Vetted Data Pipelines Professionals

“AI/ML engineer who built a production RAG-based internal document intelligence assistant (LangChain + Pinecone) to let employees query enterprise reports in natural language. Demonstrated hands-on pipeline orchestration with Apache Airflow and tackled real production issues like retrieval grounding and latency using tuning, caching, and token optimization, while partnering closely with non-technical business stakeholders through iterative demos.”

“Human-AI Design Lab practitioner who productionized a wearable-health anomaly detection system by evolving a standalone autoencoder into a hybrid autoencoder + GPT-based approach, backed by PySpark ETL and MLOps on AWS SageMaker/MLflow. Also has applied LLM troubleshooting experience (fine-tuned FLAN-T5 summarization) and partnered with BI teams to run A/B tests and improve retention via feature stores and experimentation.”

“Data engineer/backend data services practitioner with Bank of America experience building real-time and batch transaction-monitoring pipelines and APIs (Kafka + databases, REST/GraphQL). Highlights include a reported 45% response-time improvement through performance optimizations and use of Delta Lake schema evolution plus CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins) and operational reliability patterns like CloudWatch monitoring and dead-letter queues.”

Molli Dinesh

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in NLP, LLMs, and MLOps

Remote, USA4y exp

“Built an AI-driven insurance policy summarization platform at Marsh, taking it end-to-end from messy PDF ingestion/OCR and custom extraction through LLM fine-tuning and AWS SageMaker deployment. Delivered measurable impact (25% reduction in manual review time, 99% uptime) and demonstrated strong production MLOps/LLMOps practices with Airflow/Step Functions orchestration, rigorous evaluation (ROUGE + human review), and continuous monitoring for drift, latency, and hallucinations.”

Pravalika Kasojjala

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM, RAG/GraphRAG, and fraud analytics

Charlotte, NC5y exp

“LLM/agent engineer who has deployed a production internal assistant to reduce employee inquiry resolution time while maintaining regulatory compliance. Experienced with RAG, hallucination risk triage, and graph-based orchestration (LangGraph) for enterprise/banking-style workflows, emphasizing schema-validated, citation-backed, tool-constrained agent designs and tight collaboration with non-technical business/compliance stakeholders.”

Luis Aragon

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in data infrastructure and distributed systems

San Francisco, CA6y exp

“Software engineer working on agentic AI SMS customer engagement flows and a Customer Data Profile service that unifies journey data across SMS/web/calls while enforcing precise consent management. Has hands-on production operations experience, including recovering a reporting-critical Elasticsearch outage by standing up a new cluster in Kubernetes, restoring from snapshots, and rewinding Kafka consumers to reprocess missed data.”

“Data engineer focused on production-grade pipelines and data services: ingests millions of records/day into S3, performs SQL/Python quality validation and PySpark/SQL transformations, and serves curated datasets via Athena/Redshift. Has experience hardening external data collection with retries/rate-limit handling and shipping versioned internal data APIs with backward compatibility, monitoring, and CI/CD in early-stage environments.”

“Data/ML platform engineer with healthcare (Cigna) experience owning an end-to-end pipeline spanning Airflow + Debezium CDC ingestion, PySpark/SQL transformations, rigorous data quality gates, and feature-store/API serving for ML training and inference. Worked at 10+ TB scale and cites a ~30% latency reduction plus stronger reliability via idempotent design, monitoring, and backfill-safe reprocessing; also built pragmatic early-stage data pipelines at Frankenbuild Ventures.”

“Data engineer/platform builder who has owned production pipelines end-to-end processing millions of records/day, with strong emphasis on data quality (quarantine workflows) and reliability (monitoring, retries, incremental loads). Also designed large-scale external data collection/crawling with anti-bot handling and backfills, and shipped versioned REST data services optimized for performance and developer usability in an early-stage environment.”

