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Vani Padmanabha

AI Solutions Architect & Strategy Lead | GenAI • Agentic AI • Graph RAG (Neo4j) | Banking & Network Domain

Greater Bengaluru Area

11+ years of work experience

Wells Fargo
Apr 20233 yrs 5 mosPresent

Bengaluru

Wells Fargo
Feb 20221 yr 4 mosMay 2023

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Wells Fargo
Aug 20217 mosFeb 2022

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Dimension Data
Jan 20086 y 7 moAug 2014

Network engineer

Vani’s AI Stack

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Education

International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

Postgraduate Diploma certification in DataScience/Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

20192019
upGrad.com

upGrad Certified Expert in Deployment in Machine Learning Model Deployment, Machine Learning Model Deployment

upGrad.com

20202020

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Headline

AI Solutions Architect & Strategy Lead | GenAI • Agentic AI • Graph RAG (Neo4j) | Banking & Network Domain

About

I help enterprises figure out where GenAI actually delivers — and then I architect the solution, prove it through a POC, and get it ready for the production pipeline. What makes that useful is the handful years underneath it. Before GenAI, I spent over a decade running network infrastructure for a global bank — WAN, capacity planning, incident and change management. So when I design an AI solution, it's grounded in how a real banking operation works, not in a demo. Plenty of people can wire up an LLM; far fewer understand the systems it's meant to fix. These days I: Architect an integrated AI initiative — Agentic AI, MCP, Neo4j Graph DB, RAG and GenAI for network diagnostics and incident resolution — and drive it from POC toward production Prototype and evaluate: Graph RAG on Neo4j, RAG chatbots, fine-tuned domain LLMs, and structured LLM benchmarking across model families Sit on the Core AI Committee, helping set AI strategy and governance, and translate complex AI design into terms leadership will fund And I keep one foot in measurable delivery — automation and analytics work that cut manual effort by ~90% and KPI deviations by 70%+ in live operations. I work best as the bridge: between domain stakeholders and engineering, between "interesting AI idea" and "thing the business can actually use." I'm open to AI Solutions Architect, AI Strategy, and Domain AI Lead roles — especially in banking, financial services, and enterprise environments where deep domain knowledge matters as much as the technology.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

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Work experience

Senior AVP-Senior Software Engineer Automation/ AI/ML at Wells Fargo, Apr 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru

Senior Network Engineer AVP at Wells Fargo, Feb 2022 - May 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Network Engineer at Wells Fargo, Aug 2021 - Feb 2022 · 7 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Network Engineer at Dimension Data, Jan 2008 - Aug 2014 · 6 y 7 mo, Network engineer

Education

Postgraduate Diploma certification in DataScience/Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

upGrad Certified Expert in Deployment in Machine Learning Model Deployment, Machine Learning Model Deployment, upGrad.com

Public links

github: https://github.com/vanip3

medium: https://medium.com/@vanip3

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