Vetted Data Pipelines Professionals

“Runs two lean real estate companies remotely by building local on-the-ground contact networks and leveraging free-tier technology to keep total annual business costs under $100. Brings a cost-elimination and MVP/validation-first mindset, preferring to join an established company unless a clearly viable business idea emerges.”

“Backend/ML-focused software engineer who built and evolved a Python/FastAPI backend for a large-scale conversational AI platform, decoupling API and inference services to improve stability and deployment velocity. Experienced in production hardening (timeouts/fallbacks/monitoring), secure multi-tenant systems (JWT/RBAC/RLS), and low-risk migrations using shadow deployments and incremental traffic ramp-ups.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across GCP and AWS: built FastAPI microservices on Cloud Run and delivered AWS Lambda + ECS Fargate systems with Terraform/GitHub Actions. Strong in data engineering (Glue/Spark, S3/Redshift) and modernization (SAS to Python/SQL), with proven reliability and incident ownership—including cutting a 20+ minute reporting query to under 2 minutes.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience building secure Django/DRF APIs (JWT RS256 + rotating refresh tokens), background processing with Celery, and strong reliability practices (timeouts, retries/backoff, structured logging, audit trails). Has delivered AWS solutions spanning Lambda + ECS with IaC/CI-CD and built Glue/PySpark ETL pipelines with schema evolution and data-quality quarantine patterns; also modernized a legacy SAS pipeline to Python/PySpark with parallel-run parity validation and phased rollout.”

“Founding AI engineer (June 2024) at Talon Labs who built and productionized an LLM-powered chatbot for interacting with proprietary supply-chain documents, deployed at large scale (25–100,000 users). Experienced with RAG/LLM orchestration (LangChain, LlamaIndex, Groq AI) and production ops tooling (Kubernetes, Docker, Kubeflow, Airflow), with a metrics-driven approach to evaluation, observability, and stakeholder alignment.”

“Built and deployed production LLM-powered document summarization/classification systems using embeddings, vector databases (RAG-style retrieval), and automated evaluation (BERTScore/ROUGE), with a focus on monitoring and scalable cloud pipelines. Also partnered with a fraud analytics team to deliver a transaction anomaly detection solution, translating model outputs into Power BI dashboards and actionable KPIs while iterating on thresholds and alerts based on stakeholder feedback.”

“ML practitioner with hands-on experience adapting diffusion models (DDPM + U-Net in PyTorch) to improve low-dose CT medical imaging quality via denoising and upsampling against high-dose ground truth. Also built a RAG workflow during a recent internship by cleaning client survey data, embedding with OpenAI text-embedding-3-large, and indexing in Pinecone with MD5 deduplication, alongside a strong emphasis on production-grade Python practices.”

“Product-focused full-stack engineer (70/30 app vs infra) with Accenture experience and recent AI workflow work, shipping end-to-end systems from React/TypeScript UIs through FastAPI backends to Postgres. Built an AI-driven data extraction platform with async job APIs, strict schema validation, and strong observability, and has operated AWS ECS-based deployments with real incident mitigation (DB connection exhaustion/latency under traffic spikes).”

“Open-source contributor who improved React Query’s caching/subscription behavior to reduce unnecessary re-renders via debouncing and batched updates, validated with benchmarking and extensive tests. Also maintained a Flask extension and resolved production background-task hangs by tracing Redis connection handling issues, adding cleanup/retry logic and troubleshooting docs. In a fast-paced startup, owned the design of a Celery+Redis multi-queue background processing system with Prometheus-based observability.”

“Engineering leader who stays hands-on in high-leverage technical areas (architecture, scalability, reliability) while operating at an executive level. Led StagePilot’s shift from a tightly coupled legacy system to a cloud-native, event-driven real-time platform proven at 1M+ concurrent users, and previously scaled multiple SRE teams at McGraw-Hill with SLOs, on-call, and blameless ops practices.”

“Backend engineer who owned a Python task management API with JWT auth, async notifications, and performance work (DB optimization/caching) to handle high volumes. Led an on-prem to Azure private cloud migration at Morgan Stanley using GitOps and IaC (Terraform/ARM) with phased rollout and rollback planning. Also built a Kafka real-time streaming pipeline with exactly-once/idempotent consumers and Prometheus/Grafana monitoring.”

“Operations/industrial automation engineer with several years supporting and upgrading controls, PLCs, networks, and IoT across 300+ North American sites. Led a zero-downtime IoT safety-device integration into an existing plant control/SCADA environment by building a parallel secure network and a Python/Flask + AWS/SQL telemetry pipeline, avoiding a major outage and saving ~$300K. Also co-founded an IoT + ML flood monitoring pilot shaped through direct collaboration with urban planners, emphasizing geospatial flood mapping for decision-making.”

