Vetted Data Engineering Professionals

“Data engineer at CenterPoint Energy who built and operated multiple production-grade GCP data systems: a daily Snowflake→BigQuery replication framework (150+ tables) with Monte Carlo/Atlan-driven observability and schema-drift protection, plus a FastAPI metrics service for pipeline health. Demonstrated measurable impact (40% faster dashboard queries, 70% less manual refresh work, zero data loss) and strong operational rigor (scaling Cloud Run jobs, SAP SLT reconciliation, quarantine patterns, CI/CD via GitHub Actions + Terraform).”

Rushir Bhavsar

Screened

Intern AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, MLOps, and distributed training

1y exp

“Founding AI engineer (June 2024) at Talon Labs who built and productionized an LLM-powered chatbot for interacting with proprietary supply-chain documents, deployed at large scale (25–100,000 users). Experienced with RAG/LLM orchestration (LangChain, LlamaIndex, Groq AI) and production ops tooling (Kubernetes, Docker, Kubeflow, Airflow), with a metrics-driven approach to evaluation, observability, and stakeholder alignment.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based internal knowledge assistant that let analysts query company documents in natural language, using LangChain/LangGraph with Pinecone and a FastAPI service for integration. Emphasizes reliability in production through hallucination mitigation (retrieval tuning + prompt guardrails) and measurable evaluation/monitoring (accuracy, latency, task completion, hallucination rate), iterating based on user feedback.”

Saumay Killa

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI SaaS and web applications

New York, NY3y exp

“Built a career platform feature end-to-end that generates tailored resumes and cover letters using a React/TypeScript frontend, Postgres, and AWS Lambda/SQS backend. Strong in event-driven, serverless architecture and pragmatic product iteration, with a quantified 60% improvement in onboarding completion after redesigning the UX with resume parsing and a multi-step flow.”

Jayakumar Velayutham

Screened

Director-level automotive strategy leader specializing in GTM, data, AI, and value creation

Plano, TX14y exp

“Automotive-focused GTM and strategy leader who built Kaizen Analytix's Automotive and Mobility practice from roughly $250K to $5M in recurring revenue by turning complex enterprise problems into repeatable offerings. Brings a rare mix of consulting, sales, operations, and delivery execution, with deep expertise in trade/tariff workflows and emerging AI use cases for automotive and mobility.”

“Backend engineer with experience evolving a high-volume agricultural loan processing platform (APMS) at HDFC Bank, emphasizing transactional integrity, auditability, and modularity while integrating with credit bureaus, document management, and risk engines. Also improved automation/reporting robustness at Trend Micro by catching duplicate-event retry edge cases and adding idempotency safeguards.”

“Open-source JavaScript contributor focused on performance and maintainability in data visualization libraries—refactored legacy ES5 into modular ES6, added tests/docs, and delivered ~30% faster load times with positive community adoption. Also optimized a React dashboard (~40% load-time reduction) and took ownership in an ambiguous AI product initiative by setting milestones, standing up an initial ML pipeline, and shipping a prototype in ~6 weeks that became the basis for production.”

“Software engineer who owned end-to-end delivery of customer-facing agricultural forecast reporting (crop yield/health) and iterated quickly via rigorous edge-case testing and customer feedback. Also built an internal ML training platform (TypeScript/React + Flask/Python + MongoDB) used by every developer, with architecture designed to stay responsive under heavy compute load.”

“ML/GenAI engineer with recent CVS Health experience building a production RAG system over unstructured financial/research documents using LangChain, FAISS, and Pinecone, plus LoRA/PEFT fine-tuning of GPT/LLaMA for domain-aware summarization. Demonstrates strong applied MLOps and data engineering skills (Airflow/Prefect, Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD, MLflow) and measurable impact (sub-second retrieval, ~40% better context retrieval, ~25% entity matching improvement).”

“Full-stack engineer who shipped a group scheduling SaaS feature with live availability updates using Next.js App Router + TypeScript, owning production reliability after launch (auth debugging, monitoring, polling/backoff tuning). Has hands-on experience with Postgres schema/index design and query optimization (EXPLAIN ANALYZE) and building durable orchestrated backend workflows with retries and idempotency.”

“GenAI/LLM ML engineer (currently at Webprobo) building an enterprise GenAI platform with document intelligence and automation on AWS and blockchain. Has hands-on experience with RAG, LLM evaluation tooling, and orchestrating production LLM workflows with Apache Airflow, plus deep exposure to reliability challenges in globally distributed/edge deployments. Also partnered with business/marketing stakeholders at a banking client to deliver an AI-driven customer retention insights solution.”

“Engineering Manager/player-coach leading Data Infrastructure, ML/DS, and AI Engineering pods who recently shipped multiple production agentic GenAI features. Built privacy-preserving LLM workflows (PII redaction via Microsoft Presidio) and drove an AI expense-approval agent from ambiguous ask to GA, cutting approval time from ~2.5 days to <4 hours with >85% accuracy. Also owned a major LLM cost overrun incident and implemented cost observability plus circuit breakers to prevent runaway agent loops.”

