Vetted Data & Analytics Professionals in the Chicago Metro

“Data engineer with experience at Bloomberg, UBS, and Bank of America building high-volume financial data platforms and services. Owned an end-to-end pipeline processing ~150–200M records/day (Kafka/Cassandra/S3 → Spark/PySpark → Snowflake) with strong data quality controls and Airflow reliability practices, reporting ~99% reliability and major performance gains. Also built large-scale external API ingestion with compliance-minded rate limiting, schema versioning, and quarantine/validation layers.”

“Solutions architect/technical consultant with experience across Intuit, Deloitte, and CodeNest Solutions, focused on enterprise data modernization, AI adoption, and real-time streaming in B2B environments. Particularly strong in regulated financial use cases, where they combine hands-on POC building, security/compliance diligence, and modern data stack expertise to help clients modernize legacy systems and close complex enterprise deals.”

“Analytics professional with experience across healthcare and fintech, including building SQL/Python data pipelines at Optum and owning a fraud detection initiative at Razorpay. Stands out for combining messy-data cleanup, reproducible analytics workflows, and stakeholder-driven metric design, with a reported 25% improvement in fraud detection while keeping false positives under control.”

“ML/NLP practitioner with experience building an embedding-based ad matching and search system at Vericast (BERT embeddings + similarity search) to replace a third-party taxonomy approach, evaluated via a human-curated gold standard. Also built a custom NER pipeline at Allstate for auto accident claims calls using a bidirectional LSTM and achieved 90%+ F1, with a strong emphasis on production-grade ML workflows (testing, CI/CD, orchestration, versioning, validation).”

“Analytics candidate with hands-on experience turning messy pricing and competitor data into reporting-ready SQL tables, plus building Python automation workflows that replaced manual processing across 40,000 images at roughly 89% accuracy. They also led a price elasticity analysis that informed differentiated pricing strategies and supported reporting through Power BI dashboards.”

“Researcher from the University of South Dakota who built a production medical RAG system to help interpret model predictions by retrieving relevant clinical notes and medical literature, overcoming retrieval accuracy and imaging-dataset challenges through semantic chunking and metadata-driven indexing. Also has hands-on orchestration experience with Airflow and Azure Data Factory, plus a pragmatic approach to LLM evaluation and stakeholder-driven iteration.”