Vetted Data Pipelines Professionals

“ML/MLOps practitioner from Discover Financial who built and deployed a real-time AI fraud detection platform (LSTM + VAE) on AWS SageMaker with Docker/FastAPI and Jenkins-driven CI/CD. Demonstrated measurable impact (30% accuracy lift, 25% fewer false alerts) and deep expertise in class-imbalance mitigation, drift monitoring, and orchestration (Airflow/Kubeflow), plus strong stakeholder adoption via Power BI dashboards for fraud/compliance teams.”

“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.”

“Worked on large financial analytics datasets combining complaint text, transaction logs, and demographics; built end-to-end NLP/ML pipelines (TF-IDF + Random Forest) and data integration in BigQuery with Tableau reporting, citing ~95–98% accuracy. Also implemented entity resolution with fuzzy matching and semantic linking using BERT sentence-transformer embeddings stored in FAISS, including fine-tuning on labeled pairs to improve search/linking relevance.”

“Built and monetized an object-identification app end-to-end (FastAPI backend, HTML/JS frontend, SQLite→Postgres, auth, and an iOS wrapper via Capacitor/Xcode with Apple privacy/policy compliance). Also productionized an AI-native geospatial metadata/QA assistant using LLM+RAG plus deterministic Python validation, measuring impact via time-to-first-pass review and rework rate, and has experience modernizing legacy GIS workflows and delivering across USDA/FEMA-style teams with disciplined Jira-based execution.”

Pooja Miryala

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in NLP, LLMs, and RAG for banking and healthcare

Ohio, USA4y exp

“Deployed a real-time LLM-driven call center summarization and agent-assist platform at Fifth Third Bank, combining transformer models (BERT/GPT) with FastAPI inference on AKS and vector storage (ChromaDB/PostgreSQL). Emphasizes production-grade reliability (autoscaling, CI/CD, monitoring) and measurable evaluation (A/B testing), and translates model outputs into business-facing Power BI insights for call center leadership.”

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.”

Akhil Bharadwaj Mateti

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in Data Science and Machine Learning

Arlington, Virginia4y exp

“Robotics/AV perception engineer who built a semantic-segmentation road detection system and integrated it into a ROS-based real-time pipeline (ROS bag camera feed to live monitor) achieving ~12 FPS. Strong in practical deployment work: solved multi-library versioning issues (ROS/OpenCV/TensorFlow), containerized the stack with Docker, and optimized inference by shifting runtime to C++ for large latency gains on NVIDIA hardware.”

Andrew Clayman

Screened

Senior Data Scientist specializing in ML, NLP, and production AI systems

Remote8y exp

“Machine learning/NLP engineer with deep Azure stack experience (Data Factory, Databricks/Spark, Delta Lake, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search) who built end-to-end production systems for semantic clustering, entity resolution, and hybrid search. Demonstrated measurable gains from embedding fine-tuning (~15% retrieval precision, ~10–12% nDCG@10) and designed scalable, quality-checked pipelines with MLOps best practices.”

Meghana Nandivada

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in production ML systems and MLOps

2y exp

“ML/AI engineer (TCS) who built and productionized a customer segmentation and personalized-offer recommendation pipeline end-to-end (data cleaning/feature engineering/clustering through Flask API deployment in Docker with monitoring). Emphasizes reliability and operational rigor via validation checks, periodic retraining, model/API versioning, and latency optimization, and has experience translating marketing KPIs into usable dashboards for non-technical teams.”

Dhairya Desai

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in healthcare NLP and predictive analytics

Chicago, IL13y exp

“ML/NLP engineer with healthcare and industrial IoT experience: built an Optum pipeline that converted 2M+ physician notes into structured entities and linked them with claims/pharmacy data to create an actionable patient timeline. Deep hands-on expertise in production NER, entity resolution, and hybrid search (Elasticsearch + embeddings/FAISS), plus robust data engineering practices (Airflow, Spark, data contracts, auditability) and experimentation-to-production rollout via shadow mode and feature flags.”

Serge Ahranovich

Screened

Executive CTO / Platform Architect specializing in IoT, telematics, and EV charging infrastructure

Los Angeles, CA20y exp

“Founder of TimeTick (timetick.io), an AI-powered diagnostics platform for IoT combining device simulation, automated testing, and real-time monitoring—initially focused on EV charger diagnostics. Former VP of Engineering with a track record of building IoT systems from scratch and applying AI to detect protocol-failure patterns that drive downtime; currently supporting existing customers and converting pilots (with leads like Siemens and ABB) into paid subscriptions.”

