Vetted Data Engineering Professionals

“Data engineer focused on building reliable, production-grade pipelines and external data collection systems on AWS (S3/Lambda/SQS/Glue/EMR) using PySpark/SQL, serving curated datasets to Snowflake/Redshift for finance and fraud teams. Has operated a large-scale crawler ingesting millions of records/day with anti-bot tactics, schema versioning/quarantine, and CloudWatch/Datadog monitoring, and also shipped a versioned REST API with caching and query optimization.”

“Data/ML platform engineer with healthcare (Cigna) experience owning an end-to-end pipeline spanning Airflow + Debezium CDC ingestion, PySpark/SQL transformations, rigorous data quality gates, and feature-store/API serving for ML training and inference. Worked at 10+ TB scale and cites a ~30% latency reduction plus stronger reliability via idempotent design, monitoring, and backfill-safe reprocessing; also built pragmatic early-stage data pipelines at Frankenbuild Ventures.”

Molli Dinesh

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in NLP, LLMs, and MLOps

Remote, USA4y exp

“Built an AI-driven insurance policy summarization platform at Marsh, taking it end-to-end from messy PDF ingestion/OCR and custom extraction through LLM fine-tuning and AWS SageMaker deployment. Delivered measurable impact (25% reduction in manual review time, 99% uptime) and demonstrated strong production MLOps/LLMOps practices with Airflow/Step Functions orchestration, rigorous evaluation (ROUGE + human review), and continuous monitoring for drift, latency, and hallucinations.”

Pravalika Kasojjala

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM, RAG/GraphRAG, and fraud analytics

Charlotte, NC5y exp

“LLM/agent engineer who has deployed a production internal assistant to reduce employee inquiry resolution time while maintaining regulatory compliance. Experienced with RAG, hallucination risk triage, and graph-based orchestration (LangGraph) for enterprise/banking-style workflows, emphasizing schema-validated, citation-backed, tool-constrained agent designs and tight collaboration with non-technical business/compliance stakeholders.”

Yuvraj Singh Chauhan

Screened

Entry-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and DevOps automation

Bangalore, India1y exp

“Built and owned a production-scale AI-driven software release/version intelligence platform orchestrated via GitHub Actions that tracks 1000+ upstream repositories and automatically generates SLA-bound JIRA upgrade tickets for hardened container images. Replaced brittle regex/PEP440 parsing with an LLM-based semantic filtering layer plus deterministic validation to handle noisy/inconsistent GitHub tags at scale, with monitoring for coverage, latency, and correctness validated against upstream ground truth.”

Connor White

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in GPU-accelerated computer vision

College Station, TX5y exp

“Robotics software lead from Texas A&M Aggie Robotics who built WoopLib, a SLAM-based vision/navigation library using PID pure pursuit. Has hands-on ROS/ROS2 and Jetson Nano experience integrating Intel RealSense (T265/D435i) with wheel odometry for accurate state estimation, including compiling deprecated sensor support from source and optimizing by moving to Python with C++ bindings and serial streaming to a microcontroller.”

Kiran M

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and data platforms

Bentonville, AR5y exp

“Backend/ML integration engineer with experience at Accenture and Walmart building Flask-based analytics and prediction APIs on PostgreSQL/MySQL. Strong focus on performance and scalability—uses precomputed aggregates, Redis caching, query tuning (indexes/partitioning/EXPLAIN), and async/background processing; also designs secure multi-tenant isolation with JWT and schema/db-per-tenant strategies.”

Krishnamraju Penumatsa

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in cloud data platforms and streaming pipelines

Fort Worth, TX6y exp

“Data engineer currently at American Airlines who built and owned end-to-end flight operations and booking data pipelines (batch + real-time) using Azure Data Factory, Kafka, Spark/Databricks, Synapse, and Snowflake—processing hundreds of GBs/day. Strong focus on reliability and data quality (idempotency, checkpointing, retries, validation/alerts) and delivered near-real-time analytics powering Power BI dashboards; previously helped stand up an early-stage data platform at Sysco on AWS (Glue/S3/Redshift) with Airflow and Jenkins CI/CD.”

“Former founding engineer and eventual CTO at 2Plus2 Partners (25 years ago) with additional experience in two private-equity-backed companies (apex analytix and HICX). Interested in helping build another company before retirement; comfortable with entrepreneurial risk but cannot self-fund significant capital.”

Vishal Kodakanchi

Screened

Director of AI Platforms & Architecture specializing in enterprise GenAI and AI Centers of Excellence

Mountain View, CA20y exp

“Software industry veteran (20 years) pursuing entrepreneurship; currently building an MVP software product aimed at solving specific finance and accounting problems for nano, micro, and small enterprises. Plans to run a metrics-driven pilot to validate demand before refining the product and raising capital; leveraging Google for Startups and exploring AWS for Startups.”

“Former Harris County leader turned consulting partner with strong public-sector transformation experience, including a $2.5M Azure-based analytics modernization for Harris County Public Health and governance-heavy infrastructure work on the Harris County Flood Warning System. Also managed multiple concurrent quantum computing optimization and machine learning engagements, showing an unusual blend of government modernization, executive stakeholder management, and frontier-tech delivery.”

“Built and deployed an LLM-powered customer support assistant (“Notable Assistant”) focused on automating common post-customer queries while maintaining multi-turn context and meeting scalability/latency needs. Experienced with production orchestration and operations using Kubernetes and Apache Airflow (DAG-based ETL, scheduling, monitoring/alerts), and has partnered closely with customer service stakeholders to align chatbot behavior with brand voice through iterative testing.”

“Applied NLP/ML engineer with experience at KeyBank and Novartis building production document intelligence and entity-resolution systems in finance and healthcare. Has delivered end-to-end pipelines (Airflow + AWS) using transformers (DistilBERT/Sentence-BERT), vector search (FAISS/Milvus/Pinecone), and human-in-the-loop labeling to achieve measurable gains (40%+ faster queries; up to 88% F1 and 93% precision/90% recall in entity linking).”

Janvitha Mandyam

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and NLP

Chicago, IL4y exp

“GenAI/LLMOps practitioner who deployed a production RAG-based customer service and knowledge retrieval system for a global bank using LangChain, FAISS/Azure Cognitive Search, GPT-4/Claude, and Guardrails—driving a reported 35% Q&A accuracy lift while reducing handle time and escalations. Also partnered with non-technical leaders at CVS Health to deliver ML-driven supply chain risk and inventory insights via anomaly detection, NLG summaries, and stakeholder-friendly dashboards.”

“GenAI/RAG engineer who has deployed a production policy/regulatory search assistant for a financial client using LangChain + Vertex AI, FastAPI, Docker/Kubernetes, and Airflow-orchestrated data pipelines. Demonstrated measurable impact with 50–60% latency reduction and 70% fewer pipeline failures, plus KPI-driven grounding evaluation (90%+ target) and strong cross-functional collaboration with compliance/business teams.”

“Built and owned an end-to-end RAG-based AI support platform at Mechanize (FastAPI/LangChain/Pinecone/React) with rigorous evals and guardrails, driving 45% fewer support tickets and ~$280K annual savings. Also led a high-risk legacy modernization at Argo AI, incrementally extracting a monolithic Django backend using Strangler Fig + feature flags while supporting 10K+ concurrent users.”