May 2025 – Aug 2025
Machine Learning Engineer — Contract
Remote
- End-to-end ML capstone for an industry partner, delivered in a 12-week engagement
- Improved model performance ~15–25% over baseline
RudeeKolapalli
Senior Data / AI EngineerAtlanta, GA·AT&T · Chief Data Office
I build systems that learn: production data products, AI agents, and the engineering underneath.
Weekdays that’s AT&T’s Chief Data Office. The rest of the time I prototype whatever I can’t stop thinking about.
- Atlanta
- 4+ yrs AT&T
- GT MSA ’25
About
Georgia gave me both sides of the board: UGA for the business brain, Georgia Tech for the math. AT&T is where I run it at enterprise scale. I like the whole problem: data, models, agents, and the interfaces people actually use. Right now I’m into agentic systems that do real work.
Experience
Four years at AT&T, one platform. Two more chapters on the side.
Senior Data/AI Engineer
Jul 2024 – Present · Alpharetta, GA
- Enterprise data products on AT&T's shared Data Platform, used by 5+ business units
- Production AI agents with MCP, LLMs, Skills & LangGraph
- ETL/ELT pipelines over multi-TB datasets with 90%+ job success
- AI-fueled coding with Codex, Claude Code, and Devin, under enterprise guardrails: plugins, hooks, skills, and human review
May 2021 – Aug 2021
Solutions Architect — Intern
Remote
- AWS data lake for IoT telemetry on S3, Glue, Athena, Lambda, and Step Functions
- Scalable ingest + ad-hoc query for device fleets
Projects
Built, shipped, and learned from.
2024·Deployed
BitCluster
Bitcoin entity classification
End-to-end blockchain analysis: ETL, graph-based entity mapping, unsupervised clustering of 100K+ addresses, and an interactive D3.js atlas of ownership and transaction patterns.
PythonD3.jsGraph AnalyticsUnsupervised ML
2025·Deployed
Used Car Price Prediction
Modeling the used-car market
Predicted U.S. used-car prices from multi-source listings (Craigslist + EPA/NHTSA). XGBoost beat linear baselines by ~20% on holdout, with price drivers ranked for interpretability.
PythonXGBoostscikit-learnFeature Engineering
2024·Deployed
SPY Price Prediction
Markets through a model's eye
Forecasted SPY over 10+ years of history using ensembles, gradient boosting, and LSTM, then compared walk-forward error against naive and linear baselines.
PythonLSTMTime SeriesGradient Boosting
2024·Shipped
Flu Transmission Monte Carlo
Simulating outbreak control
Monte Carlo simulation of influenza spread across a 61-student classroom, quantifying how immunization strategies bend the outbreak curve.
PythonMonte CarloStatistical Modeling
Also
2026
rudee-kola.com
This site is engineered like a product: Next.js + TypeScript, GSAP, and a live neural field I drew by hand.
Next.jsTypeScriptGSAPCanvas
2021–
Solution Builder
An ongoing playground for AI-assisted product building, taking real problems to working prototypes with strong prompting, domain judgment, and a human in the loop.
AI AgentsLLMsPrototyping
Stack
How I work.
Data Engineering
- Pipelines & ETL
- Airflow / Databricks
- Kafka & streaming
- Warehousing: Snowflake, BigQuery, Teradata
- Data quality, lineage, and job observability
AI & Agents
- Agent design: MCP, Skills, Workflows
- LLM & prompt/context engineering
- Applied ML: XGBoost, LSTM, NLP
- Evals, tool use, and human-in-the-loop
- RAG and grounded retrieval
AI Coding
- Codex, Claude Code, Devin
- Plugins, hooks, and skills
- AI-fueled coding with enterprise guardrails
- Spec-driven development
- Review, tests, and policy as the safety net
Cloud & Platforms
- AWS: S3, Glue, Athena, Lambda
- Azure: Data Factory, Data Lake
- Identity, secrets, and least privilege
- Analytics engineering & visualization
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia Institute of TechnologyM.S. Analytics
Computational Analytics · GPA 3.7 / 4.0 · Class of 2025·Diploma ↗ (verify on Parchment)
University of Georgia
University of GeorgiaB.B.A. Management Information Systems
Terry College of Business
Credentials
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services·Credly ↗ (verify on Credly)
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals
Microsoft
Rudee brings a rare combination of business intuition, technical excellence, and strong work ethic. He quickly grasped the core business problem, contributed actionable insights, and delivered high-quality analytical work under tight deadlines.
Bernice Liang · Data Analyst, GT OMSA Practicum Teammate