Vetted AI & Machine Learning Professionals

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Manali Shetye

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Mid-level Applied AI & Data Engineer specializing in automation and enterprise analytics

Irving, Texas4y exp
Trend MicroUniversity of Texas at Arlington

Backend engineer with experience evolving a high-volume agricultural loan processing platform (APMS) at HDFC Bank, emphasizing transactional integrity, auditability, and modularity while integrating with credit bureaus, document management, and risk engines. Also improved automation/reporting robustness at Trend Micro by catching duplicate-event retry edge cases and adding idempotency safeguards.

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Sharath Bandi

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Mid-level Generative AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and multimodal generation

Saint Louis, Missouri4y exp
LSEGAvila University

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.

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Manav Bhasin

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Junior Full-Stack Machine Learning Engineer specializing in production ML systems

San Jose, CA2y exp
AgroFocal Technologies IncSan José State University

Software engineer who owned end-to-end delivery of customer-facing agricultural forecast reporting (crop yield/health) and iterated quickly via rigorous edge-case testing and customer feedback. Also built an internal ML training platform (TypeScript/React + Flask/Python + MongoDB) used by every developer, with architecture designed to stay responsive under heavy compute load.

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RR

Mid-level Data Scientist & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in fraud and forecasting

USA5y exp
JPMorgan ChaseUniversity of Texas at Dallas

ML/LLM practitioner who has shipped production RAG systems (summarization + Q&A) and end-to-end Airflow-orchestrated demand forecasting pipelines at NEON IT. Strong focus on reliability—uses evaluation scripts, retrieval/chunking tuning, validation/retries/alerts, and stakeholder-driven iteration to make AI workflows consistent and usable.

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IK

Junior ML Engineer specializing in energy forecasting and battery optimization

San Carlos, CA3y exp
ElecricFishUniversity of Michigan

Backend/ML engineer working on a battery energy storage system operations dashboard: built a Flask backend integrated with OAuth and a separate FastAPI optimization/simulation service, deployed via Docker CI/CD to Azure Container Apps. Strong in productionizing ML (AzureML to batch endpoints) and in performance/scalability patterns (Postgres indexing/JSONB, per-unit data isolation, async throttling + caching for year-long CPU-intensive simulations across 40+ scenarios).

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Zhilang Gui

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Junior Solutions Engineer / Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI-native SaaS and APIs

San Francisco, CA1y exp
EasyBee AIBoston University

Worked at easybee ai building a production-grade "voice of the customer" LLM intake agent, hardening a fragile sandbox prototype with JSON-schema constrained outputs, Python/FastAPI validation middleware, and automated retries. Strong in real-time debugging of agentic workflows (snapshot isolation, modular tracing) and in implementing safety/compliance guardrails like a content-moderation middleware to support enterprise adoption.

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Sowmya Sree

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Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLM agents, RAG, and MLOps

Dallas, TX5y exp
Bank of AmericaUniversity of North Texas

Built production LLM systems including a real-time customer feedback analysis and workflow automation platform using RAG and multi-agent orchestration with confidence-based human escalation, addressing privacy and legacy integration challenges. Also automated ML operations with Airflow/Kubernetes (e.g., daily churn model retraining) cutting retraining time to under 30 minutes, and demonstrates a rigorous testing/monitoring approach plus strong non-technical stakeholder collaboration.

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VA

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI, RAG, and agentic systems

6y exp
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue ShieldIndiana Wesleyan University

GenAI/LLM ML engineer (currently at Webprobo) building an enterprise GenAI platform with document intelligence and automation on AWS and blockchain. Has hands-on experience with RAG, LLM evaluation tooling, and orchestrating production LLM workflows with Apache Airflow, plus deep exposure to reliability challenges in globally distributed/edge deployments. Also partnered with business/marketing stakeholders at a banking client to deliver an AI-driven customer retention insights solution.

