Vetted Research Assistants in the Austin Metro

Pranav Puranik

Screened

Senior AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and multimodal NLP

Austin, TX5y exp

“Built a production LLM/RAG assistant for insurance/health claims agents that ingests 100–200 page patient PDFs via OCR (migrated from local Tesseract to Azure Document Intelligence) and delivers grounded claim detail retrieval plus summaries with PII/PHI guardrails. Experienced orchestrating large workflows with Celery worker pipelines and AWS Step Functions (S3-triggered, Fargate-based batch inference/accuracy aggregation), and collaborates closely with non-technical SMEs (claims agents/nurses) through shadowing, iterative demos, and SME-defined evaluation.”

“Capgemini engineer with 4+ years building and deploying high-availability, low-latency fraud detection APIs and multi-cluster distributed systems for a Fortune 20 bank, including zero-downtime production rollouts and multi-layer (SQL/network/hardware) performance debugging. Also built a Python + OpenAI/LangChain LLM-powered grading workflow for Austin School for Women, cutting feedback time from 90 minutes to 5 minutes per submission for 200+ learners.”

Nilesh Bhoi

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack web apps and real-time systems

Austin, TX3y exp

“Software engineer who has owned and improved a customer-facing quote flow in a Vue/Nuxt app, using production observability to reduce latency and improve reliability via caching and request-handling fixes. Also shipped an internal LLM Q&A tool using embeddings + RAG over approved company docs and past support tickets, with guardrails, logging, and an evaluation loop that drove retrieval/prompt improvements. Seeking ~$110k base and requires H1B transfer sponsorship.”