Vetted Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) Professionals

“Built and shipped a production-grade GenAI Fraud & Compliance Investigation Copilot for a large US bank, integrating OCR docs, structured data, and prior case history to generate grounded, regulator-friendly summaries and red-flag highlights. Demonstrates strong end-to-end LLM systems engineering (LangGraph/LangChain, hybrid retrieval with FAISS+BM25, guardrails/citations, streaming/latency optimization) plus rigorous evaluation and close partnership with compliance stakeholders.”

“Built and deployed a production generative AI chatbot at NVIDIA using LangChain + GPT-3 integrated with internal data sources, cutting response time nearly in half and improving CSAT by ~12 points. Also delivered LLM-driven QA tools by fine-tuning Hugging Face transformer models and deploying via an AWS-based pipeline (Lambda/Glue/S3) with orchestration (Airflow/Step Functions), CI/CD, Kubernetes, and monitoring (MLflow/Splunk/Power BI).”

Akanksha Agrawal

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Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in event-driven data platforms

Bangalore, India5y exp

“Backend engineer with SAP experience modernizing a legacy Flask/PostgreSQL product master data platform into a modular, stateless, containerized service with Kafka-based background processing and improved observability. Also has hands-on academic/side-project experience operationalizing ML (NLP retrieval with TF-IDF/BERT via FastAPI and CV lane-edge detection inference APIs using PyTorch).”

“Built end-to-end LLM/RAG systems for biological data and scientific literature analysis in a drug discovery setting, helping researchers explore disease insights and treatment hypotheses faster. Combines applied GenAI product work with strong production engineering, including monitoring, retrieval optimization, reusable Python services, and scalable deployment on AWS/Kubeflow.”

“Robotics-focused engineer who built a non-holonomic self-driving car on Raspberry Pi 5 using ROS 2, implementing sensor fusion (robot_localization EKF), 2D SLAM (slam_toolbox), custom Hybrid A*/RRT* planners, and MPC trajectory tracking. Demonstrated strong real-time debugging and performance tuning (timestamp sync, CPU contention mitigation) and is extending the platform toward CV-based plant identification and autonomous plant watering.”

Sahil Kakadiya

Screened

Junior Embedded Systems & Wireless Software Engineer specializing in BLE/Wi-Fi performance

Mountain View, CA2y exp

“Master’s capstone contributor on an autonomous rover navigation project, serving as an embedded/robotics software designer. Built low-level wheel control and odometry from encoders, integrated RealSense and RPLidar via ROS, and solved sensor-fusion/coordinate-frame issues by creating custom TF transforms. Used Gazebo to debug sim-to-real behavior and improved reliability on rough terrain by moving to dual-channel encoders when IMU data proved unreliable.”

Sai Karthik Chittamuru

Screened

Senior Salesforce Developer specializing in AI systems and enterprise cloud solutions

Pittsburgh, PA15y exp

“Salesforce-focused engineer with hands-on experience building Sales Cloud and Service Cloud solutions, including a Zoho billing integration for quote/contract workflows and a multi-panel LWC case management dashboard. Stands out for making practical architecture decisions around middleware vs. custom REST, handling idempotency with upsert patterns, and modernizing legacy Aura patterns with Lightning Message Service.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on experience building a dual-arm (Kawasaki duAro) Cranfield assembly task-planning and motion-planning stack in ROS/MoveIt, using PDDL + behavior trees and OMPL for collision-free execution. Improved tight-tolerance insertions by integrating RGB-D visual servoing into the task planner loop, and also built an LLM-driven navigation pipeline with ORBSLAM3 for natural-language command parsing and real-time replanning.”

Praveen Nutulapati

Screened

Mid-level Generative AI Engineer specializing in LLM fine-tuning, RAG, and agentic systems

New York, NY6y exp

“Built and deployed a production multi-agent RAG system at JPMorgan Chase to automate regulated credit analysis and compliance clause discovery across large internal policy/document libraries. Implemented LangGraph-based supervisor orchestration with structured state management (Azure OpenAI) to support long-running, resumable workflows, plus hybrid retrieval + re-ranking and guardrails for reliability. Strong at evaluation/observability (trace logging, LLM-judge, HITL) and at communicating results to non-technical stakeholders via Power BI embeds and Streamlit prototypes.”

