Vetted Deep Learning Professionals

Amit Dharam

Screened

Junior AI/ML Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and cloud deployment

Tempe, AZ3y exp

“Built multiple end-to-end automation and data systems, including an Accio RAG pipeline combining PDF parsing, FastAPI, Neo4j, and vector search, plus Selenium-based scraping for a virtual try-on product. Stands out for reliability-minded engineering: automated testing, structured logging, validation layers, and a data-driven approach to debugging flaky automation that improved CI pass rates to over 98%.”

“AI/backend engineer who has owned production applied-ML systems end to end, including a Jitsi meeting intelligence platform with custom RoBERTa boundary detection, LLM summarization, and automated retraining from user feedback. Also has healthcare AI experience building a diabetes medication titration system with strict validation, drift monitoring, and safety guardrails—showing both product speed and high-stakes engineering rigor.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of a production LLM/RAG system at Goldman Sachs, focused on workflow automation and large-scale document search for operational teams. They combine strong MLOps and backend engineering skills with practical GenAI evaluation and safety practices, and cite measurable impact including 22% better task guidance accuracy and sub-second search across millions of records.”

“AI/ML engineer who has built a production text-to-image generation system in PyTorch with an AWS-backed inference setup, focusing on GPU-efficient training and embedding-space architectural choices inspired by recent research (e.g., Meta VL-JEPA). Uses both metric-based evaluation (FID) and human testing to validate real-world visual quality, and can translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer with experience shipping engagement features and core communication systems at DribbleUp and Expys. Stands out for combining rapid MVP execution with rigorous iteration: delivered a leaderboard feature that lifted engagement by 8% initially and 20% overall, built a chat MVP in 3 days, and has hands-on experience deploying LangChain-based concierge agents with evals and human review.”

“Robotics software engineer with UC Irvine capstone experience building an autonomous rover end-to-end: ROS 2 navigation (slam_toolbox + Nav2) on Jetson Xavier, depth point-cloud integration for obstacle avoidance, and an on-device speech-to-action interface that converts natural language into Nav2 goals. Also has prior full-time experience integrating a safety assurance decision engine into distributed autonomous drones over secured mesh networks, emphasizing reliable communication under real-world network constraints.”

“Early-career robotics engineer who has integrated LLM/NLP command interfaces (OpenAI/LLaMA) into ROS-controlled industrial manipulators and built data-driven controls for underwater soft robotic actuators. Combines hands-on fabrication (balloon actuator with embedded copper traces) with sensor debugging (IMU/Aurora) and simulation work in Gazebo, with practical exposure to edge deployment constraints on Jetson Nano and model quantization.”

“Computer-vision-focused candidate with internship experience at ASML (Silicon Valley) building object detection models (YOLO, RT-DETR) for SEM defect inspection. Worked end-to-end on preparing multi-resolution datasets and tuning/training strategies, noting improved performance on low-quality images when training jointly on higher-resolution data.”

“Built a production AI-driven QA automation platform using a multi-agent architecture (MCPs + LangGraph) to run parallel website tests across multiple device environments via automated image building and containerization. Currently collaborating with restaurant operators and managers to deliver an agentic restaurant analytics system, emphasizing deep domain discovery with non-technical stakeholders.”

“Built and operated a production TypeScript backend for a stateful conversational quoting chatbot at Tringapps, orchestrating multi-step workflows and session state while integrating with Salesforce and NetSuite. Implemented validation/retry logic, modular architecture, and strong logging/observability to handle real-world edge cases and external API failures.”

Yasser Ali

Screened

Junior AI & ML Engineer specializing in agentic systems and full-stack AI products

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Won a machine learning contest and was placed onto a Kaiser data science team, where they built ML models for hospital bottleneck prediction and resource allocation. They later built and deployed a full-stack LLM-based “data analyst agent” (with custom orchestration plus LangChain/OpenAI Agents experience) that generates analysis code, answers questions, and produces dashboards from uploaded datasets, emphasizing rigorous evaluation sets, robustness, and healthcare security/compliance integration.”

Dinesh Kumar Patibandla

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs and RAG for finance and healthcare

Texas, USA4y exp

“ML Engineer with recent Goldman Sachs experience building and deploying a production RAG/LLM assistant for summarization, drafting, and internal knowledge retrieval across financial, risk, and compliance documents. Designed for heavy regulatory constraints and scaled to 10,000+ concurrent users using Kubernetes-based orchestration, dynamic LLM routing, and rigorous testing (adversarial prompts, A/B tests, load simulations) with privacy controls like differential privacy.”

Sandeep Athota

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in cloud MLOps and production ML systems

Texas, USA4y exp

“AI/ML engineer at J.P. Morgan Chase who deployed a production financial-risk prediction platform combining CNN/LSTM/gradient boosting on AWS SageMaker, with automated drift-triggered retraining and governance-grade fairness testing. Leveraged SageMaker Clarify plus SMOTE and LLM-generated synthetic data to improve minority-group F1 by 0.12, and communicated results to non-technical risk/ops teams via Power BI dashboards.”

