Vetted AI & Machine Learning Professionals

John Bralich

Screened

Senior Machine Learning Scientist specializing in generative AI and applied NLP

Juno Beach, FL9y exp

“ML/AI tech lead who shipped a production LLM workflow at GoDaddy for personalized marketing content, using rich customer context and human-plus-LLM evaluation to drive a statistically significant increase in customers creating posts with GoDaddy tools. Also has experience translating embedding research into a production government RFP search engine, with hands-on optimization of retrieval latency, model size, and deployment reliability.”

“AI/ML engineer with experience spanning Accenture healthcare NLP systems, academic research, and Apple on-device LLM integration. Stands out for owning regulated production pipelines end-to-end—from HIPAA-compliant clinical NLP and EHR integrations to incident prevention, experiment tracking, and optimized on-device inference with LLaMA 3.”

“Robotics engineer who worked on a lunar rover program, building a simulation environment that mirrored real hardware interfaces and incorporated moon-terrain slip/friction modeling validated against a physical “moon yard.” Also integrated an ML-based munition X-ray inspection system via REST APIs, deploying and scaling inference on Azure with Kubernetes plus Prometheus monitoring, load balancing, and self-healing reliability mechanisms.”

“Embodied AI/robotics ML engineer with hands-on experience deploying POMDP-based reinforcement learning controllers on real mobile robots and vehicle fleets. Strong in sim-to-real robustness (domain randomization) and production rollout practices (HIL, shadow-mode, canaries, safety instrumentation), and has published related work (mentions a NeurIPS paper).”

Patrick Jose

Screened

Senior AI Engineer specializing in LLM applications and full-stack systems

San Francisco, CA8y exp

“Built and owned a production LLM/RAG customer support assistant end-to-end, from prototype through deployment, monitoring, and iteration. Their work automated roughly 40% of common support queries and cut response times by about 30%, while also creating reusable Python inference services that improved consistency and team velocity.”

“ML/LLM engineer with Stripe and Adobe experience who productionized a transformer-based Payments Foundation Model for real-time fraud detection at global scale (billions of transactions). Built petabyte-scale ETL/feature pipelines (Spark/EMR, Airflow, dbt, Kafka/Flink) and achieved <100ms multi-region inference (EKS, TorchServe, edge/Lambda, GPU/CPU routing) with strong PCI-DSS/GDPR compliance and explainability (SHAP/LIME), reporting a 64% fraud accuracy improvement.”

YAKKALI PAVAN

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning & Generative AI Engineer specializing in NLP, CV, and RAG systems

USA6y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered RAG document intelligence system used by non-technical enterprise stakeholders, cutting document search time by 40%+ while improving answer consistency. Demonstrates strong MLOps/data workflow orchestration (Airflow, AWS Step Functions, managed schedulers across GCP/Azure) and a metrics-driven approach to reliability, evaluation, and cost/latency optimization with guardrails and observability.”

Keerthana Senthilnathan

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLM systems and inference reliability

California, USA1y exp

“ML/LLM infrastructure-focused engineer who built a production stateful LLM inference service that cuts latency and GPU compute for repeated/overlapping prompts via caching with correctness guardrails. Strong in Kubernetes-based deployment and reliability engineering, using A/B testing and similarity-based evaluation to quantify performance gains without sacrificing output quality.”

Durgaprasad G

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM infrastructure, RAG, and agentic systems

New York City, NY3y exp

“Stripe engineer who owned and unified multiple team RAG systems into a shared production platform used by 200+ internal operators, deployed on EKS with Kafka ingestion and hybrid retrieval. Drove measurable business outcomes including <400ms latency, ~35% inference cost reduction, ~25% accuracy lift via fine-tuning, and real-time auto-approval of 80%+ merchant compliance applications through strong observability and reliability patterns.”

“ML/robotics engineer with Apple experience who built a computer-vision-driven industrial defect detection system integrating a robotic arm with ROS-based real-time inference on an edge GPU. Drove major performance gains (cut inference time ~60% via quantization + TensorRT) and improved robustness to lighting/material variation, with strong emphasis on production reliability (health checks, watchdogs, observability, CI/CD) and interest in shaping early-stage startup engineering culture.”