Vetted Databricks Professionals

“Built a production RAG-based GenAI copilot backend at Aetna using Python/FastAPI, GPT-4, LangChain, and Azure AI Search, deployed on AKS with Prometheus/Grafana observability. Owned the system end-to-end (ingestion through deployment) and improved peak-time reliability by addressing vector search and embedding bottlenecks with Redis caching, index optimization, and async processing, plus added anti-hallucination guardrails via retrieval confidence thresholds.”

“Insurance-tech CTO and repeat founder with 10+ years in insurance startups; was employee #4/CTO at Polly (formerly DealerPolicy) and helped scale it from a PowerPoint to 250 employees while raising $180M+. Currently building and selling AgentCanvas.ai—an extensible AI accelerator platform for large insurance agencies—after coding the product end-to-end and now running demos/POCs with prospective buyers.”

“Former PwC Director with hands-on early-stage venture experience (e.g., BridgeLights, a big-data analytics concept for early fintech) spanning concept creation, platform architecture, and go-to-market experimentation. Strong focus on building scalable, modular data platforms with rigorous governance/compliance (data lineage, quality controls) and supporting technical diligence in investor-aligned environments.”

“Python/AWS engineer focused on batch-processing and data workflows, including building reusable S3/boto3 utilities with reliability features and IAM-based auth. Has led low-risk legacy modernizations using parity testing plus a month of parallel production runs, and has owned production issues end-to-end (including fixing a client-side Excel macro) while contributing to significant AWS cost reductions (~$10k/month).”

“At JP Morgan Chase, built and deployed a production LLM-powered RAG knowledge assistant to help fraud investigators and risk analysts quickly navigate regulatory updates and internal policies, reducing investigation delays and compliance risk. Strong focus on secure retrieval (RBAC filtering), reliability (layered testing + observability), and production constraints (latency/SLOs), with Airflow-orchestrated, auditable ML pipelines.”

“Built and deployed a production GenAI internal support agent at Bank of America (“Ask GPS/AskGPT”) using RAG on Azure, focused on reducing escalations and improving response quality for repetitive knowledge-based queries. Demonstrates strong production LLM engineering: custom LangChain orchestration, retrieval tuning to reduce hallucinations, rigorous offline/online evaluation, and model benchmarking with dynamic routing (e.g., GPT-4 vs Claude).”

“LLM/RAG engineer who has built and deployed corporate-scale systems at Novartis and Johnson & Johnson, including a healthcare AI agent that generates day-to-day treatment schedules. Recently handled a high-stakes safety incident (LLM suggesting overdose) by tightening model instructions and validating with ~200 test prompts, and has strong end-to-end data/embedding/vector DB pipeline experience (PySpark, FAISS, Pinecone) plus SME-in-the-loop evaluation (RLHF).”

“At Evoke Tech, built a production LLM "Testbench" to quickly compare LLMs/embedding models and RAG strategies (semantic, hybrid BM25, re-ranking, HyDE, query expansion) to select optimal architectures for different client needs. Also developed a multi-agent, multimodal (voice/text) RAG system for live catalog retrieval and safe product recommendations using LangGraph/LangChain with LangSmith monitoring, and regularly translated PM/UX goals into concrete agent behaviors via demos and flowcharts.”

“Software engineer with Warner Music Group experience owning and shipping analyst-facing data products (marketing/streaming data dashboards) end-to-end with high adoption through continuous stakeholder feedback. Also builds side projects with TypeScript/React and domain-driven API design, emphasizing flexibility (including swapping databases mid-development) and pragmatic microservices reliability patterns (logging, timeouts, retry backoff).”

“Built and deployed a production LLM + vector search clinical decision support system at UnitedHealth Group, retrieving medical evidence and patient context in real time for prior authorization and risk scoring. Strong in end-to-end RAG architecture (Hugging Face embeddings, Pinecone/FAISS, SageMaker, Redis) plus orchestration (Airflow/Kubeflow) and rigorous evaluation/monitoring, with demonstrated ability to align solutions with clinical operations stakeholders.”

“Built and deployed an LLM-powered analytics assistant enabling business users to ask questions in plain English and receive validated Spark SQL executed in Databricks, with a Streamlit/Flask UI. Addressed strict client schema-privacy constraints by implementing a RAG strategy and ultimately leveraging AWS Bedrock and fine-tuned reference docs. Also has production ML pipeline experience using Docker + Airflow and AWS (S3/ECS/EC2) for financial classification models.”

“Built and shipped 'PetPulse,' a production AI pet-health note system that records voice notes, transcribes them, converts transcripts into structured symptom/event data, and supports grounded Q&A over a user’s notes and vet PDFs. Demonstrates full-stack LLM product execution (FastAPI + GPT-4 + Firebase), with concrete reliability/performance work (async endpoints, caching, RAG/embeddings, function calling) and user-centered iteration with a non-technical product stakeholder.”

