Vetted BERT Professionals

Robert Wheeler

Screened

Executive Technology Leader (CTO) specializing in cloud, AI/ML, and scalable product platforms

Manhattan, USA25y exp

“Technical leader and hands-on engineer with 20+ years of experience who has previously raised funding and exited a venture. Currently bootstrapping a new AI-direction startup with personal and family capital, leveraging structured financial planning and a relationship-driven approach to investor outreach.”

Phani K

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI, NLP, and healthcare-financial ML

Terre Haute, IN4y exp

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on experience shipping healthcare AI systems, including an oncology risk prediction platform and RAG-based clinical decision support tools. Stands out for combining clinical domain context with strong production engineering across Spark, FastAPI, AWS SageMaker, monitoring, evaluation, and safety guardrails.”

“ML engineer at CGI who built demand forecasting models end-to-end, from feature engineering and training through AWS deployment. Stands out for a production-first mindset and strong skepticism of AI-generated code, including catching a Copilot-generated SQL query that would have caused a costly full table scan in production.”

Yogita Adari

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in generative and multimodal systems

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Built and productionized an agentic LLM automation system for an insurance client to determine medication eligibility, using prompt-chaining plus a RAG pipeline over policy rules and deploying on AWS (Lambda/Step Functions, Bedrock) with a serverless architecture. Addressed major data/schema mismatch issues via a semantic matching pipeline and validated performance through human agreement scoring, A/B testing, KPI monitoring, and confidence-based human-in-the-loop review.”

“Full-stack and AI product engineer who has shipped both operational SaaS and LLM-powered research tools to production. Built a dispatch optimization system at Quickflora that cut manual effort by ~50%, and also developed grounded RAG and agentic systems using tools like LlamaIndex, Gemini, pgvector, and FastAPI with a strong emphasis on citations, reliability, and practical user workflows.”

“GenAI engineer who has deployed production LLM/RAG chatbots for internal document search, focusing on reliability (hallucination reduction via prompt guardrails + retrieval filtering) and performance (latency improvements via caching). Experienced with LangChain/LangGraph orchestration for multi-step agent workflows and iterates using monitoring/logs and benchmark-driven evaluation while partnering closely with product and business teams.”

“LLM/agent builder who has shipped production AI systems in the wellness space, including an LLM-powered food tracking product used by 5000+ users and a voice/call-routing onboarding workflow using LangGraph/LangChain with LiveKit and Twilio. Strong focus on practical reliability work: latency reduction, retrieval/embedding tuning, and CI-driven evaluation with simulations and metrics.”

“GenAI/ML engineer with production experience at Cognizant and Ally Financial, building end-to-end LLM/RAG systems and ML pipelines. Delivered a domain chatbot trained from 90k tickets and 45k docs, improving intent accuracy (65%→83%), scaling to 800+ concurrent users with 99.2% uptime and sub-150ms latency, and driving +14% customer satisfaction. Strong in Azure ML + DevOps CI/CD, Dockerized deployments, and explainable/PII-safe modeling using SHAP/LIME to satisfy stakeholder trust and GDPR needs.”

Ramcharan Reddy

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in FinTech platforms and cloud-native microservices

Texas, USA6y exp

“Backend engineer focused on AI-enabled systems, having built a production-style RAG pipeline (vector search + LLM) exposed via Python/Flask endpoints with strong observability and hallucination-reduction techniques. Demonstrates deep performance work in PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy (5x faster analytics queries) and high-throughput optimization using Celery + Redis (800ms to 120ms latency, 3x throughput), plus schema-per-tenant multi-tenancy with tenant-aware middleware and logging.”

Rohan Varma Bandari

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist & Generative AI Engineer specializing in LLMs and RAG

USA4y exp

“Built production LLM + hybrid RAG and multi-agent orchestration systems at Wells Fargo to automate complaint document/audio transcript understanding and categorization, addressing vocabulary drift via embedding + vector index updates instead of frequent retraining. Strong in LLM workflow reliability (testing/benchmarks/observability) and stakeholder-facing delivery with explainability (citations/SHAP-style justifications) and Tableau dashboards.”

Harideep Balusa

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in FinTech risk, fraud detection, and GenAI/RAG systems

USA6y exp

“Built and productionized Azure-based LLM/RAG systems for regulatory/compliance use cases, including automating analyst research and compliance report generation across large unstructured document sets. Demonstrates strong practical depth in hallucination mitigation, hybrid retrieval tuning (BM25 + embeddings), and production MLOps (Databricks, Cognitive Search, AKS, Airflow/MLflow), plus proven ability to deliver auditable, explainable solutions with non-technical compliance teams.”

“Senior data scientist with ~5 years’ experience building production ML/NLP systems in finance (Wells Fargo) and deep learning for sensor analytics in connected vehicles (Medtronic). Has delivered end-to-end platforms combining time-series forecasting with transformer-based NLP, including automated drift monitoring/retraining (MLflow + Airflow) and standardized Docker/CI/CD deployments; achieved a reported 22% precision improvement after domain fine-tuning.”

