Vetted Apache Hive Professionals

“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).”

“LLM/RAG engineer who has shipped production systems in high-stakes domains (fraud analytics at Mastercard and security compliance as a CI/CD gate). Strong focus on reliability: hybrid retrieval for latency, citation-backed outputs for trust, and code-driven eval/regression pipelines using golden datasets. Also built scalable OCR-based ingestion for messy classroom artifacts (handwriting, PDFs, whiteboard photos) using Go/Python and cloud services.”

“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.”

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).”

“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.”

“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 productionized an LLM-powered PDF document Q&A system to eliminate manual searching through long documents, focusing on scalability and answer reliability. Implemented semantic chunking (using headings/paragraphs/tables), overlap, and preprocessing/quality checks to reduce hallucinations, and orchestrated the end-to-end pipeline with Airflow using retries, alerts, and parallel tasks.”

“Data/ML practitioner with experience applying NLP and classical ML to large-scale customer data (2B+ records) for segmentation, prediction, and survey-text classification, delivering measurable business impact (~18% engagement efficiency). Has hands-on entity resolution across multi-source datasets and has built embedding-based semantic search using SentenceBERT + a vector database with domain fine-tuning (~20% relevance improvement), plus production workflow experience with Spark/Airflow and cloud tooling (AWS/Azure).”

“Data engineer/platform builder with experience across PwC and Liberty Mutual delivering high-volume, production-grade pipelines and real-time data services. Has owned end-to-end streaming + batch architectures on AWS and Azure, including web scraping systems, with quantified reliability gains (99.9% availability, 90%+ error reduction, 30% latency reduction) and strong observability/CI-CD practices.”

Vaibhav Sharma

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and data platforms

Remote, USA5y exp

“AI/ML engineer who built a production agentic system to automate computational research experiments (simulation execution, parameter exploration, and numerical analysis) and mitigated context-window failures using constrained tool-calling/prompt-chaining patterns in LangChain with OpenAI tool-enabled models. Also has adtech/big-data pipeline experience at InMobi, orchestrating Spark jobs in Airflow to filter bot-like user IDs and publish clean IDs to an online NoSQL store for live serving, plus Apache open-source collaboration experience.”

Harshavardhan Reddy

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Data Scientist specializing in NLP, computer vision, and risk analytics

Albany, NY5y exp

“ML/AI engineer with Capital One experience building production-grade customer segmentation and fraud detection systems combining NLP (transformers) and anomaly detection. Strong MLOps and orchestration background (PySpark ETL, MLflow, Airflow, Docker/Kubernetes, Azure ML) with real-time monitoring/alerting and performance optimizations like quantization and caching, plus proven ability to deliver business-facing insights through Power BI/Tableau for marketing stakeholders.”

“Data-engineering-oriented candidate with hands-on experience building an agentic AI product and operational automation workflows. They described automating inventory-to-ERP discrepancy reconciliation with anomaly detection and daily reporting, and also have practical scraping/automation experience dealing with Cloudflare-protected sites using Selenium and Puppeteer.”

“AI/backend engineer who has owned production applied-ML systems end to end, including a Jitsi meeting intelligence platform with custom RoBERTa boundary detection, LLM summarization, and automated retraining from user feedback. Also has healthcare AI experience building a diabetes medication titration system with strict validation, drift monitoring, and safety guardrails—showing both product speed and high-stakes engineering rigor.”

“Data engineer with a Master's in Data Science who has owned 30+ customer-facing K-12 SIS migrations end-to-end, building ETL, validation, and SOP-driven deployment processes in a PII-sensitive environment. Also brings recent hands-on agentic AI experience from a biotech capstone, where they led a production-oriented NLP-to-SQL + RAG support system that handled about 30% of support queries in testing.”

“Hands-on technical professional experienced in taking LLM/AI-adjacent integrations from prototype to production, using customer observation to refine UX and uncover edge cases. Diagnoses workflow issues in real time using logs and Sankey-style workflow analysis, and communicates fixes with clear short/long-term plans plus proactive alerting. Also partners cross-functionally to drive adoption and cost savings, including a POC around IBM Sterling Integrator that reduced licensing costs by $30K/year.”

“CTO who ties technology strategy directly to business outcomes, building multi-year roadmaps with measurable ROI. Led major modernization (cloud, data platform, unified API, microservices + CI/CD) delivering 5x faster releases/deployments, 99.8% uptime, and 40% user growth without headcount increases, while scaling engineering from 15 to 80+ in ~18 months.”

“Data engineer at Capital One building AWS-based real-time and batch pipelines and backend data services for financial/fraud use cases. Has owned end-to-end pipelines processing millions of records/day, implemented dbt/Great Expectations quality gates, and tuned Redshift/Snowflake workloads (cutting query latency ~22–25% and reducing pipeline failures ~30–40%) while supporting 15+ downstream consumers.”

“Healthcare data engineer with hands-on ownership of claims/member data pipelines on a cloud analytics platform, spanning batch and streaming ingestion (Airflow/Kafka/Spark/Databricks) through serving for reporting. Emphasizes reliability and data quality via embedded validation, schema-drift detection, deduplication, and operational monitoring/incident response, plus pragmatic CI/CD and observability setup in early-stage/ambiguous projects.”

Dinesh Kumar Patibandla

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs and RAG for finance and healthcare

Texas, USA4y exp

“ML Engineer with recent Goldman Sachs experience building and deploying a production RAG/LLM assistant for summarization, drafting, and internal knowledge retrieval across financial, risk, and compliance documents. Designed for heavy regulatory constraints and scaled to 10,000+ concurrent users using Kubernetes-based orchestration, dynamic LLM routing, and rigorous testing (adversarial prompts, A/B tests, load simulations) with privacy controls like differential privacy.”

Pavan Kumar Malasani

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in financial risk, fraud detection, and GenAI

Remote, USA4y exp

“GenAI/ML engineer in Citigroup’s finance environment who has deployed production RAG systems for investment banking under strict privacy and model-risk constraints. Built an internal-VPC Llama2 + Pinecone + LangChain solution with NER redaction and citation-based verification to prevent hallucinations, delivering major time savings, and also partnered with global finance executives to ship an AI early-warning indicator for treasury/liquidity risk.”