Shweta Gupta

Screened

Senior Backend Software Engineer specializing in Java microservices, Kafka, and AWS

Seattle, WA6y exp

“AI engineer who shipped a production chat assistant for a storage company by building the underlying RAG-style knowledge base (document ingestion, chunking/embeddings, FAISS vector store) and an admin update interface to keep content current. Also has full-stack delivery experience (Python REST APIs + React/TypeScript UI) and AWS operations using Terraform/Jenkins, including handling a real production performance incident by optimizing DB queries and adding auto-scaling.”

“Analytics professional with Bank of America experience analyzing the digital card replacement journey at scale, transforming 20M event records across 900K clients into actionable reporting and recommendations. Stands out for combining SQL/Python data engineering, customer journey analytics, and executive-facing storytelling strong enough to get senior leadership to adopt most of their proposed app improvements.”

“Candidate approaches AI-assisted coding like a senior developer supervising junior contributors: they define precise technical requirements, enforce code quality and documentation, and review outputs before approval. They also actively lead multi-agent workflows using OpenClaw and a Kanban-style AI project management setup, coordinating both coding and non-technical agents.”

“Pragmatic AI-focused builder who uses tools like ChatGPT and Claude to accelerate development while maintaining strict review, testing, and architectural ownership. Has hands-on experience designing lightweight multi-agent workflows, including a RAG-style system with separate retrieval and response roles, and approaches new AI trends through direct experimentation rather than hype.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on ownership of Spring Boot microservice deployments in Freddie Mac's mortgage workflow domain, including measurable gains in reliability and MTTR. Brings strong production debugging skills around distributed transaction pipelines and has also built a full-stack AI chatbot project using React, Express, and Google Gemini API.”

“Engineering leader with 8+ years across IoT, emergency messaging, and political campaign data science, including operating a massive IoT microservices platform at several million devices and roughly 200 million requests per minute. Particularly strong in retrofitting legacy systems for modern observability using OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb, and Grafana LGTM, while also managing distributed international teams and developing engineers into senior and tech lead roles.”

“Applied NLP/ML engineer with experience at KeyBank and Novartis building production document intelligence and entity-resolution systems in finance and healthcare. Has delivered end-to-end pipelines (Airflow + AWS) using transformers (DistilBERT/Sentence-BERT), vector search (FAISS/Milvus/Pinecone), and human-in-the-loop labeling to achieve measurable gains (40%+ faster queries; up to 88% F1 and 93% precision/90% recall in entity linking).”

Janvitha Mandyam

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and NLP

Chicago, IL4y exp

“GenAI/LLMOps practitioner who deployed a production RAG-based customer service and knowledge retrieval system for a global bank using LangChain, FAISS/Azure Cognitive Search, GPT-4/Claude, and Guardrails—driving a reported 35% Q&A accuracy lift while reducing handle time and escalations. Also partnered with non-technical leaders at CVS Health to deliver ML-driven supply chain risk and inventory insights via anomaly detection, NLG summaries, and stakeholder-friendly dashboards.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building FastAPI APIs secured with JWT and delivering AWS-based data processing solutions using Lambda and ECS Fargate. Has worked with Snowflake/third-party API sources and targets including DynamoDB, S3, RDS, Redshift, and Glue, and uses CloudWatch/X-Ray for monitoring and troubleshooting. Seeking ~$65/hr and is open to onsite work in Bethesda, MD.”

“GenAI/RAG engineer who has deployed a production policy/regulatory search assistant for a financial client using LangChain + Vertex AI, FastAPI, Docker/Kubernetes, and Airflow-orchestrated data pipelines. Demonstrated measurable impact with 50–60% latency reduction and 70% fewer pipeline failures, plus KPI-driven grounding evaluation (90%+ target) and strong cross-functional collaboration with compliance/business teams.”

“Engineering leader focused on developer platforms and open-source frameworks/SDKs, with strong community and release-engineering chops. Drove major reliability and DX improvements (30–50% faster release cycles; 2–3x repeat contributors; ~50% faster onboarding) and led an incremental Python monolith to TypeScript event-driven migration using Protobuf contracts, feature flags, and a plugin architecture to preserve backward compatibility.”