Vetted Batch Processing Professionals

“Built a production RAG-based healthcare chatbot to retrieve patient medical documents spread across multiple platforms, reducing manual and error-prone searching. Implemented semantic search with custom embeddings (Hugging Face) and Pinecone, deployed via FastAPI/Docker on AWS SageMaker with MLflow tracking, and optimized fine-tuning cost using LoRA while orchestrating retraining pipelines in Airflow.”

“Built and owned end-to-end TypeScript/React dashboards with a Node.js backend, including post-launch additions like role-based access and new reporting views enabled by modular architecture and clean API boundaries. Also created an internal real-time operations/engineering dashboard that replaced spreadsheets and reduced manual tracking, iterating quickly based on direct team feedback.”

“Backend/platform engineer who built real-time connected-vehicle telemetry analytics at Subaru, spanning Kafka streaming, Python/FastAPI ETL, and low-latency WebSocket delivery (minutes to <2s). Strong Kubernetes + GitOps practitioner across AWS EKS and Azure AKS (Helm, ArgoCD, Jenkins/GitLab) and has led major on-prem-to-cloud migrations for financial microservices using Terraform and AWS DMS with measurable cost and reliability gains.”

“Backend/data engineer who builds Python (FastAPI) data-processing API services for internal analytics/reporting, emphasizing modular architecture, async performance tuning, and reliability patterns (health checks, retries, observability). Also migrated legacy on-prem ETL pipelines to Azure using ADF/Data Lake/Functions and implemented a near-real-time ingestion flow with Event Hubs plus watermarking to handle late events and deduplication.”

Tyler Stroud

Screened

Executive Engineering Leader specializing in AdTech and scalable cloud platforms

Miami, FL15y exp

“Engineering leader with experience in small, bootstrapped startups and exposure to VC environments, currently pursuing CTO-level opportunities. Thrives in fast-iterating, high-uncertainty settings and emphasizes data-driven clarity plus strong problem/market validation when evaluating new ventures.”

Shabari Vignesh

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in cloud data platforms and AI agents

Santa Clara, CA6y exp

“Data/Backend engineer who has owned end-to-end merchant analytics systems on AWS: orchestrated multi-source ingestion (FISERV/Shopify/Clover) with Step Functions/Lambda, enforced strong data quality gates, and served curated datasets via Redshift and a FastAPI layer. Also built an early-stage Merchant Insights AI agent that converts natural language questions into SQL using OpenAI models, with full CI/CD and observability.”

Sivapriya Rachakonda

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices on AWS and Kubernetes

Remote, USA5y exp

“Backend engineer who built a stateless Python/Flask service supporting a healthcare-document ETL pipeline, offloading heavy processing to Celery workers and adding strong observability (metrics, structured logs, audits). Demonstrates practical performance/reliability work: batch chunking, priority queues, autoscaling by queue depth/CPU, DLQ routing, and PostgreSQL tuning (indexes, pagination) to cut slow API responses. Also has experience deploying real-time ML classification via TensorFlow Serving behind a FastAPI wrapper and integrating models via REST/gRPC.”

“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.”

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.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on high-scale, event-driven AWS ingestion systems (SQS/Lambda/EKS) processing millions of events per day, with strong reliability patterns (idempotency, DLQs, bounded retries) and deep observability using Datadog distributed tracing. Has delivered Terraform/GitHub Actions CI/CD and improved secret rotation via Secrets Manager + IRSA, plus Glue-based ETL with schema-evolution handling and Postgres SQL optimization (including JSONB/GIN indexing). Candidate is currently living outside the US and states they do not have US work authorization.”

“Worked on large financial analytics datasets combining complaint text, transaction logs, and demographics; built end-to-end NLP/ML pipelines (TF-IDF + Random Forest) and data integration in BigQuery with Tableau reporting, citing ~95–98% accuracy. Also implemented entity resolution with fuzzy matching and semantic linking using BERT sentence-transformer embeddings stored in FAISS, including fine-tuning on labeled pairs to improve search/linking relevance.”

“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.”

Ponugoti Sushma

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in IoT, edge AI, and enterprise ML

Texas, USA5y exp

“Built and productionized an LLM/RAG question-answering service over technical documentation, focusing on retrieval quality (reranking + IR metrics), latency, and scaling. Experienced orchestrating end-to-end ETL/ML workflows with Airflow/Prefect/AWS Step Functions and improving reliability via parallelism, retries, and shadow testing. Also delivered an explainable healthcare risk-flagging classifier with a stakeholder-friendly dashboard for a non-technical program manager.”

