Vetted Bash Professionals

“Built a demo-live LangGraph/LangSmith LLM agent that translates natural language into SQL against a self-built MLB statistics database, using a vector-store knowledge base of example queries. Focused on predictable orchestration via conditional nodes, YAML-driven behaviors, and tool-gated function calling, with testing via LangSmith and Python scripts.”

Jitesh Kumar S

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP, computer vision, and MLOps

Lafayette, IN3y exp

“ML/LLM engineer with Meta experience building production AI systems for near real-time user-report classification and summarization under strict latency (<250ms), safety, cost, and privacy constraints. Has hands-on MLOps/orchestration experience (Airflow, Spark, MLflow, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub Actions) plus observability (Prometheus/Grafana) and applies rigorous evaluation, staged rollouts, and A/B testing to keep agent workflows reliable in production.”

Butchi Venkatesh Adari

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLM platforms and robotic perception

NewYork, NY4y exp

“Built and shipped a production multi-agent personal financial assistant at AlphevaAI on AWS ECS, combining FastAPI microservices, Redis/SQS orchestration, and Pinecone-based hybrid RAG (semantic + BM25) to ground financial guidance. Improved routing accuracy with an embedding-based SetFit + logistic regression intent classifier feeding an LLM router, and optimized UX with live streaming plus cost controls via model tiering and caching.”

Valeriy Filin

Screened

Senior Backend/Cloud Engineer specializing in IaC, SaaS platforms, and ML/Computer Vision

Aliso Viejo, CA19y exp

“Backend/infrastructure engineer with experience across API development (FastAPI/MySQL/SQLAlchemy), Kubernetes deployments, and large-scale data processing—built a Dockerized Python pipeline to pre-aggregate ~1B Graylog events for efficient querying. Has enterprise infrastructure automation background at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (Datafabric) using Terraform/Ansible with fail-fast and rollback practices, plus Kafka-based sensor streaming prototypes to Google Cloud with Java workers and autoscaling.”

“Built and shipped a widely adopted, production-grade RAG internal search assistant that unified scattered engineering knowledge, deployed as a FastAPI service on Kubernetes with FAISS + LangChain. Demonstrates deep practical expertise in retrieval tuning (chunking, hybrid search, re-ranking) and in making LLM workflows reliable in production via guardrails, monitoring, and evaluation, plus strong cross-functional delivery with non-technical operations teams.”

“Founding/early engineer experience across Asante and a Series A startup (Adgency), shifting from data science/ML into owning production full-stack systems end-to-end. Built core product flows (registration, business profiles, map service), AWS-deployed gRPC microservices with CI/CD, and operated low-latency agent/video ad generation workflows with retries/fallbacks and PostHog-based observability.”

“Software engineer who built JobIntel, an end-to-end Python ETL pipeline integrating ATS data from platforms like Greenhouse using Scrapy and FastAPI. Stands out for production reliability work: designing async fault-tolerant architecture, optimizing PostgreSQL write-heavy upserts, and building a Prometheus/Splunk observability stack that cut debugging from hours to minutes.”

“Built and deployed an end-to-end fintech product, FinSight, for bank statement analysis and financial Q&A using a production-style RAG architecture. Stands out for combining FastAPI, OpenAI embeddings, FAISS, hybrid SQL/vector retrieval, and practical reliability work like chunking optimization, validation, and low-latency performance tuning.”

Chaitanya Annabathana

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI pipelines and enterprise integrations

USA5y exp

“Candidate has 4 years of experience and appears strongest in customer-facing implementation and AI-enabled workflow automation. They describe owning deployments end-to-end, putting an LLM support assistant with RAG and function calling into production, and improving support operations with a 30% reduction in resolution time and 25% gain in agent productivity.”

Austin Pierce-Ptak

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and ETL systems

Seattle, WA5y exp

“Backend engineer with end-to-end ownership experience across enterprise SaaS and high-volume data systems, including PostgreSQL/.NET services at Visual Lease and ETL pipelines at Broadridge processing millions of records for Fortune 500 clients. Stands out for combining production support, observability thinking, and pragmatic architecture tradeoffs, while also experimenting with LLM-powered job application automation using Claude.”

Naveen K

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI-powered backend systems

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of a real-time analytics and alerting dashboard built with React/TypeScript, Node.js, Kafka, Redis, and PostgreSQL. Also contributed to an internal LLM-powered support automation system, focusing on backend orchestration, RAG-based reliability, and Kubernetes deployment. Stands out for combining product-minded zero-to-one execution with strong distributed systems and AI integration experience.”

