Vetted Apache Airflow Professionals

“Hands-on implementation-focused candidate with experience owning cloud deployments and putting LLM/RAG workflows into production. They stand out for combining customer-facing deployment ownership with practical AI systems work, including retrieval tuning, hallucination mitigation, production incident response, and document-processing pipelines for messy real-world inputs.”

Dhriti Kanchan

Screened

Mid-level Data Analyst specializing in healthcare and financial analytics

Texas, USA5y exp

“Analytics-focused candidate with hands-on experience turning messy CRM, e-commerce, payments, and support data into trusted reporting datasets using SQL and Python. They have owned end-to-end churn and retention analytics work, including RFM-based segmentation, dashboard delivery, and metric standardization across sales, marketing, and finance.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based internal knowledge assistant that let analysts query company documents in natural language, using LangChain/LangGraph with Pinecone and a FastAPI service for integration. Emphasizes reliability in production through hallucination mitigation (retrieval tuning + prompt guardrails) and measurable evaluation/monitoring (accuracy, latency, task completion, hallucination rate), iterating based on user feedback.”

“Built an enterprise RAG-based document intelligence system at Freddie Mac for regulatory and financial documents, helping analysts cut search time from hours to minutes while improving retrieval accuracy by ~30%. Stands out for combining LLM product delivery with compliance-grade auditability, production monitoring, and scalable Python/FastAPI service design.”

Eugene Nelepko

Screened

Executive growth leader specializing in AI-powered SaaS, marketplaces, and e-commerce

San Francisco, CA13y exp

“Growth leader with strong zero-to-one and systems-building experience across e-commerce and retail media. Most notably, they proposed and launched a new retail media division from scratch, presold demand before product build, and scaled it to $1.5M ARR with 85% margin, while also building data-driven lifecycle and acquisition systems that materially improved activation and CAC efficiency.”

“Developer with a pragmatic, disciplined approach to AI-assisted coding: uses tools like Copilot, ChatGPT, and Gemini to speed up debugging, optimization, unit testing, and documentation while maintaining ownership of design and code quality. Interested in expanding from single-agent workflows into multi-agent setups for larger coding tasks and stays current through hands-on use and AI ecosystem updates.”

Sai Sri Kolanu

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and production ML systems

Dearborn, MI4y exp

“Built and shipped an AI-powered RAG diagnostic assistant at Ford for EV technicians, integrating GPT-based models with LangChain, FAISS, and SageMaker into real technician workflows. Stands out for combining strong production LLM architecture with practical safety guardrails, monitoring, and measurable impact: 45% better diagnostic accuracy and roughly 30 minutes saved per case.”

“AI/full-stack engineer in gaming analytics who joined Omnic.ai at a 2-person stage, helped grow with the company, and built both backend and frontend for real-time gameplay analysis products. He combines computer vision production experience with LLM/RAG systems work, and has already led 4 employees while shipping 12 models in a fast-moving startup environment.”

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer with strong ownership in network observability and analytics products, including BT Group's SMARTS platform and SSpain.ai at Texas A&M. Stands out for building data-dense, near-real-time dashboards and shaping products end-to-end across React/Angular frontends, FastAPI backends, PostgreSQL, AWS, and even React Native mobile surfaces.”

Namrata Shivshankar patil

Screened

Mid-level Backend/Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud, AI, and distributed systems

Arlington, TX6y exp

“Built and shipped internal AI support systems spanning Angular/TypeScript frontends, Java/Spring/AWS backends, and Claude-powered troubleshooting workflows. Stands out for combining full-stack product delivery with practical LLM engineering, including RAG, structured outputs, production evals, and careful human-in-the-loop safety decisions. Has shipped systems serving 150-800 daily sessions at 99.5% availability while reducing repetitive support burden.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who has shipped real-time, customer-facing dashboards and ticketing/payment features at Freshworks and Global Payments. Strong in Python API design (Django/Flask/FastAPI) and React/TypeScript UIs, with hands-on experience scaling PostgreSQL for high transaction volumes and operating services on AWS, including incident response and HIPAA-aligned security controls.”

“Full-stack/product-minded engineer with strong React/TypeScript depth who has owned systems end-to-end, from UI architecture to backend services and data design. At Qualcomm, they built both a telemetry dashboard and an ML model drift monitoring platform for 20+ edge models, including post-launch tuning that cut false positives by 60%. They also demonstrate 0→1 startup execution by solo-building a production RAG document Q&A platform with JWT auth, Stripe gating, and sub-300ms retrieval.”