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Shashank Garg

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Engineering leader specializing in FinTech ML/AI platforms

San Francisco, CA12y exp
TravelBankSan José State University

Engineering Manager/player-coach leading Data Infrastructure, ML/DS, and AI Engineering pods who recently shipped multiple production agentic GenAI features. Built privacy-preserving LLM workflows (PII redaction via Microsoft Presidio) and drove an AI expense-approval agent from ambiguous ask to GA, cutting approval time from ~2.5 days to <4 hours with >85% accuracy. Also owned a major LLM cost overrun incident and implemented cost observability plus circuit breakers to prevent runaway agent loops.

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Sampada shelke - Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP, LLMs, and applied research in La Jolla, CA

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP, LLMs, and applied research

La Jolla, CA3y exp
Statistical Visual Computing LabUC San Diego

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.

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Rishitha reddy katamareddy - Mid-level Generative AI & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in agentic LLM systems in USA

Mid-level Generative AI & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in agentic LLM systems

USA4y exp
OptumUniversity at Buffalo

Built and deployed a production agentic LLM knowledge assistant that answers complex questions over internal documents, APIs, and databases using a RAG architecture (FAISS/Pinecone) and LangChain/LangGraph orchestration. Emphasizes production-grade reliability and hallucination control through grounding, confidence thresholds, validation, retries/fallbacks, and full observability (logging/metrics/traces) with continuous evaluation and feedback loops.

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Hamidreza Lotfalizadeh - Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM agents, RAG, and ML systems in Bay Area, CA

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

Bay Area, CA6y exp
Inertia SystemsPurdue University

At Inertia Systems, built a production LLM-powered ingestion pipeline that converts heterogeneous sources (PDF/JSON/IFC/SQL and financial tables) into standardized text and uses GraphRAG to construct a knowledge graph with verified dependency relationships. Also has hands-on HPC orchestration experience with SLURM, including creating a custom wrapper process manager to improve resource utilization under restrictive scheduling policies.

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Sumit Kothari - Junior AI/Full-Stack Engineer specializing in LLM apps and RAG systems in Los Angeles, CA

Sumit Kothari

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Junior AI/Full-Stack Engineer specializing in LLM apps and RAG systems

Los Angeles, CA1y exp
Sumeru IncUSC

AI engineer who built and shipped a production AI document-understanding/search system at Sumeru Inc, including a full RAG + LLMOps evaluation stack (MLflow, DeepEval, RAGAS) deployed on GCP. Also developed LangChain/LangGraph multi-agent workflows for UAV flight-log analysis and has experience presenting AI solutions to non-technical stakeholders and prospect clients to drive POCs.

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Kunal Kulkarni - Intern AI/ML Researcher specializing in computer vision and data engineering in Palo Alto, CA

Intern AI/ML Researcher specializing in computer vision and data engineering

Palo Alto, CA1y exp
TieSetUCLA

Built a production-oriented multimodal RAG "Fix Assistant" with FastAPI, Tavily search, BM25 + cross-encoder reranking, and a local Phi-3.5 model, emphasizing strict grounding and fallback/verification modes to prevent hallucinations. Also has hands-on federated learning experience using STADLE to orchestrate edge-node training and aggregation for EV telemetry data, plus experience communicating AI results to non-technical stakeholders (traffic RL/congestion outcomes).

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Naga Renuka Kandi - Junior Software Engineer specializing in cloud, full-stack development, and Generative AI in Remote, USA

Junior Software Engineer specializing in cloud, full-stack development, and Generative AI

Remote, USA2y exp
Handshake AI LabNortheastern University

Built and shipped a production Chrome extension (Promptly) that lets users select text on any webpage and transform it in place (rewrite/shorten/translate) using on-device AI plus external LLMs. Implemented a custom lightweight orchestration layer for prompt chaining, context flow, and output validation, and tackled tricky browser Selection API issues to preserve formatting while keeping the UX simple and fast.

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Fangjian Xiong - Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP and biomedical entity extraction in Boston, MA

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP and biomedical entity extraction

Boston, MA2y exp
Northeastern UniversityNortheastern University

Built and deployed a production LLM-powered biomedical knowledge extraction pipeline that processed millions of papers to identify tools/techniques and produce a unified knowledge graph via active learning NER (Prodigy + spaCy transformers) and entity linking (Bio-tools/Wikidata). Addressed hard NLP engineering challenges like WordPiece span-offset alignment and scaled inference over ~1.5M documents using batching/caching, containerized services, async workers, and orchestration with Prefect/Airflow.

