Samhiitha Penugonda

Energizer
DISC Type : I

Senior GenAI / Agentic AI Engineer at Guardian Life

United States

Overview

Samhiitha is a Senior AI/ML Engineer with over 10 years of experience building production-grade Generative AI and LLM-powered systems for the insurance, healthcare, and fintech industries. A graduate of CVR College of Engineering, she specializes in MLOps and cloud-native AI deployment on AWS, Azure, and GCP.

She recently led the design of a GenAI-driven claims risk and fraud detection platform at Guardian Life, successfully automating underwriting insights and enhancing decision-making.

Personality Overview

Imaginative

Believer

Full Of Energy

They are not always early adopters but can be pursuaded by leveraging strong relationships.  Unlike C or D types, they are vocal with their opinions but not so much with their questions. They are always positive and upbeat, so take their promises with a pinch of salt.

Topics They Care About

Generative AI Solutions
Specializes in building production-grade LLM, RAG, and multi-agent AI solutions using frameworks like LangChain, AutoGen, and Hugging Face.
AI in Insurance
Architected a GenAI platform at Guardian Life for claims risk and fraud detection, integrating diverse structured and unstructured insurance data.
AI for Healthcare
Led the development of a patient symptom assessment and condition recommendation model to improve virtual triage accuracy at K Health.

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Work History

4-2024
Senior GenAI / Agentic AI Engineer at Guardian Life
11-2022 - 3-2024
Senior AI/ML Engineer at K Health
1-2020 - 10-2022
Python & AI Systems Engineer at PLAID, Inc.
3-2017 - 12-2019
Data Engineer at Ahold Delhaize USA
6-2015 - 2-2017
Data Analyst at Sarvam

Education

7-2012 - 6-2016
Bachelor of Technology - BTech from CVR College of Engineering, Hyderabad

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Insights For Selling To Samhiitha

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Use adjectives like ‘amazing’, ‘coolest’, ‘unbelievable’ etc.
  • Talk anecdotally about the customer experience that your product offers
  • Be friendly and entertaining in your conversation

DONT's

  • Don’t push them to make a decision too fast, let them get comfortable first
  • Don’t assume a yes just because they have not said no
  • Don’t be too formal, focus on building comfort and trust

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Samhiitha is

  • Relationship and rapport can play an important role, sometimes more than the other factors.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Samhiitha

  • They will probably never say no directly, you have to make that decision yourself.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Samhiitha move?

  • They are not the quickest decision makers, their friendly attitude could be misleading.
  • Can Samhiitha take some risk or not?

  • They can accept limited risks, ones that they think will not impact them personally.

You And Samhiitha

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