Vetted Apache Airflow Professionals

Nidhip Patel

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and full-stack development

United States3y exp

“Backend Java engineer with strong platform/DevOps experience: modernized an insurance claims legacy monolith into DDD-aligned microservices, deployed containerized services on Kubernetes with Jenkins CI/CD and static analysis gates, and implemented GitOps using ArgoCD. Also led major AWS migration planning with dependency mapping and network monitoring to uncover hidden dependencies, and built Kafka-based real-time event streaming with schema-registry-driven evolution.”

“Frontend engineer with hands-on experience building AI-powered document search and analytics products, including RAG-based knowledge retrieval interfaces with citations, filters, and document previews. Stands out for combining React/TypeScript architecture with production performance tuning using profiling tools, memoization, lazy loading, and debounced data flows to keep complex, document-heavy UIs responsive.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with deep Go expertise who has operated from two-person startup environments to enterprise-facing analytics platforms. He has owned major rewrites and real-time systems, including a Go migration for a profitable automation startup, a WebSocket service that cut server load 38% for 2,000+ subscribers, and B2B analytics products used by Fortune 500 event sponsors.”

Dishank Kailash Oza

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in distributed cloud systems

Santa Clara, CA3y exp

“Engineer with a thoughtful, production-oriented approach to AI-assisted development, including multi-agent workflows for planning, coding, review, testing, and debugging. Stands out for treating AI systems like distributed pipelines with explicit interfaces, validation layers, and guardrails to improve reliability and reduce hallucinations.”

“AI Backend Engineer in MetLife’s claims technology group who built and deployed a production LLM-based decision support system that helps claim adjusters quickly find relevant policy rules from long PDFs and historical notes. Designed it as multiple production-grade services with retrieval-first guardrails, continuous validation, and Airflow-orchestrated pipelines for ingestion, embeddings, and vector index updates to keep the system reliable as policies and data evolve.”

“Backend/platform engineer with production experience building a Python SDK over a microservices ecosystem, emphasizing reliability (JWT auth, retries/timeouts, custom exceptions) and integration testing. Has delivered AWS EKS microservices with Jenkins+Helm CI/CD, strong secrets/config separation using AWS Secrets Manager, and set up Datadog APM/deployment/change monitoring. Also modernized legacy VB applications to C#/.NET WPF via incremental migration with parity testing and stakeholder sign-off.”

“Built a production RAG-based healthcare chatbot to retrieve patient medical documents spread across multiple platforms, reducing manual and error-prone searching. Implemented semantic search with custom embeddings (Hugging Face) and Pinecone, deployed via FastAPI/Docker on AWS SageMaker with MLflow tracking, and optimized fine-tuning cost using LoRA while orchestrating retraining pipelines in Airflow.”

“GenAI/LLM engineer who built and deployed a production RAG system for enterprise document search and decision support, cutting manual lookup time by 40%+. Experienced with LangChain/LangGraph agent orchestration plus Airflow/Prefect for ingestion and incremental reindexing, with a strong focus on reliability (testing, observability) and stakeholder-driven metrics.”

“LLM/agent builder who shipped a live consumer AI-agent app (kalpa.chat) that visualizes complex reasoning as interactive graphs and abstracts multi-provider model usage via a unified wallet. Professionally has applied LangChain/LangGraph to IVR parsing and to scaling a football video-generation pipeline at DAZN, including shipping a VAR-specific retrieval/order fix via SQL after iterating with a non-technical PM.”

“Built and deployed a production AI “term explainer” agent that adapts explanations to beginner/intermediate/expert users by combining multi-step LLM reasoning with grounded Wikipedia retrieval. Owns end-to-end agent orchestration (smolagents/Python), reliability patterns (fallback across LLM providers, retries, guardrails), and observability/metrics-driven evaluation; also partnered with a non-technical researcher to deliver a plain-language research assistant agent.”

“LLM/MLOps engineer who has shipped a production RAG-based technical documentation assistant (FastAPI) cutting manual review by 45%, with deep hands-on retrieval optimization in Pinecone/LangChain (HNSW, hybrid + multi-query search, caching). Also brings healthcare domain experience—building Airflow-orchestrated EHR pipelines and delivering FDA-auditability-friendly predictive maintenance solutions using SHAP/LIME explainability surfaced in Power BI.”

“ML/LLM engineer with production experience building a compliant RAG-based virtual assistant at Intuit, optimizing embeddings and FAISS retrieval (including PCA) for low-latency, privacy-controlled search and deploying via AWS SageMaker containers. Also built scalable Airflow+MLflow pipelines using Docker and KubernetesExecutor, cutting training cycles by 37%, and partnered with civil engineers/project managers at Aegis Infra to deliver predictive maintenance for construction equipment.”

“Backend engineer who has owned end-to-end delivery of Python/FastAPI microservices for real-time data processing and alerting, including performance tuning (Postgres optimization, caching, async processing). Strong DevOps/GitOps background: Docker + Kubernetes deployments with GitHub Actions CI/CD and ArgoCD-driven GitOps, plus experience supporting phased on-prem to AWS migrations and building Kafka-based streaming pipelines.”

