Vetted AI & Machine Learning Professionals in Missouri

“ML engineer with 5 years at Stripe building and productionizing real-time fraud detection at massive scale (3M+ transactions/day; $5B+ annual payment volume). Delivered measurable impact (22% accuracy lift, 18% loss reduction, +3–5% authorization rates) and has strong MLOps/orchestration experience (Docker, Kubernetes, Airflow, MLflow, CI/CD, monitoring/rollback) plus a structured approach to LLM agent/RAG evaluation.”

“Built and productionized an AWS-hosted, Kubernetes-orchestrated RAG assistant that enables natural-language Q&A over internal document repositories with grounded answers and citations. Demonstrates strong applied LLM engineering: hallucination mitigation, hybrid retrieval + re-ranking, and rigorous evaluation via benchmarks and A/B testing, plus real-world scaling of compute-heavy inference with dynamic batching and monitoring.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered clinical support assistant at BJC HealthCare (RAG + transformer) to answer patient questions, summarize clinical notes, and support appointment workflows. Implemented PHI-safe data pipelines (Spark/Hadoop/Kafka) with automated scrubbing, dataset versioning, and audit logs, and runs the system on Docker/Kubernetes with Pinecone vector search while partnering closely with clinical operations staff.”

“LLM/agent engineer who has shipped production RAG chatbots in sustainability-focused domains, including a packaging recommendation assistant that standardized messy user inputs and used Pinecone-backed retrieval over product/regulatory data. Experienced orchestrating end-to-end ML workflows with Airflow and AWS Step Functions/Lambda, emphasizing reliability (property-based testing, circuit breakers, OpenTelemetry) and measurable performance (latency/cost). Partnered closely with non-technical leadership to ship 3 weeks early, driving adoption by 150+ businesses and ~20% reported waste reduction.”

“Software engineer working on an e-commerce platform, currently building a RAG-based recommendation system with a team new to the technology. Has delivered an end-to-end React/TypeScript website for a local car dealer and built an internal "encryption as a service" tool to secure sensitive data across repositories and through release/UAT, with experience debugging microservices integration issues.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered RAG document intelligence/Q&A system for healthcare prior authorization, reducing manual medical document review time and improving decision efficiency. Strong in end-to-end LLM application engineering (LangChain/LangGraph), retrieval quality improvements (hybrid search, embedding tuning, chunking strategies), and rigorous evaluation/monitoring for reliability.”

“Healthcare-focused applied ML/LLM engineer who has deployed production systems including an LLM medical documentation assistant that summarizes unstructured EHR notes into physician-ready structured outputs. Experienced building secure, compliant pipelines (PHI minimization, RBAC, encryption) and scaling via Docker/Kubernetes/Azure ML, plus orchestrating ETL/ML workflows with Airflow and Kubeflow; also built an LLM-driven clinical coding assistant at Centene with measurable performance metrics.”

“ML/LLM engineer who has shipped production RAG systems (LangChain + HF Transformers + FAISS) with hybrid retrieval and cross-encoder re-ranking, deployed via FastAPI/Docker/Kubernetes and monitored with MLflow. Also partnered with wealth advisors at Edward Jones to deliver a client retention model with SHAP-driven explanations and a dashboard that improved trust, adoption, and reduced high-value client churn.”

“Open-source JavaScript contributor focused on performance and maintainability in data visualization libraries—refactored legacy ES5 into modular ES6, added tests/docs, and delivered ~30% faster load times with positive community adoption. Also optimized a React dashboard (~40% load-time reduction) and took ownership in an ambiguous AI product initiative by setting milestones, standing up an initial ML pipeline, and shipping a prototype in ~6 weeks that became the basis for production.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered calorie-counting chatbot that turns plain-English meal descriptions into normalized food entities, quantities, and calorie estimates using a hybrid transformer + rule-engine pipeline. Emphasizes reliability with schema/constraint guardrails, confidence-based routing (including embedding similarity search fallbacks), and strong observability/metrics (hallucination rate, calibration, latency, cost). Partnered closely with nutritionists to encode domain standards into mappings and validation logic.”