Vetted Amazon Redshift Professionals

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG knowledge assistant integrating internal docs, wikis, and ticket histories to reduce tribal-knowledge dependency and repetitive questions. Emphasizes reliability via grounding + a validation layer, and achieved major latency gains (>50%) through vector index optimization, caching, quantization, and selective re-validation. Comfortable orchestrating end-to-end LLM/data workflows with Airflow, Prefect, and Dagster, including monitoring and alerting.”

“ML/NLP practitioner with experience building a transformer-failure prediction system that combines sensor signals with unstructured maintenance comments using LLM-based extraction and similarity validation. Strong emphasis on production readiness—data leakage controls, SQL-driven data quality tiers, and rigorous bias/fairness validation (including contract/spec evaluation across diverse company profiles).”

“Serial entrepreneur who built Verb Technology from a garage startup to a Nasdaq IPO, raising multiple rounds of capital along the way. Invented interactive live streaming technology that was acquired by Amazon and demonstrated rapid product/market response during COVID by prototyping and launching a solution for users while tightly managing AWS costs.”

“Data engineer with experience delivering an end-to-end pipeline handling ~3.5TB in a star-schema setup (fact + dimensions) and producing business-facing tables in Hive/Spark. Identified and resolved UAT-reported duplicate issues caused by joins through root-cause analysis, and also built automation to run Spark SQL metrics on weekly/monthly/quarterly cadences and distribute results to users.”

“Data engineer with experience at Sony and Walmart building high-volume, near-real-time analytics and ingestion systems. Has owned end-to-end pipelines from Kafka/Spark streaming through S3/Parquet and Redshift/Looker, emphasizing data quality (Great Expectations), observability (CloudWatch/Azure Monitor), and reliability (Airflow SLAs, retries, checkpointing), including measurable performance and latency improvements.”

“Data engineer focused on fraud and banking analytics who has owned end-to-end batch + streaming pipelines at very large scale (hundreds of millions of records/day). Built robust data quality/observability layers (schema validation, anomaly detection, alerting) and delivered low-latency serving via AWS Lambda/API Gateway with DynamoDB + Redis, plus external data ingestion/scraping pipelines orchestrated in Airflow with anti-bot protections.”

Mahesh Kumar Duvvuri

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in microservices and cloud-native systems

New York City, NY4y exp

“Backend/infra engineer with experience across Nestle, J.P. Morgan, and Capgemini, combining ML systems work (YOLOv8/PyTorch object detection with TFLite edge deployment) with production-grade cloud/Kubernetes operations. Has delivered measurable impact via AWS migrations (25% cost reduction, 99.9% availability), microservice modernization (35% faster processing), and low-latency Kafka streaming for financial dashboards (<100ms) using DLQs and idempotent consumers.”

Ajay Madhusudhan Thumala

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in data engineering and LLM applications

Irvine, CA1y exp

“Computer science engineer and master’s graduate who independently built a mechatronics-heavy capstone prototype: a smartphone concept for deafblind users using micro-actuator arrays for braille reading. Also has platform engineering experience at Quantiphi, deploying webhooks to Kubernetes and implementing GitOps-based CI/CD using AWS CodeCommit/CodeBuild and ECR.”

Bhanu Prakash Reddy Dakilli

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in Azure ETL/ELT and data warehousing

Framingham, MA4y exp

“Data engineer who has owned end-to-end production pipelines for customer transaction data (~2–5 GB/day) using Python/PySpark/SQL and Airflow, delivering major reliability and speed gains (70% faster reporting; 60–70% fewer data issues). Also built a daily external web-scraping system with anti-bot handling and safe, idempotent Airflow-driven backfills, plus a Python data API optimized with indexing/caching and tested for correctness.”

Sanjana Duvva

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI, LLMOps, and MLOps

5y exp

“Built and deployed an AWS-based LLM/RAG ticket triage and knowledge retrieval system (Pinecone/FAISS + Step Functions + MLflow) that cut support resolution time by 20%. Demonstrates strong production focus on hallucination reduction, PII security, and low-latency orchestration, with measurable evaluation improvements (e.g., ~25% grounding accuracy gain via re-ranking) and proven collaboration with support operations stakeholders.”

“Data platform engineer focused on large-scale, real-time fraud systems, with hands-on ownership of streaming architectures using Kafka, Spark, Snowflake, and Databricks. Stands out for combining performance tuning and platform automation with LLM/RAG-based enrichment, delivering measurable gains in latency, fraud accuracy, false positives, and analyst decision speed.”

