Vetted Deep Learning Professionals

Pranav Mishra

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLM agents, RAG, and MLOps

Charlotte, NC2y exp

“AI/ML engineer who has shipped production systems across computer vision and conversational agents: built a YOLOv8-based wheel fitment pipeline at a Techstars-backed automotive startup, focusing on sub-second latency, monitoring, and robust fallback mechanisms that drove 2–3x page view growth and +5–6k users. Also built a voice-based interview platform orchestrating Deepgram + GPT-4 Mini + OpenAI TTS with FSM-driven reliability, and has hands-on RAG experience (LangChain, hybrid retrieval, cross-encoder reranking, custom pseudo-query generation).”

Rethvick Sriram Yugendra Babu

Screened

Junior AI/ML Software Engineer specializing in Generative AI and scalable data pipelines

Tucson, AZ2y exp

“Built and operated large-scale biodiversity/ecological research platforms, integrating 50+ heterogeneous global datasets into a unified BIEN 3 schema on PostgreSQL/PostGIS and improving data consistency by 35%. Strong production engineering background (Linux monitoring, CI/CD performance gates, Docker on AWS/Azure) plus applied AI work building a Python RAG system (0.90 precision) and halving latency with Elasticsearch.”

Yashwant Gandham

Screened

Junior Machine Learning & Backend Engineer specializing in LLM systems and ML infrastructure

Boulder, CO1y exp

“Built and deployed production RAG-based document search/Q&A systems (DocChat and an internship marketing RAG), using a React + FastAPI stack on GCP with docs stored in GCP buckets and retrieval via embeddings/vector DB. Emphasizes cost/performance tradeoffs (reported ~40% cost reduction) and ships via Docker (Railway), with load/API testing using JMeter and Swagger; regularly collaborates with a CEO stakeholder to iterate and push changes to production.”

YERTAYEV ARMAN

Screened

Mid-level Robotics & Computer Vision Engineer specializing in SLAM and edge AI

Seoul, South Korea

“Robotics/SLAM-focused engineer who worked on RT-Appearance mapping using NetVLAD, replacing traditional CV feature extraction with a deep learning approach to improve loop closure in repetitive green environments. Has hands-on ROS1/ROS2 experience (including bridging), point-cloud alignment with G-ICP for sensor-parameter matching, and Gazebo+Docker simulation testing for motion planning/perception.”

Srikar Tharala

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and RAG systems

Remote, USA4y exp

“Currently at ProShare and reports building an AI/LLM-powered system deployed to production, aimed at helping with status-related difficulties and reducing misunderstandings across transactions. Also cites prior collaboration at Porsche with marketing teams, focusing on translating marketing goals into technical requirements and communicating solutions clearly to non-technical stakeholders.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer with experience in fintech identity verification and industrial analytics, focused on turning repeated operational pain points into reusable platforms. Built real-time KYC/KYB dashboards, secure cross-platform web components, and a multi-tenant workflow engine that cut onboarding from 2 weeks to 1 day while materially improving conversion, reliability, and developer speed.”

Shuchi Shah

Screened

Senior Applied AI Engineer specializing in RAG and full-stack systems

San Jose, CA13y exp

“Backend engineer with experience building an end-to-end civic tech AI platform that ingests city council meeting videos, transcribes them with Whisper, and enables natural-language Q&A via a LangChain/FAISS RAG pipeline. Demonstrated strong systems thinking by tuning retrieval for accuracy/latency/memory (cutting response time ~3s→1s and memory ~500MB→25MB) and by safely migrating an ERP from monolith toward services using dual writes, reconciliation, and idempotency to protect financial workflows.”

“Senior backend/data engineer who has built and maintained HIPAA-compliant, real-time clinical FastAPI services on AWS, orchestrating ML/LLM and vector DB calls with strong reliability patterns (auth, timeouts/retries, graceful degradation, idempotency). Also delivered AWS IaC/CI-CD (Terraform/Helm/GitHub Actions) across EKS/Lambda/SageMaker and built Glue/Spark ETL with schema evolution and data quality controls, plus demonstrated large SQL performance wins (15 min to <9 sec) and hands-on incident ownership.”

“Backend-focused engineer who built a Python-based automation system leveraging Gemini AI and prompt-driven PDF field extraction to replace a previously manual third-party workflow. Drove stakeholder alignment around accuracy/acceptance thresholds and added production-minded safeguards like graceful failure handling and backup model contingencies.”

“Built and deployed a production AI accessibility platform that turns chart and image-based graphs into real-time audio narratives for visually impaired users. Implemented a ResNet-based CV + OCR + NLP + TTS pipeline and improved performance through preprocessing, Redis caching, and Kubernetes autoscaling/rolling updates on AWS to handle traffic spikes with no downtime.”

“Graduate-school lab engineer who built and owned the final architecture of a Microservices Hub that integrates REST APIs, issues API keys, monitors 10+ Linux servers, and visualizes service dependencies via a topology graph. Strong in bridging legacy and modern stacks (Dockerized and non-Dockerized services like Apache/screen) using deep Linux/networking knowledge, plus practical real-time audio streaming for STT/TTS and experience mentoring others.”

