Vetted Data Preprocessing Professionals

“Backend-focused engineer with experience at Charles Schwab owning financial workflow deployments end-to-end, including API/database design, SQL optimization, Python automation, and AWS-based production stabilization. Also brings applied AI quality experience through building LLM/agent validation pipelines focused on scenario testing, edge-case detection, and reducing production risk.”

“Backend/cloud engineer who built an AWS serverless IoT system that computes Bluetooth beacon locations from telemetry using heavy scientific Python (NumPy/SciPy/pandas) packaged as Dockerized Lambda, integrated with Java microservices and scheduled batch orchestration. Has deep AWS delivery experience (CI/CD with Code* tools, CloudFormation, cost controls) and has led high-severity incident response including CloudTrail forensics and infrastructure recovery after a compromised-keys crypto-mining attack.”

“AI/LLM engineer who built a production intelligent support system using RAG over a vectorized documentation library, addressing real-world issues like lost-in-the-middle context failures and doc freshness via automated GitHub-driven re-embedding pipelines. Emphasizes rigorous agent evaluation (component/E2E/ops) and prefers lightweight, decoupled workflow automation using message brokers (Redis/RabbitMQ) over heavyweight orchestration frameworks.”

“ML practitioner with a QA background who has built end-to-end ML pipelines for a health risk prediction use case (lifestyle + demographics), emphasizing robustness through strict data validation, leakage prevention, and cross-validation. Collaborated with a dietician to sanity-check predictions and refine feature interpretation for real-world practicality; has not yet deployed LLM/AI systems to production and has no hands-on orchestration framework experience but is willing to learn.”

“Full-stack engineer with enterprise experience at Metasystems Inc. (and Qualcomm) building high-traffic, security-sensitive systems—owned a secure transaction processing module end-to-end using Java/Spring Boot, Python/Django, and React. Strong AWS production operations (EKS/ECS/Lambda/RDS/DynamoDB) with IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), observability, and reliability patterns; also delivered resilient ETL/integration pipelines with idempotency/retries/backfills and achieved a 50% deployment-time reduction through CI/CD and modular refactoring.”

“Built and deployed an LLM-powered financial/regulatory document analysis platform at State Street, combining fine-tuned transformer models with a RAG pipeline over internal knowledge bases. Owned the productionization stack (FastAPI, Docker, SageMaker, Terraform, CI/CD) plus monitoring for drift/latency/hallucinations, delivering ~40% faster analyst review and improved reliability through chunking/embeddings and grounding.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on real-time state estimation and perception pipelines, with hands-on C++/ROS work improving LiDAR+IMU odometry stability via an iterative EKF and careful timing/synchronization fixes. Has integrated LIO-SAM, built multi-robot communication bridges (ROS + custom UDP with heartbeat/fallback), and uses Gazebo + Docker for repeatable testing, backed by CI/CD experience maintaining Azure DevOps pipelines at Cognizant.”

“IBM engineer who built and deployed a production RAG-based LLM assistant using LangChain/FAISS with a fine-tuned LLaMA model, served via FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes, achieving 99%+ uptime. Demonstrates strong practical expertise in reducing hallucinations (semantic chunking + metadata-driven retrieval) and managing latency, plus mature MLOps practices (Airflow/dbt pipelines, MLflow tracking, monitoring, A/B and shadow deployments) and effective collaboration with non-technical stakeholders.”

“At CVS Health, the candidate productionized a RAG-based LLM solution in a regulated healthcare setting, emphasizing reliable data pipelines, LoRA fine-tuning, monitoring, safety guardrails, and A/B testing. They have hands-on experience troubleshooting real-time RAG failures (e.g., chunking/embedding issues) and regularly lead developer-focused demos/workshops while translating technical architecture into business value for stakeholders.”

Alex D'Souza

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Researcher specializing in healthcare AI and security

Davis, CA2y exp

“Research-focused AI/ML candidate who built an fMRI-based classifier to predict schizophrenia treatment effectiveness under small-dataset constraints. Demonstrated pragmatic model selection by moving from a complex GNN to graph-summary feature engineering with logistic regression, significantly improving accuracy and AUC; primarily works in Google Colab with script-based workflows.”

Srikanth Reddy

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI and financial risk & compliance analytics

Plainsboro, NJ7y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered financial risk and compliance platform to reduce manual trade exception handling and speed up insights from regulatory documents. Implemented a LangChain multi-agent workflow with structured/unstructured data integration (Redshift + vector DB) and emphasized hallucination reduction for regulatory safety using Amazon Bedrock. Strong MLOps/orchestration background across Kubernetes, Airflow, Jenkins, and monitoring/testing with MLflow, Evidently AI, and PyTest.”

