Vetted Amazon SageMaker Professionals

“AI/ML engineer who shipped a production blood-test report understanding and personalized supplement recommendation product, using a LangGraph multi-agent pipeline on AWS serverless with OCR via Bedrock and RAG over vetted clinical research. Also built end-to-end recommender system pipelines at ASANTe using Airflow (ingestion, embeddings/features, training, registry, batch scoring/monitoring) with KPI reporting to Tableau, with a strong focus on safety, evaluation, and measurable reliability.”

Meng Yang

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Staff Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems, cloud platforms, and IoT

Columbus, OH21y exp

“CTO/Chief Architect who rebuilt an IoT platform from a fragile legacy stack into an AWS-based, multi-tenant cloud-native system supporting 50k+ connected devices and 10M+ monthly events, then layered in real-time data pipelines and ML anomaly detection. Known for tightly aligning roadmaps and OKRs to business KPIs (onboarding speed, uptime, velocity) and for scaling teams into domain-focused pods; previously led a shift from LAMP to event-driven Node.js microservices using MQTT and message queues.”

“DevSecOps/AWS infrastructure engineer at Madison Logic who owns a 15-account AWS footprint and treats nearly all AWS resources as code (Terraform/CloudFormation). Led a CI/CD platform migration (Bitbucket → GitLab + GitHub Actions) supporting WordPress and containerized microservices, improving release frequency to weekly/daily, and has hands-on production incident response experience on ECS Fargate using Datadog with fast rollback via immutable ECR tags and task definition revisions.”

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped production systems end-to-end, including a note-taking product (Notey) combining audio/image capture, ASR, summarization, and a semantic chat agent over past notes. Also has applied ML experience in healthcare, collaborating directly with doctors to validate an EEG seizure-detection pipeline, and uses Kubernetes to optimize GPU usage for LLM training.”

Diya Wadhwani

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Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in MERN, AWS, and secure authentication

4y exp

“Application-layer full-stack engineer who has shipped enterprise-facing integrations and developer tooling, including an end-to-end Slack integration for automated ticket creation and a real-time feature-flag dashboard (React/TS + GraphQL/Apollo + NestJS) with audit trails. Has hands-on AWS container operations experience (ECS Fargate/ALB/RDS) and has improved product performance (35% faster dashboards) while building auth and RBAC for 500+ users.”

“Built across cloud infrastructure, AI-powered product workflows, and backend data reliability in environments including Northeastern, Knead, and Grafx. Particularly compelling for roles needing someone who can both ship AWS-based systems end-to-end and debug messy production issues involving caching, APIs, and data pipelines.”

“AI/ML manager who has deployed production NLP in healthcare—mining unstructured clinical notes and combining them with structured patient data to predict readmissions, with strong emphasis on data alignment and terminology normalization. Also experienced operationalizing ML with Airflow/MLflow and AWS Step Functions/SageMaker, plus stakeholder-facing Power BI dashboards (e.g., marketing customer segmentation).”

“AI Engineer at DXC Technology who has shipped production LLM/NLP systems on AWS (SageMaker, FastAPI) and optimized them for real-time latency and unpredictable traffic using quantization, batching, and autoscaling. Strong MLOps and monitoring discipline (MLflow, CloudWatch, SageMaker Model Monitor) and proven business impact—delivered models with 92% predictive accuracy and cut enterprise decision-making time by 30% through close collaboration with product managers.”

Monthir Ali

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Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and VR/XR multimodal systems

Salt Lake City, UT8y exp

“PhD researcher (University of Utah) who built a production RAG-powered Virtual Reality Research Assistant to answer lab research questions with concrete citations. Implemented an end-to-end LangChain pipeline using PyPDFLoader, chunking strategies, OpenAI embeddings, and ChromaDB, with emphasis on grounding to reduce hallucinations and ensure research-grade accuracy. Collaborated closely with a non-technical PhD advisor to scope requirements, manage cost constraints, and demo iterative progress.”

Deva Sai Kumar Bheesetti

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Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in data automation, cloud & AI

Lowell, MA5y exp

“JavaScript engineer who effectively "maintains" an internal open-source-style React/Node.js shared library used by multiple teams—owning API stability, semantic versioning, CI/testing, logging, and documentation. Demonstrates strong cross-team debugging and change-management skills (schema-driven refactors, feature flags, validation layers) to ship new features without breaking existing workflows, plus a profiling/benchmarking-driven approach to performance.”

