Vetted Apache Hadoop Professionals

“Candidate brings an operator-to-founder profile with leadership experience in IT and Business Systems and a strong grasp of how ideas become venture-backable products. They speak fluently about startup evaluation criteria such as TAM, technical defensibility, speed to scale, and AI differentiation, and appear especially motivated by building solutions end-to-end in startup or venture studio environments.”

“Developed and productionized an AI-driven "indication finding" system for AbbVie to identify additional diseases a drug could target, working closely with clinical research teams on cohort inclusion/exclusion criteria and disease rollups. Leveraged an LLM to map clinical inputs to ICD codes and built configuration-driven ML pipelines (Cloudera ML, YAML, scheduled jobs) with structured testing and evaluation for reliability.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered multi-agent compliance copilot (life sciences/finance) using LangChain/LangGraph + RAG over vector databases, delivered via async FastAPI on Kubernetes. Emphasizes audit-ready, deterministic outputs with schema constraints and citations, plus rigorous evaluation/monitoring; reports 60%+ reduction in manual research time and successful production adoption.”

“LLM/agent workflow engineer with healthcare experience (CVS/CBS Health) who built and deployed a production call-insights platform using Azure OpenAI + LangChain/LangGraph, including sentiment and compliance checks. Demonstrates deep HIPAA/PHI handling (tenant-contained processing, redaction, RBAC/encryption/audit logging) and production rigor (testing, eval sets, validation/retries, autoscaling) to scale to thousands of transcripts.”

“Built a production GenAI-powered analytics assistant to reduce reliance on data analysts by enabling natural-language Q&A over Databricks/Power BI dashboards, backed by vector search (Pinecone/Milvus) and a Neo4j knowledge graph, including multimodal support via OpenAI Vision. Demonstrates strong real-world LLM reliability engineering with strict RAG, LangGraph multi-step verification, and Guardrails/custom validators, plus broad orchestration and production monitoring experience (Airflow, ADF, Step Functions, Kubernetes, Prometheus/CloudWatch).”

“ML/NLP engineer currently working in NYC on a system that connects complex unstructured data sources to deliver personalized insights, using embeddings + vector DB retrieval and a RAG architecture (LangChain, Pinecone/OpenSearch). Strong focus on production constraints—especially low-latency retrieval—using FAISS/ANN, PCA, index partitioning, and Redis caching, plus PEFT fine-tuning (LoRA/QLoRA) and KPI/SLA-driven promotion to production.”

“Built and shipped a real-time oncology risk prediction system used by doctors during patient visits, trained on clinical data in AWS SageMaker and deployed via FastAPI with sub-second responses. Emphasizes clinician-trust features (SHAP explainability, validation checks) and HIPAA-compliant controls (encryption, RBAC, audit logging), plus Kubernetes-based production operations with autoscaling, monitoring, and drift/retraining workflows; collaborated closely with oncologists at Flatiron Health.”

“ML/NLP practitioner with experience building an embedding-based ad matching and search system at Vericast (BERT embeddings + similarity search) to replace a third-party taxonomy approach, evaluated via a human-curated gold standard. Also built a custom NER pipeline at Allstate for auto accident claims calls using a bidirectional LSTM and achieved 90%+ F1, with a strong emphasis on production-grade ML workflows (testing, CI/CD, orchestration, versioning, validation).”

“Full-stack engineer who built an enterprise search platform (Codlens) delivering natural-language Q&A over Jira/Slack using embeddings, vector DB search, re-ranking (RRF), and LLM responses with source grounding. Also designed and benchmarked a distributed IAM system with Postgres transaction-log replication and Raft-based quorum consistency, reporting ~253 TPS at ~60ms latency in a multi-node setup. Experience spans early-stage startups (Zetic AI, Sagwara Capital) and large-scale orgs (Akamai, Atlassian).”

Aashna Kunkolienker

Screened

Junior AI Engineer specializing in agentic workflows and ML platforms

San Ramon, CA2y exp

“Building a production LLM/agent system for a leading US dental provider that extracts rules from payer handbooks/portals and EDI 271 responses to validate and improve patient cost estimates. Combines GCP stack (BigQuery, GKE, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Vertex AI) with strong agent reliability practices (observability, validator agents, grounding, PII/hallucination guardrails, confidence scoring) and has led non-technical customer stakeholders on enterprise ServiceNow↔Aha sync and AI-powered enterprise search/summarization.”

Prateek Patil

Screened

Engineering Leader specializing in Digital Health, AI, and Cloud Platforms

Santa Clara, CA16y exp

“Senior Engineering Manager at Roche leading two Scrum teams building internally shared (“inner-sourced”) tools and libraries for a healthcare enterprise. Has led security/compliance-first architecture decisions (e.g., Python AI modules running inside a Java container) and front-end modularization (Angular monorepo to module federation), with a strong focus on developer experience via automated Swagger/OpenAPI documentation and robust testing/versioning practices.”

