Vetted Deep Learning Professionals

Peeyush Dyavarashetty

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Intern AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI, LLMs, and agentic RAG systems

Miami, FL2y exp

“AI/LLM practitioner who built a GPT-2-like language model from scratch at the University of Maryland using PyTorch and multi-GPU distributed training, with experiment tracking in Weights & Biases. As an AI Operations intern at ScaleUp360, delivered multiple production-style AI agent automations (Gmail classification and Fireflies-to-Claude workflows that extract and assign CEO tasks) and set up measurable evaluation using test cases and classification metrics.”

“ML/backend engineer with PayPal experience building high-stakes production systems, including a GenAI internal support assistant and a real-time fraud scoring pipeline. Strong in Python/FastAPI, model-serving infrastructure, RAG architecture, and production observability, with clear readiness to transition those backend patterns into a TypeScript stack.”

“Built and shipped a map-embedding SDK (published to npm) for Walmart apps, solving key performance issues with real-time streaming (WebSockets) and Canvas rendering while prioritizing developer experience. Also applies LLM/agentic patterns in production workflows—using diagnostic agents and human-in-the-loop escalation to detect and resolve issues (e.g., voice agent loops caused by RAG API failures). Has sales-engineering experience supporting enterprise renewals, including a million-dollar contract renewal while at Siemens working with Ford stakeholders.”

“Platform/infra engineer with strong ownership of Kubernetes on VMware and day-to-day hybrid on-prem-to-AWS operations. Has hands-on experience automating infrastructure delivery with Terraform/Ansible/CI-CD, and has resolved real production issues spanning CSI storage reattachment during upgrades, vSphere storage-latency performance degradation, and hybrid connectivity/routing failures with improved validation, monitoring, and failover.”

Gagan Mundada

Screened

Intern Machine Learning Engineer specializing in multimodal AI and evaluation benchmarks

San Diego, CA2y exp

“ML-focused candidate with beginner ROS/ROS2 experience (custom pub-sub nodes; TurtleBot3 SLAM simulation debugging via topic inspection and transform/orientation checks). Has research/project exposure to LLM training approaches (GRPO with pseudo-labels using Hugging Face TRL on Qwen/Llama) and uses Docker/Kubernetes + CI/CD to run ViT saliency-attention/compression workloads on UCSD Nautilus infrastructure.”

“Engineer with a notably mature AI-native development process: uses Claude/Claude Code in a test-first, iterative workflow and has led multi-agent builds across frontend, backend, and testing. Most notably, they led development of an AI voice agent platform, creating custom agent skills and enforcing clear architectural boundaries to deliver a stable, scalable system.”

Alexander Smith

Screened

Junior Software Engineer and Data Scientist specializing in AI/ML systems

California, USA3y exp

“Built production-grade automation and ML/data pipelines at Dun & Bradstreet and ThreadNotion, spanning large-scale document classification, country risk report automation, and resilient Playwright testing for dynamic AI chat workflows. Particularly strong in turning brittle or ambiguous systems into reliable, observable, end-to-end automated platforms.”

Ruturaj Ghatage

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack, cloud infrastructure, and applied AI

Herndon, Virginia2y exp

“Master’s student at UC San Diego who built an LLM-powered healthcare chatbot for patient history-taking and sepsis-related output, using a Node.js backend integrated with FastAPI for RAG/LLM interactions and a Flutter client. Also has healthcare AI startup experience deploying on AWS (ECS/Terraform/Docker) and implementing Kubernetes autoscaling to improve efficiency and reduce costs, with strong iterative evaluation in collaboration with a physician.”

Sarthak Gupta

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, NLP, and real-time AI systems

New York, NY4y exp

“Backend engineer who built a real-time pipeline for recording, transcribing, and analyzing audio from 400+ news radio stations, scaling Whisper on an HPC cluster with 7 H100 GPUs. Has strong performance optimization experience (30% latency reduction via SQL/query design; 50% DB call reduction via Redis caching) and has implemented region-based data isolation and PII protections in a regulated environment (JP Morgan Chase).”

“ML/AI engineer focused on production-grade model reliability: built a monitoring and validation framework to detect drift, trigger anomaly alerts/retraining, and maintain consistent performance for device intelligence workflows at scale. Strong MLOps background with Python pipelines, Docker/Kubernetes deployments, Airflow orchestration, and real-time monitoring dashboards; experienced partnering with product managers to deliver business-facing insights.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of production systems spanning classical ML fraud detection and GenAI agent workflows. At Fidelity, they built an end-to-end fraud platform that improved review queue Precision@K by 15-20% while reducing false positives 10-15%, and they also shipped RAG-based agent systems that cut manual workflow effort by 30-40%.”

