Vetted Data Quality Professionals

“Built and productionized an enterprise retrieval-augmented generation platform for internal knowledge over large unstructured corpora, emphasizing trust via strict citation/grounding and hybrid retrieval (BM25 + FAISS + cross-encoder re-ranking). Demonstrates strong scaling and cost/latency optimization through incremental indexing/embedding and index partitioning, plus disciplined evaluation/observability practices. Has experience operationalizing pipelines with Airflow/Databricks/GitHub Actions and partnering closely with risk & compliance stakeholders on auditability requirements.”

“BNY Mellon engineer who has built and operated production AI systems end-to-end: a LangChain/Pinecone RAG platform scaled via FastAPI + Kubernetes to 1000 RPM with 99.9% uptime, supported by monitoring and data-drift detection. Also deep in data/infra orchestration (Airflow, Dagster, Terraform on AWS/EMR/EC2), processing 500GB+ daily and delivering measurable reliability and performance gains, plus strong compliance-facing model explainability using SHAP and Tableau.”

“HR leader (VP of HR at Joe Coffee Company; previously at Equinox) with hands-on experience implementing two HRIS migrations and configuring timekeeping/HR systems used as an org-wide hub (ATS, performance management, timekeeping, system of record). Drove a major compliance-focused change to break tracking/pay practices using cost analysis and system configuration to reduce liability while minimizing employee dissatisfaction.”

“AI/LLM engineer with production experience in legal tech: built a GPT-4 + LangChain RAG summarization system at Govpanel that reduced legal case-file review time by 50%+. Previously at LexisNexis, orchestrated end-to-end Airflow data/AI pipelines processing 5M+ legal documents daily, improving ETL runtime by 35% with robust validation, monitoring, and SLAs.”

“Salesforce-focused implementation/solutions engineer from Full Circle Insights who owned end-to-end campaign attribution and reporting deployments for multiple customers at once (3–5 concurrently), including sandbox testing, KPI monitoring, and rollback-safe migrations from legacy reporting. Also builds personal multi-agent workflows and uses Claude Code to rapidly scaffold data/analytics scripts like an advertising optimization parser over CSV/XLSX inputs.”

“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.”

“AI/ML engineer with forensic analytics and healthcare claims experience (Optum), building production LLM/RAG systems to surface context-driven fraud patterns from unstructured claim notes and explain risk to investigators. Strong in large-scale retrieval performance tuning, legacy API integration with reliability patterns (SQS, circuit breakers), and MLOps orchestration on Airflow/Kubernetes with rigorous testing, monitoring, and stakeholder-friendly interpretability.”

“Intern who built and deployed a production LLM-powered contract analysis system for finance teams: Azure Document Intelligence for text/table extraction plus Gemini prompting to surface key terms and risks via an async API and simple UI. Emphasizes reliability in production with fallbacks, guardrails against hallucinations, and operational concerns like latency/cost/versioning, delivering summaries in under 30 seconds instead of hours.”

“Data engineer (~4 years) with full-stack delivery experience (Next.js App Router/TypeScript + React) building a real-time operations monitoring dashboard backed by Kafka and orchestrated data pipelines. Strong production focus: Airflow + CloudWatch monitoring, automated Python/SQL validation (99.5% accuracy), and CI/CD with Jenkins/Docker; has delivered measurable improvements in latency, pipeline reliability, and query performance (Postgres/Redshift).”

“Full-stack engineer currently at Southern Glazer’s who built and owned a real-time commercial finance expense analytics dashboard end-to-end (Next.js App Router + TypeScript), including post-launch monitoring, data quality checks, and stakeholder-driven iteration. Strong data/analytics backend experience (Postgres modeling and Databricks Delta Lake pipelines) with demonstrated performance wins—e.g., cutting a key reconciliation query from 8–12s to <400ms and improving frontend load time ~40% with a 25% bounce-rate drop at Verizon.”