Meghana Nandivada

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in production ML systems and MLOps

2y exp

“ML/AI engineer (TCS) who built and productionized a customer segmentation and personalized-offer recommendation pipeline end-to-end (data cleaning/feature engineering/clustering through Flask API deployment in Docker with monitoring). Emphasizes reliability and operational rigor via validation checks, periodic retraining, model/API versioning, and latency optimization, and has experience translating marketing KPIs into usable dashboards for non-technical teams.”

“Full-stack/AI engineer who has shipped production systems spanning real-time analytics dashboards and an internal LLM-powered knowledge assistant. Experienced with RAG pipelines (embeddings/vector DB, semantic retrieval, query rewriting) plus evaluation loops and guardrails, and builds observable Kafka-based data pipelines monitored with Prometheus/Grafana.”

“Healthcare data/NLP practitioner with experience at UnitedHealthcare building production ML systems that connect unstructured call center transcripts and medical notes to structured claims data. Has delivered measurable impact (25% classification accuracy lift; ~30% relevance improvement) using classical NLP, embeddings (Sentence-BERT + FAISS), and AWS SageMaker deployments with robust validation and drift monitoring.”

“Data engineer with banking FP&A experience who led an end-to-end migration of 10+ TB from Teradata to Azure (ADF + Data Lake + Databricks/PySpark + Synapse). Emphasizes reliability (multi-stage validation, monitoring/alerts) and performance (Spark tuning, incremental loads, autoscaling), reporting ~99.5% pipeline reliability while supporting downstream consumers with stable schemas and clear change management.”

“Built and shipped an AI-driven interview evaluation pipeline at SeekOut that automated recruiter screening via a multi-stage LLM agent workflow (.NET backend, RabbitMQ orchestration, Python workers). Emphasizes production-grade reliability (idempotency, retries, strict JSON/schema validation), strong observability with OpenTelemetry, and measurable efficiency gains including ~40% reduction in token usage/cost.”

“Data engineer in healthcare/clinical data platforms (HarmonCare) who built and operated an end-to-end lakehouse pipeline ingesting HL7/FHIR at ~2–3M records/day on AWS (Glue/Lambda/S3/Spark) and serving trusted datasets in Snowflake. Implemented strong validation/reconciliation gates and a data quality framework that reduced discrepancies ~40%, plus CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Terraform) and monitoring (Airflow/CloudWatch).”

Sai Nikhil Kanchukatla

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in Golang microservices and IAM/SSO

Dallas, TX6y exp

“Backend engineer with experience at DigitalOcean and BNY Mellon, specializing in secure, highly available authentication and API platforms. Built an enterprise SSO system integrating Okta via OIDC with resilience patterns (gRPC contracts, circuit breakers, Kafka) and strong encryption, and led a careful monolith-to-Golang microservices migration using shadow traffic, dual writes, and feature flags to preserve data integrity.”

Bhavishyasai Chigurupati

Screened

Mid-Level Data/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and cloud data platforms

Overland Park, KS5y exp

“Built and productionized an LLM-based financial document analysis system using a RAG pipeline, including robust ingestion/chunking/embedding workflows, vector DB retrieval, and an AWS-deployed FastAPI service containerized with Docker. Demonstrates strong applied expertise in improving retrieval quality and latency at scale, plus hands-on experience debugging agentic/LLM workflows with monitoring and trace-based analysis while supporting demos and customer-facing adoption.”

“Backend/data engineer with healthcare claims expertise who has owned production data pipelines end-to-end, including ingestion, validation, transformation, and API serving. Stands out for improving data quality by 30%, building reliable integrations with strong auditability, and setting up pragmatic cloud deployment and observability in ambiguous early-stage environments.”

Sai Prathyusha Kanisetti

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and healthcare IT

Fairfax, VA3y exp

“Full-stack engineer with experience in both healthcare and transportation, owning products from requirements through production support. Built a secure patient-records pipeline at CORAnet using Spring Boot, AWS S3, Docker, and Terraform, and shipped a real-time operational metrics dashboard at BNSF with Java, React/TypeScript, and Kafka. Stands out for combining backend architecture depth, infrastructure ownership, and pragmatic UI simplification.”

TEJASWI GUDIMETLA

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, microservices, and AI pipelines

North Carolina, USA4y exp

“AI/LLM engineer focused on building reliable, scalable multi-agent and RAG-based pipelines across microservices. Stands out for combining practical experimentation with strong engineering discipline around schema validation, retries, observability, and structured API contracts to make LLM systems production-ready.”