Dharma Bandaru

Dharma Bandaru is a skilled software engineer currently serving as a Senior Software Engineer at Ameren since August 2023, focusing on backend development for the RAG Model, Ameren's AthenaAI, utilizing Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet in partnership with Kendra for semantic search. Prior experience includes roles at MTX Group from March 2021 to August 2023, where Dharma held the positions of Integrations Lead, Senior Integration Consultant, and Integration Consultant, leading teams in cost-effective cloud solutions, developing threat notification mechanisms, and deploying APIs in Python. Dharma's early career includes a Software Development Engineering Internship at Amazon, a Graduate Teaching Assistant role at New Mexico State University, freelance software development experiences, and a Research Associate position at Tamkang University focusing on sentiment analysis. Dharma holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from New Mexico State University, earned between 2019 and 2020.