Vetted Data Engineering Professionals

“Software/ML engineer who built a production automated job-finding and cold-email personalization system for Fortune 500 outreach, using JobSpy for dynamic scraping, LangChain orchestration, and LLM+vector DB semantic search with grounding/relevance metrics and guardrails. Also delivered a predictive investment analytics platform for financial advisors, communicating results via Tableau dashboards and portfolio KPIs like Sharpe ratio and drawdowns.”

“Built an Arduino-based obstacle-avoiding robot using sonar/laser sensors and improved performance from 0.60 to 0.87 accuracy through sensor-fusion thresholding and iterative tuning. In an internship, optimized a legal-document NLP pipeline by switching to a distilled/quantized transformer and offloading inference to a GPU-backed Flask service, cutting inference time by 40%+ without added infrastructure spend.”

“Built and shipped a production RAG assistant using GPT-4, LangChain, and Pinecone/FAISS to search 50K+ institutional documents, with a strong focus on groundedness and hallucination reduction through retrieval optimization and re-ranking. Pairs this with a metrics-driven evaluation/monitoring approach (BLEU/ROUGE, manual sampling, logging) and workflow automation via Airflow, and has experience translating stakeholder needs into iterative AI prototypes.”

Ponugoti Sushma

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in IoT, edge AI, and enterprise ML

Texas, USA5y exp

“Built and productionized an LLM/RAG question-answering service over technical documentation, focusing on retrieval quality (reranking + IR metrics), latency, and scaling. Experienced orchestrating end-to-end ETL/ML workflows with Airflow/Prefect/AWS Step Functions and improving reliability via parallelism, retries, and shadow testing. Also delivered an explainable healthcare risk-flagging classifier with a stakeholder-friendly dashboard for a non-technical program manager.”

Sai somapalli

Screened

Senior LLM Engineer specializing in Generative AI, RAG, and multimodal assistants

USA6y exp

“GenAI/NLP engineer with experience building classification and summarization pipelines in PyTorch and deploying multimodal GPT-4-style workflows. Has integrated LLM applications across OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, and Amazon Bedrock, and uses LangChain/LlamaIndex/Semantic Kernel to orchestrate RAG and agent workflows with production-focused evaluation metrics like task success rate and groundedness.”

Adrian Lawrence

Screened

Executive Product & Technology Leader specializing in AI, analytics, and regulated industries

Atlanta, GA14y exp

“Serial startup product/technology leader who previously exited a company to Green Street and has accelerator experience via Notre Dame’s IDEA Center. Now pursuing a commercial real estate analytics concept focused on deep demand analysis for better capital allocation, with a provisional patent filed and experience supporting VC funds as an operating partner on product vision and strategy.”

Sravya Chunduri

Screened

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

Virginia, USA4y exp

“AI/ML Engineer with 3+ years of experience spanning RAG pipelines, MLOps, large-scale data workflow automation, and resilient Playwright-based UI automation. At Black Hawk Network and Wipro, they describe shipping production systems with strong observability and compliance controls, including reducing flaky automation failures from 30% to under 2% and automating 3+ TB/day reconciliation workflows.”

“AI/ML engineer with experience at Northern Trust and Persistent Systems building production LLM + RAG systems for regulated financial use cases, including liquidity forecasting, anomaly detection, and credit scoring. Emphasizes compliance-first design with explainability (SHAP), traceability (MLflow), and hallucination controls (FAISS + citation-grounded prompting), and has delivered drift-triggered retraining pipelines using Airflow and Kubernetes while translating model outputs into business-ready marketing segments.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG clinical document understanding and summarization system for healthcare, focused on reducing manual review time while meeting strict accuracy, latency, and compliance needs. Demonstrates strong MLOps/orchestration depth (Airflow, Kubernetes, Azure ML Pipelines) and a rigorous approach to hallucination mitigation through layered, source-grounded safeguards and stakeholder-driven requirements with physicians/compliance teams.”

“Healthcare data/NLP practitioner with experience at UnitedHealthcare building production ML systems that connect unstructured call center transcripts and medical notes to structured claims data. Has delivered measurable impact (25% classification accuracy lift; ~30% relevance improvement) using classical NLP, embeddings (Sentence-BERT + FAISS), and AWS SageMaker deployments with robust validation and drift monitoring.”

“Data professional with ~4 years of experience, most recently at AIG (insurance), building ML/NLP systems for fraud detection and policy automation using transformers, CNNs, and clustering/anomaly detection. Also developed a RAG-based knowledge retrieval system, iterating across embedding models and moving to production based on precision and latency SLAs, then containerizing and deploying with SageMaker and CI/CD.”

“Application/security-focused customer-facing implementer who has secured multi-customer data aggregation apps using per-tenant isolation, short-lived/scoped tokens, and vault-based secrets management. Troubleshoots production issues via API gateway logs and performance tuning, and runs repeatable onboarding playbooks with strong customer-specific and cross-project documentation. Emphasizes AWS least-privilege IAM and secure agent deployment patterns, plus container scanning practices that catch vulnerabilities pre-production and build developer trust.”

