Vetted Data Structures Professionals

Kunal Kulkarni

Screened

Intern AI/ML Researcher specializing in computer vision and data engineering

Palo Alto, CA1y exp

“Built a production-oriented multimodal RAG "Fix Assistant" with FastAPI, Tavily search, BM25 + cross-encoder reranking, and a local Phi-3.5 model, emphasizing strict grounding and fallback/verification modes to prevent hallucinations. Also has hands-on federated learning experience using STADLE to orchestrate edge-node training and aggregation for EV telemetry data, plus experience communicating AI results to non-technical stakeholders (traffic RL/congestion outcomes).”

“Built production LLM/RAG systems during a UPS internship, including a shipment knowledge agent used across 15+ hubs worldwide and a multi-agent PDF RAG workflow. Stands out for combining hands-on enterprise integration with rigorous evaluation, hallucination reduction, and efficient fine-tuning techniques like LoRA.”

Supreet Purthpli

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native MLOps and FinTech

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Software engineer with JPMorgan Chase experience delivering end-to-end fintech features (Next.js/React/Node/Postgres on AWS) and measurable performance gains. Built and productionized an AI-native credit decisioning workflow combining LLMs, vector retrieval, and a rules engine with strong governance (bias checks, auditability, human-in-loop), improving precision and cutting underwriting turnaround time by 40%.”

“Backend/AI engineer who has owned production agentic systems end-to-end, including a CRM-integrated multi-agent financial workflow at Wow Payments that cut latency by 83% and achieved 98% uptime. Also built an AI real estate product ('Site IQ') by turning vague stakeholder goals into a geospatial autonomous agent using RAG, rapid prototyping, and tight validation layers around GPT-4 outputs.”

“Entry-level software engineer with strong full-stack experience building React/TypeScript and Node.js analytics products, especially around performance optimization for large datasets. Stands out for combining hands-on engineering with user discovery, and for delivering measurable wins like 40% fewer API calls, page load improvements from 3.2s to 1.1s, and 70% faster PostgreSQL queries during an internship at Tapastry.”

“Frontend-focused candidate with hands-on experience building React and TypeScript dashboards for searching, filtering, and analyzing large datasets in real time. Demonstrates practical performance tuning skills using React DevTools, memoization, debouncing, and pagination, and has also built a Mapbox-based location data dashboard with interactive markers and popups.”

Murali Marupudi

Screened

Mid-level Backend Engineer specializing in Python microservices and scalable cloud systems

Jersey City, NJ4y exp

“Backend engineer focused on high-throughput Python/Flask systems on AWS, with strong scaling and performance tuning experience (e.g., PostgreSQL join reduced from ~3s to <200ms; background aggregation cut from 10 minutes to <90 seconds with 8x throughput). Has also integrated ML model serving into production APIs (churn prediction) using Celery/Redis batching and AWS Lambda/S3, and designed secure multi-tenant architectures with PostgreSQL schema isolation and row-level security.”

“Built and deployed a compliance-sensitive LLM pipeline that extracts rebate logic from hospital–supplier medical contracts, using multi-layer redaction (regex/NER/dictionary), schema-validated structured outputs, and secure placeholder reinsertion. Hosted models on Amazon Bedrock to avoid retraining on sensitive data and improved both accuracy and cost by splitting the workflow into a lightweight section classifier plus a fine-tuned extraction model, orchestrated with LangChain and evaluated via layered, test-driven agent assessments.”

“QA engineer intern experience at Amazon (Alexa Daily Essentials) owning end-to-end quality for AI-powered timer/stopwatch features at massive scale. Demonstrates disciplined Jira-based workflow, automation-driven regression coverage, and strong device-matrix verification (Echo Show generations), with concrete examples of finding and driving resolution of complex UI/backend synchronization bugs.”

“AI/LLM engineer who built a production QA RAG for a University of Massachusetts faculty success initiative, cutting service tickets by 70%. Strong end-to-end RAG implementation skills (LangChain, Qdrant, hybrid/HyDE retrieval, FastAPI) with rigorous evaluation (RAGAS, LLM-as-judge) and practical handling of constraints like API rate limits and cost. Prior cross-functional delivery experience collaborating with SMEs and business owners at TCS and IBM.”

“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.”

Raviteja Kambhampati

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in cloud-native microservices and React

San Francisco, CA5y exp

“Full-stack engineer who has owned customer-facing analytics and dashboard products end-to-end using TypeScript/React with Spring Boot microservices. Strong in scaling and stabilizing distributed systems (RabbitMQ, DLQs/retries, observability with correlation IDs) and in building internal tooling that consolidates ELK/CloudWatch signals to speed up support and operations; reported ~30% performance improvement on a recent dashboard.”

