Vetted Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) Professionals

Ashutosh Khatavkar

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level SDET/Software Engineer specializing in test automation and CI/CD

Syracuse, NY3y exp

“AAA game QA professional from Ubisoft (For Honor) with deep live-service multiplayer experience. Known for owning network/competitive integrity risks and building a custom network simulation tool to reliably reproduce desync issues, accelerating debugging and saving 100+ hours. Strong end-to-end QA process skills spanning test planning, triage, regression, and release verification using JIRA/TestRail.”

“Built a 24/7 Python/LangChain email agent in production with validation, circuit breakers, human-review escalation, and structured observability. Also applied data and automation skills at Community Dreams Foundation, including turning a vague donor-insights request into a usable donor-risk prediction workflow and raising ETL reliability from roughly 85% to 99% by diagnosing SQLite concurrency issues.”

“Built and productionized an internal GenAI chatbot that makes company policy/SOP knowledge instantly searchable, using a secure RAG architecture on AWS (Bedrock/Titan embeddings/OpenSearch Serverless, Textract/Lambda/S3 ingestion, Claude 3 Sonnet). Demonstrates strong MLOps/orchestration experience (Airflow, Step Functions with Lambda/Glue/SageMaker) and a rigorous reliability approach (RAGAS metrics, A/B testing, citation validation, monitoring), including collaboration with compliance stakeholders via review dashboards.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of production recommendation and GenAI systems, spanning experimentation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration. Stands out for delivering measurable outcomes—22% CTR lift, 15% conversion lift, and a 30% reduction in support tickets—while demonstrating strong judgment on latency, cost, and safety tradeoffs in real-world systems.”

Laxminarayana Yaga

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI, RAG, and MLOps

Missouri, USA4y exp

“Built and deployed a production RAG pipeline at PNC Financial Services to let risk/compliance analysts query millions of internal financial documents in natural language, reducing manual search and speeding regulatory validation. Demonstrates deep practical experience with large-scale document ingestion/OCR cleanup, retrieval performance tuning (hierarchical indexing, caching), and LLM reliability controls (grounding, citations, abstention), plus cloud orchestration on Azure and AWS.”

“Robotics software engineer with deep ROS2 experience who built a modular autonomous robotics stack (perception/sensor fusion, localization+mapping, and planning). Led development of a LiDAR+camera fusion and multi-object tracking pipeline (PCL + YOLO + Kalman filtering) and debugged real-time SLAM/localization issues via QoS/timestamp synchronization, EKF tuning, and SLAM Toolbox parameter optimization using Gazebo/RViz and rosbag replay.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered support assistant for customer support agents using a RAG architecture over internal docs and past tickets, with human-in-the-loop review. Demonstrates strong applied LLM engineering focused on real-world constraints (hallucinations, latency, cost) using routing to smaller models, reranking, caching, and rigorous evaluation/monitoring (offline eval sets, A/B tests, KPI tracking).”

“Built and deployed a production RAG system for financial/compliance teams using GPT-4, Claude, and local models to retrieve and summarize thousands of internal documents with strong security controls (role-based retrieval, PII masking). Drove significant operational gains (30+ hours/week saved, ~35% productivity lift, ~45% faster responses) and orchestrated end-to-end ingestion/embedding/index refresh pipelines with Airflow, S3, and SageMaker while partnering closely with compliance stakeholders on auditability and traceability.”

“ML/LLM engineer with production experience building a RAG-based LLM support assistant (FastAPI, Redis, Kafka) with multi-layer validation and human-in-the-loop feedback loops to improve accuracy over time. Has orchestration and MLOps depth using Airflow and Kubeflow on Kubernetes (autoscaling, alerting, monitoring) and delivered measurable ops impact (40% ticket efficiency improvement) by partnering closely with customer support teams.”

“Built and deployed an AI agent to help patients navigate complex housing information by scraping and normalizing unstructured data across all 50 U.S. states, then layering a LangChain RAG system with MMR re-ranking to reduce hallucinations. Experienced in orchestrating multi-agent workflows (LangGraph/CrewAI) and production reliability practices (Pydantic-validated outputs, LLM-as-judge evals, tracing). Also delivered stakeholder-facing explainability via SHAP dashboards for a loan-approval predictive model at Welspot.”

