Vetted Azure Machine Learning Professionals

“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.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered healthcare support agent at UnitedHealthGroup, using LangChain + FAISS RAG on AWS SageMaker with CloudWatch monitoring and human-in-the-loop fallbacks for safety. Strong focus on reliability engineering (confidence gating, retries/timeouts, caching) and continuous evaluation loops; reported ~40% improvement in query resolution efficiency while reducing manual support workload.”

Ganesh Bandi

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and MLOps

USA6y exp

“LLM engineer who has deployed production RAG systems for regulated document QA (PDFs/knowledge bases), emphasizing grounded answers with citations, RBAC, monitoring, and continuous feedback. Demonstrates deep practical expertise in retrieval quality (semantic chunking, hybrid BM25+embeddings, re-ranking), reliability (guardrails, deterministic workflows), and measurable evaluation (golden sets, log replay, A/B tests) while partnering closely with compliance/operations stakeholders.”

Prasanna Chelliboyina

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in forecasting, NLP, and GenAI

United States6y exp

“GenAI/ML engineer with production experience building multilingual LLM systems (English/Spanish) and RAG-based clinical documentation summarization at Walgreens, combining prompt engineering, structured output validation, and rigorous evaluation (ROUGE + pharmacist review). Also orchestrated end-to-end ML pipelines for demand forecasting using Apache Airflow, PySpark, and MLflow with scheduled retraining and production monitoring.”

“AI/ML-focused engineer with practical experience building RAG-based and multi-agent systems, including architectures for retrieval, reasoning, context processing, and response generation. Stands out for combining LLM productivity gains with disciplined software engineering practices like validation, monitoring, and reproducibility.”

“Backend/founding-engineer-style builder who designed and evolved a near-real-time customer churn prediction platform (FastAPI + AWS SageMaker/Lambda + Redis + MLflow) to enable real-time retention actions, reporting ~18% churn reduction. Demonstrates strong production engineering in secure API design, incremental migrations with data integrity safeguards, and robustness improvements in async pipelines (idempotency, DLQs, retry visibility).”

“Built and shipped a production LLM/RAG risk-case summarization and triage system used by fraud/compliance analysts, with strong grounding controls (evidence-cited outputs and refusal on low confidence). Demonstrates end-to-end ownership across retrieval quality, Airflow-orchestrated indexing pipelines, and compliance-grade privacy (PII redaction, RBAC, encrypted redacted logging, and auditable prompt/model versioning) plus a tight feedback loop with non-technical domain experts.”

“GenAI/ML engineer from Lucid Motors who built and productionized an LLM-powered RAG diagnostic assistant for manufacturing and maintenance teams, deployed on AWS with Docker/Kubernetes and MLflow. Demonstrates end-to-end ownership from retrieval/prompt design to scalability, monitoring, and workflow integration via APIs, plus production ML pipeline orchestration with Kubeflow (Spark/Kafka + TensorFlow) for predictive maintenance use cases.”

“Backend engineer at Goldman Sachs who deployed internal LLM-powered utilities to summarize operational logs/tickets, with a strong emphasis on data sensitivity and reliability. Built deterministic workflows with template-based prompts, confidence checks, and rule-based fallbacks, and used monitoring plus failure-rate metrics to tune performance; also has hands-on Temporal orchestration experience for resilient async backend jobs.”

“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.”

“Red Hat ML/LLM engineer who designed and deployed a production LLM-powered customer support automation system using RAG, improving latency by 30% via PEFT and vector search optimization. Built security and governance into retrieval (access-level filtering, encrypted Pinecone/ChromaDB) and delivered SHAP-based explainability via a dashboard for non-technical stakeholders. Experienced orchestrating distributed ML/RAG pipelines across AWS SageMaker and OpenShift with Airflow/Prefect, plus multi-agent workflows using CrewAI and LangGraph.”

“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).”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered RAG document intelligence/Q&A system for healthcare prior authorization, reducing manual medical document review time and improving decision efficiency. Strong in end-to-end LLM application engineering (LangChain/LangGraph), retrieval quality improvements (hybrid search, embedding tuning, chunking strategies), and rigorous evaluation/monitoring for reliability.”

“Data engineer with experience at Sony and Walmart building high-volume, near-real-time analytics and ingestion systems. Has owned end-to-end pipelines from Kafka/Spark streaming through S3/Parquet and Redshift/Looker, emphasizing data quality (Great Expectations), observability (CloudWatch/Azure Monitor), and reliability (Airflow SLAs, retries, checkpointing), including measurable performance and latency improvements.”

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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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).”

“AI/ML engineer who has shipped production AI systems end-to-end, including an automated multi-channel (Gmail/WhatsApp/voice) candidate interviewing workflow and an enterprise RAG knowledge search platform. Demonstrates strong production rigor (monitoring, A/B tests, guardrails, schema validation, shadow testing) with quantified impact: ~60–70% reduction in interview evaluation time and ~20–30% relevance gains in RAG retrieval.”

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.”

pavan kalyan padala

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in predictive and generative AI

Daytona Beach, Florida4y exp

“AI/ML engineer with production LLM experience in regulated financial services (J.P. Morgan Chase), building a customer response engine to automate first-contact resolution while addressing privacy, bias, compliance, and scale. Strong MLOps/orchestration background (Airflow, Docker/Kubernetes, AWS Step Functions, Azure ML/SageMaker) plus proven ability to integrate with legacy systems and drive stakeholder adoption through dashboards, auditability, and training.”