Vetted AWS Step Functions Professionals

“Built and deployed a production generative AI chatbot at NVIDIA using LangChain + GPT-3 integrated with internal data sources, cutting response time nearly in half and improving CSAT by ~12 points. Also delivered LLM-driven QA tools by fine-tuning Hugging Face transformer models and deploying via an AWS-based pipeline (Lambda/Glue/S3) with orchestration (Airflow/Step Functions), CI/CD, Kubernetes, and monitoring (MLflow/Splunk/Power BI).”

“Data engineer with experience at Moderna and Block owning high-volume (≈10TB/day) production pipelines on AWS, using Kafka/S3/Glue/dbt/Snowflake with strong data quality and observability practices (schema validation, anomaly detection, CloudWatch monitoring). Also built external financial API ingestion with Airflow retries, throttling/token rotation, and schema versioning, and helped stand up an early-stage biomedical data platform with CI/CD and incident debugging.”

“Data engineer with eBay experience owning end-to-end pipelines for real-time order and user behavior analytics at 10M+ records/day. Strong in PySpark/SQL transformations, Airflow reliability patterns, and production observability (CloudWatch), with measurable outcomes including improved data quality and 30–40% query performance gains. Also built Python data APIs for analytics/ML consumers with versioning and backward compatibility.”

Travoy Spelling

Screened

Senior Data Scientist / ML Engineer specializing in GenAI, LLMs, and NLP

Texarkana, TX10y exp

“ML/NLP engineer focused on production GenAI and data linking systems: built a large-scale RAG pipeline over millions of support docs using LangChain/Pinecone and added a LangGraph-based validation layer to cut hallucinations ~40%. Also built scalable PySpark entity resolution (95%+ accuracy) and fine-tuned Sentence-BERT embeddings with contrastive learning for ~30% relevance lift, with strong CI/CD and observability practices (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana).”

Rohith Sadanala

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in Generative AI and MLOps

Missouri, USA3y exp

“LLM/agent engineer who has shipped production RAG chatbots in sustainability-focused domains, including a packaging recommendation assistant that standardized messy user inputs and used Pinecone-backed retrieval over product/regulatory data. Experienced orchestrating end-to-end ML workflows with Airflow and AWS Step Functions/Lambda, emphasizing reliability (property-based testing, circuit breakers, OpenTelemetry) and measurable performance (latency/cost). Partnered closely with non-technical leadership to ship 3 weeks early, driving adoption by 150+ businesses and ~20% reported waste reduction.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience spanning Amazon IMDb and Northeastern’s NeuroJSON portal, combining consumer product work with complex scientific data applications. Built IMDb’s streaming providers feature—described as the company’s most impactful feature of 2023—and has hands-on experience with React/Angular, GraphQL, AWS, Python services, and production monitoring.”

“Built end-to-end LLM/RAG systems for biological data and scientific literature analysis in a drug discovery setting, helping researchers explore disease insights and treatment hypotheses faster. Combines applied GenAI product work with strong production engineering, including monitoring, retrieval optimization, reusable Python services, and scalable deployment on AWS/Kubeflow.”

“Software engineer who owned customer-facing, high-traffic TypeScript/React + TypeScript backend systems end-to-end, emphasizing safe velocity through feature flags, staged rollouts, observability, and rollback-ready incremental delivery. Reports shipping more frequently with fewer production incidents and faster recovery due to these guardrails.”

“Software engineer with primary experience in Java and Python who also troubleshoots and optimizes JavaScript/React performance issues. Has handled customer-reported production problems via log-driven diagnosis and backend workflow fixes, and took ownership of simplifying and automating a service region-expansion process through time analysis and process documentation.”

“Built and owned end-to-end production systems for a healthcare platform, including a predictive task recommendation feature (React + FastAPI + ML on AWS ECS) that cut backlog 20% and saved coordinators ~10 hours/week. Also productionized an AI-native RAG system (vector DB + LLM) delivering 40% faster query resolution, and led phased modernization of a monolithic FastAPI service into async microservices using feature flags and canary releases.”

“JavaScript/React-focused engineer with meaningful open-source impact: redesigned cache key normalization for a client-side data fetching/caching library using deterministic hashing, added robust test coverage, and collaborated closely with maintainers through GitHub PRs/issues. Also drives measurable runtime improvements by profiling hot paths, refactoring core abstractions, and validating with benchmarks/load tests; has taken ownership of unowned initiatives like improving relevance/ranking in an internal search platform.”