Weston Carpenter

Screened

Mid-level Backend Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems

San Francisco, CA6y exp

“Technical/presales engineer with experience at Grubhub and Appen, spanning LLM-adjacent data labeling workflows and production AI troubleshooting. Built an integrations platform at Grubhub and has hands-on experience diagnosing prompt-related AI failures via Splunk, adding JUnit tests and logging to prevent recurrence. Known for shipping customer-specific workflow adaptations (e.g., OCR annotation coordinate transformations for crop/rotation) while keeping timelines intact through iterative delivery and parallelization.”

Ashwini Ramesh Kumar

Screened

Junior AI Software Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and agent workflows

Remote1y exp

“Backend/ML-leaning engineer who built a content-based event recommender for FlowMingle using embeddings + HNSW vector search on Google Cloud, with Firebase as the backend and a managed recommendation lifecycle (15 recs/user, daily async generation, weekly deletion) now serving 1500+ users. Also led a cost-driven migration of ConvAI services to Azure AI using parallel request testing from a Unity client, with post-migration monitoring via logs and model evals; contributed to a Massachusetts law-enforcement conversation analysis system by expanding ingestion to PDF/TXT/Excel and multi-file inputs.”

Sujith Julakanti

Screened

Junior MLOps Engineer specializing in LLMs and cloud infrastructure

College Station, TX3y exp

“Built a production multimodal LLM system (Gemini on GCP) to automate behavioral coding of family-involved science experiment videos, including preprocessing for inconsistent lighting/audio and LangGraph-orchestrated parallel workflows. Also developed rubric-based AI grading workflows and partnered closely with non-technical education stakeholders through explainability-focused walkthroughs and manual-vs-AI evaluation alignment.”

Matthew Penner

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in systems programming and web development

Hillsboro, OR3y exp

“Entry-level candidate who built an air-traffic-control (ATC) simulation game in Rust, using a tick-based loop to model real-time behavior. No hands-on robotics/ROS experience yet, but has foundational software development tooling experience with GitHub and Linux/Vim.”

Alex Johnson

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in observability and developer tools

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Product-leaning full-stack engineer (65% product / 35% infra) who built core components of the LightFoot feature flag platform: end-to-end client/server SDKs with OpenTelemetry-based observability and a React+TypeScript UI for flag management and metrics dashboards. Strong focus on performance (memoization/lazy loading/caching), reliable API design, and Postgres modeling for read-heavy flag evaluation workloads, with AWS production experience (EC2/ECS/Lambda/API Gateway/VPC).”

Sanjay Mandru

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud microservices and real-time analytics

Buffalo, NY3y exp

“Software engineer who built a reusable React component package (UI modules, auth helpers, API client wrappers) for an AI SaaS background-removal project, emphasizing performance (tree shaking/dynamic imports) and reliability (Jest + Storybook). Also delivered a unified REST API for Samsung Big Data Portal, resolving cross-team issues by standardizing schemas, improving validation/logging, and operating effectively amid shifting requirements.”

“Full-stack engineer at an early-stage startup with hands-on production experience spanning Angular frontend features, backend safety checks for an image-generation workflow (OpenAI Safety), and AWS operations. Built CI/CD to ECS with GitHub Actions, implemented CloudWatch observability, and improved release reliability via Blue/Green deployments with automatic rollback.”

“Backend engineer in healthcare data systems who has owned production pipelines end-to-end, from ingesting patient and claims data to serving it through secure APIs. Brings a strong mix of Python, SQL, microservices, cloud deployment, and data reliability practices, with measurable performance gains and experience building resilient integrations with external data sources.”

“Software engineer with unusually mature AI-native development practices, using Claude/GPT/Copilot across requirements, implementation, testing, and documentation. At Anzenna, they effectively acted as a tech lead for a multi-agent setup spanning four repos, creating specialized agent workflows and maintaining top-level cross-repo documentation to coordinate complex work.”

“Backend engineer with experience at HSBC and Machinations who has delivered major production performance wins (cutting large trade-file upload times from ~13–15s to ~2s) using chunked parallel processing with strong reliability controls. Also built and shipped an applied AI RAG workflow using Langflow + Cohere embeddings + FAISS with hosted/local LLM fallbacks (Hugging Face, Ollama) and production-grade guardrails, observability, and evaluation.”

Arya Thorat

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in distributed cloud-native FinTech systems

Texas, USA5y exp

“Full-stack/backend engineer with deep experience building real-time fraud and credit-risk systems. Shipped an event-driven fraud monitoring platform (Kafka→MongoDB/Redis→WebSockets) delivering sub-200ms updates to 3000+ concurrent internal users, and built a Java/Spring Boot credit risk decisioning API that improved turnaround time by 30–40%. Strong AWS production operations (ECS Fargate/RDS/Redis) with proven incident response and performance tuning.”

“Software engineer/QA automation leader with Lowe’s experience owning automation quality strategy for a customer-facing platform supporting large contractor orders. Built TypeScript/React dashboards backed by Spring Boot microservices (MongoDB) and RabbitMQ async messaging, with strong CI/CD test automation and production monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana). Also created an internal automated test reporting dashboard that improved QA workflow through training-led adoption and iterative refinement.”