Vetted Deep Learning Professionals

suparshwa patil

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI platforms and full-stack systems

Santa Clara, CA4y exp

“Built and shipped a production AI-powered Q&A/RAG onboarding assistant at One Community Global that unified knowledge across Notion, Google Docs, and Slack, cutting volunteer onboarding time by 45%. Demonstrates strong end-to-end ownership: LangChain agent orchestration integrated into a FastAPI backend, rigorous evaluation (200-query dataset, ~85% accuracy), and production feedback/monitoring with source-attributed answers to build user trust.”

“Backend/ML engineer who has shipped high-scale real-time systems across e-commerce and healthcare: built a PharmEasy real-time recommendation engine for ~2M monthly users (cut feature latency 5 min→30 sec; +15% cross-sell) and architected a HIPAA-compliant multimodal clinical diagnostic workflow (DICOM+EHR) with XAI, MLOps (MLflow/Airflow/K8s), and drift/monitoring guardrails supporting 10k+ daily predictions.”

Manasa Pantra

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI, LLM systems, and full-stack development

Stony Brook, NY2y exp

“Product-focused full-stack engineer at startup (Zippy) who shipped a production multi-agent AI system for restaurant operations plus payments workflows. Built end-to-end: RAG grounded on a Notion knowledge base, structured function-calling task routing, FastAPI/JWT multi-tenant backend, and a polished React+TypeScript owner dashboard. Has real production incident experience (duplicate Stripe webhooks) and reports ~94% task-routing accuracy under load.”

“Interned at Larsen & Toubro where they built and deployed an agentic RAG document question-answering system to reduce time spent searching documents and improve trustworthiness. Implemented ReAct-style multi-step orchestration with LangChain/LlamaIndex plus evidence-bounded generation, grounding/citations, and rigorous evaluation—cutting latency ~40%, hallucinations ~35%, and unsafe outputs ~40% while collaborating closely with non-technical business/ops stakeholders.”

“Master’s student and Deep Learning teaching assistant who teaches LLM/VLM fine-tuning (including LoRA) and built a Hugging Face LLM fine-tuned for unit conversion, improving reliability by analyzing synthetic data and filling missing number-system conversion examples. Also implemented the Raft consensus protocol using gRPC in a distributed systems course with correctness validated by unit tests.”

“Built and deployed a GPT-4-powered medical assistant for clinical staff to reduce time spent searching guidelines and EHR information, with a strong emphasis on safety and compliance. Uses strict RAG, confidence thresholds, and fallback behaviors to prevent hallucinations, and runs production-grade workflows orchestrated with LangChain/LangGraph plus Docker/Kubernetes/MLflow and monitoring for reliability and cost.”

“LLM/ML engineer who has shipped an enterprise RAG-based Q&A system (LangChain/LlamaIndex, FAISS + Azure Cognitive Search, GPT-3.5/4 via OpenAI/Azure OpenAI) to production on Docker + Kubernetes/OpenShift, tackling hallucinations, retrieval quality, latency/cost, and RBAC/IAM security. Also partnered with operations leaders to turn manual reporting into an LLM-powered summarization and forecasting dashboard driven by real KPIs and iterative stakeholder feedback.”

“Built a production real-time anomaly detection platform for high-frequency trading at HSBC, using a streaming stack (Pulsar + Spark Structured Streaming + AWS Lambda) and a transformer-based model combining time-series and numerical signals. Experienced in MLOps and safe deployment (Kubernetes, canary releases, MLflow/Grafana monitoring) and in aligning model performance with risk/compliance expectations through SLA-driven tuning and stakeholder-friendly dashboards.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based document Q&A system on Azure OpenAI to help business teams search thousands of PDFs/Word files, using Qdrant vector search, MongoDB, and a Flask API. Demonstrates strong production engineering (streaming large-file ingestion, parallel preprocessing, monitoring/retries) plus systematic prompt/embedding/chunking experimentation to improve accuracy and reduce hallucinations, and has hands-on orchestration experience with ADF/Airflow/Databricks/Synapse.”

“ML/NLP engineer who built a RAG-based technical assistant for Caterpillar field engineers, transforming PDF keyword search into intent-based semantic retrieval across manuals, logs, sensor reports, and technician notes. Strong in productionizing data/ML systems (Airflow, PySpark) with rigorous preprocessing, entity resolution, and evaluation—delivering measurable gains in accuracy, relevance, and duplicate reduction.”

“Customer-support/engineering background spanning Informatica PowerCenter ETL and IBM demos/workshops, with hands-on experience hardening data workflows for production (error tables/reject links, validation, restart strategies, alerting, performance tuning). Also demonstrates a clear, systems-level approach to diagnosing LLM/agentic workflow issues (prompt/RAG/tooling/memory) using instrumentation and iterative fixes, and has partnered with sales on POCs by defining success metrics and mapping solutions to customer architectures.”

“Applied NLP/ML in healthcare and financial services, including fine-tuning BERT on unstructured EHR text and building embedding-based similarity search for clinical concepts. Also redesigned a Wells Fargo fraud detection data pipeline using modular Python + AWS Glue/Step Functions, cutting runtime ~40% with improved monitoring and reliability.”

