Vetted Apache Airflow Professionals

“Full-stack/AI engineer who has shipped production systems spanning real-time analytics dashboards and an internal LLM-powered knowledge assistant. Experienced with RAG pipelines (embeddings/vector DB, semantic retrieval, query rewriting) plus evaluation loops and guardrails, and builds observable Kafka-based data pipelines monitored with Prometheus/Grafana.”

“Senior product leader who helped transform Submittable from a single-program grant tool into a multi-program impact platform, driving ARR from $20M to $70M+ while improving retention and margins. Particularly strong in enterprise platform strategy and human-centered AI, with a clear philosophy of using AI to augment expert judgment rather than replace it.”

“AI/ML engineer with experience at Northern Trust and Persistent Systems building production LLM + RAG systems for regulated financial use cases, including liquidity forecasting, anomaly detection, and credit scoring. Emphasizes compliance-first design with explainability (SHAP), traceability (MLflow), and hallucination controls (FAISS + citation-grounded prompting), and has delivered drift-triggered retraining pipelines using Airflow and Kubernetes while translating model outputs into business-ready marketing segments.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG clinical document understanding and summarization system for healthcare, focused on reducing manual review time while meeting strict accuracy, latency, and compliance needs. Demonstrates strong MLOps/orchestration depth (Airflow, Kubernetes, Azure ML Pipelines) and a rigorous approach to hallucination mitigation through layered, source-grounded safeguards and stakeholder-driven requirements with physicians/compliance teams.”

“Graduate researcher who builds production-grade AI systems spanning LLM security evaluation and on-device RAG. Created HoneyLearner, a self-learning attack framework using GPT-4-class models as structured black-box attackers against honeywords defenses, with rigorous metrics and reproducible orchestration (Airflow/Spark/Kafka/Docker). Also partnered with agriculture scientists at Texas A&M–Corpus Christi to deliver UAV + 3D point-cloud crop-stress maps that cut time-to-insight ~40% and enabled ~30% earlier interventions.”

“AI/ML engineer (Merkle) with hands-on experience deploying RAG-based LLM applications and real-time recommendation engines into production. Strong in cloud/on-prem architectures, GPU autoscaling, caching, and network optimization—delivered measurable latency reductions (40–70%) and improved retrieval relevance by systematically benchmarking chunking/embedding configurations and validating pipelines via CI/CD.”

“Healthcare data/NLP practitioner with experience at UnitedHealthcare building production ML systems that connect unstructured call center transcripts and medical notes to structured claims data. Has delivered measurable impact (25% classification accuracy lift; ~30% relevance improvement) using classical NLP, embeddings (Sentence-BERT + FAISS), and AWS SageMaker deployments with robust validation and drift monitoring.”

“Data professional with ~4 years of experience, most recently at AIG (insurance), building ML/NLP systems for fraud detection and policy automation using transformers, CNNs, and clustering/anomaly detection. Also developed a RAG-based knowledge retrieval system, iterating across embedding models and moving to production based on precision and latency SLAs, then containerizing and deploying with SageMaker and CI/CD.”

“Data engineer with healthcare/clinical trial domain experience who owned a 100TB+/month AWS pipeline end-to-end (Glue/S3/Redshift/Airflow) and drove measurable outcomes (20% lower latency, 99.9% reliability, 40% less manual reporting). Also built production data services and API-based ingestion on GCP (Cloud Run/Functions/BigQuery) with strong validation, versioning, and safe migration practices, and launched an early-stage RAG solution (LangChain + GPT-4) for researchers.”

“Data/analytics engineer focused on finance and e-commerce integrations, building end-to-end pipelines and services across Odoo, QuickBooks, Snowflake, and Tableau. Replaced a costly third-party Walmart connector with a serverless AWS Lambda pipeline deployed via Terraform/GitHub and monitored with CloudWatch/Datadog, and shipped a bi-directional Odoo↔QuickBooks invoice sync with distributed locking plus Slack-based finance approvals.”

“Data engineer in healthcare/clinical data platforms (HarmonCare) who built and operated an end-to-end lakehouse pipeline ingesting HL7/FHIR at ~2–3M records/day on AWS (Glue/Lambda/S3/Spark) and serving trusted datasets in Snowflake. Implemented strong validation/reconciliation gates and a data quality framework that reduced discrepancies ~40%, plus CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Terraform) and monitoring (Airflow/CloudWatch).”

PRAHARSHA JANDHYALA

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist/Data Analyst specializing in ML, BI dashboards, and ETL pipelines

Dallas, TX4y exp

“Data/ML practitioner with experience at Humana and Hexaware, focused on turning messy, semi-structured datasets into production-ready pipelines. Built an age-prediction model from book ratings using heavy feature engineering and multiple regression models, and has hands-on entity resolution (deterministic + fuzzy matching) plus embeddings/vector DB approaches for linking and search relevance.”

Prashanth Kedri

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in MLOps, NLP, and predictive maintenance

AL, USA4y exp

“ML engineer with General Motors experience deploying production AI systems, including a BERT-based sentiment classifier for over a million customer support call transcripts (reported ~91% precision) and sub-200ms latency via FastAPI/Docker optimization. Also built predictive maintenance models and automated retraining/monitoring workflows using Airflow and MLflow, collaborating closely with non-technical customer support stakeholders.”

