Vetted Deep Learning Professionals

“Built and owned core systems for VISTA, a VR drone training simulator in Unity/C#, including modular training scenarios, drone physics, restricted airspace logic, and dynamic weather-aware gameplay. Stands out for combining VR performance discipline on Meta Quest with realistic-yet-trainable flight controls and close collaboration with faculty SMEs to align the simulation with real training workflows.”

Kamilah Patterson

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Senior HR Business Partner specializing in talent strategy and workforce analytics

Brooklyn, New York11y exp

“HR Business Partner with GroupM experience supporting multiple mergers, building and transitioning Analytics/Programmatic/Account Management teams through hands-on job architecture, benchmarking, and performance management. Uses HR analytics (including an Excel-based retention model with visual reporting) and cross-functional partnership with IT to reduce disruption and improve retention during restructuring and major policy changes like return-to-office.”

“Robotics software engineer who built a ROS Noetic-based perception-to-control stack for a pick-and-place robotic arm, integrating OpenCV/TensorFlow vision with motion planning and PID tuning. Demonstrated strong real-time debugging skills (rosbag, queue/latency fixes) and experience deploying reproducible robotics environments with Gazebo simulation, Docker, and GitLab CI.”

“Robotics software engineer with internship experience at Lucid Motors building a mapping/localization pipeline that fuses LiDAR, camera, and GPS into high-fidelity 3D maps for autonomy/ADAS. Strong in SLAM and multi-robot systems—has modified ROS/ROS2 SLAM packages (FAST-LIO2, LIO-SAM) at the source level, optimized real-time multi-drone coordination for low-latency data sharing, and used Gazebo + Docker to simulate and deploy research robotics stacks.”

“AI/ML engineer with CVS Health experience deploying production LLM systems in regulated healthcare settings, including a large-scale RAG solution (1M+ documents) built for compliance-grade, auditable policy/regulatory Q&A with strong anti-hallucination controls. Also delivered an NLP summarization system for physician notes/case narratives by partnering closely with non-technical care operations stakeholders and iterating via prototypes, dashboards, and feedback loops.”

“ML/NLP practitioner who built a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system for large financial and operational document sets using Sentence-Transformers (all-mpnet-base-v2) and a vector DB (e.g., Pinecone), with a strong focus on retrieval evaluation and chunking strategy optimization. Experienced in entity resolution (rules + embedding similarity with type-specific thresholds) and in productionizing scalable Python data workflows using Airflow/Dagster and Spark.”

“University hackathon finalist (2nd place) who built CareerSpark, a production-style multi-agent career guidance app in 24 hours using a hierarchical debate architecture with a moderator/judge agent. Has startup internship experience at LiveSpheres AI using LangChain for multi-LLM orchestration, and demonstrates a structured approach to testing/evaluation (golden sets, integration sims, latency/accuracy KPIs) plus strong non-technical stakeholder communication.”

“Recent J&J intern who built a conversational RAG agent and led a shift from a monolithic model to a modular RAG workflow, cutting response time from several days to under a second by tackling data fragmentation, context retention, and embedding/latency optimization. Also worked on a large (7B-parameter) multimodal VQA pipeline for healthcare research and stays current via NeurIPS/ICLR and open-source contributions.”

“Robotics engineer with hands-on experience scaling a multi-vendor heterogeneous warehouse robot fleet, building a distributed “traffic manager” for collision avoidance and real-time rerouting using CBS/MAPF and DCOP-style negotiation. Strong real-time/safety-critical systems background (RTOS, deterministic lock-free multithreading) plus modern perception and simulation tooling (CNN-LSTM/transformers, CARLA/Isaac Sim, VIO/GTSAM, camera-IMU calibration). Startup-oriented and comfortable moving quickly from prototype to production.”

“Built a secure, on-prem/private GPT assistant to replace manual SharePoint-style search across thousands of policies/SOPs/engineering docs, using a production RAG stack (LangChain/LangGraph, FAISS/Chroma, PyMuPDF+OCR, vLLM). Implemented layout-aware ingestion (including table-to-JSON) and a multi-agent retrieval/generation/verification workflow with strong observability and compliance guardrails, delivering ~70% reduction in search time.”

“ML/AI practitioner with hands-on experience deploying models to production and optimizing for low-latency inference using pruning/quantization, with deployments on AWS SageMaker and Azure ML. Has orchestrated end-to-end ML pipelines with Airflow and Kubeflow (ingestion through evaluation) and emphasizes reproducibility via containerization and version-controlled artifacts, while effectively partnering with non-technical stakeholders using dashboards and business-aligned metrics.”

