Vetted Data Scientists

Yashi Agarwal

Screened

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

Los Angeles, CA4y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered phone assistant for a healthcare clinic, combining streaming STT/TTS with RAG over approved clinic documents and strict safety guardrails to prevent unverified medical advice, plus seamless human handoff. Also has hands-on Apache Airflow experience building robust daily ML/data pipelines with data validation, retries/timeouts, monitoring, and metric-gated model deployment, and iterates closely with clinic staff using real call reviews.”

Teja Babu Mandaloju

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist/MLOps Engineer specializing in NLP, GenAI, and cloud ML platforms

Chicago, USA5y exp

“AI/ML engineer who led production deployment of a multimodal (text/video/image) RAG system on GCP using Gemini 2.5 + Vertex AI Vector Search, scaling to 10M+ documents with sub-second latency and +40% retrieval accuracy. Strong MLOps/orchestration background (Kubernetes, CI/CD, Airflow, MLflow) with proven impact on reliability (75% fewer incidents) and deployment speed (92% faster), plus experience delivering explainable ML (XGBoost + SHAP + Tableau) to non-technical retail stakeholders.”

Allen Saunders

Screened

Senior DevOps/Solutions Engineer specializing in CI/CD, cloud platforms, and API integrations

San Francisco, California11y exp

“Solutions Architect with 5+ years leading pre- and post-sales engagements, focused on taking complex tooling from test/prototype to secure production through a structured discovery-to-deployment approach. Experienced in LLM workflow troubleshooting using tools like Langfuse/Gopher and in developer enablement via concise, hands-on workshops (e.g., Jenkins on Kubernetes at scale). Has navigated internal and external blockers to drive adoption and keep enterprise deals moving (including a Jenkins sale to Love's).”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of fraud detection and investigator-assist systems, combining anomaly detection with RAG-based LLM summarization in production. Stands out for translating research ideas into reliable cloud-deployed workflows that improved precision to 92%, cut review time by 25-30%, and increased investigator throughput by roughly 30% while also building reusable Python infrastructure for team-wide velocity.”

Rohan Chodapunedi

Screened

Entry-level Data Scientist specializing in LLMs and analytics

Folsom, CA1y exp

“Built a zero-to-one AI contract/policy QA agent for compliance and data teams, with a strong emphasis on trust, traceability, and clause-level citations rather than just fluent answers. They combine full-stack product ownership with practical LLM systems design, including hybrid retrieval, structured outputs, and evaluation pipelines to improve reliability, latency, and cost.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG system at CVS to automate clinical documents, addressing PHI compliance, retrieval accuracy, and latency; achieved a 35–40% reduction in review effort through chunking and FP16/INT8 optimization. Also has experience translating AI outputs into actionable insights for non-technical stakeholders (sports analysts).”

“Clinical data scientist who has built an agentic LLM-powered literature review assistant (with RAG-style storage/retrieval) to identify predictors for downstream predictive modeling. Also delivered a patient-focused progression analysis model using Databricks + Airflow orchestration, partnering closely with clinicians to define targets and validate that model insights aligned with clinical expectations.”

“ML/NLP engineer (Beyond Identity) who built production semantic search and entity-resolution systems over internal security documentation, using LDA + BERT embeddings with FAISS/Pinecone to cut search time by 30%. Also scaled a real-time anomaly detection pipeline to millions of events/day with Spark and AWS Lambda, with strong emphasis on measurable validation (Precision@k, MRR, F1, ARI).”

Ramya Konda

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in healthcare ML and generative AI

Remote, USA5y exp

“AI/LLM engineer at Humana who built and deployed a HIPAA-aware RAG system for clinical record retrieval, cutting search time dramatically and improving retrieval efficiency by 30%. Experienced with Spark-scale data preprocessing, QLoRA fine-tuning, LangChain orchestration, and MLflow+SageMaker integration, with a strong testing/evaluation discipline (A/B tests, human eval) to hit 95%+ accuracy and production latency targets.”

Atharva Deshmukh

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI and cloud MLOps

Rochester, New York4y exp

“Applied LLMs to high-stakes domains (wildfire risk for emergency teams and loan approval via a fine-tuned IBM Granite model), with a strong focus on reliability—using RAG-based cross-validation to reduce hallucinations and continuous ingestion pipelines (MODIS satellite imagery via AWS Lambda) to keep data current. Experienced in production orchestration and MLOps-style workflows using Airflow, AWS Step Functions, and SageMaker Pipelines, and collaborates closely with analysts on KPI-driven evaluation.”

Sai Krishna Mallikanti

Screened

Mid-level AI & Data Scientist specializing in LLMs, RAG, and healthcare NLP

TN4y exp

“Built a production LLM/RAG solution for healthcare operations teams to query large policy and care-guideline repositories in natural language. Improved domain alignment using vector retrieval plus parameter-efficient fine-tuning and prompt optimization, validated through internal user testing and metrics, cutting manual lookup time by ~40%. Also has hands-on experience orchestrating automated ML pipelines with Apache Airflow.”

Hari Billa

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in machine learning, NLP, and healthcare AI

USA3y exp

“Senior data scientist with hands-on ownership of production ML and GenAI systems across enterprise churn, clinical Q&A, and real-time fraud detection. Stands out for combining strong MLOps discipline with measurable business impact, including $2M+ retained revenue, 10K TPS low-latency fraud infrastructure, and a clinician-reviewed RAG system that improved retrieval accuracy by ~38%.”

