Vetted CI/CD Professionals

Prasannakumar B Vardi

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in low-latency ad targeting and distributed backend systems

Santa Clara, CA9y exp

“Backend/platform engineer who built a high-scale audience segmentation and real-time targeting system using Spark/Glue + S3/Hudi and low-latency API services backed by Redis/relational stores. Demonstrates strong production rigor: Spark performance tuning to eliminate OOM failures, API idempotency/caching to cut p95 latency ~40%, and careful dual-run/feature-flag migrations with reconciliation and rollback runbooks. Experienced implementing layered security with JWT/OAuth, RBAC/ABAC, and database row-level security to prevent privilege escalation.”

Junhui Huang

Screened

Intern Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs, MLOps, and NLP

Providence, RI1y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-driven Dungeons & Dragons game where the model acts as a dungeon master, adding a structured combat system and a macro-state tree to ensure campaigns converge to a clear ending. Fine-tuned Gemini 2.5 Flash on Vertex AI and deployed on GCP with Kubernetes, using RAG over DnD rules/spells plus multi-agent orchestration (intent-based routing between narrative and combat agents) to reduce hallucinations and improve reliability.”

Rifat Khan

Screened

Mid-level Mechanical/Aerospace Engineer specializing in scientific computing, CFD, and ML systems

Santa Fe, New Mexico6y exp

“Robotics/control-focused engineer who built and validated a series elastic actuator control stack end-to-end (dynamic modeling, torque/position control, simulation, and experimental real-time debugging on hardware). Deep simulation background (OpenFOAM/COMSOL/Abaqus) and practical reproducibility tooling (Docker/CI), with conceptual ROS/ROS2 knowledge and confidence ramping into ROS-based stacks.”

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.”

Alexey Elkin

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud analytics and web applications

New York, NY2y exp

“LLM/agentic workflow engineer with hands-on experience turning demo-grade LLM analytics into production-ready features by tackling tail latency, observability, and cost/reliability controls. Strong at diagnosing real-time customer incidents via trace-driven debugging across retrieval, tool calls, retries, and prompt/version metadata, and frequently partners with sales as a technical lead to de-risk enterprise pilots through transparent failure-mode walkthroughs.”

Saksham Khatwani

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in NLP and search systems

Aurora, United States3y exp

“Built an AI journaling app at HackCU 2025 featuring a speaking AI avatar with long-term memory via RAG (ChromaDB) and low-latency microservices coordinated through Kafka, including deployment under AMD/non-CUDA constraints using a quantized Llama 8B model. Also has Goldman Sachs experience deploying a Trade UI on Kubernetes with CI/CD rollback automation, plus a healthcare AI internship at CU Anschutz collaborating closely with physicians on diagnostic reasoning and dataset annotation.”

Suloni Praveen

Screened

Entry-Level Software Engineer specializing in data engineering and ML systems

Los Angeles, CA0y exp

“Built an end-to-end Next.js/TypeScript LLM-based scientific PDF analyzer using local Ollama/Llama inference to prioritize privacy and cost, producing structured research artifacts (e.g., authors/methods/findings) with ~92% extraction accuracy. At Qualtrics, helped replace a batch pipeline with a real-time, low-latency ML inference service (Python/Go on Kubernetes) using Redis caching, Grafana-based observability, and graceful fallbacks to protect UX during failures.”

Atharva Bhide

Screened

Entry Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and multimodal systems

Los Angeles, CA1y exp

“Built and shipped a production healthcare AI platform for a clinic in Brea, LA that combined LLM-based clinical report generation, voice agents for appointment workflows, and camera-based patient monitoring. Stands out for pairing multimodal AI architecture with production-grade reliability and compliance practices, while delivering concrete business results including 90% workflow automation, 200 hours saved per month, and a 60% improvement in customer retention.”

“Built Laborate.app, a full-stack lab notebook and inventory product for scientists, largely solo using Next.js App Router, TypeScript, Postgres, Prisma, and AWS S3. Stands out for combining product ownership with practical concerns like encrypted data storage, autosave reliability, caching, tenant isolation, and scalability planning.”

“Built and owned Alight's AI-powered Search Summary feature end-to-end, using a RAG pipeline with OpenSearch and Bedrock, and drove a 20% increase in user feedback scores. Stands out for bringing rigorous production evaluation to LLM systems via live LLM-as-a-judge monitoring, and for experience with advanced agentic architectures, hybrid search, and reranking at scale.”

