Vetted Data Pipelines Professionals

Kevin Delong

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI, LLMs, and RAG systems

Irvine, CA12y exp

“AI/ML engineer with hands-on experience shipping production systems across fintech, travel, and legal use cases. They’ve built end-to-end chatbot, generative content, and RAG solutions on AWS with CI/CD, monitoring, and guardrails, including a loan application platform that generated $3,000 in sales in its first month.”

“Engineer with a mature, agent-oriented approach to AI-driven software development, using structured planning, TDD, and verification loops rather than ad hoc prompting. Has hands-on experience acting as a tech lead for multiple AI agents in an LLM intelligent routing project, coordinating implementation, testing, debugging, and edge-case review with strong attention to system tradeoffs.”

“Software engineer focused on backend/full-stack, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and AI-related work. Stands out for using AI and multi-agent workflows as an engineering accelerator while maintaining rigorous testing, logging, and system-level validation, including work on telemetry and monitoring platforms where reliability and correctness are critical.”

“Early-career engineer with undergraduate research and hospital internship experience building Python/LLM automation systems, including a Study Planner AI and internal RAG tools for messy legal and clinical data workflows. Stands out for combining web scraping, vector search, and frontend integration to replace manual CSV-heavy processes under tight timelines.”

“Intern-level full-stack engineer who has built across accessibility tech, ad-tech, healthcare software migration, and consumer analytics projects. Stands out for combining hands-on React/frontend work with backend integration, accessibility-aware routing logic, OAuth debugging, and pragmatic product decisions in highly ambiguous environments.”

“AI/full-stack engineer who has built zero-to-one internal products around LLMs, RAG, and NLP pipelines, including a conversational data interface and a production AI agent system. Stands out for combining frontend UX for non-technical users with backend/cloud architecture and measurable impact, including a reported 60% reduction in data retrieval time.”

Abhinava Sai Tirunagari

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI, healthcare, and FinTech systems

Gainesville, FL2y exp

“Frontend-leaning software engineer who built significant parts of an AI platform at Cognura Health, translating complex document-processing and extraction workflows into usable browser interfaces for business and operations teams. Stands out for combining React/TypeScript UI ownership with backend API collaboration, performance tuning, and thoughtful UX for asynchronous AI workflows.”

Dolly Shyam

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and AI-driven platforms

New York, NY4y exp

“Backend-focused developer with primary experience in Python, Node.js, databases, and API development. Served as the sole backend engineer on a customer dashboard project, owning database review, API endpoint creation, and coordination with frontend developers for integration.”

Lenny Lin

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI and distributed systems

Champaign, IL3y exp

“Built and owned a hackathon project (Gritto) with a Python/FastAPI backend that routes user text through a sequence of Gemini agents to produce structured JSON outputs. Has hands-on production deployment experience using Docker/Docker Compose, GitHub Actions CI/CD, AWS App Runner, MongoDB, and secrets management (Doppler + migration to AWS Secrets Manager), plus implemented a chat-like experience via multiple HTTP requests when SSE wasn’t viable.”

“Backend/data engineer who helped evolve Bitnimbus LLC’s Kafka-as-a-service MVP from a monolith into an event-driven distributed system, using careful design, parallel rollouts, and idempotent event handling to maintain correctness. Also built production-grade API and database security (JWT scopes, rate limiting, explicit Postgres policies/RLS-style controls) and improved Prometheus monitoring by eliminating false outages via heartbeat metrics and windowed aggregation.”

“Backend engineer working on Plumas Bank’s digital modernization, building a FastAPI-based loan origination/processing system with OAuth2/JWT security, AWS Lambda-driven PDF document generation to S3, and MongoDB integration. Has led a legacy workflow migration to a new microservice using dual-write/dual-read and monitoring, and emphasizes multi-tenant isolation via layered API controls plus row-level security.”

“Backend/data engineer who built a production-ready multi-agent financial intelligence system (Mycroft) that orchestrates specialized AI agents to analyze real-time market data using FastAPI and Pinecone vector search. Brings strong security/reliability instincts (rate limiting, JWT/OAuth2, retries/backoff, health checks) and has caught high-impact data integrity issues in financial migrations (timezone normalization across global legacy systems).”

“Robotics/embodied-AI practitioner who built a TurtleBot3 LiDAR-fingerprint localization pipeline end-to-end (autonomous data collection + multi-head NN) achieving ~30 cm error in a 10x10 m space. Also has industry experience at Infineon building large-scale production data/AI pipelines and rapidly fixing a deployed recommendation system by correcting upstream data normalization, improving accuracy by 20%+.”