“Embodied AI / robotics-focused ML engineer with experience at JPMorgan and EY building language-to-robot control systems that connect transformer/LLM intent to safe real-world robotic actions. Designed production-grade, low-latency architectures (Kafka/Redis, monitoring, CI/CD) and applied sim-to-real and model distillation to make research ideas deployable on physical systems.”

“At HPE, led and deployed an enterprise-grade LLM document intelligence platform for an insurance client, automating extraction from highly variable PDFs/scans/emails and raising field accuracy from 74% to 93%. Built a LangChain/Pinecone/OpenSearch RAG framework to cut hallucinations by 37% and operationalized LangSmith evals in CI, driving a 41% triage accuracy lift and >33% fewer incorrect resolutions while partnering closely with claims operations via HITL workflows.”

“Strategic sourcing professional specializing in seasonal apparel supply chains, combining Coupa/JD Edwards analytics with Excel/Python modeling and Power BI dashboards to drive cost reduction and OTIF gains. Notable for rapid mitigation of a 10-day factory delay affecting 12 holiday SKUs (preserved 95% of revenue) and for automating PO workflows to cut cycle time by 4.2 days and improve OTIF by 15%.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered clinical insights/summarization assistant for healthcare teams, including a Spark+Airflow pipeline, fine-tuned transformer models, and a FastAPI Docker service on AWS. Demonstrates strong MLOps/LLMOps depth (Airflow on Kubernetes, custom AWS operators/IAM, MLflow, CloudWatch) and practical reliability work like hallucination mitigation, confidence scoring, and retrieval-backed evaluation with shadow deployments.”

“Currently working in CoRAL Lab, built and deployed IntegrityShield—a document-layer PDF watermarking system that keeps assessments visually identical while disrupting LLM-based solving; validated in a real classroom where it helped catch 12 AI-cheating cases. Also built MALDOC, a modular red-teaming platform for document-processing AI agents using LangGraph to run reproducible, deterministic adversarial trials across OCR/text/vision routes.”

“Fintech-focused engineer who built an end-to-end KYC verification pipeline for advisor onboarding using Flask microservices, Celery/Redis, and AWS (Lambda/ECS/EC2) with CloudWatch-driven scaling and latency optimizations. Also shipped a production internal knowledge assistant using RAG + embeddings/vector search with guardrails (similarity-based fallback, prompt-injection protections) and an evaluation loop with compliance specialist review that drove measurable retrieval improvements.”

“Backend engineer with experience evolving a high-volume agricultural loan processing platform (APMS) at HDFC Bank, emphasizing transactional integrity, auditability, and modularity while integrating with credit bureaus, document management, and risk engines. Also improved automation/reporting robustness at Trend Micro by catching duplicate-event retry edge cases and adding idempotency safeguards.”

“Internship experience at Qualitest building and deploying an LLM-powered test automation system that reduced manual test creation and improved efficiency (~40%). Demonstrates strong production engineering for LLM systems (timeouts/retries/monitoring/caching, prompt optimization, batching) and has scaled workflows to 100+ concurrent jobs; also has orchestration experience with AWS Step Functions and Kubernetes.”

“At KPMG, built and productionized a secure RAG-based LLM assistant that lets business and risk stakeholders query data warehouses in natural language, reducing dependence on data engineers for ad-hoc analysis. Demonstrates strong production rigor (Airflow orchestration, CI/CD, containerization), retrieval/embedding tuning (rechunking, semantic abstraction for structured data), and reliability controls (confidence thresholds, refusal behavior, monitoring and canary evals).”

“Built and deployed a production agentic LLM knowledge assistant that answers complex questions over internal documents, APIs, and databases using a RAG architecture (FAISS/Pinecone) and LangChain/LangGraph orchestration. Emphasizes production-grade reliability and hallucination control through grounding, confidence thresholds, validation, retries/fallbacks, and full observability (logging/metrics/traces) with continuous evaluation and feedback loops.”

“Frontend engineer focused on marketing and analytics products, including a real-time multi-touch attribution dashboard. Uses Next.js (SSR/ISR) with React/TypeScript and Tailwind, and emphasizes quality at scale via automated testing, CI/CD (GitHub Actions), feature-flagged staged rollouts, and Mixpanel-driven iteration. Experienced modern state management patterns (React Query + Zustand) and performance tuning (code-splitting, dynamic imports, lazy loading).”

“At Inertia Systems, built a production LLM-powered ingestion pipeline that converts heterogeneous sources (PDF/JSON/IFC/SQL and financial tables) into standardized text and uses GraphRAG to construct a knowledge graph with verified dependency relationships. Also has hands-on HPC orchestration experience with SLURM, including creating a custom wrapper process manager to improve resource utilization under restrictive scheduling policies.”