“Financial-services software engineer with experience building both full-stack advisor tools and production AI features at Charles Schwab. They owned an automated portfolio rebalancing workflow and helped launch an LLM-powered reporting assistant that cut report-writing time by 70%, while maintaining compliance through strict tool use, evals, and mandatory human review.”

“At KPMG, built and productionized a secure RAG-based LLM assistant that lets business and risk stakeholders query data warehouses in natural language, reducing dependence on data engineers for ad-hoc analysis. Demonstrates strong production rigor (Airflow orchestration, CI/CD, containerization), retrieval/embedding tuning (rechunking, semantic abstraction for structured data), and reliability controls (confidence thresholds, refusal behavior, monitoring and canary evals).”

“Open-source JavaScript contributor focused on performance and maintainability in data visualization libraries—refactored legacy ES5 into modular ES6, added tests/docs, and delivered ~30% faster load times with positive community adoption. Also optimized a React dashboard (~40% load-time reduction) and took ownership in an ambiguous AI product initiative by setting milestones, standing up an initial ML pipeline, and shipping a prototype in ~6 weeks that became the basis for production.”

“ML/GenAI engineer with production experience building an LLM-powered governance layer that summarizes verified drift/performance signals into validation reports and release notes, designed for regulated environments with de-identification and non-blocking fallbacks. Strong Airflow-based orchestration background across healthcare and finance, integrating Databricks/Spark and MLflow for scalable retraining/monitoring. Demonstrated ability to partner with non-technical healthcare operations teams to deliver actionable risk-scoring outputs via dashboards and automated reporting.”

“ML/LLM practitioner who has shipped production RAG systems (summarization + Q&A) and end-to-end Airflow-orchestrated demand forecasting pipelines at NEON IT. Strong focus on reliability—uses evaluation scripts, retrieval/chunking tuning, validation/retries/alerts, and stakeholder-driven iteration to make AI workflows consistent and usable.”

“Built production LLM systems including a real-time customer feedback analysis and workflow automation platform using RAG and multi-agent orchestration with confidence-based human escalation, addressing privacy and legacy integration challenges. Also automated ML operations with Airflow/Kubernetes (e.g., daily churn model retraining) cutting retraining time to under 30 minutes, and demonstrates a rigorous testing/monitoring approach plus strong non-technical stakeholder collaboration.”

“ML/GenAI engineer with recent CVS Health experience building a production RAG system over unstructured financial/research documents using LangChain, FAISS, and Pinecone, plus LoRA/PEFT fine-tuning of GPT/LLaMA for domain-aware summarization. Demonstrates strong applied MLOps and data engineering skills (Airflow/Prefect, Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD, MLflow) and measurable impact (sub-second retrieval, ~40% better context retrieval, ~25% entity matching improvement).”

“Healthcare-focused data engineer/ML practitioner with experience at Lightbeam Health Solutions and Humana building production entity-resolution and semantic similarity pipelines across EMR, lab, and claims data. Uses NLP/ML (spaCy, scikit-learn, BioBERT/LightGBM) plus Snowflake/Airflow and vector search (Pinecone) to improve linkage accuracy (reported 90%) and semantic match quality (reported +12–15%), while reducing manual cleanup by 40%+.”

“GenAI/LLM ML engineer (currently at Webprobo) building an enterprise GenAI platform with document intelligence and automation on AWS and blockchain. Has hands-on experience with RAG, LLM evaluation tooling, and orchestrating production LLM workflows with Apache Airflow, plus deep exposure to reliability challenges in globally distributed/edge deployments. Also partnered with business/marketing stakeholders at a banking client to deliver an AI-driven customer retention insights solution.”

“Engineering Manager/player-coach leading Data Infrastructure, ML/DS, and AI Engineering pods who recently shipped multiple production agentic GenAI features. Built privacy-preserving LLM workflows (PII redaction via Microsoft Presidio) and drove an AI expense-approval agent from ambiguous ask to GA, cutting approval time from ~2.5 days to <4 hours with >85% accuracy. Also owned a major LLM cost overrun incident and implemented cost observability plus circuit breakers to prevent runaway agent loops.”

“Data engineer focused on reliable, scalable analytics pipelines and external data collection. Has owned end-to-end pipelines processing 5–10M records/day, serving Snowflake data marts to Power BI/Tableau, and reports ~99% reliability through strong validation/monitoring. Also shipped versioned REST APIs for curated data with query optimization and caching.”