within a Jenkins CI pipeline.

    • Automated approximately 20 REST APIs using Java-based test automation.
    • Reduced manual UI and data-validation testing effort using Serenity BDD, Cucumber, Cypress, and Selenium WebDriver.
    • Maintained CI pipelines in Jenkins to support continuous testing.
    JavaSerenity BDDJenkinsREST APIsCucumberCypressSelenium WebDriver

    Public descriptions omit internal applications, customer data, credentials, and proprietary test infrastructure.

Research and publications

  • AnnotateAnyCell: Open-Source AI Framework for Efficient Annotation in Digital Pathology

    bioRxiv

    Purdue research project focused on efficient digital-pathology annotation using segmentation, clustering, interactive labeling, and machine learning.

    View publication
  • RouteNet-Fermi: Network Modeling With GNN (Analysis and Re-implementation)

    arXiv

    Developed and evaluated machine-learning approaches for network-performance prediction, including graph-based modeling and an LSTM baseline.

    View publication

Leadership & awards

Leadership

  • Charter President

    2019 – 2021

    Rotaract Club

    Founding president of the club — led the founding team and organized club events and initiatives.

Awards

  • 2nd Place, Eli Lilly Hackathon

    Eli Lilly and Company

Technical capabilities

Languages
PythonJavaJavaScriptTypeScriptCC++
Backend
FastAPINode.jsREST APIs
AI
LangChainLangGraphMCPRetrieval-augmented generationNLPAgentsMulti-agent systemsVercel AI SDKEmbeddingsGPT-4oWhisper
Machine Learning
TensorFlowPyTorchPandasNumPyPySparkMachine learningCNNsRNNsSegmentationClustering
Cloud
AWSAWS HealthAmazon EventBridgeDatabricks
Security
OAuth 2.0PKCERBAC
Integrations
GitHubStack OverflowConfluenceMicrosoft Teams Bot Framework
Frontend
ReactNext.jsReact NativeRedux ToolkitTailwind CSSGraphQL
Data
MongoDBPostgreSQLMySQL
DevOps
JenkinsDocker
Testing & Automation
Serenity BDDCucumberCypressSelenium WebDriverPostman
Computer Vision
OpenCVNumPyComputer vision

Contact

Software engineer building reliable systems at the intersection of AI, infrastructure, backend platforms, and applied machine learning.