Vetted Databricks Professionals

Hari Billa

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in machine learning, NLP, and healthcare AI

USA3y exp

“Senior data scientist with hands-on ownership of production ML and GenAI systems across enterprise churn, clinical Q&A, and real-time fraud detection. Stands out for combining strong MLOps discipline with measurable business impact, including $2M+ retained revenue, 10K TPS low-latency fraud infrastructure, and a clinician-reviewed RAG system that improved retrieval accuracy by ~38%.”

Ruturaj Dixit

Screened

Junior Data Scientist specializing in AI/ML and product analytics

New York, NY2y exp

“Applied ML/data scientist who has owned backend-heavy AI systems end-to-end, including a market-signal platform on FastAPI/AWS and rapid MVP delivery in medical computer vision. Particularly interesting for teams needing someone who can combine model development, backend APIs, production debugging, and pragmatic low-latency architecture decisions.”

“LLM/MLOps engineer who has shipped a production RAG-based technical documentation assistant (FastAPI) cutting manual review by 45%, with deep hands-on retrieval optimization in Pinecone/LangChain (HNSW, hybrid + multi-query search, caching). Also brings healthcare domain experience—building Airflow-orchestrated EHR pipelines and delivering FDA-auditability-friendly predictive maintenance solutions using SHAP/LIME explainability surfaced in Power BI.”

“Backend/data engineer who builds Python (FastAPI) data-processing API services for internal analytics/reporting, emphasizing modular architecture, async performance tuning, and reliability patterns (health checks, retries, observability). Also migrated legacy on-prem ETL pipelines to Azure using ADF/Data Lake/Functions and implemented a near-real-time ingestion flow with Event Hubs plus watermarking to handle late events and deduplication.”

“AI Engineer Co-Op at Northeastern University who built a production Patient Persona Chat Bot to help nursing students practice clinical interactions, fine-tuning Llama 3 and integrating a LangChain + Pinecone RAG pipeline deployed on Amazon Bedrock. Emphasizes clinical accuracy and reliability with guardrails, retrieval filtering, and continuous evaluation, and also brings strong data engineering/orchestration experience (Airflow, EMR/PySpark, ADF, dbt, Databricks, Snowflake).”

“AI/NLP-focused practitioner who built a zero-/few-shot LLM event extraction system on the long-tail Maven dataset, combining prompt-structured outputs with LoRA/QLoRA fine-tuning and rigorous F1 evaluation. Also implemented entity resolution/data cleaning pipelines and embedding-based semantic search using Sentence-BERT + FAISS, and has healthcare experience delivering a multilingual speech/translation mobile prototype using HIPAA-compliant Azure Cognitive Services.”

Snehitha Penumaka

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in predictive modeling and cloud ML pipelines

Dallas, TX3y exp

“LLM engineer/data engineer who has deployed production RAG systems for internal-document Q&A, building end-to-end ingestion, embedding, vector search, and FastAPI serving while actively reducing hallucinations and latency through rigorous retrieval tuning and caching. Also experienced in orchestrating cloud data pipelines (Airflow, AWS Glue, Azure Data Factory) and partnering with non-technical business teams to deliver AI solutions like automated document review.”

“Built and shipped a widely adopted, production-grade RAG internal search assistant that unified scattered engineering knowledge, deployed as a FastAPI service on Kubernetes with FAISS + LangChain. Demonstrates deep practical expertise in retrieval tuning (chunking, hybrid search, re-ranking) and in making LLM workflows reliable in production via guardrails, monitoring, and evaluation, plus strong cross-functional delivery with non-technical operations teams.”

“Data analyst with cross-industry experience spanning insurance analytics at L&T Infotech and experimental imaging analytics at Mylyser. Stands out for building scalable SQL/PySpark data pipelines, standardizing business-critical metrics like claims lifecycle and policy retention, and delivering measurable impact such as 50%+ faster query performance and a 15% reduction in claims settlement time.”

David Alvarado

Screened

Junior Business Analyst specializing in data analytics and BI

Orlando, FL3y exp

“Analytics candidate with insurance domain experience at Chubb, combining strong SQL/Python data engineering for claims reporting with business-facing metric design in Power BI. Also built an MLB game outcome predictor that beat Vegas implied probabilities using public data, showing strong product thinking and applied modeling ability beyond standard BI work.”

“Built and shipped a production RAG assistant using GPT-4, LangChain, and Pinecone/FAISS to search 50K+ institutional documents, with a strong focus on groundedness and hallucination reduction through retrieval optimization and re-ranking. Pairs this with a metrics-driven evaluation/monitoring approach (BLEU/ROUGE, manual sampling, logging) and workflow automation via Airflow, and has experience translating stakeholder needs into iterative AI prototypes.”

Andrew Clayman

Screened

Senior Data Scientist specializing in ML, NLP, and production AI systems

Remote8y exp

“Machine learning/NLP engineer with deep Azure stack experience (Data Factory, Databricks/Spark, Delta Lake, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search) who built end-to-end production systems for semantic clustering, entity resolution, and hybrid search. Demonstrated measurable gains from embedding fine-tuning (~15% retrieval precision, ~10–12% nDCG@10) and designed scalable, quality-checked pipelines with MLOps best practices.”