Ramesh Namperumal

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in AI/ML, data engineering, and enterprise architecture

Alpharetta, GA27y exp

“Technical founder building an AI IT helpdesk agent startup, currently leading product development as acting CTO/CPO and doing much of the development personally with a small partner group. Brings years of cross-industry technical experience, product/vendor evaluation expertise, and a deliberate strategy to delay outside capital until the product and customer traction are stronger.”

“Data-engineering-oriented candidate with hands-on experience building an agentic AI product and operational automation workflows. They described automating inventory-to-ERP discrepancy reconciliation with anomaly detection and daily reporting, and also have practical scraping/automation experience dealing with Cloudflare-protected sites using Selenium and Puppeteer.”

“ML/AI practitioner with hands-on experience shipping production time-series forecasting and RAG-based customer insights platforms in an enterprise setting. At BASF, he improved seed sales forecasting beyond naive baselines using model selection tailored by brand size, and he also led a RAG solution over Salesforce reports, complaints, and surveys that reached 2,000+ users with strong daily engagement.”

Francois Odienne

Screened

Director of Engineering specializing in SaaS platforms, AI-first product development, and telecom

Moorpark, CA28y exp

“Technology leader with venture-backed company experience at LogicMonitor, where they aligned engineering strategy with business growth and long-term platform scalability. Demonstrates strong familiarity with the VC/studio/accelerator ecosystem and a thoughtful founder mindset centered on validating real problems, innovative solutions, and execution capacity.”

Amit Dharam

Screened

Junior AI/ML Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and cloud deployment

Tempe, AZ3y exp

“Built multiple end-to-end automation and data systems, including an Accio RAG pipeline combining PDF parsing, FastAPI, Neo4j, and vector search, plus Selenium-based scraping for a virtual try-on product. Stands out for reliability-minded engineering: automated testing, structured logging, validation layers, and a data-driven approach to debugging flaky automation that improved CI pass rates to over 98%.”

“AI/backend engineer who has owned production applied-ML systems end to end, including a Jitsi meeting intelligence platform with custom RoBERTa boundary detection, LLM summarization, and automated retraining from user feedback. Also has healthcare AI experience building a diabetes medication titration system with strict validation, drift monitoring, and safety guardrails—showing both product speed and high-stakes engineering rigor.”

“Backend/product-minded engineer from Ramp with strong travel-tech experience, having built an end-to-end booking platform integrating multiple external providers, policy enforcement, and reporting infrastructure. They also shipped an LLM-powered personalization workflow using embeddings and Google Gemini that cut trip planning time by 22%, and demonstrated strong production reliability instincts through circuit breakers, health checks, and schema-driven normalization.”

“AI/LLM engineer with strong healthcare domain depth who has shipped production-grade agents for care coordination and clinical workflow automation. Stands out for combining Knowledge Graph RAG, LangGraph orchestration, and rigorous eval/guardrail systems to improve reliability in high-stakes environments, with measurable gains in review time, hallucination reduction, latency, and clinician adoption.”

“Full-stack product engineer who has built end-to-end apps and internal tools spanning React/TypeScript, Node/Express, and Postgres. Stands out for pragmatic shipping under ambiguity, creating reusable platform primitives like a centralized notification API, and designing safe multi-tenant configurable dashboards with schema validation.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer who has built AI-heavy systems spanning Next.js/TypeScript frontends, Python/FastAPI backends, queues, databases, and workflow infrastructure. Stands out for combining strong technical depth with UX instincts—improving trust in AI assistants, shipping ambiguous client features quickly, and creating reusable primitives for AI generation and analysis products.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of a production LLM/RAG system at Goldman Sachs, focused on workflow automation and large-scale document search for operational teams. They combine strong MLOps and backend engineering skills with practical GenAI evaluation and safety practices, and cite measurable impact including 22% better task guidance accuracy and sub-second search across millions of records.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer with experience shipping engagement features and core communication systems at DribbleUp and Expys. Stands out for combining rapid MVP execution with rigorous iteration: delivered a leaderboard feature that lifted engagement by 8% initially and 20% overall, built a chat MVP in 3 days, and has hands-on experience deploying LangChain-based concierge agents with evals and human review.”

“UC Berkeley CS–trained hands-on engineering leader with executive experience spanning fundraising and board/customer communication. Led architecture and roadmap for AI-driven fintech platforms (including portfolio data, market signals, document processing, and Bitcoin trading), scaling global orgs (~100 people) and driving modular API-based designs that improved reliability, onboarding speed, and customer retention.”

“Frontend engineer focused on high-performance React/TypeScript applications, with detailed experience building enterprise real-time analytics dashboards and map-based geospatial visualizations. Stands out for combining strong architecture and maintainability practices with concrete production performance wins using profiling, virtualization, memoization, and backend/client data-flow optimization.”