Niteesh Ganipisetty

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI, NLP, and Computer Vision

Grand Rapids, MI4y exp

“Built an LLM-powered learning assistant (EduQuizPro/EduCrest Pro) that uses RAG over URLs and PDFs to generate quizzes, notes, and explanations for students/professors. Emphasizes production robustness—implemented dependency fallbacks (FAISS/Sentence Transformers/Gradio), CLI-safe mode, and NumPy-based indexing—along with a custom orchestration layer to keep multi-step AI workflows reliable.”

John Ward

Screened

Executive Applications Development & Analytics Leader specializing in enterprise transformation

Chicago, IL30y exp

“Candidate has prior startup experience building systems and has firsthand experience with a venture that lost angel funding. They show thoughtful reflection on why the startup failed—emphasizing unclear success criteria, weak funding planning, and lack of team consensus—and would seek experienced advisors earlier in future ventures.”

“Analytics-focused candidate with hands-on experience building SQL data pipelines and Python-based forecasting workflows for inventory and planning use cases. They emphasize data quality, stakeholder trust, and operational adoption, citing a 19% forecast accuracy improvement and strong experience translating analytics into dashboard-ready business metrics.”

Abhishek Adinarayanappa

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud, and machine learning systems

Miami, FL3y exp

“Built Digipulse, a university project that ingested and clustered Bluesky tweet data at scale and used Gemini to generate near-real-time topic summaries, processing 1M+ tweets per day. Also brings Intel experience with Prometheus and Kubernetes, including production monitoring and incident troubleshooting.”

“Built and owned an end-to-end AV operations automation and dashboarding platform for USC event operations, used daily to coordinate hundreds of live events. Delivered a React/TypeScript full-stack system integrating Smartsheet APIs with strong reliability practices (typed contracts, validation/fallbacks, safe rollouts) and experience with queue-based microservice patterns (idempotency, retries, DLQs, monitoring).”

“Candidate has hands-on experience delivering production data and AI systems, including an AWS-based real-time data platform for a financial client at Deloitte and a production RAG workflow that cut manual search time by 40%. They stand out for combining strong data engineering depth with practical LLM governance, incident debugging, and stakeholder management across business and risk/compliance teams.”

Neeshma Narahari

Screened

Mid-level Software Developer specializing in backend microservices and cloud platforms

Irving, TX6y exp

“Full-stack product engineer with strong React and TypeScript depth who has owned dashboard features end-to-end, from UI architecture and rendering optimization through Spring Boot APIs and database query tuning. Particularly compelling for startup or high-growth teams: they’ve shipped 0→1 internal operations platforms, prioritized MVP workflows effectively, and iterated post-launch using user feedback, logs, and usage metrics.”

“AI/ML practitioner with Northern Trust experience who has shipped production LLM systems (internal support assistant) using RAG, vector databases, orchestration (LangChain/custom pipelines), and rigorous monitoring/feedback loops. Also built AI-driven fraud detection/risk monitoring solutions in a regulated financial environment, emphasizing explainability (SHAP), audit readiness, and stakeholder trust through dashboards and clear communication.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered personalized client engagement assistant in the financial domain, balancing real-time recommendations with strict privacy/compliance requirements. Demonstrates strong MLOps/LLMOps depth (Airflow + MLflow, containerized microservices, drift monitoring) and a privacy-by-design approach validated in collaboration with risk and compliance teams.”

“Backend engineer with experience at Comcast and in healthcare/pharmacy automation (PrimeRx), building Python/Flask services that orchestrate large-scale batch workflows (Airflow) and high-throughput event processing (Kafka). Demonstrated measurable performance wins (cut provisioning latency to ~150–200ms) and strong multi-tenant isolation strategies (Postgres RLS, partitioning), plus practical integration of ML model outputs into production systems with validation and fallback controls.”

“GenAI/data engineering practitioner with production experience across Equinix, Optum, and Citibank—built an Azure OpenAI (GPT-4) + LangChain document intelligence platform processing 1.5M+ docs/month and a HIPAA-compliant Airflow healthcare pipeline handling 5M+ claims/day. Also delivered a real-time fraud detection + explainability system using LightGBM and a fine-tuned T5 NLG component, improving fraud accuracy by 15%+ while partnering closely with compliance stakeholders.”

“Built and deployed a secure, production LLM-based document summarization and risk-highlighting tool for financial auditors, running inside a private Azure environment to protect confidential data. Focused on reliability (hallucination mitigation via retrieval-based prompts and source citations) and validated performance through comparisons to auditor summaries plus a user pilot, cutting review time by about half.”