Vetted BERT Professionals

“GenAI/ML engineer who has shipped production agentic systems in highly regulated and high-throughput environments, including an AWS Bedrock-based fraud/compliance workflow at U.S. Bank with PII redaction and hallucination detection that cut investigation time by 50%+. Also built and evaluated RAG and recommendation systems at Target, using RAGAS-driven testing, hybrid retrieval with re-ranking, and SHAP explainability dashboards to align model behavior with merchandising business KPIs.”

“Built and deployed a production compliance automation RAG system (at Citi) that generates citation-backed, schema-validated risk summaries for regulatory document review. Emphasizes regulated-environment reliability with retrieval-only grounding, abstention, confidence thresholds, and immutable audit logging, plus orchestration using LangChain/LangGraph and Airflow. Reported ~60% reduction in compliance review effort while maintaining high precision and traceability.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered internal operations automation platform using LangChain RAG (Pinecone) and FastAPI microservices, deployed on AWS EKS, serving 10k+ daily interactions. Implemented a rigorous evaluation/observability stack (golden datasets, prompt regression tests, MLflow, retrieval metrics, hallucination monitoring) that drove hallucinations below 2% and improved reliability, and partnered closely with non-technical ops leaders to cut manual lookup work by 60%+.”

Jaideep bommidi

Screened

Senior ML Engineer & Data Scientist specializing in LLM agents, retrieval/ranking, and MLOps

Denton, TX8y exp

“Machine Learning Engineer currently at Webster Bank building an enterprise-scale LLM agent for Temenos Journey Manager/Maestro, using RAG-style multi-stage retrieval with FAISS/Pinecone, hybrid dense+sparse search, and LoRA fine-tuning optimized via NDCG/MAP and A/B testing. Previously handled messy incident/telemetry data at Deuta Werke GmbH with deterministic + fuzzy entity resolution, and has strong production data engineering experience across Spark/Hadoop and Python ETL systems.”

Uday kumar swamy

Screened

Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in MLOps and NLP/GenAI

Chicago, USA9y exp

“Built a production LLM-agent framework for a startup that performs daily financial/trading analysis by combining live market data with internal tools, including a centralized memory module to prevent context drift and reduce hallucinations. Also implemented an Airflow-orchestrated retail price forecasting pipeline deployed to AWS endpoints, scaling parallel workloads via Kubernetes Executor and validating systems with rigorous functional + LLM-specific metrics and cross-team collaboration.”

Akhila Kannegari

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in FinTech and retail ML systems

Alabama, USA4y exp

“ML-focused candidate with strong Wells Fargo experience building production fraud systems and internal GenAI tools for fraud analysts. Stands out for measurable impact in fraud detection—raising recall from 71% to 88%—while also demonstrating hands-on depth across streaming infrastructure, MLOps, LLM/RAG implementation, and Python service architecture.”

“Backend engineer who built an NL-to-SQL system at Target, using a multi-step LLM pipeline with vector-store schema retrieval and SQL validation to safely answer business questions. Strong in production FastAPI systems (async, Pydantic, Docker/Uvicorn, load balancing) and security (OAuth2/JWT, scopes, and database row-level security), with experience migrating Flask apps to FastAPI + PostgreSQL using strangler/feature-flagged canary rollouts.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across GCP and AWS: built FastAPI microservices on Cloud Run and delivered AWS Lambda + ECS Fargate systems with Terraform/GitHub Actions. Strong in data engineering (Glue/Spark, S3/Redshift) and modernization (SAS to Python/SQL), with proven reliability and incident ownership—including cutting a 20+ minute reporting query to under 2 minutes.”

“AI/LLM engineer who built a production autonomous GenAI content ecosystem that generates short-form scripts, extracts viral highlights from long-form video, and dubs content into 33+ languages. Focused on making LLM outputs production-safe via schema enforcement, token-to-time alignment, critic-agent verification, and scalable async orchestration—cutting manual workflows by ~90% and saving $200k+ annually.”

“At HPE, led and deployed an enterprise-grade LLM document intelligence platform for an insurance client, automating extraction from highly variable PDFs/scans/emails and raising field accuracy from 74% to 93%. Built a LangChain/Pinecone/OpenSearch RAG framework to cut hallucinations by 37% and operationalized LangSmith evals in CI, driving a 41% triage accuracy lift and >33% fewer incorrect resolutions while partnering closely with claims operations via HITL workflows.”

“Built and shipped LLM/RAG systems in finance and startup settings, including a Goldman Sachs document intelligence platform that indexed ~8TB of regulatory filings and delivered cited, conversational answers with <2s latency—cutting compliance research by ~4.5 hours per batch. Also developed LangChain-based agent workflows at Finta to automate CRM enrichment and investor lookup with strong testing, tracing (LangSmith), privacy guardrails, and auditability.”