“GenAI/data engineering practitioner with production experience across Equinix, Optum, and Citibank—built an Azure OpenAI (GPT-4) + LangChain document intelligence platform processing 1.5M+ docs/month and a HIPAA-compliant Airflow healthcare pipeline handling 5M+ claims/day. Also delivered a real-time fraud detection + explainability system using LightGBM and a fine-tuned T5 NLG component, improving fraud accuracy by 15%+ while partnering closely with compliance stakeholders.”

“Engineering leader who proposed and delivered a new API-based document management platform to replace a vendor-dependent system, improving latency by ~1s and availability to 99.9% while migrating legacy data. Also drove Python-based automation of ~12 workflows via third-party API integrations and led an SSO/auth integration focused on backward compatibility and high login success rates.”

“Built and owned an end-to-end Seat Allocation & Management System at Accenture, replacing a legacy process with a scalable web app used across teams. Deep focus on reliability under concurrency (transactions + unique constraints + idempotent APIs) and on Postgres performance tuning (composite indexes, EXPLAIN ANALYZE), plus post-launch production support and monitoring.”

“Machine learning/NLP engineer who built a production-oriented retrieval-based AI system at Morgan Stanley for healthcare use cases, combining RAG over unstructured patient records with deep-learning medical image segmentation (U-Net/Mask R-CNN). Strong in end-to-end pipelines and MLOps (Spark/MongoDB, AWS SageMaker, CI/CD, monitoring, automated retraining) and in entity resolution/data quality validation for noisy clinical data.”

“GenAI/ML engineer with production experience building multilingual LLM systems (English/Spanish) and RAG-based clinical documentation summarization at Walgreens, combining prompt engineering, structured output validation, and rigorous evaluation (ROUGE + pharmacist review). Also orchestrated end-to-end ML pipelines for demand forecasting using Apache Airflow, PySpark, and MLflow with scheduled retraining and production monitoring.”

“Systems/robotics-oriented software engineer focused on real-time orchestration and reliability: built a central control layer coordinating multiple concurrent agents with safe state machines, failure isolation, and recovery. Has hands-on ROS/ROS 2 integration experience in simulation (DDS/QoS, lifecycle, nodes in Python/C++) and emphasizes observability (structured JSON logs, correlation IDs) and low-latency control-loop performance under load.”

“Computer science engineer and master’s graduate who independently built a mechatronics-heavy capstone prototype: a smartphone concept for deafblind users using micro-actuator arrays for braille reading. Also has platform engineering experience at Quantiphi, deploying webhooks to Kubernetes and implementing GitOps-based CI/CD using AWS CodeCommit/CodeBuild and ECR.”

“Built and owned major parts of a real-time distributed AI fraud-detection pipeline (ingestion, inference microservice integration, and automated action layer), optimizing latency and observability and reducing false positives by ~35%. Understands ROS/ROS2 concepts (nodes/topics/services) and planned hands-on ramp-up via ROS2 pub/sub exercises and Gazebo simulation, but has not worked on physical robots or ROS in production.”

“AI/ML engineer with production experience building LLM-powered document intelligence and customer support systems in healthcare/insurance, emphasizing high-accuracy RAG, long-document processing, and robust monitoring/fallback mechanisms. Also automates and scales ML lifecycle workflows using Apache Airflow and Kubeflow, and partners closely with non-technical operations stakeholders to drive adoption.”

“Built and deployed an AWS-based LLM/RAG ticket triage and knowledge retrieval system (Pinecone/FAISS + Step Functions + MLflow) that cut support resolution time by 20%. Demonstrates strong production focus on hallucination reduction, PII security, and low-latency orchestration, with measurable evaluation improvements (e.g., ~25% grounding accuracy gain via re-ranking) and proven collaboration with support operations stakeholders.”

“Red Hat ML/LLM engineer who designed and deployed a production LLM-powered customer support automation system using RAG, improving latency by 30% via PEFT and vector search optimization. Built security and governance into retrieval (access-level filtering, encrypted Pinecone/ChromaDB) and delivered SHAP-based explainability via a dashboard for non-technical stakeholders. Experienced orchestrating distributed ML/RAG pipelines across AWS SageMaker and OpenShift with Airflow/Prefect, plus multi-agent workflows using CrewAI and LangGraph.”

“Data/ML practitioner with hands-on experience building NLP systems from prototype to production: delivered a Twitter sentiment classifier with robust preprocessing, SVM modeling, and Power BI reporting, and built entity-resolution pipelines for messy multi-source customer data (reporting ~95% improvement in unique entity identification). Also implemented semantic linking/search using SBERT embeddings with FAISS vector retrieval and domain fine-tuning (reported ~15% precision lift), and applies production workflow best practices (Airflow/Prefect, Docker, Azure ML/Databricks, Great Expectations).”