Vetted Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) Professionals

“Built and deployed an Azure-based, fine-tuned CLIP visual retrieval system at Staples for a ~300k-item product catalog, improving edge-case recall by 12% by engineering a custom delta-similarity/dynamic-margin loss. Also has robotics experience using ROS2 for sensor/compute orchestration, including GPS-time-synchronized sensor triggering for robot swarms and latency-bounded optical-flow benchmarking for edge deployment.”

“Robotics software engineer/researcher focused on perception, SLAM, and sensor fusion, with hands-on experience taking systems from simulation to embedded/real-time deployment. Led transparent-surface (glass) detection using GDNet and achieved a major real-time speedup (~7–9 FPS to ~30 FPS) while preserving >90% recall, and has built ROS-based EKF GPS-IMU fusion plus profiled/optimized Visual SLAM for performance and memory stability. Also brings production-style deployment skills via Docker/Kubernetes orchestration of ML inference services with autoscaling and model update rollouts.”

“Built and deployed an LLM/RAG system that uses differential privacy and distributional similarity checks to transform private data into a non-sensitive knowledge base while preserving utility. Also has experience demonstrating adversarial ML concepts (FGSM) to non-technical audiences by focusing on observable model behavior rather than implementation details.”

“Built and deployed production LLM pipelines for evidence-based scoring in two domains: biomedical literature mining (scoring ~2700 drug compounds vs gene targets/mechanisms) and long-horizon news analytics (35 years of Chinese articles). Emphasizes reliability at scale (retries/checkpointing/validation), rigorous empirical model benchmarking (GPT-4o/mini/5), and translating results into stakeholder-friendly visual narratives.”

“ML/AI practitioner in healthcare (Syneos Health) who has deployed production clinical NLP and risk models. Built a BERT-based physician-note information extraction system on Docker + AWS SageMaker (reported ~42% retrieval improvement) and automated retraining/deployment with Airflow and drift detection, while partnering closely with clinicians to drive adoption (reported ~18% readmission reduction).”

“Healthcare-focused applied ML/LLM engineer who has deployed production systems including an LLM medical documentation assistant that summarizes unstructured EHR notes into physician-ready structured outputs. Experienced building secure, compliant pipelines (PHI minimization, RBAC, encryption) and scaling via Docker/Kubernetes/Azure ML, plus orchestrating ETL/ML workflows with Airflow and Kubeflow; also built an LLM-driven clinical coding assistant at Centene with measurable performance metrics.”

“Built a production real-time fraud detection and customer-support automation platform at Citibank, tackling extreme class imbalance (reported ~1:5000) and strict latency constraints. Combines hands-on MLOps (Airflow, Kubernetes, MLflow; Snowflake/Spark/S3 integrations; CI/CD model promotion) with cross-functional delivery to Risk & Compliance focused on interpretability and reducing false positives.”

“AI/ML engineer at Cigna Healthcare building a production, HIPAA-compliant LLM-powered clinical insights platform that summarizes unstructured medical notes using a fine-tuned transformer + RAG on AWS. Demonstrates strong end-to-end MLOps and cloud optimization (distillation, Spot/Lambda/Auto Scaling) with quantified outcomes (~28% accuracy lift, ~40% less manual review, ~25% lower ops cost) and strong clinician-facing explainability via SHAP and dashboards.”

“Full-stack engineer with fintech trading-platform experience who shipped and operated a real-time portfolio P&L/performance feature end-to-end (React + Node/WebSockets + MongoDB) on AWS, including significant performance tuning under peak trading load. Also built a Spark-based trading analytics pipeline with idempotency and reconciliation for auditability, and has a personal React/TS + Node/Express project (Artsy) with JWT auth and schema-evolution practices.”