Sachin Dulla

Screened

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

Kentwood, MI3y exp

“Built and deployed a domain-specific LLM chatbot for research/support, cutting manual effort by ~50%. Demonstrates strong applied LLM engineering: RAG, prompt grounding with citations and fallbacks, embedding/top-k tuning, and production monitoring (confidence, latency, feedback loops). Experienced orchestrating agent workflows with LangChain-style pipelines and continuous evaluation to maintain reliability.”

Erik Arriaga

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in cloud data pipelines and machine learning

Austin, TX4y exp

“Experience spans college-built AWS-hosted Python/Flask web apps and enterprise data work at General Motors, including PostgreSQL query optimization on millions of records and multi-tenant-style data isolation using group-based, column-level permission grants. Also built an AWS-hosted meat price prediction dashboard using Dash/Plotly and ran large nightly data pipelines orchestrated with Apache Airflow.”

Shrinivas Bhusannavar

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in agentic LLM systems and RAG platforms

San Jose, CA5y exp

“Built and shipped Serrano AI, a multi-tenant SaaS conversational AI platform that automates Odoo ERP workflows and lets ops/finance/supply-chain teams query ERP data in natural language. Implemented a multi-agent architecture (LangChain/LangGraph/CrewAI) with hybrid RAG over ERP schemas, deployed on Heroku/Vercel with production observability, cutting reporting time by ~80% while addressing hallucinations, latency, and schema complexity.”

SaiSindhu Beeravolu

Screened

Mid AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and healthcare AI

Illinois, USA4y exp

“Healthcare ML/AI engineer with production experience at UnitedHealth Group, including an end-to-end readmission prediction system built on 50M+ patient records that improved accuracy by 18% and reduced preventable readmissions by 12%. Also shipped a clinically grounded LLM/RAG referral generator with human-in-the-loop safety controls, showing strong depth in regulated, high-stakes AI systems.”

SUMANTH Metimath

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in ML, LLMs, and AI systems

Potsdam, NY3y exp

“Candidate takes a pragmatic approach to AI-driven development, using AI as a productivity and learning aid while emphasizing personal understanding and code validation. They have hands-on experience applying AI-assisted workflows to a resume analysis and ATS scoring project, including code generation, debugging, parsing logic improvement, and testing.”

Raj Shrinivasan

Screened

Principal AI Engineer specializing in agentic systems and cloud-native platforms

Cleveland, OH23y exp

“Built a production RAG-powered analytics copilot at Aya Healthcare for operations leaders and analysts on a large healthcare staffing platform processing over a billion telemetry records annually. Stands out for strong production-minded agent engineering: deterministic orchestration, grounding-first design, deep observability, and data-driven workflow changes such as confidence-based human review for a PR review agent.”

Seymour Douglas

Screened

Executive Data & AI Leader specializing in cloud-native platforms and data-intensive systems

18y exp

“Data/ML and product leader with large-scale consumer and enterprise experience (including Walmart) who blends hands-on prototyping with executive stakeholder alignment. Has delivered measurable outcomes across personalization, semantic search/knowledge graphs, and fraud/security architecture, and has scaled organizations rapidly (30→180 in 12 months) by upskilling and building modern data/ML engineering capabilities.”

“Executive/engineering leader with 18+ years at an established company who helped turn a top-3 telco data opportunity into meaningful revenue and a continuing partnership to launch new data-driven products. Brings a security/privacy-first approach (compliance assessments and documentation) and a structured North Star + technical planning method for building with limited resources; interested in joining an early-stage founding journey with the right vision and team.”

Saketh Kota

Screened

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

Irving, TX4y exp

“Built and productionized a RAG-based LLM research assistant for biomedical and regulatory document search using Mixtral 7B on SageMaker, LangChain, and Milvus, cutting research time by ~40%. Has hands-on multi-cloud MLOps experience across AWS/Azure/GCP with Kubeflow/Airflow/Composer plus Terraform + ArgoCD, and applies rigorous evaluation/monitoring (latency, accuracy, hallucinations). Also partnered with a non-technical PM to deliver an insurance policy Q&A chatbot that reduced customer response time by 30%+.”

Lloyd Mangnall

Screened

Executive Technology Leader specializing in digital transformation and AI/ML platforms

30y exp

“Founder building AdaptiveWorX™ Flow, a graph-native, agent-first operating system intended to replace document-driven/Agile-era workflows with continuously verifiable, causally linked delivery. Brings decades of systems/architecture perspective plus prior digital health experience, including a PoC turning behavioral therapy sessions into structured longitudinal data using real-time A/V capture and multimodal AI, with an emphasis on compliance, traceability, and scalable platform design.”