“Full-stack engineer with startup-style ownership across backend, frontend, and AI systems, spanning Java/Spring, React, Node/TypeScript, and LLM-powered retrieval. Shipped a workspace intelligence layer using LangChain, OpenAI, and Pinecone to paying customers, while also improving core product metrics like workspace creation success (+30%), latency (450ms to 280ms), and deployment cycle time (-40%).”

“Senior hands-on full-stack engineer with recent Python/React/TypeScript experience at Terakeet and prior Go-focused backend work at Checkly. Stands out for building and scaling analytics and monitoring platforms in startup-style environments, with strong depth in PostgreSQL performance, containerized deployments, and turning ambiguous business goals into reliable production systems.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong ownership across React, FastAPI, and PostgreSQL who has built real-time collaboration and analytics workflows end-to-end. Particularly compelling for high-growth AI product teams: they’ve also shipped a 0→1 AI-assisted dataset retrieval and summarization capability, balancing MVP speed with scalable architecture and post-launch performance tuning.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on experience building Visual-Inertial SLAM and ROS2 sensor-fusion pipelines for autonomous warehouse forklifts (ArcBest), including rigorous calibration (AprilTags, Allan variance, temporal sync) and recovery features like pose injection. Also implemented RL-based local planning at RollNDrive using Isaac Sim with domain randomization to bridge sim-to-real, improving real-world navigation success back to ~90% after initial deployment.”

“ML/AI engineer who built and productionized an NLP system at PurevisitX, orchestrating end-to-end ML workflows with Airflow (S3 ingestion through auto-retraining) and optimizing for drift and low-latency inference. Also partnered with Citibank risk teams on a fraud detection model, translating results via dashboards and iterating thresholds based on stakeholder feedback.”

“Healthcare AI/ML engineer with Epic experience who built and deployed a HIPAA-compliant GPT-4 RAG clinical assistant over large medical document sets, emphasizing privacy controls and low-latency performance. Also automated end-to-end retraining and deployment of patient risk models using orchestration/CI-CD (Jenkins, SageMaker, MLflow), cutting deployment time from hours to minutes while improving reliability.”

“Full-stack developer with strong cloud/on-prem focus (AWS, VPC networking) who has improved production reliability by bringing manually created IAM/security group resources under Terraform and standardizing environments. Demonstrated end-to-end troubleshooting across app + infrastructure + networking (traffic capture revealed proxy response truncation) and delivered Python-based monitoring/reporting enhancements that improved ops visibility and turnaround.”

“Built and shipped a production agentic LLM analytics platform that lets non-SQL business users query relational databases in plain English via a RAG + LangChain/LangGraph workflow and FastAPI service. Emphasizes safety and reliability with guardrails (validation/access control), testing/evaluation frameworks, and performance optimization (caching, monitoring, Dockerized scalable deployment), reducing dependency on data teams and speeding analytics turnaround.”

“Software/ML engineer who built a production automated job-finding and cold-email personalization system for Fortune 500 outreach, using JobSpy for dynamic scraping, LangChain orchestration, and LLM+vector DB semantic search with grounding/relevance metrics and guardrails. Also delivered a predictive investment analytics platform for financial advisors, communicating results via Tableau dashboards and portfolio KPIs like Sharpe ratio and drawdowns.”

“Product-focused full-stack engineer (70% application-layer) who has shipped multi-tenant RBAC for a formerly single-tenant platform, cutting infrastructure costs by 50%. Built high-impact customer-facing features including analytics dashboards (40% retention lift) and a React/TypeScript scheduling grid that reduced navigation time by 60% and setup time by 80%, with solid AWS operations and Postgres performance tuning experience.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong ownership in fast-moving environments: designed and shipped a pre-order/campaign inventory system (NestJS + Strapi + Datadog) that freed 34% warehouse space and reduced stock risk to ~5.7%. Also built rapid, high-impact logistics features (Spot Sales) that drove last-mile cost to ~0 in ~40 days, and has hands-on AWS/Terraform/CI-CD experience including deploying a global RAG system with Pinecone, Datadog, and PagerDuty.”

“Full-stack engineer in healthcare and enterprise analytics who has shipped event-driven, near-real-time systems (Spring Boot microservices + Kafka + AWS) and large-scale patient/provider portals (50k+ users). Strong in production reliability and performance—measurably reduced claims latency (27%), cut support tickets (25%), and handled real AWS scaling incidents end-to-end. Also built a Python REST control plane for SDN routing integrated with external reinforcement learning agents.”

“Built and shipped a production RAG assistant using GPT-4, LangChain, and Pinecone/FAISS to search 50K+ institutional documents, with a strong focus on groundedness and hallucination reduction through retrieval optimization and re-ranking. Pairs this with a metrics-driven evaluation/monitoring approach (BLEU/ROUGE, manual sampling, logging) and workflow automation via Airflow, and has experience translating stakeholder needs into iterative AI prototypes.”