Vetted Machine Learning Engineers in Illinois

“LLM/ML engineer who has shipped an enterprise RAG-based Q&A system (LangChain/LlamaIndex, FAISS + Azure Cognitive Search, GPT-3.5/4 via OpenAI/Azure OpenAI) to production on Docker + Kubernetes/OpenShift, tackling hallucinations, retrieval quality, latency/cost, and RBAC/IAM security. Also partnered with operations leaders to turn manual reporting into an LLM-powered summarization and forecasting dashboard driven by real KPIs and iterative stakeholder feedback.”

premkumar narla

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI, RAG, and enterprise ML systems

Chicago, IL5y exp

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on experience at Morgan Stanley building production fraud detection and enterprise RAG systems. Stands out for owning systems end-to-end—from experimentation and deployment to monitoring and iteration—and for delivering measurable impact, including an 18% reduction in fraud false positives, 40% lower inference latency, and internal tooling that reduced model deployment time from days to hours.”

“Built and productionized a HIPAA-compliant LLM+RAG Clinical AI assistant at Optum, fine-tuning GPT/LLaMA on de-identified patient notes and integrating FAISS/Pinecone for sub-second retrieval; reported to cut diagnosis time by ~20 minutes per case. Experienced in orchestrating ML pipelines (Airflow, AWS Step Functions, Azure Data Factory) and in reliability techniques for LLM systems (grounding, citations, confidence filters, monitoring) while partnering closely with clinicians and compliance teams.”

Uday kumar swamy

Screened

Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in MLOps and NLP/GenAI

Chicago, USA9y exp

“Built a production LLM-agent framework for a startup that performs daily financial/trading analysis by combining live market data with internal tools, including a centralized memory module to prevent context drift and reduce hallucinations. Also implemented an Airflow-orchestrated retail price forecasting pipeline deployed to AWS endpoints, scaling parallel workloads via Kubernetes Executor and validating systems with rigorous functional + LLM-specific metrics and cross-team collaboration.”

Janvitha Mandyam

Screened

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

Chicago, IL4y exp

“GenAI/LLMOps practitioner who deployed a production RAG-based customer service and knowledge retrieval system for a global bank using LangChain, FAISS/Azure Cognitive Search, GPT-4/Claude, and Guardrails—driving a reported 35% Q&A accuracy lift while reducing handle time and escalations. Also partnered with non-technical leaders at CVS Health to deliver ML-driven supply chain risk and inventory insights via anomaly detection, NLG summaries, and stakeholder-friendly dashboards.”

“AI/ML engineer with forensic analytics and healthcare claims experience (Optum), building production LLM/RAG systems to surface context-driven fraud patterns from unstructured claim notes and explain risk to investigators. Strong in large-scale retrieval performance tuning, legacy API integration with reliability patterns (SQS, circuit breakers), and MLOps orchestration on Airflow/Kubernetes with rigorous testing, monitoring, and stakeholder-friendly interpretability.”

“Built end-to-end ML and GenAI systems at Northern Trust, including a production RAG-based document intelligence platform for financial reports and contracts. Stands out for combining strong MLOps execution with practical product judgment—improving forecast accuracy by 22%, document review accuracy by 38%, and cutting deployment time by 45% while keeping latency and reliability production-ready.”

“Analytics professional with Intuit experience spanning modern data stack work, behavioral segmentation, and applied AI. They built dbt/Snowflake pipelines powering retention and churn dashboards, automated feedback classification with OpenAI/LangChain, and partnered closely with product and marketing teams to turn analytics into onboarding, targeting, and lifecycle messaging decisions.”