Chris Colinsky

Screened

Executive Technology Leader/CTO specializing in data platforms, AI agents, and e-commerce/payments

Los Angeles, CA23y exp

“Engineering leader with hands-on coding time who has driven major commerce and data-platform transformations: defined goop’s omnichannel strategy, unified payments to Square, and rebuilt real-time NetSuite inventory flows plus forecasting tools. Currently reorganized engineering into Product/Data/Support teams to hit aggressive seasonal roadmaps, and led a data-lake/medallion ELT refactor feeding embedded analytics (Tinybird) with improved reliability and cost efficiency; also accelerates onboarding via AI coding tools in a serverless, event-driven architecture.”

Kunal Kulkarni

Screened

Intern AI/ML Researcher specializing in computer vision and data engineering

Palo Alto, CA1y exp

“Built a production-oriented multimodal RAG "Fix Assistant" with FastAPI, Tavily search, BM25 + cross-encoder reranking, and a local Phi-3.5 model, emphasizing strict grounding and fallback/verification modes to prevent hallucinations. Also has hands-on federated learning experience using STADLE to orchestrate edge-node training and aggregation for EV telemetry data, plus experience communicating AI results to non-technical stakeholders (traffic RL/congestion outcomes).”

Fangjian Xiong

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP and biomedical entity extraction

Boston, MA2y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered biomedical knowledge extraction pipeline that processed millions of papers to identify tools/techniques and produce a unified knowledge graph via active learning NER (Prodigy + spaCy transformers) and entity linking (Bio-tools/Wikidata). Addressed hard NLP engineering challenges like WordPiece span-offset alignment and scaled inference over ~1.5M documents using batching/caching, containerized services, async workers, and orchestration with Prefect/Airflow.”

Hadi Jaffery

Screened

Junior Data Engineer specializing in Snowflake and investment data platforms

Boston, MA3y exp

“Private markets/private credit data engineer owning core Snowflake/AWS data infrastructure (S3 → ActiveBatch → Snowflake) with automated iceDQ quality checks and curated datasets for internal Power BI/React reporting. Drove major reliability and delivery improvements, including cutting DB CI/CD deploy time 50% and reducing downstream table errors by 90%+, and also built an internal React/FastAPI app to visualize the team’s data infrastructure in an ambiguous early-stage environment.”

“Data engineer with Optum experience building end-to-end healthcare data pipelines for HL7/FHIR, processing millions of records daily across Kafka streaming and Databricks/Spark batch. Strong focus on data quality (schema enforcement/validations), reliability (Airflow monitoring/alerts), and analytics-ready serving in Snowflake powering Power BI/Tableau, with CI/CD via Git and Jenkins.”

“Full stack Python developer who actively integrates AI coding assistants into day-to-day engineering work, including code generation, debugging, testing, and documentation. Has also coordinated multi-agent workflows across backend, frontend, testing, and code review, showing an applied, productivity-focused approach to AI-enabled software delivery.”

“Frontend-focused candidate with hands-on experience building React and TypeScript dashboards for searching, filtering, and analyzing large datasets in real time. Demonstrates practical performance tuning skills using React DevTools, memoization, debouncing, and pagination, and has also built a Mapbox-based location data dashboard with interactive markers and popups.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered calorie-counting chatbot that turns plain-English meal descriptions into normalized food entities, quantities, and calorie estimates using a hybrid transformer + rule-engine pipeline. Emphasizes reliability with schema/constraint guardrails, confidence-based routing (including embedding similarity search fallbacks), and strong observability/metrics (hallucination rate, calibration, latency, cost). Partnered closely with nutritionists to encode domain standards into mappings and validation logic.”

“Master’s-in-Data-Science candidate (UHV) with 4+ years in AI engineering building production LLM and multimodal systems. Designed an LLM-powered workflow automation platform using RAG over vector stores with guardrails (schema/output validation, fallbacks) and a rigorous evaluation/monitoring framework including drift tracking and shadow deployments. Experienced orchestrating large-scale vision-language pipelines with Airflow and Kubernetes (OCR, distributed training) and partnering with non-technical ops stakeholders to cut cycle time and reduce errors.”

“React performance-focused engineer who contributed performance patches back to an open-source context+reducer state helper after profiling and fixing excessive re-renders in an enterprise project management platform at Easley Dunn Productions. Also built an end-to-end LLM-driven pipeline at Prime Healthcare to normalize millions of supply-chain records, reducing defects by 80% and saving 160+ hours/month.”

“ML/LLM engineer at Charles Schwab who built a production loan-advisor chatbot integrated with internal knowledge and loan-calculator APIs, adding strict numeric validation to prevent rate hallucinations and optimizing context to control costs. Also runs ~40 Airflow DAGs orchestrating retraining/ETL/drift monitoring with an automated Snowflake→SageMaker→auto-deploy pipeline, and uses rigorous testing plus canary rollouts tied to business metrics and compliance constraints.”

“Human-AI Design Lab practitioner who productionized a wearable-health anomaly detection system by evolving a standalone autoencoder into a hybrid autoencoder + GPT-based approach, backed by PySpark ETL and MLOps on AWS SageMaker/MLflow. Also has applied LLM troubleshooting experience (fine-tuned FLAN-T5 summarization) and partnered with BI teams to run A/B tests and improve retention via feature stores and experimentation.”