Sachin Dulla

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in NLP, fraud detection, and MLOps

Kentwood, MI3y exp

“Built and deployed a domain-specific LLM chatbot for research/support, cutting manual effort by ~50%. Demonstrates strong applied LLM engineering: RAG, prompt grounding with citations and fallbacks, embedding/top-k tuning, and production monitoring (confidence, latency, feedback loops). Experienced orchestrating agent workflows with LangChain-style pipelines and continuous evaluation to maintain reliability.”

Erik Arriaga

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in cloud data pipelines and machine learning

Austin, TX4y exp

“Experience spans college-built AWS-hosted Python/Flask web apps and enterprise data work at General Motors, including PostgreSQL query optimization on millions of records and multi-tenant-style data isolation using group-based, column-level permission grants. Also built an AWS-hosted meat price prediction dashboard using Dash/Plotly and ran large nightly data pipelines orchestrated with Apache Airflow.”

Shrinivas Bhusannavar

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in agentic LLM systems and RAG platforms

San Jose, CA5y exp

“Built and shipped Serrano AI, a multi-tenant SaaS conversational AI platform that automates Odoo ERP workflows and lets ops/finance/supply-chain teams query ERP data in natural language. Implemented a multi-agent architecture (LangChain/LangGraph/CrewAI) with hybrid RAG over ERP schemas, deployed on Heroku/Vercel with production observability, cutting reporting time by ~80% while addressing hallucinations, latency, and schema complexity.”

Bhavishyasai Chigurupati

Screened

Mid-Level Data/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and cloud data platforms

Overland Park, KS5y exp

“Built and productionized an LLM-based financial document analysis system using a RAG pipeline, including robust ingestion/chunking/embedding workflows, vector DB retrieval, and an AWS-deployed FastAPI service containerized with Docker. Demonstrates strong applied expertise in improving retrieval quality and latency at scale, plus hands-on experience debugging agentic/LLM workflows with monitoring and trace-based analysis while supporting demos and customer-facing adoption.”

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped production RAG copilots and multi-agent workflows, including a real-time Llama3 (Ollama) copilot backend handling 12k+ concurrent queries at 99.9% uptime. Deep on orchestration (Langflow/Airflow/Kubernetes), reliability evaluation (hallucination detection, p95 latency, token cost), and monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana), with demonstrated stakeholder-facing analytics delivery via Tableau.”

SaiSindhu Beeravolu

Screened

Mid AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and healthcare AI

Illinois, USA4y exp

“Healthcare ML/AI engineer with production experience at UnitedHealth Group, including an end-to-end readmission prediction system built on 50M+ patient records that improved accuracy by 18% and reduced preventable readmissions by 12%. Also shipped a clinically grounded LLM/RAG referral generator with human-in-the-loop safety controls, showing strong depth in regulated, high-stakes AI systems.”

Almas Fathimah

Screened

Senior AI Engineer specializing in Generative AI and ML platforms

USA7y exp

“Built and owned a production RAG-based conversational AI system at Entera for real estate analysis, taking it from experimentation through AWS deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement. Demonstrates strong practical judgment in retrieval design, LLM safety, and scalable Python service architecture, with measurable impact including 30-40% reduction in manual analysis time and roughly 30% better response accuracy.”

“Backend/infrastructure-focused engineer building AI-agent products for small businesses, including a customer-service agent platform with intent routing, RAG over Pinecone, and external booking API integration. Has shipped Python/FastAPI services with JWT auth, versioned APIs, Docker deployments to AWS EC2 via GitHub Actions, and production monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana.”

Anirudh Raj

Screened

Entry-Level Machine Learning & Cloud Engineer specializing in AI data pipelines

Boston, MA

“Early-career cloud/appsec-focused engineer with hands-on experience building secure, observable microservice systems on AWS (IAM least privilege, KMS encryption, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, ALB) and troubleshooting autoscaling-related 500s down to connection pooling issues. Also deployed heavy ML workloads on Kubernetes by decomposing diffusion/transformer services, using workload identity to eliminate static credentials, and maintaining GitOps-style deployment audit trails.”

“Entrepreneurial product builder who created chaintrigger.com in response to early Web3 demand for real-time on-chain event reactions, offering an alternative to The Graph Protocol and achieving adoption among games and other Web3 projects. Currently developing new tools, dogfooding internally, and building distribution via personal network and a niche Twitter/X following to gather feedback and iterate quickly.”

Saketh Kota

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist / ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI, RAG, and MLOps

Irving, TX4y exp

“Built and productionized a RAG-based LLM research assistant for biomedical and regulatory document search using Mixtral 7B on SageMaker, LangChain, and Milvus, cutting research time by ~40%. Has hands-on multi-cloud MLOps experience across AWS/Azure/GCP with Kubeflow/Airflow/Composer plus Terraform + ArgoCD, and applies rigorous evaluation/monitoring (latency, accuracy, hallucinations). Also partnered with a non-technical PM to deliver an insurance policy Q&A chatbot that reduced customer response time by 30%+.”