“AI Engineer Co-Op at Northeastern University who built a production Patient Persona Chat Bot to help nursing students practice clinical interactions, fine-tuning Llama 3 and integrating a LangChain + Pinecone RAG pipeline deployed on Amazon Bedrock. Emphasizes clinical accuracy and reliability with guardrails, retrieval filtering, and continuous evaluation, and also brings strong data engineering/orchestration experience (Airflow, EMR/PySpark, ADF, dbt, Databricks, Snowflake).”

“LLM/GenAI engineer who built a production AI-powered credit risk policy summarization and compliance alerting platform at HCL Tech, focused on factual accuracy and auditability for a financial client. Implemented a multi-retriever LangChain RAG architecture with citations-only prompting, fallback agents, and human-in-the-loop legal review—cutting manual review time by 35% and scaling to 12 teams.”

“AI/NLP-focused practitioner who built a zero-/few-shot LLM event extraction system on the long-tail Maven dataset, combining prompt-structured outputs with LoRA/QLoRA fine-tuning and rigorous F1 evaluation. Also implemented entity resolution/data cleaning pipelines and embedding-based semantic search using Sentence-BERT + FAISS, and has healthcare experience delivering a multilingual speech/translation mobile prototype using HIPAA-compliant Azure Cognitive Services.”

“Full-stack engineer who built an oil & gas analytics dashboard backend using FastAPI, MongoDB, and Redis with a metadata-driven design for dynamic plotting. Shipped an LLM-powered chatbot (LangChain + tool/function calling) to let engineers query analytics in natural language, and also built a multi-step university chatbot workflow with Azure logging, confidence scoring, and human-in-the-loop review.”

Filmon Tesfay

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud-native FinTech and AI platforms

New York, NY8y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong production ownership: built and operated a real-time transaction monitoring/fraud-alerting system using Java Spring Boot, Kafka, Docker, and AWS with CI/CD. Demonstrates metrics-driven operations (latency, stability, consumer lag, true/false positives) and reliability patterns for integrations (idempotency, retries/backoff, DLQs, reconciliation/backfills), plus modern React/TypeScript + Node/Postgres architecture experience.”

Santhoshi Priya Sunchu

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in NLP and predictive modeling

Massachusetts, USA5y exp

“AI/ML practitioner in healthcare/insurance (Blue Cross Blue Shield) who built and deployed a production NLP system to classify patient risk from unstructured clinical notes. Experienced in end-to-end pipeline orchestration (Airflow, AWS Step Functions/Lambda/SageMaker) and real-time optimization (BERT to DistilBERT on AWS GPUs), with strong clinician collaboration to drive adoption.”

Jitesh Kumar S

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP, computer vision, and MLOps

Lafayette, IN3y exp

“ML/LLM engineer with Meta experience building production AI systems for near real-time user-report classification and summarization under strict latency (<250ms), safety, cost, and privacy constraints. Has hands-on MLOps/orchestration experience (Airflow, Spark, MLflow, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub Actions) plus observability (Prometheus/Grafana) and applies rigorous evaluation, staged rollouts, and A/B testing to keep agent workflows reliable in production.”

Shabari Vignesh

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in cloud data platforms and AI agents

Santa Clara, CA6y exp

“Data/Backend engineer who has owned end-to-end merchant analytics systems on AWS: orchestrated multi-source ingestion (FISERV/Shopify/Clover) with Step Functions/Lambda, enforced strong data quality gates, and served curated datasets via Redshift and a FastAPI layer. Also built an early-stage Merchant Insights AI agent that converts natural language questions into SQL using OpenAI models, with full CI/CD and observability.”

Snehitha Penumaka

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in predictive modeling and cloud ML pipelines

Dallas, TX3y exp

“LLM engineer/data engineer who has deployed production RAG systems for internal-document Q&A, building end-to-end ingestion, embedding, vector search, and FastAPI serving while actively reducing hallucinations and latency through rigorous retrieval tuning and caching. Also experienced in orchestrating cloud data pipelines (Airflow, AWS Glue, Azure Data Factory) and partnering with non-technical business teams to deliver AI solutions like automated document review.”

Pravalika Kuppireddy

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and intelligent automation

4y exp

“LLM engineer who built and productionized a system to classify GitHub commits (performance vs non-performance) using zero-/few-shot approaches over commit messages and diffs, working at ~5M-record scale on multi-node NVIDIA GPUs. Experienced orchestrating end-to-end LLM pipelines with Airflow and GitHub Actions, and emphasizes reliability via testing, guardrails, and observability while collaborating closely with non-technical product stakeholders.”

“Built and shipped a widely adopted, production-grade RAG internal search assistant that unified scattered engineering knowledge, deployed as a FastAPI service on Kubernetes with FAISS + LangChain. Demonstrates deep practical expertise in retrieval tuning (chunking, hybrid search, re-ranking) and in making LLM workflows reliable in production via guardrails, monitoring, and evaluation, plus strong cross-functional delivery with non-technical operations teams.”