“Data engineer focused on large-scale financial data platforms, with hands-on ownership of an AWS + Databricks + Snowflake pipeline processing ~2TB/day. Strong in data quality (Great Expectations), schema drift automation, and production reliability (99.9%), plus measurable performance/cost wins (4h→1.2h, ~25% cost reduction). Also built an async Python crawling/ingestion framework with anti-bot mitigation, retries, and Airflow-driven backfills.”

“Graduate researcher who builds production-grade AI systems spanning LLM security evaluation and on-device RAG. Created HoneyLearner, a self-learning attack framework using GPT-4-class models as structured black-box attackers against honeywords defenses, with rigorous metrics and reproducible orchestration (Airflow/Spark/Kafka/Docker). Also partnered with agriculture scientists at Texas A&M–Corpus Christi to deliver UAV + 3D point-cloud crop-stress maps that cut time-to-insight ~40% and enabled ~30% earlier interventions.”

“Built and deployed an enterprise RAG application at Centene to help clinical teams retrieve insights from large internal policy document sets, cutting manual research by 30–40%. Implemented custom domain-adapted embeddings (SageMaker + BERT transfer learning) and hybrid retrieval (BM25 + Pinecone) to drive a 22% relevance lift, and ran the system in production on AWS EKS with CI/CD, MLflow, and Prometheus monitoring (99% uptime, ~40% latency reduction).”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered email assistant (“wood flow”) for a local pet resort to automate after-hours inbound email handling, including email categorization and context-aware auto-responses. Uses n8n for orchestration and applies CRISP-DM, load/edge-case testing, and RAG-based context retrieval, and has experience presenting AI solutions with budgeting and ROI to a non-technical founder.”

“AI/ML engineer (Merkle) with hands-on experience deploying RAG-based LLM applications and real-time recommendation engines into production. Strong in cloud/on-prem architectures, GPU autoscaling, caching, and network optimization—delivered measurable latency reductions (40–70%) and improved retrieval relevance by systematically benchmarking chunking/embedding configurations and validating pipelines via CI/CD.”

“LLM solutions practitioner with SOC/alert-triage experience who takes LLM prototypes to production using RAG (Pinecone), FastAPI services, guardrails, CI/CD, monitoring, and robust fallback logic. Known for rapid real-time debugging of embedding/vector and agent workflow issues, and for driving adoption through code-first workshops and sales-aligned custom demos with measurable improvements (35% faster triage; 40% increase in correct tool usage).”

“Data professional with ~4 years of experience, most recently at AIG (insurance), building ML/NLP systems for fraud detection and policy automation using transformers, CNNs, and clustering/anomaly detection. Also developed a RAG-based knowledge retrieval system, iterating across embedding models and moving to production based on precision and latency SLAs, then containerizing and deploying with SageMaker and CI/CD.”

PRAHARSHA JANDHYALA

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist/Data Analyst specializing in ML, BI dashboards, and ETL pipelines

Dallas, TX4y exp

“Data/ML practitioner with experience at Humana and Hexaware, focused on turning messy, semi-structured datasets into production-ready pipelines. Built an age-prediction model from book ratings using heavy feature engineering and multiple regression models, and has hands-on entity resolution (deterministic + fuzzy matching) plus embeddings/vector DB approaches for linking and search relevance.”

“Data engineer with healthcare/clinical trial domain experience who owned a 100TB+/month AWS pipeline end-to-end (Glue/S3/Redshift/Airflow) and drove measurable outcomes (20% lower latency, 99.9% reliability, 40% less manual reporting). Also built production data services and API-based ingestion on GCP (Cloud Run/Functions/BigQuery) with strong validation, versioning, and safe migration practices, and launched an early-stage RAG solution (LangChain + GPT-4) for researchers.”

“Data engineer with banking FP&A experience who led an end-to-end migration of 10+ TB from Teradata to Azure (ADF + Data Lake + Databricks/PySpark + Synapse). Emphasizes reliability (multi-stage validation, monitoring/alerts) and performance (Spark tuning, incremental loads, autoscaling), reporting ~99.5% pipeline reliability while supporting downstream consumers with stable schemas and clear change management.”

Anay Dongre

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in GenAI and LLM fine-tuning

Pomona, California1y exp

“Robotics software engineer focused on hard real-time autonomy for legged robots, building a quadruped navigation stack that combines vision SLAM with MPC and maintains a deterministic 500Hz control loop. Deep performance optimization experience across CUDA (sub-2ms perception latency), ROS 2/DDS real-time tuning, and motion planning (cut 500ms spikes to sub-5ms). Also designed distributed ROS 2 + Zenoh communications between quadrupeds and aerial drones and validated robustness under lossy wireless conditions.”

Ambuk Rehani

Screened

Mid-level AI/Backend Engineer specializing in RAG and data platforms

Dallas, TX7y exp

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered financial Q&A interface that extracts precise numeric data from PDFs using a hybrid AWS Textract + LLM normalization pipeline, with confidence gating and guardrails to prevent unreliable answers. Experienced with LangChain-based RAG orchestration (chunking, memory, structured outputs) and collaborated closely with PMs/analysts on IRS Form 990 extraction requirements.”