Vetted AI & Machine Learning Professionals in the San Diego Metro

“ML-focused candidate with beginner ROS/ROS2 experience (custom pub-sub nodes; TurtleBot3 SLAM simulation debugging via topic inspection and transform/orientation checks). Has research/project exposure to LLM training approaches (GRPO with pseudo-labels using Hugging Face TRL on Qwen/Llama) and uses Docker/Kubernetes + CI/CD to run ViT saliency-attention/compression workloads on UCSD Nautilus infrastructure.”

“Built an "AskMyVideo" system that turns YouTube videos into queryable knowledge graphs by transcribing audio (Whisper), chunking and embedding content, and enabling traceable answers back to exact timestamps. Strong in entity resolution (rules + fuzzy matching + TF-IDF/cosine with PR-curve thresholding) and modern retrieval stacks (FAISS, hybrid dense/sparse, domain fine-tuning with ~12% precision gain), with a production mindset using Airflow/Prefect, Docker/FastAPI, and LangSmith/Prometheus/Grafana observability.”

“Lab automation engineer building an automated weighing robot system for Lilly’s analytical chemistry group, integrating a 6-axis Mecademic robot, Mettler Toledo balance, and vision/barcode verification with safety protocols for live lab operation. Experienced in production Python for instrument control, data processing, and CV/ML, including authenticated Data Lake API integrations with fault handling. Also improved automated sample storage throughput 2–3x via pick-order optimization and partners closely with scientists to deliver MVP-to-production experimental automation workflows.”

“Developed a production wildfire smoke detection system where smoke is visually subtle and easily confused with fog/clouds; addressed this with a hybrid CNN+LSTM+ViT model and multimodal weather features to reduce false positives. Experienced running scalable, reproducible ML pipelines on shared GPU infrastructure using Slurm and Kubernetes-style batch jobs with checkpointing, retries, and rigorous error analysis.”

“AI/ML engineer who has built a production text-to-image generation system in PyTorch with an AWS-backed inference setup, focusing on GPU-efficient training and embedding-space architectural choices inspired by recent research (e.g., Meta VL-JEPA). Uses both metric-based evaluation (FID) and human testing to validate real-world visual quality, and can translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.”

“Co-founded a healthcare AI startup building and deploying software directly with end users, emphasizing rapid shipping, deep user interviews, and workflow-first adoption. Has hands-on production deployment experience on AWS (including diagnosing a silent AWS App Runner failure caused by an ARM vs amd64 Docker build mismatch) and is motivated by customer-facing, travel-heavy roles to keep engineering tightly connected to real-world usage.”

“New grad SDE (AI/ML) who built and deployed an LLM-based chatbot framework used across technology, military, and banking contexts, focusing on model selection tradeoffs (latency vs accuracy) through prototyping and benchmarking. Also built a multi-agent "eaterybot" using PyAutoGen/AutoGen with a manager agent orchestrating specialized agents, and emphasizes rigorous testing with adversarial/edge-case datasets and hallucination checks.”

“Full-stack TypeScript/Angular/Node engineer who owned a production healthcare application for a pharmaceutical client, supporting 100K+ monthly users across 10+ countries. Strong focus on maintainability and quality (reusable localized component library, ~90% unit test coverage, SonarQube in CI/CD) plus performance work (reported 15% client-side latency reduction and up to 50% backend latency reduction) while migrating legacy mobile code with strict backward compatibility.”

“Built and deployed an LLM-powered clinical decision support and risk monitoring platform for mental health at Valuai.io, emphasizing low-latency, evidence-grounded responses and crisis-safe behavior with clinician escalation. Strong production agent-orchestration background (LangChain/CrewAI) plus rigorous evaluation (clinician-in-the-loop + evaluator agent) and large-scale synthetic testing; also applied multi-agent workflows to document verification and fraud detection during an AI internship at Nixacom.”