Patrick Seeman

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist and Game Tech Leader specializing in ML, healthcare analytics, and Unity

Manila, Philippines5y exp

“Data scientist at Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute who led a production automation to convert unstructured (and sometimes image-based) pathology reports into structured data for government reporting. Built an on-prem LangGraph + Ollama pipeline with OCR (Tesseract), spell-checking, confidence scoring, and human-audited guardrails to mitigate hallucinations and improve reliability under PHI constraints.”

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.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-driven data harmonization/record-matching pipeline for pharmaceutical datasets, combining normalization, embeddings/vector search, and an LLM validation step. Emphasizes production reliability via guardrails, confidence thresholds, idempotent/retryable stages, and human-in-the-loop fallbacks, with monitoring focused on manual review and error rates to reduce false positives.”

“Backend-focused Python engineer who builds modular Flask services on AWS and specializes in performance/scalability work across data-heavy APIs. Has concrete wins in query optimization (1.5s to <200ms) and high-throughput async processing (Celery+Redis, ~40% throughput gain), plus experience serving scikit-learn text classification models via containerized REST services and designing multi-tenant data isolation strategies.”

“AI/ML engineer (Merkle) with hands-on experience deploying RAG-based LLM applications and real-time recommendation engines into production. Strong in cloud/on-prem architectures, GPU autoscaling, caching, and network optimization—delivered measurable latency reductions (40–70%) and improved retrieval relevance by systematically benchmarking chunking/embedding configurations and validating pipelines via CI/CD.”

“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.”

“Backend engineer with airline operations domain experience who modernized flight-ops systems from batch updates to real-time streaming on AWS (Kafka + Spring Boot microservices), improving latency and stability through metric-driven tuning and idempotency. Also shipped a production LLM decision-support component using RAG over operational logs and internal procedures, with strong guardrails and an evaluation/regression loop to reduce hallucinations and enforce grounding.”

“Data engineer with banking FP&A experience who led an end-to-end migration of 10+ TB from Teradata to Azure (ADF + Data Lake + Databricks/PySpark + Synapse). Emphasizes reliability (multi-stage validation, monitoring/alerts) and performance (Spark tuning, incremental loads, autoscaling), reporting ~99.5% pipeline reliability while supporting downstream consumers with stable schemas and clear change management.”

“Data engineer in healthcare/clinical data platforms (HarmonCare) who built and operated an end-to-end lakehouse pipeline ingesting HL7/FHIR at ~2–3M records/day on AWS (Glue/Lambda/S3/Spark) and serving trusted datasets in Snowflake. Implemented strong validation/reconciliation gates and a data quality framework that reduced discrepancies ~40%, plus CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Terraform) and monitoring (Airflow/CloudWatch).”

Eric Guzman

Screened

Senior Solutions Architect specializing in MLOps and AI platform operations

New York, NY7y exp

“Audio/music editor and mixer with Symphony Space promotional work (e.g., Uptown Showdown, Selected Shorts), focused on shaping emotion and pacing through tempo automation, tension-building harmonic choices, and precise cut-to-music timing. Pro Tools certified (Institute of Audio Research) with hands-on mixing workflows across Logic, Reason, and Cubase, and experience iterating based on commercial/producer feedback.”

Ambuk Rehani

Screened

Mid-level AI/Backend Engineer specializing in RAG and data platforms

Dallas, TX7y exp

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered financial Q&A interface that extracts precise numeric data from PDFs using a hybrid AWS Textract + LLM normalization pipeline, with confidence gating and guardrails to prevent unreliable answers. Experienced with LangChain-based RAG orchestration (chunking, memory, structured outputs) and collaborated closely with PMs/analysts on IRS Form 990 extraction requirements.”

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.”

Bhavishyasai Chigurupati

Screened

Mid-Level Data/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and cloud data platforms

Overland Park, KS5y exp

“Built and productionized an LLM-based financial document analysis system using a RAG pipeline, including robust ingestion/chunking/embedding workflows, vector DB retrieval, and an AWS-deployed FastAPI service containerized with Docker. Demonstrates strong applied expertise in improving retrieval quality and latency at scale, plus hands-on experience debugging agentic/LLM workflows with monitoring and trace-based analysis while supporting demos and customer-facing adoption.”