Yukti Kamthan

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and data systems

Mumbai, India10y exp

“Built and shipped production LLM/AI agent systems including an NL-to-SQL query agent with semantic search and Redis-based caching, using schema-aware prompting and threshold validation to reduce hallucinations. Has orchestration experience running ML microservices on Kubernetes and automating event-driven insurance (P&C) workflows (claims/policy + fraud checks), reporting ~60% manual overhead reduction and ~99% uptime, with strong monitoring/drift-detection and business-facing Power BI reporting.”

HEMANTH KUMAR KOTTAPALLI

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in GPU-accelerated LLMs and MLOps

GA, USA4y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered decision-support system for supply-chain planners that explains demand forecast changes using grounded retrieval from sales, promotion, inventory, and supplier data. Implemented strict anti-hallucination guardrails and latency optimizations, deployed as a real-time AWS API with monitoring, and reported ~15% forecast accuracy improvement and ~12% supply-chain risk reduction. Experienced orchestrating data/ML/LLM workflows with Airflow, LangChain/LangGraph-style patterns, and AWS Step Functions while partnering closely with non-technical business users via demos and example-based requirements.”

Mason Acevedo

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in data pipelines, APIs, and ML

San Francisco, CA3y exp

“Software engineer whose recent work includes co-designing and building a "Shared Profile" feature for a social event-planning app (Again, Sometime). Previously at Pure Storage, set up Docker-standardized Ubuntu/Python environments to simulate hardware testbeds and support workload/performance regression testing for other engineering teams; no robotics/ROS experience.”

Sachin Reddy Kunta

Screened

Mid-Level Backend Software Engineer specializing in payments, fraud systems, and AI agent infrastructure

San Francisco, CA3y exp

“Early-career engineer who owned an end-to-end objective assessment/coding contest platform at an edtech startup, using Postgres + S3 and Redis (queues + ZSET) to decouple and scale code submission processing with worker sandboxes. Also implemented idempotency controls and set up monitoring and CI/CD while the rest of the team focused on curriculum.”

Jayanti Lahoti

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI and cloud-native systems

San Diego, USA2y exp

“Backend/systems-oriented engineer focused on building production-constrained LLM agent workflows that automate repetitive operator tasks via intent/entity extraction, retrieval grounding, and structured action recommendations with human-in-the-loop review. Emphasizes reliability through deterministic orchestration, strict tool/function schemas, observability, and disciplined evaluation/feedback loops, with strong experience handling messy multi-service operational data and idempotent execution.”

Krishna Kodur

Screened

Mid-level Robotics & AI Researcher specializing in human-robot interaction and reinforcement learning

Santa Clara, CA8y exp

“Robotics software engineer who built an end-to-end mobile manipulation platform (Franka Panda on a Clearpath Ridgeback) for a simulated-kitchen human-robot interaction study with natural speech commands, implemented in Python/ROS. Has hands-on experience integrating diverse sensors (RealSense, LiDAR, biosignals) with deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, Hugging Face) and fine-tuning GPT-Neo, plus simulation (Gazebo) and modern deployment practices (Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD).”

Mathew Martin

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud data platforms and LLM applications

New York, USA4y exp

“LLM/agent builder with experience shipping production LLM features at an early-stage ed-tech mental wellness startup (conversation analysis + structured feedback via FastAPI, OpenAI API, Render, CI/CD). Also built a multi-step dining concierge agent using OpenSearch over Yelp data with fallback query relaxation, and has enterprise data engineering experience at Capgemini migrating databases to Snowflake with robust ETL normalization and data-quality handling.”

Zhiwen Zhao

Screened

Junior Data Engineer specializing in cloud ETL and big data platforms

New York, NY3y exp

“Data engineer focused on transit/transportation datasets, building Spark-based pipelines that ingest from Oracle/APIs, apply PySpark data-quality fixes, and publish star-schema fact tables to Azure Data Lake. Experienced troubleshooting complex Spark failures (using checkpointing to manage long lineage) and operating Airflow-driven backfills and GitLab CI deployments for production DAGs.”

Vamsi Reddy

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in healthcare and financial ML systems

Nashville, TN5y exp

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on experience shipping both predictive healthcare models and clinical GenAI assistants into production. They combine strong MLOps depth across Azure and AWS with healthcare-specific safety thinking, including PHI guardrails, retrieval grounding, and production monitoring, and they also built internal Python tooling for fraud ML workflows at Capital One.”

“Backend/ML engineer who built and operated a production WhatsApp assistant end-to-end using a modern RAG stack, delivering >90% automation with sub-2-second latency. Shows strong depth in retrieval quality, observability, evaluation, and incident handling, and has also applied similar AI workflow patterns to a clinical diagnostic assistant processing medical PDFs.”

“ML/AI engineer with strong production depth across classical ML, MLOps, LLM/RAG, and scalable Python data platforms, with experience at Cisco and Accenture. Stands out for tying technical decisions to measurable business outcomes, including $1.2M annual savings, 40% faster support resolution, and broad internal adoption of shared engineering frameworks.”