Vetted CI/CD Professionals

“Built and deployed an LLM-powered RAG document intelligence/search platform for banking risk & compliance teams, emphasizing sensitive-data handling, traceability, and conservative fallback logic to minimize hallucinations; deployed via Docker/REST on AWS and cut manual review effort by 35%. Also partnered with TD Bank marketing to deliver an AI customer segmentation solution that improved targeted campaign engagement by 18%.”

“Capgemini engineer who helped take a travel insurance platform from prototype demos to a stable production system by clarifying requirements, hardening API contracts, and adding validation/logging to handle real customer data and external integrations. Experienced in real-time troubleshooting of complex workflows (including LLM/agentic-style workflows) through strong observability practices, and in leading practical developer-focused demos that accelerate client integration and adoption.”

“Backend engineer focused on multi-tenant enterprise AI personalization and recommendation platforms, combining ML/LLM intent extraction with deterministic policy guardrails for compliance and auditability. Has hands-on AWS experience (ECS/Lambda/DynamoDB/S3) and led a careful DynamoDB single-table migration using dual write/read, canary + feature-flag rollouts, and strong observability/security (JWT/OAuth2, RBAC, Postgres RLS).”

“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.”

“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.”

“Capital One engineer focused on fraud and payments platforms, owning end-to-end services and internal tools used by fraud analysts. Built high-traffic Kafka/REST systems and real-time React/TypeScript dashboards (WebSockets, Redis), with strong emphasis on observability, idempotency, and scalable microservices. Successfully drove adoption of AI-assisted fraud classification by pairing transparency and manual overrides with measurable workflow improvements.”

“Built and deployed an enterprise GenAI knowledge assistant over thousands of internal PDFs/reports using a RAG stack (GPT-4 + Hugging Face embeddings + vector DB) to reduce manual search and SME escalations. Uses LangGraph/LangChain to orchestrate modular agent workflows with relevance filtering and fallback handling, and applies rigorous evaluation (golden datasets, edge cases, A/B tests) with production monitoring metrics.”

“Frontend engineer with insurance-domain experience (AAA Insurance and insurance quoting flows) who has delivered Angular/React/Next.js products end-to-end. Notable for building a complex drag-and-drop email template/code-generation UI and for modernizing React codebases (Redux->Context, lazy loading, memoization) to improve performance and reduce security vulnerabilities, while using feature flags and strong QA automation for fast, controlled releases.”

“AI/ML engineer currently at BlackRock who deployed an AI-powered sentiment analysis microservice into a task management platform to prioritize and escalate high-risk/frustrated tickets from free-text comments. Experienced running production microservices on AWS EKS with Docker/Kubernetes/Helm and provisioning infrastructure via Terraform, with strong MLOps rigor (MLflow evaluation pipelines, canary rollouts, and real-time monitoring) and cross-functional collaboration with product/operations.”

“Software engineer with finance-domain experience who built an internal transaction management system end-to-end at Prospect Equities (TypeScript/React Native + Java Spring Boot microservices on AWS), delivering 40% lower query latency and 73% operational efficiency gains. Has also designed Terraform-provisioned, SQS-based distributed systems and scaled workloads to 10,000+ concurrent users, including monolith-to-SOA modernization that cut internal review time by 47%.”

“Software engineer at Capital One who owned and shipped AI-driven personalization and internal insights dashboards end-to-end, emphasizing fast iteration with feature flags and tight user feedback loops. Built a TypeScript/React + Spring Boot/Python document automation platform with compute-heavy NLP microservices, async workflows, and production-scale reliability/performance practices (Kafka/RabbitMQ-style queues, Redis caching, tracing).”

“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.”

“Interned at Zonda where he built an AI-driven semantic search solution over ~280M housing/builder records. Iterated from local LLMs via llama.cpp quantization to a vector-embedding retrieval system, then boosted semantic accuracy with a custom spaCy NER layer and re-ranking, optimizing for latency through precomputation. Collaborated with economics-focused stakeholders to reduce manual document/paperwork time by enabling natural-language search over internal data.”