“Built and owned a production conversational AI platform for a healthcare contact center, including RAG-based agent assist, hybrid retrieval, safety guardrails, and production monitoring. Stands out for combining LLM product delivery with strong operational rigor, driving a reported 25-30% improvement in handling time in a sensitive healthcare environment.”

“AI/ML practitioner who built an Indian Sign Language recognition system (MediaPipe hand keypoints + CNN/RNN) as an accessibility-focused teaching aid, iterating closely with advocacy groups and educators and reaching 92% accuracy. Also has production-scale data migration experience at Saasgenie, using Kubernetes pod parallelization to migrate 1M+ ITSM records with a 5x throughput gain under API rate limits.”

“Software engineer with experience at Striim and Amazon who ships end-to-end production systems across UI, backend, ML, and operations. Built a real-time PII detection capability for a streaming data platform by integrating Python ML inference into a Java monolith via gRPC sidecars, achieving ~3M events/hour throughput and ~93% accuracy, and helped drive enterprise adoption (Fiserv, CVS). Also modernized internal Amazon tooling for multi-region scale with modularization and fully automated deployments.”

Shriya Bannikop

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud platforms, data engineering, and distributed systems

Seattle, WA5y exp

“Full-stack engineer who built and owned an AI-assisted job-matching dashboard in Next.js App Router/TypeScript, keeping LLM logic server-side and improving performance via deduplication, caching/revalidation, and streaming (35% fewer duplicate LLM calls; 40% faster first render). Also has strong data/backend chops: designed Postgres models and optimized queries at million-record scale (1.8s to 120ms) and built durable AWS multi-region telemetry workflows with idempotency, retries, and monitoring.”

“GenAI/LLM engineer who architected and deployed a production RAG “research assistant” for JPMorgan Chase’s regulatory compliance team, focused on safety-critical behavior (mandatory citations, refusal when evidence is missing). Deep hands-on experience with LlamaIndex, Pinecone, Hugging Face embeddings, LangGraph agent workflows, and metric-driven evaluation (golden sets, TruLens), including a reported 28% relevancy lift via cross-encoder re-ranking.”

“Applied ML/LLM engineer currently building AppleCare’s production chat recommender, owning the full lifecycle from transcript cleaning and fine-tuning through distributed deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement. Their work delivered >10% copy-count improvement, 5% lower modification rate, 60% cost reduction, and $1.1M profitability in 2025, and they also created a reasoning-data generation approach that enabled a reasoning model and a judge model that cut eval time by over 99%.”

“ML/LLM engineer who has shipped a production transformer-based document understanding system on AWS, owning the full pipeline from domain fine-tuning to Dockerized CI/CD deployment. Demonstrates strong production rigor—latency optimization (distillation/quantization, async batching, autoscaling), orchestration with Airflow/Step Functions/Azure Data Factory, and monitoring/drift detection—plus experience translating ops stakeholder needs into adopted AI automation via dashboards.”

“Autonomous driving engineer from iFLYTEK who shipped 5+ middleware modules for vehicles across three models, with deep experience in reliability, IPC performance, and real-world system hardening. Stands out for translating flaky production behavior into measurable signals—resolving 30+ faults, cutting backlog 39%, improving latency 20%, and supporting 500+ hours of road testing with 99%+ reliability.”

“ML/AI engineer with strong end-to-end production ownership across predictive ML and Generative AI use cases. They built a churn prediction platform that cut churn 12% and preserved about $1.2M in annual revenue, and also shipped a RAG-based support assistant that reduced ticket resolution time 30% while improving agent satisfaction and onboarding speed.”

Abhirup Chakraborty

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, AI, and search

Champaign, IL3y exp

“Built a complex graph-based search engine to find connections between people and has hands-on experience designing multi-agent coding pipelines that move features through implementation, test generation, testing, and sanity checks. Stands out for treating AI agents like an engineering team, with shared-memory coordination, queue signaling, and completeness-focused guardrails to improve reliability and reduce ambiguity.”