“Backend engineer who has built end-to-end data and platform systems across domains: a Scala/Java media data warehouse with a custom query language and Elasticsearch search, plus production security patterns (RBAC, RLS, audit trails) including a telehealth platform. Also demonstrated strong operational rigor by using feature-flagged side-by-side migrations and by catching ecommerce checkout edge cases that were dropping revenue.”

“Built a production GPT-4/LangChain/Pinecone RAG “AI Copilot” at Northern Trust to automate financial report generation and analyst Q&A over internal structured (SQL warehouse) and unstructured policy data. Focused on real-world production challenges—grounding and latency—achieving major speed gains (seconds to milliseconds) via MiniLM embedding optimization and Redis caching, and implemented rigorous testing/evaluation with MLflow-backed metrics while aligning compliance and finance stakeholders for deployment.”

“Graduate Assistant Intern at Friends University who built and deployed a GenAI-driven requirement understanding system that automates extraction and semantic grouping of technical requirements from large unstructured documents. Demonstrates strong LLM engineering rigor (golden datasets, regression testing, post-processing validation) and production-minded delivery using LangChain/LlamaIndex orchestration, FastAPI microservices, Docker, and cloud deployment.”

“Robotics software engineer who led system design for an Autonomous Trash Collecting ASV presented at the IEEE ICRA 2025 “Robots in the Wild” workshop, integrating YOLOv8-based perception with ROS autonomy logic to detour for trash while preserving a scientific survey mission. Also built ROS2 UAV capabilities combining ArUco detection, RTAB-Map SLAM, and PX4 integration, with strong simulation (Gazebo/VTD/MSC Adams) and CI/CD QA automation experience.”

“ML/AI engineer with production experience in high-scale banking fraud detection at Truist, building an end-to-end pipeline (Airflow/AWS Glue/Snowflake, PyTorch/sklearn) with automated retraining and Kubernetes-based deployment; delivered measurable gains (22% fewer false positives, 15% higher recall) and reduced manual ops ~40%. Also partnered with clinicians at Kellton to deploy an LLM system for summarizing/classifying clinical notes, improving review time and decision speed.”

“ML/NLP engineer (Beyond Identity) who built production semantic search and entity-resolution systems over internal security documentation, using LDA + BERT embeddings with FAISS/Pinecone to cut search time by 30%. Also scaled a real-time anomaly detection pipeline to millions of events/day with Spark and AWS Lambda, with strong emphasis on measurable validation (Precision@k, MRR, F1, ARI).”

Aakanksha Desai

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in React, Kubernetes, and AI-powered apps

Scottsdale, Arizona2y exp

“Backend/DevOps-leaning engineer managing multiple customer service platforms end-to-end (requirements through deployment). Built an in-house Python monitoring/alerting solution for Salesforce-to-Java contact sync jobs (Snowflake dependencies) that increased uptime ~60%, and helped modernize delivery by moving the team from manual releases to automated Jenkins-based deployments while coordinating an Oracle EBS→Fusion transition with business/data/IT stakeholders.”

“Built a production AI legal search platform that uses a retrieval-first, source-grounded LLM pipeline with confidence-based fallbacks and structured, traceable outputs to reduce hallucinations and improve trust. Also has experience at Discover Excellence building real-time analytics and identity stitching systems, emphasizing conservative data validation, idempotent processing, and fault-tolerant queue-based workflows.”

Ramya Konda

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in healthcare ML and generative AI

Remote, USA5y exp

“AI/LLM engineer at Humana who built and deployed a HIPAA-aware RAG system for clinical record retrieval, cutting search time dramatically and improving retrieval efficiency by 30%. Experienced with Spark-scale data preprocessing, QLoRA fine-tuning, LangChain orchestration, and MLflow+SageMaker integration, with a strong testing/evaluation discipline (A/B tests, human eval) to hit 95%+ accuracy and production latency targets.”

Manvi Panjwani

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in cloud, governance automation, and distributed systems

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Governance engineer intern at GSK who built policy-as-code automation using Open Policy Agent/Rego integrated into GitHub CI/CD and Terraform workflows. Also built and shipped a voice-enabled expense tracking app using speech-to-text + LLM structured extraction with strong validation, retries, and semantic guardrails, and designed the supporting PostgreSQL data model with performance-focused indexing.”

Nikhil Chagi

Screened

Intern Data Analyst specializing in data pipelines and LLM/RAG applications

San Francisco, CA1y exp

“Built and deployed LLM-powered analytics and reporting systems, including a RAG-based assistant over Snowflake that let business users ask questions in plain English instead of writing SQL. Experienced orchestrating LLM agents (LangChain) and serverless reporting pipelines (AWS Lambda/S3/RDS), with a strong focus on grounded outputs, monitoring/evaluation, and data quality—used daily by non-technical finance and operations teams at Cigna.”