“Solutions Engineer specializing in taking LLM copilots from demo to production, with a strong emphasis on enterprise security (RBAC/OAuth), grounded RAG behavior (cite-or-refuse), and operational readiness (eval loops, logging, runbooks). Experienced in real-time diagnosis of agentic/LLM workflow failures and in partnering with Sales/CS to run integration-first POCs that clear security and reliability concerns and accelerate rollout.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across FastAPI microservices and AWS data platforms. Has delivered serverless and Glue/EMR-based ETL pipelines with strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana/Sentry, CloudWatch/SNS), schema-evolution resilience, and measurable SQL performance wins (5 min to <30 sec). Open to onsite meetings in the Bethesda, MD area and flexible on remote arrangements.”

“Built and deployed AcademiQ Ai, a production LLM-based teaching assistant using GPT/BERT with RAG (LangChain + Pinecone) to handle large student notes and generate adaptive explanations/quizzes. Demonstrated measurable retrieval-quality gains (18% precision improvement, 22% less irrelevant context) by tuning similarity thresholds and chunking based on user satisfaction signals. Also orchestrated terabyte-scale, real-time demand forecasting pipelines using Airflow and Kubeflow on GCP with strong monitoring, shadow deployment, and feedback-loop practices.”

“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.”

“Backend/platform-focused Python engineer who has owned FastAPI services with Postgres/SQLAlchemy and production-grade auth (JWT + RBAC). Experienced deploying and operating microservices on Kubernetes with GitOps (ArgoCD), HPA tuning, and Prometheus/Grafana monitoring, plus hands-on cloud-to-on-prem migrations and Kafka-based real-time streaming pipelines.”

“Built a production internal LLM/RAG assistant at CVS Health to cut time spent searching long policy and clinical guideline PDFs, combining fine-tuned BERT/GPT models with FAISS retrieval and a FastAPI service on AWS. Demonstrates strong real-world reliability work (document cleanup, hallucination controls, monitoring/drift tracking with MLflow) and close collaboration with non-technical clinical operations teams via demos and feedback-driven iteration.”

“Built a production "appeals co-pilot" for a healthcare claims appeals team, combining an XGBoost/logistic ranking model with a Python/LangChain RAG stack (FAISS + Mistral 7B) to surface high-probability appeal wins and speed policy-grounded drafting. Emphasizes reliability and trust: hybrid retrieval with metadata routing, citation/eval scripts, guardrails, and an explainability layer that non-technical stakeholders could understand and override.”

“Applied ML/embodied AI practitioner who built an on-device gesture-control system for smart-home lights using Raspberry Pi + camera, focusing on privacy-preserving real-time inference and hardware-constrained optimization (async pipeline + TF Lite INT8). Also made a high-impact architecture decision for an ML content evaluation/QA pipeline processing millions of annotated text samples weekly, reducing batch runtime from ~6 hours to ~40 minutes while lowering compute cost.”

“Backend engineer with fintech/banking experience (Fifth Third Bank) who built a production payment and reconciliation microservice stack on AWS (Java, PostgreSQL/MySQL, DynamoDB, Kafka) handling thousands of daily transactions and solved real-world reliability issues like duplicate processing and peak latency. Also shipped an LLM-powered ops investigation feature with structured prompt flows, validated internal data integration, and strong guardrails plus human-in-the-loop escalation.”

“Data engineer with Charter Communications experience modernizing large-scale AWS data lake pipelines: ingesting S3 data, validating against legacy systems, transforming with PySpark/Spark SQL, and serving via Iceberg/Delta tables. Worked at 50M–300M record scale, delivered >99.5% data match, and built monitoring/alerting (CloudWatch/SNS) plus retry orchestration (Step Functions) and data quality gates (Great Expectations).”

“Operations transformation leader with private-equity due diligence experience who rebuilt KIO Networks’ operating model using ITIL/COBIT/ISO 27001, stood up a PMO, and standardized tooling across countries—helping shift the business from co-location to managed services/cloud and improving EBITDA from -7% to +4% in 18 months. Also serves as a board member/mentor at EvoNexus and UCSD Rady, coaching founders on ICP, GTM, pricing, and investor readiness.”