Vetted Data Modeling Professionals

“Bootstrapped founder of ByteThirst, a launched browser extension and CLI that monitors and estimates the environmental cost of LLM usage. They are targeting a niche climate-tech/AI space with support for 14 platforms, a freemium subscription model, and a first-mover thesis backed by market research, market sizing, and profit projections.”

“Co-founded a Digital Loss Prevention (DLP) startup and raised $6M in seed funding by showcasing a controlled, laptop-based technology demo. Post-funding, drove MVP planning and execution by sequencing operations and assembling a team to build an appliance MVP, using an iterative build/evaluate/visualize approach.”

“Data engineer with experience at Moderna and Block owning high-volume (≈10TB/day) production pipelines on AWS, using Kafka/S3/Glue/dbt/Snowflake with strong data quality and observability practices (schema validation, anomaly detection, CloudWatch monitoring). Also built external financial API ingestion with Airflow retries, throttling/token rotation, and schema versioning, and helped stand up an early-stage biomedical data platform with CI/CD and incident debugging.”

“Data engineer with eBay experience owning end-to-end pipelines for real-time order and user behavior analytics at 10M+ records/day. Strong in PySpark/SQL transformations, Airflow reliability patterns, and production observability (CloudWatch), with measurable outcomes including improved data quality and 30–40% query performance gains. Also built Python data APIs for analytics/ML consumers with versioning and backward compatibility.”

Travoy Spelling

Screened

Senior Data Scientist / ML Engineer specializing in GenAI, LLMs, and NLP

Texarkana, TX10y exp

“ML/NLP engineer focused on production GenAI and data linking systems: built a large-scale RAG pipeline over millions of support docs using LangChain/Pinecone and added a LangGraph-based validation layer to cut hallucinations ~40%. Also built scalable PySpark entity resolution (95%+ accuracy) and fine-tuned Sentence-BERT embeddings with contrastive learning for ~30% relevance lift, with strong CI/CD and observability practices (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana).”

Byron Pineda

Screened

Staff/Lead Data Scientist specializing in Generative AI, NLP/LLMs, and MLOps

Pascagoula, MS10y exp

“Lead Data Scientist (10+ years) with recent work in healthcare data: built production pipelines that unify EHR, genomics, and clinical notes using NLP (spaCy/BERT/BioBERT) and scalable Spark-based processing. Also led development of domain-specific LLM/NLP systems for chatbots and semantic search, deploying models via FastAPI/Flask and improving retrieval with FAISS-backed, fine-tuned clinical embeddings and RAG-style workflows.”

Anand Madhusoodanan

Screened

Executive HR Tech & Salesforce Architect specializing in AI-driven recruiting automation

Bengaluru, India9y exp

“Co-founder of an HR tech startup who took an LLM-centered skill intelligence engine from prototype to production to deliver explainable, skill-based resume insights as an alternative to black-box ATS screening. Previously worked in consulting (Deloitte, Stand Up, Brilio), with experience in technical demos/workshops, pre-sales scoping, and supporting large deal cycles (including a ~$1M UK automotive client).”

Anu Baluguri

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and event-driven systems

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with production experience at Atlassian and Zoho, spanning GraphQL federation, React/TypeScript frontends, and cloud-native AWS/Kubernetes operations. Built and operated a federated GraphQL gateway with Terraform + CI/CD + observability, delivering major latency and integration-time improvements, and also designed high-volume Kafka data pipelines (10M+ events/day) with strong reliability guarantees.”

Saiteja Gaddam

Screened

Mid-Level Data Engineer specializing in cloud data platforms and streaming analytics

3y exp

“Data engineer (Intuit) who owned an end-to-end telemetry and subscription analytics platform processing ~22M events/day, built on Kinesis/S3/Glue/Spark/Airflow/Redshift. Strong focus on reliability and data quality (schema drift controls, quarantine layers, idempotent reruns) and performance tuning, achieving a reporting latency reduction from ~15 minutes to under 4 minutes while enabling revenue and churn analytics for business teams.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience spanning Amazon IMDb and Northeastern’s NeuroJSON portal, combining consumer product work with complex scientific data applications. Built IMDb’s streaming providers feature—described as the company’s most impactful feature of 2023—and has hands-on experience with React/Angular, GraphQL, AWS, Python services, and production monitoring.”

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer with hands-on experience building financial operations and transaction monitoring products from 0→1 through production scale. They stand out for owning React UI architecture, backend/API integration, and data-layer performance decisions while making pragmatic startup tradeoffs and improving features post-launch based on latency, error, and user feedback.”