Vetted Apache Hadoop Professionals

“Forward-deployed, full-stack/platform engineer who owns production features end-to-end across frontend, backend, data, and infrastructure (AWS serverless, Terraform, React). Has modernized critical fintech/payment systems (zero-downtime monolith-to-microservices with Kafka event sourcing) and productionized AI-native support workflows (LLM + RAG on Pinecone) with measurable gains in latency, incidents, CSAT, and support efficiency.”

Gaurav Sherwani

Screened

Mid-level product and data engineer specializing in FinTech and AI

Washington, DC5y exp

“Data engineer and technical product manager with a strong pre-sales-style background in highly regulated financial environments, translating complex data infrastructure work into business cases, compliance signoffs, and leadership buy-in. At UBS, they drove a cloud migration with $2M savings and built regulatory automation that beat benchmarks, while at Omnic.ai they worked directly with users on a GPT-4 feature that doubled MAU and lifted subscriptions 20%.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered RAG assistant for semiconductor manufacturing failure analysis, reducing engineer triage effort by grounding outputs in retrieved evidence and gating responses with SPC + ML signals (LSTM anomaly scores, XGBoost probabilities). Experienced with LangChain/LangGraph to ship reliable, observable multi-step agents with branching/fallback logic, and evaluates impact using both technical metrics and business KPIs like mean time to triage and downtime reduction.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG chatbot at Wells Fargo for securely querying regulated financial and compliance documents, emphasizing low hallucination rates, explainability, and strict governance. Experienced with LangChain multi-agent orchestration plus Airflow/Prefect pipelines for ingestion, embeddings, evaluation, and retraining, and partnered closely with compliance/operations to drive adoption through demos and feedback-driven retrieval rules.”

“AI/ML engineer with production experience building LLM-powered document intelligence and customer support systems in healthcare/insurance, emphasizing high-accuracy RAG, long-document processing, and robust monitoring/fallback mechanisms. Also automates and scales ML lifecycle workflows using Apache Airflow and Kubeflow, and partners closely with non-technical operations stakeholders to drive adoption.”

“ML/NLP practitioner with experience building a transformer-failure prediction system that combines sensor signals with unstructured maintenance comments using LLM-based extraction and similarity validation. Strong emphasis on production readiness—data leakage controls, SQL-driven data quality tiers, and rigorous bias/fairness validation (including contract/spec evaluation across diverse company profiles).”

“Data/ML practitioner with hands-on experience building NLP systems from prototype to production: delivered a Twitter sentiment classifier with robust preprocessing, SVM modeling, and Power BI reporting, and built entity-resolution pipelines for messy multi-source customer data (reporting ~95% improvement in unique entity identification). Also implemented semantic linking/search using SBERT embeddings with FAISS vector retrieval and domain fine-tuning (reported ~15% precision lift), and applies production workflow best practices (Airflow/Prefect, Docker, Azure ML/Databricks, Great Expectations).”

“Serial entrepreneur who built Verb Technology from a garage startup to a Nasdaq IPO, raising multiple rounds of capital along the way. Invented interactive live streaming technology that was acquired by Amazon and demonstrated rapid product/market response during COVID by prototyping and launching a solution for users while tightly managing AWS costs.”

“Data engineer with experience delivering an end-to-end pipeline handling ~3.5TB in a star-schema setup (fact + dimensions) and producing business-facing tables in Hive/Spark. Identified and resolved UAT-reported duplicate issues caused by joins through root-cause analysis, and also built automation to run Spark SQL metrics on weekly/monthly/quarterly cadences and distribute results to users.”

“Data engineer focused on fraud and banking analytics who has owned end-to-end batch + streaming pipelines at very large scale (hundreds of millions of records/day). Built robust data quality/observability layers (schema validation, anomaly detection, alerting) and delivered low-latency serving via AWS Lambda/API Gateway with DynamoDB + Redis, plus external data ingestion/scraping pipelines orchestrated in Airflow with anti-bot protections.”

Abhinav Gupta

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs and applied data science

2y exp

“Built and shipped multiple production AI systems, including Auto DocGen (LLM-generated OpenAPI docs kept in sync via AST diffs, schema-constrained generation, and CI/CD on Render) and a multimodal sign-language recognition pipeline at USC orchestrated with FastAPI, MediaPipe, and PyTorch. Also partnered with Esri’s non-technical community team to fine-tune an LLaMA-based spam classifier with a review UI, cutting moderation time by 70%.”