“Engineer with hands-on experience designing and leading multi-agent AI development workflows, including a LangGraph-based system that automated parts of a RAG pipeline and significantly reduced development time. Stands out for treating AI agents like an engineering team, with clear architecture, handoff schemas, validation, and supervisor-driven conflict resolution.”

“BNY Mellon engineer who has built and operated production AI systems end-to-end: a LangChain/Pinecone RAG platform scaled via FastAPI + Kubernetes to 1000 RPM with 99.9% uptime, supported by monitoring and data-drift detection. Also deep in data/infra orchestration (Airflow, Dagster, Terraform on AWS/EMR/EC2), processing 500GB+ daily and delivering measurable reliability and performance gains, plus strong compliance-facing model explainability using SHAP and Tableau.”

“Built and shipped production generative AI/RAG assistants in regulated financial contexts (S&P Global), automating compliance-oriented Q&A over earnings reports/filings with grounded answers and citations. Experienced across the full stack—AWS-based ingestion (PySpark/Glue), vector retrieval + LangChain agents, GPT-4/Claude model selection, and production reliability (monitoring, caching, retries) plus rigorous evaluation and regression testing.”

“AI/ML Engineer with 4+ years of experience (Capital One, Odin Technologies) and a master’s in Data Analytics (4.0 GPA) who has deployed LLM/RAG systems to production for compliance/risk and document review. Strong in orchestration and MLOps (Airflow, Kubernetes, MLflow, GitHub Actions) and in tackling real-world LLM constraints like latency, context limits, and data privacy, with measurable impact (20%+ manual review reduction; 33% faster release cycles).”

“Software engineer with Prudential Financial experience building enterprise Spring Boot microservices for policy/risk assessment, including integrating Python ML models via Flask and hardening services with resiliency patterns. Also led an AWS lift-and-shift modernization during an internship (EC2/ELB/Route53/Auto Scaling) and built a personal diffusion-model text-to-music project using BERT tokens mapped to Mel spectrograms.”

Bala Venkateswarlu K

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in Generative AI, NLP, and MLOps

USA5y exp

“Built and deployed an LLM-powered claims-document summarization system (insurance domain) that cut agent review time from 4–5 minutes to under 2 minutes and saved 1,200+ hours per quarter. Hands-on across orchestration and production infrastructure (Airflow retraining DAGs, Kubernetes, SageMaker endpoints, FastAPI) and recent RAG workflows using n8n + Pinecone, with a strong focus on reliability, cost, and explainability for non-technical stakeholders.”

“Built a production, real-time clinical documentation system at HCA that converts doctor–patient conversations into structured clinical summaries using speech-to-text, LLM summarization, and RAG. Demonstrated measurable gains from medical-domain fine-tuning (clinical concept recall +18%, ROUGE-L 0.62 to 0.74) while meeting HIPAA constraints via PHI anonymization and encryption, and deployed via Docker/FastAPI with CI/CD and monitoring.”

“Healthcare-focused LLM engineer who deployed a production triage and clinical knowledge retrieval assistant using RAG and LangGraph-orchestrated multi-agent workflows. Emphasizes clinical safety and compliance with robust hallucination controls, HIPAA/PHI protections (tokenization, encryption, audit logging, zero-retention), and human-in-the-loop escalation; reports a 75% latency reduction in a healthcare agent system.”

Ishaan Umesh Mandliya

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and cloud-native systems

Los Angeles, CA3y exp

“At BondiTech, built and deployed customer-facing backend improvements for enterprise dashboards handling 1M+ records, redesigning a .NET/Entity Framework API with server-side pagination/filtering and feature-flagged rollout to cut latency from ~15s to ~2s. Experienced integrating customer systems into existing APIs, including stabilizing a legacy CRM sync by normalizing inconsistent IDs, handling strict rate limits with batching, and adding DLQs plus reconciliation reporting.”

Srikanth Reddy

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI and financial risk & compliance analytics

Plainsboro, NJ7y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered financial risk and compliance platform to reduce manual trade exception handling and speed up insights from regulatory documents. Implemented a LangChain multi-agent workflow with structured/unstructured data integration (Redshift + vector DB) and emphasized hallucination reduction for regulatory safety using Amazon Bedrock. Strong MLOps/orchestration background across Kubernetes, Airflow, Jenkins, and monitoring/testing with MLflow, Evidently AI, and PyTest.”

Aishwarya Thorat

Screened

Intern Data Scientist specializing in ML engineering and LLM agentic workflows

San Francisco, CA6y exp

“Built an agentic, multi-step LLM system that generates full-stack code for API integrations using LangChain orchestration, Pinecone/SentenceBERT RAG, and a human-in-the-loop feedback loop for iterative code refinement. Also collaborated with non-technical content writers and PMs during a Contentstack internship to deliver a Slack-based AI workflow that generates and brand-checks articles with one-click approvals.”

“Built end-to-end ML and GenAI systems at Northern Trust, including a production RAG-based document intelligence platform for financial reports and contracts. Stands out for combining strong MLOps execution with practical product judgment—improving forecast accuracy by 22%, document review accuracy by 38%, and cutting deployment time by 45% while keeping latency and reliability production-ready.”