“ML engineer/data scientist who deployed a production credit risk + insurance claims triage platform at Hartford Financial, combining XGBoost default prediction with BERT-based document classification. Demonstrated strong MLOps by cutting inference latency to sub-500ms and building drift monitoring plus automated retraining/deployment pipelines (MLflow, CloudWatch, GitHub Actions, SageMaker) with human-in-the-loop review and SHAP-based explainability for underwriting adoption.”

Harshini Jonnala

Screened

Senior Backend Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud microservices

Hyderabad, India2y exp

“Backend engineer with NTT Data experience building Java/Spring Boot services for product-data ingestion, including Kafka-based asynchronous pipelines and Redis read-through caching. Also built a personal RAG system deployed on Google Kubernetes Service using FastAPI, LangChain, and Pinecone with multi-tenant data isolation; holds a Master’s background in Machine Learning.”

Sowmya Kasu

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in Healthcare IT and cloud-native microservices

Northridge, CA6y exp

“Backend/ML engineer with healthcare experience at Kaiser Permanente building HIPAA-compliant Java/Spring Boot + GraphQL APIs integrated with Epic HealthConnect, including hands-on reliability/performance debugging using Prometheus/Grafana and resolver-level N+1 elimination. Also built an end-to-end malaria parasite detection ML feature (CNN/R-CNN) with evaluation, guardrails, and workflow integration, and has experience designing robust state-machine-based automation with retries, DLQs, and alerting.”

Uttam Kumar

Screened

Intern AI Engineer specializing in LLM agents, RAG, and scalable cloud deployment

Atlanta, GA2y exp

“AI/LLM engineer at GPT integrators who built a production multi-agent enterprise workflow integration system, tackling hard problems in agent orchestration, layered memory, and custom RAG over enterprise/user data. Also built an education-focused agent solution integrating with Canvas, Zoom, and email to automate classroom admin tasks, and is currently applying agentic AI to insurance underwriting workflows in collaboration with underwriters.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of fraud detection and investigator-assist systems, combining anomaly detection with RAG-based LLM summarization in production. Stands out for translating research ideas into reliable cloud-deployed workflows that improved precision to 92%, cut review time by 25-30%, and increased investigator throughput by roughly 30% while also building reusable Python infrastructure for team-wide velocity.”

“Robotics/embodied-AI practitioner who built a TurtleBot3 LiDAR-fingerprint localization pipeline end-to-end (autonomous data collection + multi-head NN) achieving ~30 cm error in a 10x10 m space. Also has industry experience at Infineon building large-scale production data/AI pipelines and rapidly fixing a deployed recommendation system by correcting upstream data normalization, improving accuracy by 20%+.”

“Built a production GPT-4/LangChain/Pinecone RAG “AI Copilot” at Northern Trust to automate financial report generation and analyst Q&A over internal structured (SQL warehouse) and unstructured policy data. Focused on real-world production challenges—grounding and latency—achieving major speed gains (seconds to milliseconds) via MiniLM embedding optimization and Redis caching, and implemented rigorous testing/evaluation with MLflow-backed metrics while aligning compliance and finance stakeholders for deployment.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based enterprise document intelligence platform for financial/compliance/operational documents on AWS (Spark/Glue ingestion, embeddings + vector DB, LangChain orchestration, REST APIs on Docker/Kubernetes). Deep hands-on experience orchestrating multi-step and multi-agent LLM workflows (LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI) with strong focus on grounding, evaluation, observability, and cost/latency optimization, and has partnered closely with non-technical finance/compliance teams to drive adoption.”

“Graduate Assistant Intern at Friends University who built and deployed a GenAI-driven requirement understanding system that automates extraction and semantic grouping of technical requirements from large unstructured documents. Demonstrates strong LLM engineering rigor (golden datasets, regression testing, post-processing validation) and production-minded delivery using LangChain/LlamaIndex orchestration, FastAPI microservices, Docker, and cloud deployment.”