Ajay Madhusudhan Thumala

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in data engineering and LLM applications

Irvine, CA1y exp

“Computer science engineer and master’s graduate who independently built a mechatronics-heavy capstone prototype: a smartphone concept for deafblind users using micro-actuator arrays for braille reading. Also has platform engineering experience at Quantiphi, deploying webhooks to Kubernetes and implementing GitOps-based CI/CD using AWS CodeCommit/CodeBuild and ECR.”

Aditya Jhaveri

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI, big data, and distributed systems

Jersey City, NJ3y exp

“Software Developer at NYU (GEMSS) focused on scaling and optimizing a data-heavy asset management web app, including migrating/optimizing data access via Google Sheets API and Firestore. Previously an SDE at Sainapse working on Spring Boot microservices POCs (Kafka, Hadoop at 2B+ record scale). Built an end-to-end Apple Wallet coupon generation/redemption system using PassKit + Google Apps Script with measurable ops impact (40% efficiency gain).”

Sanjana Duvva

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI, LLMOps, and MLOps

5y exp

“Built and deployed an AWS-based LLM/RAG ticket triage and knowledge retrieval system (Pinecone/FAISS + Step Functions + MLflow) that cut support resolution time by 20%. Demonstrates strong production focus on hallucination reduction, PII security, and low-latency orchestration, with measurable evaluation improvements (e.g., ~25% grounding accuracy gain via re-ranking) and proven collaboration with support operations stakeholders.”

“Data platform engineer focused on large-scale, real-time fraud systems, with hands-on ownership of streaming architectures using Kafka, Spark, Snowflake, and Databricks. Stands out for combining performance tuning and platform automation with LLM/RAG-based enrichment, delivering measurable gains in latency, fraud accuracy, false positives, and analyst decision speed.”

Saisureshreddy Challa

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in AI/ML, LLMs, and domain analytics

California, USA6y exp

“BlackRock AI/ML engineer who built and owned a production LLM document intelligence system for regulatory and investment analysis end-to-end. They combined RAG, multi-agent validation, strong evaluation/monitoring, and reusable Python services to process 50K+ documents, cut review time 40-50%, and improve decision accuracy by about 25%.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of production GenAI and computer vision systems, spanning experimentation, deployment, monitoring, and iterative optimization. Stands out for shipping an enterprise RAG platform that cut manual review by 50% and a defect detection pipeline that reduced report generation from 15 minutes to under 1 second while maintaining high uptime and strong operational discipline.”

“LLM/agent engineer who shipped a two-stage AI recruitment screening platform at Foursquare that automated resume ingestion through behavioral assessment, delivering an 85% reduction in screening time across 5,000+ applications with auditability and confidence-gated decisions. Also built a multi-agent benchmarking framework using MCP tool interfaces and a RAGAS + LangSmith evaluation/observability stack, including async re-architecture that cut production latency by 50%.”

“Senior product and technology leader with 23+ years of experience driving modernization in complex enterprise finance and operations environments. He stands out for turning legacy, paper-based or fragmented systems into scalable digital products—cutting a warranty claims process from 30 days to near-instant and using AI to improve service efficiency and reduce testing effort by 30%+. Strong C-suite-facing operator who bridges strategy, architecture, UX, and organizational change.”

“Full-stack engineer who has built both a TypeScript-based HR/payroll platform and a production agentic AI support system end to end. Stands out for combining strong product judgment with deep LLM systems thinking: RAG architecture, confidence-based routing, evals, observability, and human-in-the-loop design in a greenfield environment.”

“Backend/data platform engineer who recently owned an end-to-end large-scale financial data platform delivering real-time decision support for finance and operations. Has hands-on experience modernizing legacy batch pipelines into AWS cloud-native ELT with parallel-run cutovers, strong data quality controls (dbt-style tests, reconciliation), and measurable improvements in runtime, cost, and SLA compliance. Also builds scalable, secure FastAPI microservices using Docker, ALB-based horizontal scaling, Redis caching, and managed auth with Cognito/Supabase plus Postgres RLS.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG clinical decision support system that enables real-time semantic search over unstructured EHR notes and delivers patient risk insights. Strong in healthcare-grade MLOps and compliance (HIPAA, PHI handling, encryption, RBAC, audit logs) and scaled embedding/retrieval pipelines using Spark/Databricks and Airflow. Partnered with clinicians via Power BI dashboards and explainability, contributing to an 18% reduction in patient readmissions.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered internal documentation assistant using embeddings, a vector database, and a RAG pipeline to reduce time spent searching PDFs/manuals. Experienced in orchestrating end-to-end LLM workflows with Airflow/LangChain, improving reliability via monitoring/error handling, and driving measurable quality through retrieval and hallucination-focused evaluation metrics.”