Vetted Data Ingestion Professionals

Samatha Amsala

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in cloud data warehousing and analytics

Omaha, NE6y exp

“Data engineer at American Express who owned end-to-end pipelines for transaction and customer data used in finance reporting and risk analytics, processing ~5–8M records/day. Built Airflow-orchestrated ingestion (including external APIs/web sources) with strong data quality controls, monitoring/alerts, and resilient backfill/retry patterns, and also shipped a versioned REST API serving aggregated metrics to analytics teams.”

“Backend/data engineer with experience at Citi and Elevance Health, building end-to-end pipelines and data services in regulated, high-volume environments. They combine Python, SQL, .NET, Azure Functions, and strong observability/reliability patterns to improve processing speed, reduce manual effort, and maintain high uptime across financial and healthcare data platforms.”

“Repeat founder and active VC with over 3 years of experience running a fund and syndicate. Currently exploring an agentic deal flow CRM for venture funds, with early components already built and a clear plan to dogfood it and recruit other VCs for validation.”

“Full-stack product engineer with hands-on ownership across React/TypeScript, serverless backends, and Postgres, combining technical depth with strong UX instincts. Stands out for measurable impact: improved a slow query from seconds to under 200ms and increased onboarding completion by about 25%, while also building reusable platform primitives and scalable multi-tenant configuration systems.”

“Salesforce-focused candidate with hands-on experience owning Sales Cloud automation end to end, including requirements translation, Flow/Apex design, testing, and production deployment. They show practical judgment in choosing hybrid declarative/code solutions, bulk-safe Apex patterns, and modern UI work across both LWC and legacy Aura components.”

Sachin Komati

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI, RAG, and healthcare ML

Florida, USA5y exp

“Built an end-to-end GenAI/RAG platform for financial compliance and research at BlackRock, focused on safe, auditable answers in a highly regulated environment. Combines strong LLM engineering depth with production platform skills and delivered clear business impact, including reducing research/compliance turnaround from hours to seconds, improving retrieval relevance by 22%, and cutting inference costs by 75%.”

“Engineer with hands-on experience across frontend, backend, and data systems, including React/TypeScript UI work at CitiGroup, ETL pipeline ownership at Accenture, and personal 0→1 builds like an AI chatbot and a real-time multiplayer typing platform. Stands out for combining product-minded prioritization with strong implementation depth in performance optimization, type-safe frontend architecture, and resilient data pipeline design.”

“Programmatic media specialist who owned a $50K+/month Trade Desk DSP account for Disney movie/TV launches, leveraging PMPs and rigorous testing across audiences, deals, and creative formats. Drove 5–10% week-over-week gains in video completion rate while maintaining strict brand-safety standards, and has experience leading a team of traders and translating complex performance tradeoffs into client-ready action plans.”

“Customer-facing technical professional experienced in productionizing complex systems (including LLM/agentic workflows) and high-volume cloud data pipelines. Built and hardened a near-real-time data extraction/caching solution that significantly reduced latency and became a reusable pattern for other enterprise use cases; also runs developer demos/workshops with hands-on test environments and has driven 30–50% latency improvements.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG chatbot at Wells Fargo for securely querying regulated financial and compliance documents, emphasizing low hallucination rates, explainability, and strict governance. Experienced with LangChain multi-agent orchestration plus Airflow/Prefect pipelines for ingestion, embeddings, evaluation, and retraining, and partnered closely with compliance/operations to drive adoption through demos and feedback-driven retrieval rules.”

“AI/ML engineer with production experience building LLM-powered document intelligence and customer support systems in healthcare/insurance, emphasizing high-accuracy RAG, long-document processing, and robust monitoring/fallback mechanisms. Also automates and scales ML lifecycle workflows using Apache Airflow and Kubeflow, and partners closely with non-technical operations stakeholders to drive adoption.”

“Applied AI/ML Engineer at JPMorgan Chase who led a banker-facing LLM chatbot from an OpenAI-API POC to a production RAG workflow, including hallucination mitigation, automated evaluation in SageMaker, and operational monitoring with Dynatrace. Also delivers external technical education—hosted a hands-on Grace Hopper Celebration 2025 workshop teaching LangChain/LangGraph agentic workflows.”

