Vetted Claude Professionals

Narayan Anantha Krishnan

Screened

Junior AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and cybersecurity

Syracuse, NY2y exp

“AI/full-stack builder with hands-on experience shipping conversational and agentic products, including a travel itinerary assistant, a multi-agent data analysis platform, and a self-correcting RAG system. Also brings academic research depth from Syracuse University, where they helped develop tiny-LLM-based IoT threat mitigation and presented an accepted paper at FLAIRS 39.”

Antonio Walker

Screened

Senior Technical Lead and Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud, AI, and enterprise platforms

Irvine, CA13y exp

“Engineering leader and player-coach who says he joined Freeing Returns during a transition from sales-led services to SaaS, architected the platform from the ground up, and helped hire a 10+ person team across engineering, product, and delivery. He also describes leading an AI-based fraud detection system on Salesforce with data lake and pipeline architecture, combining startup build-from-scratch execution with hands-on technical leadership.”

“Student technologist building production-oriented AI products, including a college guidance chatbot for Track2College and a voice-based travel assistant. Strong hands-on experience with RAG systems, FastAPI backends, TypeScript frontends, retrieval evaluation, and tool-using LLM workflows, with a clear focus on grounded, reliable user experiences.”

Mila Chernik

Screened

Executive strategy and operations leader specializing in SaaS, payments, and AI

New York, NY17y exp

“Operator and transformation leader with deep SaaS/payments experience across fintech, ecommerce, retail, and hospitality. Has led large cross-functional organizations through Agile, portfolio, and architecture transformations, including $20M ARR impact at Movex and major performance/cost gains at HS-Soft. Also brings founder-level strategic advisory experience, building ROI cases for growth and AI automation investments.”

“Backend engineer at PlatePost who built an AI-driven food pairing/recommendation feature for restaurants using Google Gemini, shipping quickly by caching results with a 24-hour refresh and manual override. Emphasizes practical reliability/security patterns (logging, error handling, tenant-scoped queries) and proactively caught an accessibility issue via screen reader testing.”

“Built and shipped production LLM agents for real-time, high-concurrency conversational systems, including a RAG-based pipeline with dynamic multi-provider routing and failover that achieved 99.99% reliability and sub-800ms latency. Also architected a UAV telemetry chatbot with tool-calling (anomaly detection/summarization), strict schema validation, and robust eval/monitoring loops, cutting tool-call errors by 30% and reducing operational costs by 90%.”

“Unity gameplay/multiplayer engineer with unusually broad cross-platform experience spanning core auto-chess systems, live networking, and VR/mobile native integrations. He owned a designer-friendly 3D grid gameplay system that helped achieve 24% D3 retention, and also built low-latency native streaming plugins for iOS/Android/Quest into Unity.”

“AI/ML engineer with 9+ years of experience building production recommendation and LLM systems end-to-end, from experimentation through deployment, monitoring, and retraining. Stands out for combining strong MLOps discipline with practical GenAI/RAG implementation, including measurable impact such as ~25% higher engagement on an e-commerce recommender and nearly 30% faster knowledge retrieval from internal documents.”

Faisal Hayat

Screened

Senior Python Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI-powered backend systems

Lahore, Pakistan6y exp

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with startup experience building AI-powered products and ERP/SaaS platforms. They’ve delivered Python/FastAPI/Django and React systems on AWS, including an AI document processing platform and business workflow tools used by thousands of users, with strong hands-on depth in database optimization and production operations.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience building healthcare scheduling, telehealth, reimbursement, and agent workflow systems using React, Node.js, MySQL, TypeScript, and GraphQL. Stands out for combining hands-on product design in ambiguous environments with measurable technical impact, including a 40% performance improvement and reduced LLM costs through batching and backend optimization. Also brings manufacturing/MES experience and a strong habit of reshaping products based on direct user feedback.”