Kasireddy Kumar reddy

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Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in healthcare, fraud detection, and recommender systems

Missouri, USA6y exp

“Healthcare-focused applied ML/LLM engineer who has deployed production systems including an LLM medical documentation assistant that summarizes unstructured EHR notes into physician-ready structured outputs. Experienced building secure, compliant pipelines (PHI minimization, RBAC, encryption) and scaling via Docker/Kubernetes/Azure ML, plus orchestrating ETL/ML workflows with Airflow and Kubeflow; also built an LLM-driven clinical coding assistant at Centene with measurable performance metrics.”

Hsi-Chun Wang

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Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in LLM development and scalable ML pipelines

Remote4y exp

“Built and deployed production LLM pipelines for evidence-based scoring in two domains: biomedical literature mining (scoring ~2700 drug compounds vs gene targets/mechanisms) and long-horizon news analytics (35 years of Chinese articles). Emphasizes reliability at scale (retries/checkpointing/validation), rigorous empirical model benchmarking (GPT-4o/mini/5), and translating results into stakeholder-friendly visual narratives.”

Akshay Danthi

Screened

Senior AI Engineer specializing in production GenAI systems

San Francisco, CA8y exp

“AI engineer who has shipped production LLM systems end-to-end, including a natural-language-to-SQL analytics copilot for career advisors that achieved ~95% query success through schema grounding, access controls, and automated regression testing with golden queries. Also builds LangGraph-orchestrated multi-step agents (resume analysis, recommendations) and RAG pipelines (PDF ingestion + FAISS) and partners closely with non-technical users to drive adoption and trust.”

Dylan Zhu

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Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in computer vision and generative AI

Hoboken, NJ7y exp

“Built and deployed an LLM/RAG system that uses differential privacy and distributional similarity checks to transform private data into a non-sensitive knowledge base while preserving utility. Also has experience demonstrating adversarial ML concepts (FGSM) to non-technical audiences by focusing on observable model behavior rather than implementation details.”

Fnu Pallavi Sharma

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Intern Data Scientist specializing in ML, NLP, and MLOps for healthcare and enterprise AI

Madison, WI1y exp

“Built a production multi-cloud LLM-driven IT ticket automation system using LangGraph, Azure + Pinecone RAG, and an Ollama-hosted LLM on AWS, with Terraform-managed infra and PostgreSQL audit/state tracking for reliability. Also partnered with UW School of Medicine & Public Health students to deliver a glioma survival risk-ranking model, translating clinical feedback into practical pipeline improvements (imputation, site harmonization) and stakeholder-friendly visualizations.”

Ishwari Kulkarni

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Intern IT & Data Analytics professional specializing in automation, cloud operations, and dashboards

Dallas, TX2y exp

“AppSec-focused engineer with experience spanning Accenture and a digital operations support internship, emphasizing secure SDLC and CI/CD security automation (SAST/DAST/SCA). Has hands-on troubleshooting experience using logs/metrics/APM traces (e.g., resolving DAST timeouts caused by rate limiting) and designs AWS/Kubernetes scanning integrations with least-privilege IAM, private networking, secrets management, and observability.”

shivapriya pillalamarri

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

Boston, MA4y exp

“Analytics candidate with experience in financial transaction and fraud detection projects, combining SQL data preparation, Python-based automation, and dashboarding. They have owned projects from stakeholder alignment and metric definition through rollout, with emphasis on reducing false positives, improving operational efficiency, and making analytics outputs easy for business teams to adopt.”

“ML/AI engineer at PNC who has shipped enterprise-grade RAG and document intelligence systems for compliance and policy workflows. Stands out for combining LLM product thinking with production rigor—owning FastAPI/Kubernetes deployments, monitoring, evaluation, and human-feedback loops that drove measurable gains like 40% faster policy search and 30% faster compliance review.”

“Wayfair ML/AI engineer who has shipped and operated production LLM systems for both internal analytics and customer-facing assistants. Stands out for combining strong RAG/retrieval engineering with production-grade platform work—improving trust, reducing latency by ~30%, and cutting ad hoc reporting demand by ~50%.”

“Backend/platform engineer who has owned a Python/FastAPI results API and deployed it on Kubernetes with Helm and GitHub Actions-driven CI/CD. Demonstrates strong production operations mindset across performance tuning, monitoring, safe rollouts/rollbacks, and phased migrations, plus hands-on Kafka streaming experience focused on ordering and idempotency.”

“AI automations intern at a lean US-based marketing agency who works directly with founders and builds practical GTM systems end-to-end. He combines ML/LLM tooling with outbound execution, including a clustering-based recommender that improved client lead generation by 30% in two weeks and a personal cold outreach engine that achieved a 12%+ reply rate.”

“Doctoral researcher who built an end-to-end deep learning thesis project translating nutritional time-series logs into natural-language behavioral health summaries for users such as Type 2 diabetics. Particularly interesting for AI/ML roles that value research rigor, ambiguity tolerance, and thoughtful evaluation, even though their experience is primarily academic and side-project based rather than production industry systems.”