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Nishad Kane - Mid-level Data Scientist & AI Engineer specializing in RAG, agentic AI, and production ML

Nishad Kane

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Mid-level Data Scientist & AI Engineer specializing in RAG, agentic AI, and production ML

5y exp
Xtrium AIArizona State University

AI/data engineer who built a production LLM-powered schema drift detection system (LangChain/LangGraph) to catch semantic data changes before they break downstream analytics/ML. Deployed on AWS with Docker/S3 and implemented an LLM-as-a-judge evaluation framework to improve trust, reduce hallucinations, and control false positives/alert fatigue. Collaborated with non-technical risk/business analytics stakeholders at EY by delivering human-readable drift explanations that improved confidence in financial analytics dashboards.

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Wilson Harron - Director-level AI/ML & Computer Vision Engineer specializing in robotics and multimodal AI in Los Angeles, CA

Wilson Harron

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Director-level AI/ML & Computer Vision Engineer specializing in robotics and multimodal AI

Los Angeles, CA15y exp
silvr.aiUniversity of Guelph

Candidate is not currently pursuing entrepreneurship (no business plan and no capital raised) and is not familiar with the VC/accelerator landscape. They show pragmatic, problem-first thinking about evaluating startup ideas—prioritizing real customer pain points and the quality of the founding team—and are open to working for others rather than founding "at all costs."

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NT

Intern-level Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML systems

Frankfort, KY2y exp
UPSPurdue University

Built production LLM/RAG systems during a UPS internship, including a shipment knowledge agent used across 15+ hubs worldwide and a multi-agent PDF RAG workflow. Stands out for combining hands-on enterprise integration with rigorous evaluation, hallucination reduction, and efficient fine-tuning techniques like LoRA.

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Polam Srija

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Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and FinTech

Texas, USA3y exp
Fidelity InvestmentsUniversity of North Carolina at Charlotte

AI Engineer with hands-on ownership of a production multi-agent RAG platform in financial services, spanning experimentation, architecture, deployment, monitoring, and iterative optimization. Stands out for measurable impact: 35% retrieval relevance improvement and nearly 50% reduction in manual operational analysis effort, plus strong experience making enterprise LLM systems safer and more reliable in production.

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Supreet Purthpli - Mid-level AI/ML Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native MLOps and FinTech in San Francisco, CA

Mid-level AI/ML Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native MLOps and FinTech

San Francisco, CA4y exp
JPMorgan ChaseUniversity of Kansas

Software engineer with JPMorgan Chase experience delivering end-to-end fintech features (Next.js/React/Node/Postgres on AWS) and measurable performance gains. Built and productionized an AI-native credit decisioning workflow combining LLMs, vector retrieval, and a rules engine with strong governance (bias checks, auditability, human-in-loop), improving precision and cutting underwriting turnaround time by 40%.

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Dikshith Pulakanti - Intern AI Engineer specializing in agentic LLM systems in Singapore, Singapore

Intern AI Engineer specializing in agentic LLM systems

Singapore, Singapore0y exp
National University of SingaporeNortheastern University

Built multiple AI-heavy backend systems from scratch, including FORESIGHT, a personal financial intelligence platform running daily on live bank accounts with zero manual intervention, and JobPilot, an autonomous job application agent spanning Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, and custom forms. Stands out for combining strong systems design with applied ML pragmatism, reproducibility, and unusually candid reflection on security, scalability, and observability tradeoffs.

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SJ

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in fraud detection and healthcare predictive analytics

Missouri, USA4y exp
KPMGUniversity of Central Missouri

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.

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KP

Senior AI Engineer specializing in Generative AI and RAG applications

8y exp
Keurig Dr PepperGeorge Mason University

AI engineer who has shipped production LLM systems across customer service and marketing use cases—building a RAG app on Azure OpenAI and speeding retrieval with Redis caching tied to Okta sessions. Also implemented a LangGraph multi-agent workflow that pulls image context from Figma to generate structured HTML marketing emails, adding a verification agent to improve image-selection accuracy while optimizing solution cost for business stakeholders.

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