Vetted Data Science Professionals

Ben Kleiman

Screened

Executive product leader specializing in AI, data platforms, and national security

Denver, CO17y exp

“Head of Product at Bitly who built the company's Trust & Safety strategy and led a patent-pending abuse-detection platform that intercepted over 700 million harmful clicks. Also launched Bitly Assist, an LLM-powered assistant designed around human control and workflow integration, showing unusual depth in both AI product strategy and high-stakes safety/governance.”

Chris Ferrario

Screened

Principal Gameplay/AI Programmer specializing in game AI and gameplay systems

London/Zurich18y exp

“Gameplay/AI engineer with end-to-end ownership of racing-sim AI (fair physics parity, competitive overtaking) and strong iteration tooling (live tuning + config). Has shipped networked VR multiplayer work at Ready At Dawn, including a consensus-style goal validation approach to reconcile non-deterministic replication/smoothing discrepancies, plus experience with Havok/Bullet, spline math (Catmull-Rom), and complex creature/boss animation behaviors.”

“Entrepreneurial operator with 30+ years of experience building internal startup-style business cases inside private companies, securing capital/OpEx funding, and turning proposals into delivered technology initiatives. Brings a strong venture-informed mindset, including familiarity with Series A/B/C funding dynamics, combined with hands-on strength in business planning, financial modeling, team building, and execution.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of both classical ML and GenAI systems in production. They built an end-to-end churn prediction service on AWS and also shipped RAG-based document search/summarization features, with clear experience in monitoring, hallucination reduction, cost/latency optimization, and creating shared Python/LLM infrastructure used across teams.”

“GenAI/ML engineering leader (player-coach) who built and deployed an image-to-text production system for topology/resource diagrams, combining YOLO-based issue detection with an LLM to generate support-ready reports at scale. Heavy AWS stack (SageMaker, Step Functions, Lambda, CloudWatch, FastAPI, Kubernetes/Docker) with KPI-driven optimization (MTTR, P50), including ~21 custom labels and reported 30–50% faster issue identification while processing thousands of images in production.”