“Built and led an autonomous driving software effort for Formula Student, owning the full autonomy stack (perception, planning, control) orchestrated in ROS. Implemented stereo depth + YOLO object detection, RRT/RRT* planning, and a robust SLAM pipeline (Kalman filter, submapping) while leveraging Gazebo simulation and modern deployment tooling (Docker/Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions CI/CD).”

“LLM/RAG engineer with production deployments in highly regulated domains (Frost Bank and GE Healthcare). Built secure, explainable document-grounded Q&A systems using LoRA fine-tuning, strict RAG with confidence thresholds, and citation-based responses; also established evaluation/monitoring (golden QA sets, hallucination tracking, drift) and achieved ~40% latency reduction through retrieval/prompt tuning.”

“ServiceNow engineer who built an AI-powered ticket summarizer end-to-end (RAG with vector DB + GPT, Redis latency optimizations, fallback summarization, and a React UI widget for agent feedback). Also has hands-on ROS 2 experience building real-time sensor-fusion nodes (LiDAR/IMU), debugging SLAM/navigation issues via rosbag + EKF tuning, and bridging heterogeneous robots by translating ROS 2 topics to MQTT/JSON. Strong DevOps background with Docker, Jenkins CI/CD, and Kubernetes orchestration for scalable deployments.”

“Built and productionized a HIPAA-compliant LLM+RAG Clinical AI assistant at Optum, fine-tuning GPT/LLaMA on de-identified patient notes and integrating FAISS/Pinecone for sub-second retrieval; reported to cut diagnosis time by ~20 minutes per case. Experienced in orchestrating ML pipelines (Airflow, AWS Step Functions, Azure Data Factory) and in reliability techniques for LLM systems (grounding, citations, confidence filters, monitoring) while partnering closely with clinicians and compliance teams.”

“Built and deployed a GPT-based RAG enterprise search system for healthcare clinicians, emphasizing low-latency performance and reduced hallucinations while maintaining end-to-end HIPAA compliance. Demonstrates deep applied experience with PHI-safe data governance (detection/redaction/de-identification), secure Azure ML deployment patterns, and orchestration of production LLM workflows using LangChain and Airflow.”

“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 long-form article summarization system using BART/T5/PEGASUS, tackling real-world constraints like token limits, latency/quality tradeoffs, and factual drift via chunking/merge logic and constrained decoding. Uses pragmatic Python-based pipeline orchestration (scheduled jobs, modular scripts, logging/retries) and iterates with stakeholder feedback to make outputs genuinely useful for content workflows.”

“ML practitioner with hands-on experience adapting diffusion models (DDPM + U-Net in PyTorch) to improve low-dose CT medical imaging quality via denoising and upsampling against high-dose ground truth. Also built a RAG workflow during a recent internship by cleaning client survey data, embedding with OpenAI text-embedding-3-large, and indexing in Pinecone with MD5 deduplication, alongside a strong emphasis on production-grade Python practices.”

“Robotics software engineer with deep ROS/ROS 2 autonomy experience across warehouse fleets (Knapp delivery robots and quadrupeds), spanning SLAM, EKF-based sensor fusion localization, Nav2, and behavior-tree mission orchestration. Built a simulation-first testing approach using Isaac Sim Replicator with Dockerized, statistically analyzed repeat runs to catch nondeterminism, and personally owned real-world validation. Also developed a custom UR10 singularity-check ROS node based on manipulability.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on ROS2 + Autoware perception experience, focused on building benchmarking infrastructure for object detection models inside a real-time autonomous driving stack. Strong in evaluation rigor (synchronization, deterministic playback, format standardization) and practical ROS2 debugging/validation workflows using RViz and Gazebo.”

“GenAI/ML engineer (CitiusTech) who has deployed production RAG systems for compliance/operations document Q&A, using Pinecone + FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes with strong monitoring and guardrails. Also built a GenAI-powered incident triage/routing solution in collaboration with non-technical stakeholders, achieving 35% faster response times and 40% fewer misclassified tickets, and has hands-on orchestration experience with Airflow and AutoSys.”