Vetted AWS Step Functions Professionals

“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).”

“Small-team builder of Promethium’s “Mantra” next-gen agentic text-to-SQL engine, using vector DB + LangGraph tooling and SQL validation/evaluation to improve query accuracy. Experienced in diagnosing production LLM workflow failures via LangSmith traces and in running hands-on developer workshops and pre-sales POCs with live debugging and real customer data.”

Naga Renuka Kandi

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in cloud, full-stack development, and Generative AI

Remote, USA2y exp

“Built and shipped a production Chrome extension (Promptly) that lets users select text on any webpage and transform it in place (rewrite/shorten/translate) using on-device AI plus external LLMs. Implemented a custom lightweight orchestration layer for prompt chaining, context flow, and output validation, and tackled tricky browser Selection API issues to preserve formatting while keeping the UX simple and fast.”

Harini Vinu

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in cloud, big data, and test automation

New York, United States1y exp

“Internship experience at Qualitest building and deploying an LLM-powered test automation system that reduced manual test creation and improved efficiency (~40%). Demonstrates strong production engineering for LLM systems (timeouts/retries/monitoring/caching, prompt optimization, batching) and has scaled workflows to 100+ concurrent jobs; also has orchestration experience with AWS Step Functions and Kubernetes.”

“Lead engineer/designer behind The Washington Post's internal live-tracker tooling and election coverage interfaces. They combine cloud architecture, frontend/data-viz craftsmanship, and close newsroom stakeholder collaboration to ship real-time, high-traffic journalism products that improved internal efficiency and supported major audience and subscriber outcomes.”

“Backend/data engineer who builds production FastAPI microservices and AWS serverless/Glue pipelines for SMS analytics and marketing segmentation. Led a legacy batch modernization into modular services (FastAPI + Glue/Athena + ClickHouse) using shadow-mode parity checks, feature flags, and incremental rollout. Demonstrated measurable performance wins (12s to sub-second SQL; ~40% CPU reduction) and strong incident ownership with proactive schema-drift prevention.”

“AI/ML engineer with production experience building a RAG-based internal analytics assistant (Databricks + ADF ingestion, Pinecone vector store, LangChain orchestration) deployed via Docker on AWS SageMaker with CI/CD and MLflow. Strong focus on real-world constraints—latency/cost optimization (LoRA ~60% compute reduction), hallucination control with citation grounding, and enterprise security/governance. Previously at Intuit, delivered an interpretable churn prediction system (PySpark/Databricks, Airflow/Azure ML) that improved retention targeting ~12%.”

“Data engineer focused on building reliable, production-grade pipelines and external data collection systems on AWS (S3/Lambda/SQS/Glue/EMR) using PySpark/SQL, serving curated datasets to Snowflake/Redshift for finance and fraud teams. Has operated a large-scale crawler ingesting millions of records/day with anti-bot tactics, schema versioning/quarantine, and CloudWatch/Datadog monitoring, and also shipped a versioned REST API with caching and query optimization.”

Molli Dinesh

Screened

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

Remote, USA4y exp

“Built an AI-driven insurance policy summarization platform at Marsh, taking it end-to-end from messy PDF ingestion/OCR and custom extraction through LLM fine-tuning and AWS SageMaker deployment. Delivered measurable impact (25% reduction in manual review time, 99% uptime) and demonstrated strong production MLOps/LLMOps practices with Airflow/Step Functions orchestration, rigorous evaluation (ROUGE + human review), and continuous monitoring for drift, latency, and hallucinations.”

Pravalika Kasojjala

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM, RAG/GraphRAG, and fraud analytics

Charlotte, NC5y exp

“LLM/agent engineer who has deployed a production internal assistant to reduce employee inquiry resolution time while maintaining regulatory compliance. Experienced with RAG, hallucination risk triage, and graph-based orchestration (LangGraph) for enterprise/banking-style workflows, emphasizing schema-validated, citation-backed, tool-constrained agent designs and tight collaboration with non-technical business/compliance stakeholders.”

Niharika Bhasin

Screened

Intern Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AWS serverless and real-time web apps

New York City, NY0y exp

“New-grad/early-career engineer who led high-stakes modernization of a field-operations platform from Firebase to AWS using an incremental/dual-write strategy, achieving zero downtime and ~30–32% infra cost reduction while improving scalability. Also built and productionized an AI-native code assistant (LangChain + Pinecone RAG) with measurable online metrics and safety guardrails, and has experience working directly with CEO/CTO/CPO and embedded with customer teams to ship enterprise features quickly.”

“Applied NLP/ML engineer with experience at KeyBank and Novartis building production document intelligence and entity-resolution systems in finance and healthcare. Has delivered end-to-end pipelines (Airflow + AWS) using transformers (DistilBERT/Sentence-BERT), vector search (FAISS/Milvus/Pinecone), and human-in-the-loop labeling to achieve measurable gains (40%+ faster queries; up to 88% F1 and 93% precision/90% recall in entity linking).”