Harrishkumar Loganathan

Screened

Mid AI/Machine Learning Engineer specializing in FinTech and Generative AI

Remote, USA3y exp

“AI/ML engineer with hands-on ownership of enterprise LLM deployments at Freshworks, including a large-scale RAG chatbot serving 15,000+ users across six departments. Stands out for combining deep production engineering skills—AWS microservices, Kubernetes, observability, retrieval quality, and faithfulness evaluation—with strong cross-functional stakeholder leadership and prior large-scale fraud data pipeline experience at Socure.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of production GenAI and computer vision systems, spanning experimentation, deployment, monitoring, and iterative optimization. Stands out for shipping an enterprise RAG platform that cut manual review by 50% and a defect detection pipeline that reduced report generation from 15 minutes to under 1 second while maintaining high uptime and strong operational discipline.”

“Backend/data platform engineer who recently owned an end-to-end large-scale financial data platform delivering real-time decision support for finance and operations. Has hands-on experience modernizing legacy batch pipelines into AWS cloud-native ELT with parallel-run cutovers, strong data quality controls (dbt-style tests, reconciliation), and measurable improvements in runtime, cost, and SLA compliance. Also builds scalable, secure FastAPI microservices using Docker, ALB-based horizontal scaling, Redis caching, and managed auth with Cognito/Supabase plus Postgres RLS.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG clinical decision support system that enables real-time semantic search over unstructured EHR notes and delivers patient risk insights. Strong in healthcare-grade MLOps and compliance (HIPAA, PHI handling, encryption, RBAC, audit logs) and scaled embedding/retrieval pipelines using Spark/Databricks and Airflow. Partnered with clinicians via Power BI dashboards and explainability, contributing to an 18% reduction in patient readmissions.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-powered PDF document Q&A system to eliminate manual searching through long documents, focusing on scalability and answer reliability. Implemented semantic chunking (using headings/paragraphs/tables), overlap, and preprocessing/quality checks to reduce hallucinations, and orchestrated the end-to-end pipeline with Airflow using retries, alerts, and parallel tasks.”

“Researcher from the University of South Dakota who built a production medical RAG system to help interpret model predictions by retrieving relevant clinical notes and medical literature, overcoming retrieval accuracy and imaging-dataset challenges through semantic chunking and metadata-driven indexing. Also has hands-on orchestration experience with Airflow and Azure Data Factory, plus a pragmatic approach to LLM evaluation and stakeholder-driven iteration.”

“Data/ML practitioner with experience applying NLP and classical ML to large-scale customer data (2B+ records) for segmentation, prediction, and survey-text classification, delivering measurable business impact (~18% engagement efficiency). Has hands-on entity resolution across multi-source datasets and has built embedding-based semantic search using SentenceBERT + a vector database with domain fine-tuning (~20% relevance improvement), plus production workflow experience with Spark/Airflow and cloud tooling (AWS/Azure).”

“ML/AI engineer with production experience across retail and healthcare: built a real-time computer-vision shelf monitoring system at Walmart and optimized edge inference latency by ~30% using TensorRT/ONNX and pruning. Also partnered with CVS Health clinical/pharmacy teams to deliver a medication-adherence predictive model, using Streamlit explainability dashboards and achieving an 18% adherence improvement.”

“Data engineer/platform builder with experience across PwC and Liberty Mutual delivering high-volume, production-grade pipelines and real-time data services. Has owned end-to-end streaming + batch architectures on AWS and Azure, including web scraping systems, with quantified reliability gains (99.9% availability, 90%+ error reduction, 30% latency reduction) and strong observability/CI-CD practices.”

Bhavyasree Chinthala

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in cloud data pipelines and real-time streaming

USA, USA5y exp

“Data engineer with PNC Bank experience owning high-volume financial transaction pipelines end-to-end (Kafka/REST ingestion through Spark/Glue transformations to Redshift serving) for risk and fraud analytics. Built strong reliability and data quality practices (Great Expectations, reconciliation, Airflow alerting, idempotent retries, incremental/windowed processing), reporting 40% ingestion efficiency gains and ~99.9% data accuracy.”

“Analytics-focused candidate with strong SQL, Excel, Python, and Tableau skills who supports payroll-, compensation-, and finance-adjacent processes through rigorous data validation and reconciliation. Stands out for uncovering a duplicate-record mapping issue that exposed roughly $250K in revenue leakage and for building repeatable controls, dashboards, and automated checks to improve reporting accuracy.”

“AI/LLM engineer with strong healthcare domain depth who has shipped production-grade agents for care coordination and clinical workflow automation. Stands out for combining Knowledge Graph RAG, LangGraph orchestration, and rigorous eval/guardrail systems to improve reliability in high-stakes environments, with measurable gains in review time, hallucination reduction, latency, and clinician adoption.”