Carlos Cortés

Screened

Junior Robotics Engineer specializing in ROS 2, SLAM, and simulation

Bogota, Colombia3y exp

“Robotics software engineer with ~3.5 years in ROS/ROS2 mobile robotics, SLAM, and control who owned end-to-end integration for a sim-to-real mobile platform (Zephyr), including ros2_control, EKF sensor fusion (IMU + Vicon), and Gazebo validation with quantified accuracy. Also built a multi-drone CSLAM stack integrating ORB-SLAM3 and PX4 offboard control, scaling via namespaces, synchronization/QoS discipline, and performance debugging with ros2_tracing.”

Ritika Sisodiya

Screened

Junior Data Scientist specializing in statistical modeling and machine learning

California, USA2y exp

“AI Researcher with production experience building a real-time computer-vision detection pipeline augmented by an LLM-based verification layer to cut false positives (~78%) and reach ~90% real-world accuracy. Also partners cross-functionally with Product/Sales/Marketing to shape AI feature prioritization and market positioning using analysis and interactive dashboards.”

“Analytics professional with experience spanning infrastructure, energy, and digital engagement data. They have built SQL and Python workflows to turn messy operational data into trusted reporting assets, and led a wind turbine SCADA analysis that quantified roughly $1M in cumulative performance loss and translated findings into actionable Power BI dashboards.”

“Robotics software engineer who built a ROS 2 Humble autonomous hospital-equipment detection/localization robot end-to-end in Gazebo (custom worlds/models, Nav2 waypoint navigation, YOLOv8n perception, TF2-based depth fusion) and solved real-time integration issues via multithreading and QoS tuning. Also implemented and tuned an MPPI controller to enable smooth reverse parking on an OpenPodCarV2 platform, including real-world reverse engineering and hardware/software debugging.”

“Master’s thesis engineer who built and deployed a continuous real-time perception + state estimation + control loop under tight latency constraints, owning both software architecture and hardware integration. Strong ROS 2 fundamentals with a systems-first approach—stabilizes robotic behavior by instrumenting, logging/replaying real data, and fixing timing/synchronization issues rather than treating failures as purely algorithmic.”

“Built and deployed production LLM applications including a natural-language-to-read-only-SQL system focused on ambiguity handling and query safety (schema whitelisting, intent validation, confidence checks, deterministic execution). Experienced with LangChain-based, modular agent orchestration and RAG document QA for large PDFs, with a metrics-driven testing/evaluation approach and cross-functional delivery with marketing on an AI content recommendation/search tool.”

“Built and deployed a production AI-powered personalized learning platform (Django + FastAPI) featuring an LLM+RAG tutoring assistant and automated grading. Demonstrates strong applied LLM reliability engineering (structured JSON outputs with Pydantic validation, hallucination control via FAISS-based RAG thresholds and refusals) plus scalable async microservice design and Airflow-orchestrated ETL across AWS/GCP.”

“Built and shipped production LLM agents for real-time, high-concurrency conversational systems, including a RAG-based pipeline with dynamic multi-provider routing and failover that achieved 99.99% reliability and sub-800ms latency. Also architected a UAV telemetry chatbot with tool-calling (anomaly detection/summarization), strict schema validation, and robust eval/monitoring loops, cutting tool-call errors by 30% and reducing operational costs by 90%.”

Ahmad Alomari

Screened

Senior Data Scientist & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in computer vision and production ML

Cleveland, OH7y exp

“PhD in computer engineering who has built production-oriented ML/NLP systems for space-weather prediction using Spark-based ETL on noisy satellite sensor logs. Strong in entity resolution and semantic search—fine-tuned E5 embeddings with contrastive learning and deployed to Pinecone, improving top-5 retrieval precision by 25%—and emphasizes scalable, observable pipelines with Airflow, Docker, and CI/CD.”

Ramya Jonnala

Screened

Principal/GenAI Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and MLOps

Plano, TX9y exp

“Built a production AI-powered university marking system that automates question generation and grading from PDF course materials using a RAG pipeline (S3 + Pinecone) orchestrated with LangChain/LangGraph and deployed on AWS ECS via Docker/ECR and GitHub Actions CI/CD. Addressed a key real-world LLM challenge—grading consistency—by implementing rubric-based scoring, retrieval re-ranking, and standardized context summarization, validated against human instructors.”

Riya Stanly

Screened

Intern Data Scientist specializing in machine learning, NLP, and LLM fine-tuning

2y exp

“Built a production-style AI meeting summarization and action-item extraction system (Azure Speech-to-Text + transformer summarization/NER) exposed via a Flask REST API, with explicit guardrails to prevent hallucinated tasks. Strong focus on reliability: modular agent/workflow design, precision-first evaluation with human-validated golden notes, and practical orchestration patterns (tool-augmented agents; ready to scale into Airflow/LangGraph/Prefect).”

Swapnil Sanjay Pawar

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in GenAI and web platforms

Atlanta, GA2y exp

“AI/software engineer with hands-on experience deploying an LLM-powered quiz generation platform for students, integrating Python services with Gemini APIs plus frontend and database components. Emphasizes production-grade reliability through observability, schema validation, async processing, and performance tuning under high concurrency, and has collaborated with product/operators (e.g., at Colombo AI) to translate real-world constraints into scalable technical solutions.”