“GenAI/LLM engineer who built and deployed a production RAG system for enterprise document search and decision support, cutting manual lookup time by 40%+. Experienced with LangChain/LangGraph agent orchestration plus Airflow/Prefect for ingestion and incremental reindexing, with a strong focus on reliability (testing, observability) and stakeholder-driven metrics.”

“Built and deployed a production AI “term explainer” agent that adapts explanations to beginner/intermediate/expert users by combining multi-step LLM reasoning with grounded Wikipedia retrieval. Owns end-to-end agent orchestration (smolagents/Python), reliability patterns (fallback across LLM providers, retries, guardrails), and observability/metrics-driven evaluation; also partnered with a non-technical researcher to deliver a plain-language research assistant agent.”

“Robotics software architect who built an automated pick-and-place palletizing prototype at BLACK-I-ROBOTICS, spanning perception (multi-RealSense fusion, segmentation, 6D pose, ICP), GPU-accelerated motion planning (MoveIt 2 + NVIDIA CuRobo), grasp generation, and safety (human detection + safe mode). Also brings cloud/CI/CD depth from VERIDIX AI (AWS Cognito/Lambda/ECS and CodePipeline stack) and demonstrated strong debugging chops by reducing outdoor rover EKF drift to ~5 cm via Allan variance-based IMU tuning.”

“Backend engineer who has owned end-to-end delivery of Python/FastAPI microservices for real-time data processing and alerting, including performance tuning (Postgres optimization, caching, async processing). Strong DevOps/GitOps background: Docker + Kubernetes deployments with GitHub Actions CI/CD and ArgoCD-driven GitOps, plus experience supporting phased on-prem to AWS migrations and building Kafka-based streaming pipelines.”

“LLM/GenAI engineer who built a production AI-powered credit risk policy summarization and compliance alerting platform at HCL Tech, focused on factual accuracy and auditability for a financial client. Implemented a multi-retriever LangChain RAG architecture with citations-only prompting, fallback agents, and human-in-the-loop legal review—cutting manual review time by 35% and scaling to 12 teams.”

“AI/NLP-focused practitioner who built a zero-/few-shot LLM event extraction system on the long-tail Maven dataset, combining prompt-structured outputs with LoRA/QLoRA fine-tuning and rigorous F1 evaluation. Also implemented entity resolution/data cleaning pipelines and embedding-based semantic search using Sentence-BERT + FAISS, and has healthcare experience delivering a multilingual speech/translation mobile prototype using HIPAA-compliant Azure Cognitive Services.”

“LLM/agentic AI builder who led end-to-end integration of an LLM system into a business intelligence product, creating a scalable, metadata-driven RAG/agent pipeline with an orchestrator that routes queries to specialized agents (including DB-backed quantitative querying). Also built an LLM-to-SQL chatbot and partnered with non-technical stakeholders to capture domain context and improve SQL generation, using automated LLM-based testing to evaluate reliability.”

“AI engineer with production experience building a LangGraph-based, stateful multi-agent system at MetLife to automate complex insurance claims adjudication, integrating document discovery, Azure Document Intelligence OCR/extraction, and health data analysis. Strong in agent orchestration and production deployment (Docker + FastAPI REST APIs), with a structured approach to reliability, evaluation, and stakeholder-driven requirements.”

Santhoshi Priya Sunchu

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in NLP and predictive modeling

Massachusetts, USA5y exp

“AI/ML practitioner in healthcare/insurance (Blue Cross Blue Shield) who built and deployed a production NLP system to classify patient risk from unstructured clinical notes. Experienced in end-to-end pipeline orchestration (Airflow, AWS Step Functions/Lambda/SageMaker) and real-time optimization (BERT to DistilBERT on AWS GPUs), with strong clinician collaboration to drive adoption.”

Akshay Katageri

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in multi-agent systems and RAG

Jersey City, NJ4y exp

“Built and shipped a production LangGraph-based multi-agent LLM analytics/decision copilot that answers questions across SQL/BI systems and unstructured docs, emphasizing grounded, tool-verified outputs with citations and confidence gating. Deep hands-on experience with orchestration (LangGraph, CrewAI, OpenAI Assistants, MCP) plus real-world latency/cost optimization (vLLM batching/KV caching, speculative decoding, quantization) and rigorous eval/observability. Partnered closely with business/ops stakeholders to deliver explainable reporting automation, cutting manual reporting time by 50%+.”

Pravalika Kuppireddy

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and intelligent automation

4y exp

“LLM engineer who built and productionized a system to classify GitHub commits (performance vs non-performance) using zero-/few-shot approaches over commit messages and diffs, working at ~5M-record scale on multi-node NVIDIA GPUs. Experienced orchestrating end-to-end LLM pipelines with Airflow and GitHub Actions, and emphasizes reliability via testing, guardrails, and observability while collaborating closely with non-technical product stakeholders.”

“Built a production LLM-RAG system at McKesson to let internal healthcare operations teams query large volumes of unstructured operational documents via natural language with source-backed answers, designed with HIPAA/FHIR compliance in mind. Demonstrated strong production engineering across hallucination mitigation, retrieval quality tuning, and latency/scalability optimization, using LangChain/LangGraph and Airflow plus rigorous evaluation/monitoring practices.”