Vetted AI & Machine Learning Professionals

“Built and owned a production conversational AI platform for a healthcare contact center, including RAG-based agent assist, hybrid retrieval, safety guardrails, and production monitoring. Stands out for combining LLM product delivery with strong operational rigor, driving a reported 25-30% improvement in handling time in a sensitive healthcare environment.”

“ML engineer with production experience at PayPal and Flipkart, owning high-scale systems across fraud detection, recommendations, and LLM tooling. Stands out for combining strong modeling judgment with practical platform engineering, delivering measurable impact like 22% fewer fraud false positives, 18% CTR lift, 40% less LLM manual review, and 30% faster redeployments.”

“LLM/agentic systems builder at Verizon who deployed a LangGraph-orchestrated multi-agent ticket-automation platform with RAG (FAISS) to replace brittle rule-based bots. Improved routing correctness by ~30–40%, hit ~300ms latency targets via model routing, and reduced ops workload by ~60% through tight iteration with non-technical stakeholders and strong testing/observability practices.”

“Built and shipped a production enterprise RAG knowledge assistant that returns grounded, cited answers and uses confidence-based fallbacks (clarifying questions/abstention) with monitoring and compliance controls for sensitive data. Implemented end-to-end agent orchestration (function calling, structured JSON, state, retries/rate limits) plus eval/feedback loops, and achieved a reported 30–40% improvement in knowledge-task completion time while reducing hallucinations via retrieval improvements.”

Niyaz Nurbhasha

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in computer vision and LLM pipelines

4y exp

“ML/LLM engineer who built production systems to speed up artist content-creation workflows, including a fine-tuned image captioning model paired with a RAG layer over image embeddings/captions to improve consistency across changing domains. Experienced orchestrating multi-tool agents with LangChain/LangGraph (planning + critic/reflection) and setting up practical monitoring (caption rejection rate) plus evaluation sets for tool-calling accuracy, output quality, and latency.”

Blake Thomas

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in AI and EdTech platforms

San Mateo, CA21y exp

“Has been on the receiving end of a VC investment and took responsibility for significant parts of the diligence process, drawing parallels to hands-on work with security compliance and auditors. Approaches entrepreneurship and idea selection with a structured framework (leverage, resources/runway, passion) and a sustainability-first mindset around risk and personal/family well-being.”

“Built and shipped production LLM agents that automate document processing and decision workflows, with a strong focus on reliability, guardrails, and measurable business impact. Stands out for combining RAG, tool calling, evals/monitoring, and ERP integration to deliver 30-35% manual effort reduction and higher throughput without additional headcount.”

“GenAI/LLM engineer who architected and deployed a production RAG “research assistant” for JPMorgan Chase’s regulatory compliance team, focused on safety-critical behavior (mandatory citations, refusal when evidence is missing). Deep hands-on experience with LlamaIndex, Pinecone, Hugging Face embeddings, LangGraph agent workflows, and metric-driven evaluation (golden sets, TruLens), including a reported 28% relevancy lift via cross-encoder re-ranking.”

“Applied ML/LLM engineer currently building AppleCare’s production chat recommender, owning the full lifecycle from transcript cleaning and fine-tuning through distributed deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement. Their work delivered >10% copy-count improvement, 5% lower modification rate, 60% cost reduction, and $1.1M profitability in 2025, and they also created a reasoning-data generation approach that enabled a reasoning model and a judge model that cut eval time by over 99%.”

“AI-focused engineer who treats models as tightly controlled collaborators rather than autonomous replacements. Built and led a LangGraph-based multi-agent research system with separate stages for decomposition, retrieval, synthesis, and validation, emphasizing modularity, debuggability, and robust failure handling.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG fraud investigation system to replace manual investigator workflows, combining transaction data, historical cases, and policy documents with agent-style steps and LoRA fine-tuning. Demonstrates strong reliability engineering (grounding, citations, abstention paths), performance optimization (retrieval/indexing/caching), and end-to-end MLOps orchestration using Azure ML Pipelines/MLflow plus Kubernetes/Argo with canary and rollback deployments.”

