Vetted AI & Machine Learning Professionals in California

“Founding member of Tausight, building AI systems to detect and protect PHI for healthcare organizations; helped take the company through post–Series A funding and exited after ~6 years. Drove a strategic collaboration with Intel’s OpenVINO team—becoming the first to deploy it in a real production system and improving model performance by ~30% on customer Intel-CPU machines.”

Suraj Thangellapally

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in machine learning and data science

San Jose, CA2y exp

“Python backend engineer who built a personal LLM-powered AI code review tool that parses code into context-preserving diff chunks and uses the OpenAI API to analyze and summarize changes. Has hands-on Kubernetes deployment experience (replicas, rolling updates, ConfigMaps/Secrets, health probes) and follows GitOps-style, declarative CI/CD workflows; also has experience designing streaming/event-style processing with attention to reliability and observability.”

Somil Shah

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Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in generative AI, RAG platforms, and LLM agents

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped 10+ production applications, including InvestIQ on GCP—a production-grade RAG due-diligence engine that ethically scrapes web/PDF sources, builds a ChromaDB knowledge base, and delivers analyst-style dashboards plus a citation-backed chat copilot. Deep focus on reliability (evidence-only answers, hard citations, refusal gating), retrieval tuning, and orchestration (Airflow/Cloud Composer), plus multi-agent systems (CrewAI with 7 specialized finance agents).”

Hritvik Gupta

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Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and healthcare AI

San Francisco, CA3y exp

“Built and scaled an AI-powered voice/chat patient engagement platform at Penn Medicine from early prototype into production clinical workflows, focusing on latency, edge cases, and user trust. Strong in LLM reliability engineering (structured prompts, validation/fallbacks), real-time troubleshooting with observability, and cross-functional enablement through pilots, demos, and sales/customer partnership.”

Laasya Muktevi

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Intern Machine Learning Engineer specializing in forecasting, NLP, and RAG systems

San Jose, CA5y exp

“Intern who built and deployed a production LLM-powered contract analysis system for finance teams: Azure Document Intelligence for text/table extraction plus Gemini prompting to surface key terms and risks via an async API and simple UI. Emphasizes reliability in production with fallbacks, guardrails against hallucinations, and operational concerns like latency/cost/versioning, delivering summaries in under 30 seconds instead of hours.”

Rong Hu

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Junior Robotics Data Engineer specializing in multi-sensor perception datasets

Milpitas, CA2y exp

“Robotics software engineer focused on perception data pipelines and multi-robot coordination. Built ROS 2 (rclpy) nodes for synchronized RGB/ToF/pose processing and scaled a perception training data generation pipeline from single-object to multi-object while preserving backward compatibility. Also has strong DevOps experience deploying containerized APIs on Kubernetes with Kustomize and automated releases via GitHub Actions.”

Aishwarya Thorat

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Intern Data Scientist specializing in ML engineering and LLM agentic workflows

San Francisco, CA6y exp

“Built an agentic, multi-step LLM system that generates full-stack code for API integrations using LangChain orchestration, Pinecone/SentenceBERT RAG, and a human-in-the-loop feedback loop for iterative code refinement. Also collaborated with non-technical content writers and PMs during a Contentstack internship to deliver a Slack-based AI workflow that generates and brand-checks articles with one-click approvals.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of production recommendation and RAG systems at Northern Trust. They combine transformer modeling, latency optimization, cloud deployment, and monitoring with measurable business impact, including 14% accuracy gains, 12% engagement improvement, and 19% better query relevance.”

Harikiran Jangam

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Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in NLP, LLMs, and RAG systems

California, USA3y exp

“Backend engineer who built and evolved a PHI-compliant RAG system (FastAPI + LangChain + embeddings/FAISS) for internal document search and summarization, delivering <400ms p95 latency at ~2,500 daily requests and measurable impact (30% faster investigations, +17% retrieval relevance). Demonstrates strong security and rollout discipline (RBAC/RLS/JWT, redaction/audits, shadow mode, dual writes, canaries) and a focus on reducing hallucination risk via grounded guardrails and confidence-based fallbacks.”

Shashwat Negi

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and full-stack systems

San Jose, CA3y exp

“Data Scientist (2–3 years) at ZS Associates who has built and productionized agentic LLM systems, including a LangGraph-based multi-LLM prompt-optimization pipeline for entity extraction deployed as a Spring Boot microservice via Jenkins. Also built an Insightmate.ai chatbot and improved its RAG accuracy by diagnosing vector retrieval issues and implementing HyDE query expansion, while partnering with sales and pharma stakeholders to drive adoption (e.g., Zimmer Biomet platform migration into a multi-year partnership).”