“AI-native software engineer who uses agentic development as a core workflow, including a three-agent setup for planning, validation, and implementation. In their most recent role, they acted as the lead orchestrator for AI agents, with a strong emphasis on production safety, architectural control, and rigorous validation.”

“AI/ML engineer who has shipped both a safety-critical mental health RAG chatbot (Mistral 7B + Pinecone) with automated faithfulness/toxicity monitoring and a deep Q-learning investment recommendation engine at Lincoln Financial Group. Strong in production MLOps and orchestration (AWS Lambda/CloudWatch/SageMaker, Docker, AKS) and in translating regulated-domain requirements (clinical reliability, fiduciary duty) into measurable model constraints and monitoring.”

Hitesh Bhojwani

Screened

Mid-level Robotics Software Engineer specializing in SLAM and 3D computer vision

4y exp

“Robotics software engineer focused on outdoor mobile robot localization and navigation, building ROS1/ROS2 systems with NavSat+EKF sensor fusion and custom Nav2/Costmap2D extensions for 3D obstacle clearance. Demonstrates strong real-world troubleshooting by tracing localization drift to a failing IMU connector, repairing it, and then creating sensor-health monitoring tooling; experienced taking features from Gazebo simulation through field testing to Docker/Kubernetes deployment with CI via GitHub Actions.”

Feras Alsaiari

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AWS data platforms and event-driven systems

4y exp

“Capital One engineer leading the architecture and delivery of a large-scale AWS Glue/Spark/Delta Lake batch messaging pipeline that decoupled batch from real-time flows, added multi-region failover and automated retries, and delivered ~40% AWS cost savings with ~3x performance gains. Currently building an LLM-powered Slack bot using RAG to automate message investigations by querying CloudWatch, Snowflake, and internal documentation with privacy-aware masking of NPI/PII.”

Mayuna Gupta

Screened

Senior Data Scientist specializing in computer vision and medical imaging

San Diego, CA4y exp

“Built and deployed an LLM-powered RAG system (PubChemRAG) for a 4D Mitospace project to compare mechanisms across a ~100-drug glossary and surface expected pathway/phenotypic differences in mitochondrial imaging. Worked closely with biochemistry and microscopy experts to design tiered evaluation benchmarks, iterating on prompts, retrieval quality (corpus hygiene, chunking strategy), and model outputs under GPU constraints using LangChain.”

Shanay Wadhwani

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in NLP, computer vision, and applied ML

Washington, DC6y exp

“AI/ML engineer with impactful work for the World Bank across both LLM systems and computer vision, including a PRAI evaluator-assistance platform and a production UNet model for slum detection from multispectral satellite imagery. Earlier built multilingual NLP-based borrower segmentation and credit scoring at Creditmate through its acquisition by Paytm, showing strong experience in ambiguous, high-impact environments.”

“Robotics/computer-vision engineer with industrial safety monitoring experience, building real-time pose estimation (TRTPose) and 2D-to-3D localization and optimizing pipelines to sustain 30+ FPS under heavy multi-entity load. Also brings edge-to-cloud distributed systems work (HoloLens + Google Vision/Translation) and production ML deployment experience using Docker/CI/CD across finance and edge camera environments.”

“Backend-focused engineer with hands-on experience modernizing a legacy SNMP/PNM data collection system at CableLabs into a cloud-accessible Kubernetes pipeline, feeding Prometheus-formatted metrics into VictoriaMetrics and visualizing real-time network health in Grafana for 100+ modems. Also built a FastAPI + Supabase appointment booking portal for a clinic with encryption and phone-number-based auth, and has frontend experience debugging S3-based HEIF image rendering issues.”

“Primary engineer at Customer Insights AI who built an end-to-end Python pipeline for 340B drug pricing compliance, using ML to detect suspicious pharmaceutical claims and benefit diversion. Stands out for combining healthcare compliance domain knowledge with production reliability practices, and for turning ambiguous analyst-driven review processes into automated workflows that cut manual review by 70%.”

“ML/GenAI engineer with hands-on experience shipping LLM-powered support systems at Uber, including real-time feedback analysis, ticket summarization, and retrieval-grounded knowledge systems. Stands out for combining fine-tuning, RAG, safety evaluation, and production optimization to drive measurable support outcomes like faster handling times, better resolution rates, and lower latency/cost.”

“Postdoctoral/PhD researcher focused on Alzheimer's disease who has built scalable end-to-end AI systems across pathology imaging, transcriptomics, and longitudinal neuroimaging. Particularly strong in turning novel research ideas into robust Python pipelines on GPU/HPC infrastructure, with pathologist-facing impact and scientifically novel findings such as image-derived disease severity trajectories and subtype discovery.”