Vetted Machine Learning Engineers in the NYC Metro

“ML/AI practitioner in healthcare (Syneos Health) who has deployed production clinical NLP and risk models. Built a BERT-based physician-note information extraction system on Docker + AWS SageMaker (reported ~42% retrieval improvement) and automated retraining/deployment with Airflow and drift detection, while partnering closely with clinicians to drive adoption (reported ~18% readmission reduction).”

“Wayfair ML/AI engineer who has shipped and operated production LLM systems for both internal analytics and customer-facing assistants. Stands out for combining strong RAG/retrieval engineering with production-grade platform work—improving trust, reducing latency by ~30%, and cutting ad hoc reporting demand by ~50%.”

“Built a production AI-driven contract/document extraction system combining OCR, normalization, and LLM schema-guided extraction, orchestrated with PySpark and Azure Data Factory and loaded into PostgreSQL for analytics. Emphasizes reliability at scale—using strict JSON schemas, confidence scoring, targeted retries, and multi-layer validation to control hallucinations while processing thousands of PDFs per hour—and partners closely with non-technical business teams to refine fields and deliver usable dashboards.”

“LLM/ML platform engineer with hands-on experience taking an LLM document summarization prototype into a production-grade service on AWS EKS, emphasizing low-latency inference, drift monitoring, and safe CI/CD rollouts (canary + rollback). Strong in real-time debugging of agentic/RAG systems (tracing, retrieval/index drift fixes) and in developer enablement through practical workshops (Docker/Kubernetes/FastAPI) plus pre-sales support via demos and benchmarks to close pilots.”

“ML/LLM practitioner who has deployed a production RAG-based trouble-call identifier using multiple datasets (device, network, past complaints). Experienced in end-to-end MLOps (FastAPI + Docker + Kubernetes with HPA) and in evaluating/monitoring LLM behavior to reduce hallucinations, with additional applied work in forecasting/anomaly detection and churn prediction for retention campaigns.”

“Built and deployed an LLM-powered customer support assistant (“Notable Assistant”) focused on automating common post-customer queries while maintaining multi-turn context and meeting scalability/latency needs. Experienced with production orchestration and operations using Kubernetes and Apache Airflow (DAG-based ETL, scheduling, monitoring/alerts), and has partnered closely with customer service stakeholders to align chatbot behavior with brand voice through iterative testing.”

Ojasmitha Pedirappagari

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Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and agentic platforms

Jersey City, NJ5y exp

“Built and shipped a production RAG-based assistant that lets parents ask natural-language questions about their child’s learning progress, using pgvector retrieval (child-id filtered) and Redis caching to hit ~180ms latency. Implemented real-world guardrails and compliance (Llama Guard, COPPA, retrieval thresholds, fallbacks) with 99.5% uptime, and ran human-in-the-loop eval loops that improved satisfaction from 3.8 to 4.2 while serving 60k+ monthly users and reducing costs significantly.”

“Backend engineer who architected and owned a mission-critical outage management/decision-support platform, replacing a legacy system that failed under load. Emphasizes auditability, deterministic validation, and server-side concurrency controls (section locking, scoped autosaves), plus redundancy/load balancing and monitoring to keep the system stable for 24/7 operations handling 1,500+ weekly outage events.”

“BNY Mellon engineer who has built and operated production AI systems end-to-end: a LangChain/Pinecone RAG platform scaled via FastAPI + Kubernetes to 1000 RPM with 99.9% uptime, supported by monitoring and data-drift detection. Also deep in data/infra orchestration (Airflow, Dagster, Terraform on AWS/EMR/EC2), processing 500GB+ daily and delivering measurable reliability and performance gains, plus strong compliance-facing model explainability using SHAP and Tableau.”

“IBM engineer who built and deployed a production RAG-based LLM assistant using LangChain/FAISS with a fine-tuned LLaMA model, served via FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes, achieving 99%+ uptime. Demonstrates strong practical expertise in reducing hallucinations (semantic chunking + metadata-driven retrieval) and managing latency, plus mature MLOps practices (Airflow/dbt pipelines, MLflow tracking, monitoring, A/B and shadow deployments) and effective collaboration with non-technical stakeholders.”

“GenAI/LLM engineer who recently built a production compliance assistant at State Farm for KYC/AML and regulatory teams, using AWS Bedrock + LangChain with Textract/Lambda pipelines to extract fields, tag risk, and summarize long documents. Implemented RAG, strict structured outputs, and human-in-the-loop guardrails, and reports automating ~80% of documentation work while reducing review time by ~40%.”