“Senior AI/ML engineer with hands-on experience building production LLM systems in healthcare, including RAG-based clinical question answering and end-to-end MLOps on Vertex AI and Kubernetes. They combine strong platform engineering with applied GenAI work, citing a 35% improvement in factual accuracy and a 30% boost in internal team productivity through modular Python services and CI/CD.”

“AI/ML engineer with hands-on experience building a healthcare-focused generative AI application end-to-end, from architecture and data design through deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement. Particularly strong in multi-agent LLM systems, fine-tuning, and safety guardrails, with measurable impact including a 20% accuracy lift to 91% and 10% latency improvement in a nutrition recommendation pipeline.”

“Healthcare-focused ML/AI engineer who has built clinical note summarization and medical image annotation solutions using LLMs, RAG, and multimodal models. They combine experimentation across major model providers with practical production concerns like monitoring, drift detection, and latency/cost tradeoffs, and also earned 2nd place in a Google hackathon for a medical AI assistant.”

Sri Mounika Jammalamadaka

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Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI, LLMs, and data platforms

Fairfax, VA6y exp

“Built and helped deploy a production RAG-based LLM assistant for HVAC anomaly diagnostics, partnering closely with field engineers and operations teams to make AI outputs trustworthy in real workflows. Stands out for practical post-launch optimization work—improving retrieval quality, reducing hallucinations, and stabilizing non-deterministic behavior—which contributed to roughly a 40% reduction in diagnosis time.”

“AI Engineer at Humanitarian AI who has built and productionized both a LangGraph-based multi-agent workflow system and a RAG pipeline (OpenAI embeddings + vector DB) with rigorous evaluation/guardrails. Reports strong measurable impact (60% faster workflow delivery, 40% fewer incidents, 70% reduced research time) and has prior enterprise modernization experience at Infosys migrating ETL to microservices with zero production incidents.”

“Built and deployed an agentic RAG platform at Centene Health to support healthcare claims and complaints workflows (Q&A for claims agents, executive complaint summarization, and compliance triage/classification). Experienced in LangChain/LangGraph orchestration, production deployment on AWS with FastAPI/Docker/Kubernetes, and implementing HIPAA-compliant guardrails to reduce hallucinations and ensure explainable outputs.”

“Built and shipped a production GPT-4 + RAG customer support chatbot that materially improved support operations (response time 4 hours to <3 minutes; ~65% tier-1 ticket automation). Demonstrates strong end-to-end LLM engineering across retrieval (Sentence Transformers/Pinecone), safety (multi-layer moderation), cost/latency optimization (caching/streaming, Celery/Redis), and rigorous evaluation/monitoring (shadow deploys, Datadog, 500+ test cases), plus proven stakeholder buy-in leading to 80% adoption.”

“Built and deployed a scalable, production-ready LLM knowledge assistant using a RAG architecture (LangChain + vector store/FAISS) to replace keyword search for internal documents. Demonstrates hands-on expertise in hallucination reduction and retrieval quality improvements through semantic chunking, similarity tuning, prompt design, and human-in-the-loop validation, plus strong stakeholder communication via demos and visual explanations.”

“Built and productionized a clinical NLP + patient risk stratification platform at Dermanture, combining Spark/PySpark pipelines with BERT/BioBERT for entity extraction and text classification and downstream risk models in TensorFlow/scikit-learn. Experienced running regulated, auditable ML workflows with Airflow and AWS SageMaker, emphasizing data validation (Great Expectations), drift monitoring, and explainability (SHAP) to drive clinician trust and adoption.”

“Built a production "Mini RAG Assistant" for internal document Q&A, focusing on grounded answers (anti-hallucination), retrieval quality, and latency/cost optimization. Uses LangChain/LangGraph for orchestration and applies a metrics-driven evaluation loop (including reranking and semantic chunking improvements) while collaborating closely with product stakeholders.”

“Senior Data Scientist in consulting who has built production RAG systems for insurance/annuity document search at large scale (100K+ PDF pages), emphasizing grounded answers, guardrails, and low-latency retrieval. Experienced in end-to-end MLOps for LLM apps—monitoring, evaluation sets, drift handling, and safe rollouts—and in orchestrating complex pipelines with Prefect/Airflow and deploying services on Kubernetes.”