“Built and deployed profitprops.io, a sports betting player-props prediction product using ML/AI. Implemented backend APIs with FastAPI/Express.js and Supabase, trained models on AWS GPU (P3) using Docker + RAPIDS, and set up CI/CD with GitHub Actions while working around cost constraints and data-collection hurdles (EC2 proxy rotation/rate limits).”

“Built an LLM multi-agent “ingredient safety” analyzer for cosmetics that cuts consumer research time from ~20+ minutes to minutes, using LangGraph orchestration, hybrid retrieval (Qdrant + Tavily), and safety-focused critic validation (false rejections reduced ~30%→~8%). Also has research-internship experience building computer-vision pipelines to classify emerald color/clarity by translating gem-expert heuristics into quantitative model features.”

“Engineer with banking and industrial/IoT experience who has deployed a payment-processing microservice with zero downtime, handling Protobuf schema evolution and sensitive data migration via dual-write/checksum techniques. Demonstrates strong cross-stack troubleshooting (pinpointed intermittent distributed timeouts to a failing ToR switch port) and customer-facing Python ETL customization using plugin-based parsers and Pydantic validation, plus hands-on monitoring/alerting improvements with operators.”

“JavaScript engineer with hands-on experience improving performance in data-heavy table UIs (thousands of rows), including an open-source DataTables extension fix that reduced redundant AJAX calls via debouncing and was merged upstream. Comfortable profiling/benchmarking, optimizing DOM and network behavior, and collaborating with OSS maintainers through GitHub issues/PRs while also producing clear developer documentation and quick-start examples.”

“ML/AI engineer with Capital One experience building production-grade customer segmentation and fraud detection systems combining NLP (transformers) and anomaly detection. Strong MLOps and orchestration background (PySpark ETL, MLflow, Airflow, Docker/Kubernetes, Azure ML) with real-time monitoring/alerting and performance optimizations like quantization and caching, plus proven ability to deliver business-facing insights through Power BI/Tableau for marketing stakeholders.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered internal documentation assistant using embeddings, a vector database, and a RAG pipeline to reduce time spent searching PDFs/manuals. Experienced in orchestrating end-to-end LLM workflows with Airflow/LangChain, improving reliability via monitoring/error handling, and driving measurable quality through retrieval and hallucination-focused evaluation metrics.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-powered PDF document Q&A system to eliminate manual searching through long documents, focusing on scalability and answer reliability. Implemented semantic chunking (using headings/paragraphs/tables), overlap, and preprocessing/quality checks to reduce hallucinations, and orchestrated the end-to-end pipeline with Airflow using retries, alerts, and parallel tasks.”

“Built and deployed an LLM + RAG + memory system on a Furhat social robot, adding continuous face/voice recognition embeddings over WebSockets to enable persistent, natural conversations across sessions. Experienced working around real-world hardware/latency constraints and uses Datadog plus structured debugging/rollback practices for stabilizing customer-facing LLM workflows.”

“Full-stack engineer with primary depth in .NET Core and Python who has built and deployed end-to-end AWS applications (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront) and supported them in production. Experienced in scaling large, data-driven workloads using queues/background workers, batching, and database tuning, with strong focus on API contracts, observability, and resilience patterns; also has hands-on React/TypeScript and some Spring Boot exposure.”

“Backend engineer at Goldman Sachs who built LLM-powered reconciliation/reporting services and high-throughput Kafka pipelines (8M+ events/day). Strong in production-grade Python/FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes with GitOps-style CI/CD, plus experience migrating legacy reporting/settlement services onto an internal Kubernetes platform using shadow deployments and gradual cutovers.”

“AI/ML engineer with experience at Accenture and Morgan Stanley, building production LLM systems (GPT-3 summarization) and finance-focused ML models (credit risk and trading anomaly detection). Combines MLOps depth (Docker/Kubernetes, AWS SageMaker/Glue/Lambda, MLflow, A/B testing, drift monitoring) with practical domain adaptation techniques like few-shot prompting and RAG/knowledge-base integration.”