“Built and deployed an end-to-end product that brings a research-paper approach into production for large-scale time-series clustering, with attention to partitioning, latency, and scalability. Also designed a Python-based backend validation service (comparing outputs to database ground truths) and handled production reliability issues by reproducing dataset-specific crashes and hardening corner-case behavior with client-friendly errors.”

Chandan Chalumuri

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Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in ML, NLP, and Generative AI

Tempe, AZ4y exp

“Data engineering / ML practitioner with experience at MetLife building transformer-based sentiment analysis over large unstructured datasets and productionizing pipelines with Airflow/PySpark/Hadoop (reported 52% efficiency gain). Also implemented embedding-based semantic search using Pinecone/Weaviate to improve retrieval relevance and enable RAG for customer support and document matching use cases.”

Manpreet Kour

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Senior Data Scientist specializing in Generative AI and NLP

Seattle, USA6y exp

“ML/NLP engineer with recent Scotiabank experience building production-grade indexing automation over large-scale emails and customer databases, combining LLM fine-tuning (Mistral, XLM-R) with fuzzy matching to exceed 95% accuracy under strict banking constraints. Also built a RAG-based chat agent using Gecko embeddings, Vertex AI Search, Gemini, and cross-encoder reranking, and delivered a text-to-SQL chatbot at SOTI through iterative fine-tuning and benchmark-driven experimentation.”

Asvad Shaik

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

Dallas, TX5y exp

“Backend engineer who built and migrated a large-scale document intelligence platform used by legal, healthcare, and insurance clients, processing millions of pages. Experienced moving from a monolithic, LLM-heavy approach to a modular FastAPI service architecture with ML classification + RAG, strong validation/auditability, and enterprise security (JWT/OAuth, RBAC, PostgreSQL RLS) with zero-downtime incremental rollouts.”

Apoorv Bankey

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Mid-level Backend Engineer specializing in distributed systems and FinTech

New York City, NY6y exp

“Engineer who uses AI and multi-agent workflows as a force multiplier while keeping architecture, security, scalability, and production quality under human control. Shared a concrete example of accelerating a backend-heavy SaaS email ingestion platform with authentication, role-based APIs, database models, and deployment setup using agent-style development and review.”

KUSHWANTH MUTHYALA

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Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in FinTech

Irvine, CA6y exp

“Engineer with hands-on experience building and deploying end-to-end ML inference pipelines using SageMaker, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, and Kafka-backed real-time data systems. Brings a strong distributed-systems mindset and has already operated in a tech lead capacity through architecture decisions, code reviews, and cross-functional coordination. Especially compelling for teams building production AI/ML platforms that need both practical execution and sound engineering judgment.”

Yogita Adari

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Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in generative and multimodal systems

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Built and productionized an agentic LLM automation system for an insurance client to determine medication eligibility, using prompt-chaining plus a RAG pipeline over policy rules and deploying on AWS (Lambda/Step Functions, Bedrock) with a serverless architecture. Addressed major data/schema mismatch issues via a semantic matching pipeline and validated performance through human agreement scoring, A/B testing, KPI monitoring, and confidence-based human-in-the-loop review.”

Andrew Bartlett

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Executive product leader specializing in SaaS, AI/ML, and digital transformation

Denver, CO25y exp

“Senior product leader with broad cross-industry experience spanning publishing, travel tech, recruitment tech, eCommerce, and industrial/facilities software. Has led major platform rebuilds, AI-enabled IoT products, and portfolio-level platform strategy across roughly 10 enterprise SaaS applications, while also managing large product/design organizations with a strong servant-leadership approach.”

“Full-stack engineer who shipped a production "Financial Insight" assistant dashboard in Next.js App Router/TypeScript, integrating a RAG pipeline (embeddings + ChromaDB + LLM) via route handlers and owning post-launch performance (latency, token cost, retrieval relevance). Also built/optimized Postgres-backed workflows for an outbound dialer and callback routing engine handling ~10,000 daily contacts, validating query performance with EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS).”

“Robotics software/ML engineer who built perception and navigation-related ML systems for autonomous supermarket carts, including object detection, shelf recognition, and obstacle avoidance. Strong ROS/ROS2 practitioner who optimized real-time performance (reported 50% latency reduction) and deployed containerized ROS/ML pipelines at scale using Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD.”