Vetted dbt Professionals

“Built and deployed an LLM-powered mental health therapy assistant at AppHealth that segments users by stress level and delivers personalized, non-medical guidance. Implemented healthcare-focused safety guardrails (secondary LLM output filtering) and a multi-agent router workflow validated via statistical tests and therapist review, then scaled training/inference on AWS (EC2/Lambda/DynamoDB) with Kubernetes.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered support assistant for customer support agents using a RAG architecture over internal docs and past tickets, with human-in-the-loop review. Demonstrates strong applied LLM engineering focused on real-world constraints (hallucinations, latency, cost) using routing to smaller models, reranking, caching, and rigorous evaluation/monitoring (offline eval sets, A/B tests, KPI tracking).”

“ML engineer/data scientist who deployed a production credit risk + insurance claims triage platform at Hartford Financial, combining XGBoost default prediction with BERT-based document classification. Demonstrated strong MLOps by cutting inference latency to sub-500ms and building drift monitoring plus automated retraining/deployment pipelines (MLflow, CloudWatch, GitHub Actions, SageMaker) with human-in-the-loop review and SHAP-based explainability for underwriting adoption.”

Phanideep P

Screened

Senior Data Engineer specializing in cloud lakehouse and streaming data platforms

5y exp

“Data platform/data engineer with cross-industry experience in banking and healthcare, building cloud-native lakehouse architectures across AWS/Azure/GCP. Has owned high-volume (millions of records; TB/day) pipelines with strong data quality automation (dbt/Great Expectations), observability (Grafana/Prometheus), and real-time streaming (Kafka/Spark) for fraud monitoring; also delivered an early-stage migration from SQL Server to BigQuery with 40% batch latency reduction.”

Rajeshwar Peri

Screened

Mid-level Data Analyst specializing in healthcare and financial analytics

Chicago, IL5y exp

“Healthcare analytics candidate with hands-on experience turning messy claims and CRM data into validated reporting tables, automating monthly reporting in Python/Airflow, and operationalizing churn metrics in SQL and Tableau. They appear especially strong in stakeholder-aligned metric design and delivered a reported ~10% churn reduction through cohort analysis, segmentation, and at-risk member targeting.”

“Analytics engineer/data professional with strong healthcare and membership analytics experience, combining SQL, dbt, BigQuery, Python, and Tableau to turn messy source data into trusted executive reporting. Stands out for metric governance and stakeholder alignment work, including unifying conflicting business definitions and delivering a CMS market-risk model that identified $792M in excess payer costs.”

“Backend/data engineer in healthcare who built an AWS-based clinical analytics platform from scratch (DynamoDB/S3/Airflow/dbt) with sub-second clinician query goals, 99.9% uptime, and HIPAA-grade controls (KMS encryption, IAM RBAC, audit trails). Also modernized ML delivery by replacing a manual 4-hour deployment with a 30-minute Docker/GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline using parallel runs, parity testing, and rollback, and caught critical EHR data edge cases (date formats/timezones) that could have impacted patient care.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG system at CVS to automate clinical documents, addressing PHI compliance, retrieval accuracy, and latency; achieved a 35–40% reduction in review effort through chunking and FP16/INT8 optimization. Also has experience translating AI outputs into actionable insights for non-technical stakeholders (sports analysts).”

“Built and deployed a production Llama 3-based RAG document Q&A system using FAISS, addressing context-window limits through chunking and keeping retrieval accurate by regularly refreshing embeddings. Has hands-on orchestration experience with LangChain and LlamaIndex for multi-step LLM workflows (including memory management) and collaborates with non-technical teams (e.g., marketing) to deliver AI solutions like recommendation systems.”

Uday Dorawala

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in SaaS platforms, data, and cloud modernization

Raleigh, NC25y exp

“Former founder with an acquired venture who later led R&D at McClatchy and joined multiple startups. Identified a major client need and built a mobile app platform using ML and AR for home builders, driving adoption by dozens of customers and $1M+ ARR. Strong hands-on builder who can architect MVPs, iterate quickly with A/B testing and user feedback, and scale early engineering teams and culture.”

SREYAS GANGJI

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML backend systems

Chicago, IL4y exp

“AI/data engineer at ZS Associates focused on production-grade agentic systems, FastAPI microservices, and cloud-native ETL/RAG pipelines at significant scale. They’ve built multi-agent validation and diagnostic workflows inspired by their Copilot/KUBEPILOT AI work, supporting 500K+ records per day while improving ML inference performance by ~30% and cutting manual troubleshooting by 60%.”

“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).”

“Built and productionized an LLM-powered financial intelligence and forecasting platform at Northern Trust using a RAG architecture (LangChain + Hugging Face + FAISS) with end-to-end MLOps (Docker/Kubernetes, Airflow, MLflow). Emphasized regulatory-grade explainability (SHAP/Power BI) and hallucination control (retrieval-only grounding), achieving ~30% forecasting accuracy improvement and ~65% reduction in analyst research time, with sub-second inference and 95% uptime on EKS/AKS.”

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 in healthcare/clinical data platforms (HarmonCare) who built and operated an end-to-end lakehouse pipeline ingesting HL7/FHIR at ~2–3M records/day on AWS (Glue/Lambda/S3/Spark) and serving trusted datasets in Snowflake. Implemented strong validation/reconciliation gates and a data quality framework that reduced discrepancies ~40%, plus CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Terraform) and monitoring (Airflow/CloudWatch).”

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.”

Aaron Rodrigues

Screened

Junior Business & Data Analyst specializing in FinTech and banking analytics

Jacksonville, FL5y exp

“Analytics professional with Travelex experience spanning SQL ETL, Python-based machine learning workflows, and Power BI dashboarding in risk, fraud, and AML contexts. Stands out for replacing a $150K+ third-party compliance tool with internal dashboards and for materially improving operational efficiency through alert tuning, cutting alert volume by 50% and false positives by 60%.”

“Full-stack product engineer with hands-on ownership of a B2B e-commerce catalog at Mphasis, spanning React/TypeScript, Java/Spring Boot, and Postgres, with strong evidence of performance tuning and UX improvement. Stands out for tracing production issues across layers, leading an Angular-to-React migration, and pairing product instinct with rapid AI prototyping—placing 2nd in an advanced AI hackathon.”

Luke Evers

Screened

Director-level engineering leader specializing in full-stack product and e-commerce systems

Remote12y exp

“Candidate is an aspiring founder currently exploring startup ideas and potential collaborators, with firsthand experience as an early employee at VC-backed companies, including joining a current company shortly after seed funding. They have not raised capital themselves but bring early-stage operating exposure and a strong desire to build something they own with a high-trust team.”