Sanjana, wearing a black blazer and navy blouse

SANJANAONTERU

Forward Deployed
AI Engineer

Kore.ai
Explore projects & perspectives

01 / Independent work & ideas

Projects & perspectives.

Independent investigations, working code, and ideas from the classroom.

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InvestigationStudy planned · Interactive preview

One dataset.
Two stories.

What does New York’s taxi data leave out?

AI systemsEvaluation plan

The Agent
Tax.

When does another agent earn its place?

InvestigationData feasibility · Assumption explorer

The Swift
Effect.

A city, a concert, and a question of attribution.

AI systemsOpen-source project

agent-evals.

A small harness for asking harder questions.

Case studies & talksInvited guest lecture

The Real
AI Playbook.

Bringing practical AI decisions into the classroom.

Where I’ve learned, led, and made an impact.

  • Penn State
    Education
  • SRM Institute of Science and Technology
    Education
  • Kore.ai
    Current employment
  • Lore Health
    Employment
  • Barclays
    Employment
  • Caterpillar
    Internship
  • Engineers Without Borders India
    Community involvement
  • American Red Cross
    Community involvement

02 / My story

Engineering.
Analytics.
Leadership.

From engineering at SRM to two master’s degrees at Penn State. A path through building, learning, and sharing the work.

Sanjana in her graduation gown at Penn State
Penn StateGraduation
SRM Institute of Science and Technology2014 — 2018

Bachelor of Technology

Information and
Telecommunication Engineering

SRM Institute of Science and Technology

From the SRM years

Professional certifications

AI, machine learning, and project delivery.

PMP certification badge

Project Management Professional (PMP)

Project Management Institute

Feb 2025 — Feb 2028

AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer — Associate badge

Machine Learning Engineer — Associate

Amazon Web Services

Jan 2025 — Jan 2028

AI Practitioner

Amazon Web Services

Dec 2024 — Jan 2028

Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt badge

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

Process improvement

Tableau Certified Data Analyst badge

Tableau Certified Data Analyst

Data analysis & visualization

Sharing the work

Ideas are better
in conversation.

Speaking & teaching

UT DallasApril 22, 2026

The Real
AI Playbook.

Where project management meets AI. A practical session on bringing AI into professional work, for engineers and the people building alongside them.

Guest speakerProject Management Club · UT Dallas

Organizer’s announcement
An invitation to share

Conference speaker2026

Harvard WECode

Women Engineers Code Conference

From the personal archive

People. Places.
Perspective.

University life, public conversations, and the communities that shaped my path.

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Sanjana in conversation at Penn State in an image branded for Giving Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Penn State alumni mentoring

Giving Tuesday · 2021

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India TV

Interview clip

Open video
A virtual panel screenshot listing Sanjana Onteru alongside fellow Penn State graduates
Penn State virtual panel

Management & Organizational Leadership / Business Analytics

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An SRM University engineering admissions campaign from 2017 featuring Sanjana in a library
SRM brand ambassador

Admissions campaign · 2017

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Sanjana with the SRM national cultural festival organizing team on stage
SRM National Cultural Festival

Organizing team

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A collage from the India–US diaspora conference, including Sanjana speaking
India–US Diaspora Conference

Speaking at “India Welcomes Its Overseas Community”

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Two photographs of attendees, including Sanjana, at the International Business Forum
International Business Forum

Attendee

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03 / Experience

In practice.

From business analytics to production AI. Building systems, understanding their failures, and taking responsibility for delivery.

Read my résumé
01 / CurrentDec 2025 — Present

Kore.ai

Forward Deployed AI Engineer

I design and migrate conversational and multi-agent systems for banking, healthcare, and pharma, connecting agent architecture and guardrails with evaluation and client-facing delivery.

My work includes deterministic provenance: audit trails that do not depend on a model’s explanation of its own behavior.

Production agents Regulated industries

02 / Healthcare AIJul — Oct 2025

Lore Health

Machine Learning Engineer

Built Python pipelines for conversational anomaly detection across 50,000+ daily messages, with latency under 200 milliseconds.

Developed synthetic datasets and conducted more than 200 fine-tuning experiments, alongside work on AI safety and fairness in healthcare.

Production Python Model evaluation

03 / BankingDec 2021 — Jun 2025

Barclays

Senior Business Insights Analyst

Promoted from Business Insights Analyst

Joined in business insights and moved into the GenAI team within the COO organization.

Developed automated quality assurance for call-review workflows and worked through six rounds of user acceptance testing to refine system behavior.

Business insights Enterprise GenAI

04 / The starting pointJun — Sep 2020

Caterpillar

Business Analytics Intern

Supported a B2B/B2C platform migration through business analytics and Power BI reporting.

Business analytics Power BI

04 / Contact

Let’s talk.

About AI, an interesting problem,
or what we could build together.

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