Vetted Research Assistants in Virginia

“Appian consultant/engineer focused on insurance and financial services modernization and AI-enabled workflows. Built and productionized an AI-driven insurance submission intake system (email ingestion, classification/extraction, HITL review) cutting processing time from 2+ hours to under 10 minutes, and delivered semantic smart search with guardrails and UAT-driven ranking improvements. Also partnered with a global bank CTO org, running sessions with 200+ senior leaders to automate regulatory/board metric reporting via platform integrations and attestation.”

“ML/AI engineer focused on production NLP and voice AI systems in the restaurant tech space, with hands-on work spanning ASR, intent classification, LLM fine-tuning, and deployment monitoring at Presto AI. They highlight a 15% improvement in full-AI ordering rate and also built a restaurant sentiment analysis product at Wisely that they say became a standout feature in a $10M acquisition context.”

“Research-focused AI engineer who built an agentic pipeline to automatically extract Sphinx-based API documentation/changelogs and generate synthetic tasks for a dynamic LLM code benchmark targeting real-world API evolution and deprecations. Experienced with multi-agent orchestration (AutoGen, LangChain, CrewAI) and rigorous evaluation methods, and has prior multi-agent work from a Microsoft Research internship.”

Kunal Mahato

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI, full-stack systems, and platform engineering

Virginia, USA6y exp

“Full-stack/AI engineer with experience spanning supply-chain product deployments, biomedical agentic search, and research-grade RAG evaluation. Stands out for owning customer-facing migrations at scale (including 216,000 historical shipments), building measurable LLM systems, and pairing AI experimentation with rigorous evals, rollout controls, and auditability.”

Daniel Berhane Araya

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in production-grade LLM systems for regulated finance

Fairfax, VA9y exp

“AI/LLM engineer with published work who built FinVet, a production financial misinformation detection system using multi-pipeline RAG, confidence-based voting, and evidence-backed outputs (F1 0.85, +37% vs baseline). Also built NexusForest-MCP, a Dockerized Model Context Protocol server exposing structured global deforestation/carbon data via SQL tools for reliable LLM tool use. Previously delivered borrower risk-rating (PD) models at BMO Financial Group that were validated and integrated into an enterprise credit system through close collaboration with credit officers and portfolio managers.”

Akhil Bharadwaj Mateti

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in Data Science and Machine Learning

Arlington, Virginia4y exp

“Robotics/AV perception engineer who built a semantic-segmentation road detection system and integrated it into a ROS-based real-time pipeline (ROS bag camera feed to live monitor) achieving ~12 FPS. Strong in practical deployment work: solved multi-library versioning issues (ROS/OpenCV/TensorFlow), containerized the stack with Docker, and optimized inference by shifting runtime to C++ for large latency gains on NVIDIA hardware.”