Chandra Shekar Akkandra

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in fraud detection and risk analytics in Financial Services

Newark, CA5y exp

“Finance-domain ML/LLM engineer who has shipped production systems including a RAG-based financial insights assistant with a custom post-generation validation layer that verifies atomic claims against retrieved source text to prevent hallucinations in compliance-critical workflows. Also built large-scale MLOps automation on AWS using Kubeflow + MLflow + CI/CD for fraud detection and credit risk models processing 500M+ transactions/day with a 99.99% uptime goal, and partnered closely with JP Morgan risk/compliance stakeholders on NLP-driven compliance monitoring.”

Ankita A Khartmol

Screened

Junior Backend Software Engineer specializing in conversational AI and cloud APIs

Bangalore, India1y exp

“Backend/ML-focused software engineer who built and evolved a Python/FastAPI backend for a large-scale conversational AI platform, decoupling API and inference services to improve stability and deployment velocity. Experienced in production hardening (timeouts/fallbacks/monitoring), secure multi-tenant systems (JWT/RBAC/RLS), and low-risk migrations using shadow deployments and incremental traffic ramp-ups.”

Sana Khan

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in MLOps, LLMs, and real-time inference in FinTech

Oklahoma, USA4y exp

“ML/LLM engineer who has deployed a production LLM-powered assistant for intent classification and query routing (order recommendation/support deflection), combining BERT fine-tuning with an embedding-based retrieval layer and optimizing for low-latency inference. Experienced with end-to-end reliability practices—Airflow-orchestrated ETL, data validation/alerting, MLflow experiment tracking, and iterative improvements driven by user feedback and monitoring.”

Aniket Janrao

Screened

Junior Data Scientist specializing in healthcare ML and clinical NLP/LLMs

Houma, LA2y exp

“Healthcare-focused LLM engineer who has built two production clinical applications: an automated structured clinical report generator from physician-patient conversations and a RAG-based chatbot for retrieving patient history (procedures, allergies, etc.). Demonstrates strong applied RAG expertise (overlapping chunking, entity dependency graphs, temporal filtering, graph RAG) to reduce hallucinations/omissions and partners closely with clinicians to automate hospital workflows.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based internal knowledge assistant that let analysts query company documents in natural language, using LangChain/LangGraph with Pinecone and a FastAPI service for integration. Emphasizes reliability in production through hallucination mitigation (retrieval tuning + prompt guardrails) and measurable evaluation/monitoring (accuracy, latency, task completion, hallucination rate), iterating based on user feedback.”

“Built an enterprise RAG-based document intelligence system at Freddie Mac for regulatory and financial documents, helping analysts cut search time from hours to minutes while improving retrieval accuracy by ~30%. Stands out for combining LLM product delivery with compliance-grade auditability, production monitoring, and scalable Python/FastAPI service design.”

“AI and platform engineer with 5 years of experience who built a production knowledge assistant for Verizon end-to-end, from architecture through deployment, monitoring, and incident hardening. Stands out for combining modern LLM/RAG systems with enterprise-grade rigor, including validation layers, observability, versioning safeguards, and measurable impact on technician productivity and retrieval quality.”

Sai Sri Kolanu

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and production ML systems

Dearborn, MI4y exp

“Built and shipped an AI-powered RAG diagnostic assistant at Ford for EV technicians, integrating GPT-based models with LangChain, FAISS, and SageMaker into real technician workflows. Stands out for combining strong production LLM architecture with practical safety guardrails, monitoring, and measurable impact: 45% better diagnostic accuracy and roughly 30 minutes saved per case.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who has shipped real-time, customer-facing dashboards and ticketing/payment features at Freshworks and Global Payments. Strong in Python API design (Django/Flask/FastAPI) and React/TypeScript UIs, with hands-on experience scaling PostgreSQL for high transaction volumes and operating services on AWS, including incident response and HIPAA-aligned security controls.”

“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).”

“Open-source JavaScript contributor focused on performance and maintainability in data visualization libraries—refactored legacy ES5 into modular ES6, added tests/docs, and delivered ~30% faster load times with positive community adoption. Also optimized a React dashboard (~40% load-time reduction) and took ownership in an ambiguous AI product initiative by setting milestones, standing up an initial ML pipeline, and shipping a prototype in ~6 weeks that became the basis for production.”

“Built production LLM systems including a real-time customer feedback analysis and workflow automation platform using RAG and multi-agent orchestration with confidence-based human escalation, addressing privacy and legacy integration challenges. Also automated ML operations with Airflow/Kubernetes (e.g., daily churn model retraining) cutting retraining time to under 30 minutes, and demonstrates a rigorous testing/monitoring approach plus strong non-technical stakeholder collaboration.”