Aishwarya Thorat

Screened

Intern Data Scientist specializing in ML engineering and LLM agentic workflows

San Francisco, CA6y exp

“Built an agentic, multi-step LLM system that generates full-stack code for API integrations using LangChain orchestration, Pinecone/SentenceBERT RAG, and a human-in-the-loop feedback loop for iterative code refinement. Also collaborated with non-technical content writers and PMs during a Contentstack internship to deliver a Slack-based AI workflow that generates and brand-checks articles with one-click approvals.”

“Hands-on ML practitioner who built and deployed an end-to-end phishing email classifier (CLI + simple web app), achieving 98% accuracy and reducing manual security triage. Emphasizes production reliability through input validation, graceful failure modes, monitoring/logging, and iterative error analysis, with experience hardening pipelines against messy backend/database data using fallbacks and idempotent processing.”

Sree Damineni

Screened

Mid AI/ML Engineer specializing in financial and insurance analytics

USA3y exp

“Senior AI/ML engineer focused on production ML, LLMs, and MLOps, with concrete experience shipping fraud detection and enterprise RAG systems. They combine strong deployment and monitoring discipline with measurable business impact, including 31% precision improvement in fraud detection and 37% better answer relevance in a financial-document QA system.”

“Early-career/new-grad candidate who built TrendScout AI, an evidence-first market intelligence agent that ingests messy news, extracts entities/events, builds a Neo4j knowledge graph, and answers questions via RAG with citations. Achieved ~95% retrieval relevance by combining ChromaDB semantic search with graph-based retrieval and validating outputs through human evaluation and guardrails to prevent hallucinations.”

“ML/AI engineer with healthcare payer experience (Signal Healthcare, Cigna) who has shipped production fraud/claims prediction systems using Python/TensorFlow and exposed them via FastAPI/Flask microservices integrated with EHR and Salesforce. Emphasizes operational reliability and trust—Airflow-orchestrated pipelines with data quality gates plus SHAP-based interpretability, A/B testing, and drift/debug workflows—backed by reported outcomes of 22% lower false payouts and 17% higher model accuracy.”

“ML/AI engineer with defense and commercial analytics experience: deployed a real-time aerial object detection system at Dynetics (YOLOv5 + TorchServe in Docker on AWS EC2) with drift-triggered retraining and 99.5% uptime, tackling ambiguous targets and weather degradation. Previously at Fractal Analytics, built and explained a churn prediction model for marketing stakeholders using SHAP and delivered it via a Flask API into dashboards, driving a reported 22% attrition reduction.”

“Backend-focused engineer who has built and refactored FastAPI services backed by MongoDB, emphasizing async concurrency, stateless design for horizontal scaling, and performance tuning via indexing and request-level timing. Has implemented production authentication patterns (JWT, SSO, OAuth2 + PKCE) and user/org-scoped access controls, and improved reliability of LLM document-extraction APIs with fallback mechanisms.”

Fatemeh Taghvaei

Screened

Junior AI/ML Engineer and Instructor specializing in deep learning, computer vision, and NLP

Chicago, IL2y exp

“Computer-vision practitioner and educator who built a real-time license plate recognition system (OpenCV/Python + KNN) optimized to run on a Raspberry Pi with camera integration. Also designs hands-on deep learning coursework, incorporating recent transformer-based vision research (Vision Transformers) into practical labs on real datasets.”

“Built and productionized an LLM/RAG-based credit case triage system that indexes credit bureau narratives and delivers structured, source-linked summaries for analysts. Emphasizes production reliability (data masking, human-in-the-loop review, abstention/fallbacks, monitoring) and reports >99% uptime plus ~30% efficiency gains, with iterative improvements driven by offline/online evaluation and schema-aware validation.”

Ketan Verma

Screened

Junior Applied AI Engineer specializing in data pipelines and ML systems

College Station, TX2y exp

“Built an end-to-end wafer-data anomaly detection and reporting system at Samsung using PySpark, Random Forest models, SQL, and Grafana to help engineers track faults and take corrective action. Also has strong UX prototyping and validation practices in Figma plus hands-on front-end/full-stack experience (HTML/CSS/TypeScript), including a student project recognized as best design out of 25 teams, and early-stage startup experience pivoting a product based on user interviews into a real-time in-context feedback overlay.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on experience building production MLOps systems for predictive maintenance and demand forecasting, including deployment, monitoring, and iterative retraining. Also shipped a RAG-based employee onboarding chatbot integrated with ServiceNow APIs and reports business impact of roughly $300k/month in reduced stockout and overstock costs.”