Engineering leadership · Applied AI

Sai Charan Obuladinne

Engineering leader building resilient, privacy-minded systems for insurance claims — and researching practical AI that earns trust at the point of decision.

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Professional portrait of Sai Charan Obuladinne
Trustworthy systemsClaims · Privacy · AI
01 / About

Engineering systems that carry real responsibility.

Sai Charan Obuladinne is a Staff Engineering Manager at GEICO in Richardson, Texas, where he leads claims engineering — spanning a mentor-mentee service across 50+ engineers, a PII protection program, BCDR across 15+ applications, and AI-driven observability. Previously a Staff Software Engineer at Meta, working on ads creation and privacy compliance, with earlier engineering roles at Twin Health, Werner Enterprises, and Robert Bosch. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Kent State University.

Current research

AI for insurance claims: photo-integrity verification for FNOL triage and multimodal severity prediction.

02 / Featured AI work

Is this claim photo authentic?

Live model · Hugging Face

Claim Photo Integrity Detector

A binary image classifier for authentic versus AI-generated or manipulated claim photos. The model fine-tunes ViT-base on Defactify data to support more trustworthy FNOL triage.

PIXEL SIGNALAUTHENTICITYViT-BASE
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03 / Career

From hands-on engineering to organization-wide leverage.

Staff Engineering Manager · GEICO

Claims engineering · Richardson, Texas

Staff Software Engineer · Meta Platforms

Ads creation and privacy compliance · Mountain View, California

Senior Software Engineer · Twin Health

Mountain View, California

Senior Software Engineer / Team Lead · Werner Enterprises

Omaha, Nebraska

Software Engineer · Robert Bosch

Kalamazoo, Michigan

Software Engineer · Wheaton World Wide

Indianapolis, Indiana

Software Engineer · Gentiva Health Services

Kansas

M.S. Computer Science · Kent State University

B.E. Computer Science · Sri Venkateswara University

04 / Publications & writing

Ideas moving from practice into publication.

Accepted / submitted

  • The Claim File That Keeps Its SecretsCACM · accepted, pending publication
  • Stop Re-Sending the Claim FileCACM · sent, awaiting editor
  • Definitely Not on the ListHackerNoon · submitted, pending publish

In progress

  • Designing a Claims Intake PlatformHackerNoon · planned
  • Designing an Insurance Job SchedulerDZone · on hold
  • Trust-First FNOL Triage for Auto Physical DamageJournal paper · awaiting DOI
  • Privacy-Preserving Cross-Carrier Fraud Detection for Auto Physical DamageJournal paper · awaiting DOI
  • AI-Native-SDLCArticle + presentation
  • ZKP book chapterIn revisions
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