“Data/ML practitioner with hands-on experience building NLP systems from prototype to production: delivered a Twitter sentiment classifier with robust preprocessing, SVM modeling, and Power BI reporting, and built entity-resolution pipelines for messy multi-source customer data (reporting ~95% improvement in unique entity identification). Also implemented semantic linking/search using SBERT embeddings with FAISS vector retrieval and domain fine-tuning (reported ~15% precision lift), and applies production workflow best practices (Airflow/Prefect, Docker, Azure ML/Databricks, Great Expectations).”

“Serial entrepreneur who built Verb Technology from a garage startup to a Nasdaq IPO, raising multiple rounds of capital along the way. Invented interactive live streaming technology that was acquired by Amazon and demonstrated rapid product/market response during COVID by prototyping and launching a solution for users while tightly managing AWS costs.”

“Software engineer with experience at Molina Healthcare and Target, owning production features end-to-end across backend, data pipelines, and UI. Built an event-driven claims validation system (Python/Java/Spring Boot/Kafka) with strong observability, and shipped embeddings-based semantic product search with evaluation loops (CTR/top-k + human review) and guardrails like keyword-search fallback.”

“Data engineer focused on fraud and banking analytics who has owned end-to-end batch + streaming pipelines at very large scale (hundreds of millions of records/day). Built robust data quality/observability layers (schema validation, anomaly detection, alerting) and delivered low-latency serving via AWS Lambda/API Gateway with DynamoDB + Redis, plus external data ingestion/scraping pipelines orchestrated in Airflow with anti-bot protections.”

Ajay Madhusudhan Thumala

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in data engineering and LLM applications

Irvine, CA1y exp

“Computer science engineer and master’s graduate who independently built a mechatronics-heavy capstone prototype: a smartphone concept for deafblind users using micro-actuator arrays for braille reading. Also has platform engineering experience at Quantiphi, deploying webhooks to Kubernetes and implementing GitOps-based CI/CD using AWS CodeCommit/CodeBuild and ECR.”

Bhanu Prakash Reddy Dakilli

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in Azure ETL/ELT and data warehousing

Framingham, MA4y exp

“Data engineer who has owned end-to-end production pipelines for customer transaction data (~2–5 GB/day) using Python/PySpark/SQL and Airflow, delivering major reliability and speed gains (70% faster reporting; 60–70% fewer data issues). Also built a daily external web-scraping system with anti-bot handling and safe, idempotent Airflow-driven backfills, plus a Python data API optimized with indexing/caching and tested for correctness.”

“Analytics candidate with hands-on experience at AT&T building SQL/Python pipelines for churn, usage, billing, and network-performance data at multi-million-row scale. Stands out for combining strong data quality and reconciliation practices with measurable operational impact, including a 30% query runtime improvement and ~8 hours/week of reporting automation savings.”

“Candidate takes a disciplined, developer-in-the-loop approach to AI-assisted coding, using AI primarily for brainstorming, suggestions, and optimization while retaining full ownership of architecture and final code decisions. They also actively stay current on AI developments through research papers, communities, and emerging tools.”

“AI/LLM engineer with production experience at Charles Schwab building a RAG-based assistant to help 5,000+ reps answer complex financial policy questions. Implemented a multi-layer anti-hallucination approach (GNN-driven ontology/graph retrieval + citation-only answers) and compliance-focused guardrails (Azure AI Content Safety) in partnership with audit/compliance stakeholders.”

“Engineer with banking and industrial/IoT experience who has deployed a payment-processing microservice with zero downtime, handling Protobuf schema evolution and sensitive data migration via dual-write/checksum techniques. Demonstrates strong cross-stack troubleshooting (pinpointed intermittent distributed timeouts to a failing ToR switch port) and customer-facing Python ETL customization using plugin-based parsers and Pydantic validation, plus hands-on monitoring/alerting improvements with operators.”