“Built a production agentic AI system to automate data science work using a layered architecture (executive-summary handling, tool-based execution, and on-the-fly code generation). Demonstrates strong end-to-end agent development practices including RAG with vector databases, prompt engineering, and multi-method evaluation (LLM-as-judge/human/code-based), plus Airflow-based orchestration for ML data pipelines and close collaboration with business end users.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered RAG assistant for enterprise internal document search (PDFs, knowledge bases, structured data), addressing real-world issues like noisy documents, hallucinations, and latency with grounded prompting, retrieval-confidence fallbacks, and performance optimizations. Also partnered with compliance and business teams at JPMc to deliver a solution aligned with regulatory constraints, supported by monitoring, feedback loops, and systematic evaluation.”

“Summer SDE intern at AWS who built and deployed a column-lineage debugging tool for on-call engineers, using AWS Bedrock to parse SQL and generate a column DAG. Integrated the tool into an existing validation system and hardened it against real-world SQL format differences via flexible parsing and testing with queries from multiple upstream teams.”

“AI/ML engineer (Cognizant) who built a production, real-time credit card fraud detection platform combining deep-learning anomaly detection with an LLM-based explanation layer. Strong focus on regulated deployment: addressed class imbalance and feature drift, and added guardrails (SHAP/structured inputs, fine-tuning on analyst reports, rule-based validation) to keep explanations accurate and compliant. Orchestrated the full pipeline with Airflow + Databricks/Spark and used MLflow/Prometheus plus A/B and shadow deployments for measurable reliability.”

Chris Ferrario

Screened

Principal Gameplay/AI Programmer specializing in game AI and gameplay systems

London/Zurich18y exp

“Gameplay/AI engineer with end-to-end ownership of racing-sim AI (fair physics parity, competitive overtaking) and strong iteration tooling (live tuning + config). Has shipped networked VR multiplayer work at Ready At Dawn, including a consensus-style goal validation approach to reconcile non-deterministic replication/smoothing discrepancies, plus experience with Havok/Bullet, spline math (Catmull-Rom), and complex creature/boss animation behaviors.”

Gagan Reddy Konani

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs and RAG for healthcare

Remote, USA2y exp

“AI Engineer (Medtronic) who deployed a production RAG-based clinical assistant grounded in curated biomedical literature (no patient-identifiable data). Deep hands-on experience orchestrating and hardening LLM workflows with LangChain/LangGraph, including stateful agentic flows, rigorous testing, and evaluation; reports a 72% accuracy improvement through retrieval enhancements (query rewriting, multi-query expansion, MMR reranking).”

“ML/AI engineer with strong end-to-end production ownership across predictive ML and Generative AI use cases. They built a churn prediction platform that cut churn 12% and preserved about $1.2M in annual revenue, and also shipped a RAG-based support assistant that reduced ticket resolution time 30% while improving agent satisfaction and onboarding speed.”

Yash Patel

Screened

Mid AI/ML Engineer specializing in MLOps and cloud platforms

Texas, USA3y exp

“ML/AI engineer with strong end-to-end production ownership across classical ML and GenAI systems. Built and deployed predictive analytics and RAG-based internal tools on AWS/Kubernetes with measurable impact on accuracy, latency, deployment speed, safety, and user productivity.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of both classical ML and GenAI systems in production. They built an end-to-end churn prediction service on AWS and also shipped RAG-based document search/summarization features, with clear experience in monitoring, hallucination reduction, cost/latency optimization, and creating shared Python/LLM infrastructure used across teams.”

“GenAI/ML engineering leader (player-coach) who built and deployed an image-to-text production system for topology/resource diagrams, combining YOLO-based issue detection with an LLM to generate support-ready reports at scale. Heavy AWS stack (SageMaker, Step Functions, Lambda, CloudWatch, FastAPI, Kubernetes/Docker) with KPI-driven optimization (MTTR, P50), including ~21 custom labels and reported 30–50% faster issue identification while processing thousands of images in production.”