Vetted Deep Learning Professionals

“Built end-to-end ML and GenAI systems at Northern Trust, including a production RAG-based document intelligence platform for financial reports and contracts. Stands out for combining strong MLOps execution with practical product judgment—improving forecast accuracy by 22%, document review accuracy by 38%, and cutting deployment time by 45% while keeping latency and reliability production-ready.”

Praveen LAKSHMAN

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and workflow automation

Birmingham, AL4y exp

“Early-career AI engineer currently pursuing a Master's, with hands-on experience building and improving RAG pipelines using LangChain. They stand out for moving beyond naive retrieval into multi-step retrieval and feedback-loop designs to reduce hallucinations, and are now exploring multi-agent systems with distinct retrieval, coding, and validation roles.”

Aniket Dhanawade

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud-native and AI-powered applications

USA3y exp

“Candidate has a thoughtful, hands-on approach to AI-assisted software development, treating AI as a pair programmer while retaining ownership of architecture, tradeoffs, and final code quality. They have practical experience using multi-agent workflows to ship small features end-to-end, including planning, execution, and gap detection under human oversight.”

“Software engineer who recently shipped an authentication and role-based access feature for a web app, using AI selectively for boilerplate, debugging, and test suggestions while retaining ownership of architecture, security, testing, and final review. Stands out for a disciplined, security-first approach to AI-assisted development and a pragmatic preference for lightweight API-driven solutions over unnecessary framework complexity.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience spanning AI-powered product features and healthcare fraud detection systems. Has built end-to-end LLM-enabled applications, customer-facing recommendation systems at scale, and operational platforms that improved real-time investigations and flagged over 1,200 high-risk cases quarterly.”

“Early-career/new-grad candidate who built TrendScout AI, an evidence-first market intelligence agent that ingests messy news, extracts entities/events, builds a Neo4j knowledge graph, and answers questions via RAG with citations. Achieved ~95% retrieval relevance by combining ChromaDB semantic search with graph-based retrieval and validating outputs through human evaluation and guardrails to prevent hallucinations.”

Mayur Jain

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI, blockchain, and cloud systems

Akron, OH5y exp

“Founding engineer who has built core product and backend architecture from scratch at two startups, spanning a full-stack NFT marketplace and an AI voice assistant for sales qualification and scheduling. Brings 5+ years of full-stack experience with strong React/TypeScript and Python backend depth, plus hands-on production experience with LLM workflows, evaluation, and AI-assisted developer tooling.”

“LLM/agentic systems engineer who built a production "Agentic AI Diagnostic Assistant" for network engineers, using a multi-agent Llama 2 + LangChain architecture with RAG over telemetry/incident data in DynamoDB and confidence-based deferrals to reduce hallucinations. Also has strong MLOps/orchestration experience (Airflow, EventBridge, Spark, Docker, SageMaker/ECS) at multi-terabyte/day scale and delivered multilingual NLP analytics (fine-tuned BERT/spaCy) for support operations through hands-on stakeholder workshops.”

“Built a production multi-agent LLM system at Live Nation on Databricks (LangGraph/LangChain) that let venue/event teams ask questions in Slack, auto-generated optimized route schedules, and produced inventory/stocking recommendations from historical SQL data and venue trends. Improved reliability by tightening prompts with strict JSON schemas, providing sample questions/SQL, and adding guardrails plus synthetic/edge-case testing, while iterating with event managers and senior VPs via prototypes and feedback loops.”

“Built a production internal LLM/RAG assistant at CVS Health to cut time spent searching long policy and clinical guideline PDFs, combining fine-tuned BERT/GPT models with FAISS retrieval and a FastAPI service on AWS. Demonstrates strong real-world reliability work (document cleanup, hallucination controls, monitoring/drift tracking with MLflow) and close collaboration with non-technical clinical operations teams via demos and feedback-driven iteration.”

“GenAI/LLM engineer who recently built a production compliance assistant at State Farm for KYC/AML and regulatory teams, using AWS Bedrock + LangChain with Textract/Lambda pipelines to extract fields, tag risk, and summarize long documents. Implemented RAG, strict structured outputs, and human-in-the-loop guardrails, and reports automating ~80% of documentation work while reducing review time by ~40%.”

“ML/NLP practitioner focused on financial-services document intelligence and compliance workflows—built an end-to-end pipeline to classify documents and extract financial entities from loan applications, emails, and statements stored in S3/internal databases. Strong in entity resolution/record linkage and in productionizing pipelines with GitHub Actions CI/CD, testing, data validation, and Docker, plus semantic search using OpenAI embeddings and a vector database.”

“Infrastructure/operations engineer with hands-on production IBM Power/AIX (AIX 7.x, VIOS, HMC) and PowerHA/HACMP clustering experience, including DLPAR changes, failover testing, and incident recovery. Also delivers modern cloud DevOps work—GitHub Actions CI/CD for Docker-to-Kubernetes on AWS and Terraform-based provisioning of core AWS infrastructure (VPC/EKS/RDS/IAM) with controlled rollouts and drift checks.”

“Backend/AI engineer who has built production Spring Boot APIs on AWS (JWT auth, Redis/MySQL) and solved a real-world silent data integrity issue by implementing idempotency keys plus DB constraints/transactions. Also shipped an LLM-based document Q&A feature using a RAG pipeline with evaluation + human review, and designed multi-step agent workflows with verification, retries, and escalation guardrails.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-powered support/knowledge pipeline using embeddings and retrieval (RAG) to deliver more grounded, higher-quality responses while reducing manual effort. Focused on real-world reliability and performance—adding structured validation/guardrails, optimizing vector search and context size for latency/scale, and monitoring failure patterns in production. Experienced with orchestration via LangChain for LLM workflows and Airflow for production data/ML pipelines, and iterates closely with operations stakeholders through demos and feedback.”

Fatemeh Taghvaei

Screened

Junior AI/ML Engineer and Instructor specializing in deep learning, computer vision, and NLP

Chicago, IL2y exp

“Computer-vision practitioner and educator who built a real-time license plate recognition system (OpenCV/Python + KNN) optimized to run on a Raspberry Pi with camera integration. Also designs hands-on deep learning coursework, incorporating recent transformer-based vision research (Vision Transformers) into practical labs on real datasets.”

Husayn El Sharif

Screened

Senior Data Scientist specializing in geospatial ML and environmental analytics

Atlanta, GA16y exp

“Applied ML practitioner who deployed a near-real-time water-quality monitoring tool for Gwinnett County by fusing ESA satellite imagery with in-situ measurements to predict chlorophyll-A and support early warnings for harmful algal blooms. Also working on a multimodal deep-learning project combining skin lesion images with patient tabular/text data (TensorFlow, embeddings) to predict melanoma risk.”

Surya Vamshi Sriperambudooru

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in healthcare claims analytics and RAG copilots

Remote, US4y exp

“Built a production "appeals co-pilot" for a healthcare claims appeals team, combining an XGBoost/logistic ranking model with a Python/LangChain RAG stack (FAISS + Mistral 7B) to surface high-probability appeal wins and speed policy-grounded drafting. Emphasizes reliability and trust: hybrid retrieval with metadata routing, citation/eval scripts, guardrails, and an explainability layer that non-technical stakeholders could understand and override.”

Ashrita Mishra

Screened

Mid-level Data Analyst specializing in analytics, ETL, and cloud data platforms

Jersey City, NJ4y exp

“Data analyst with 4 years of experience spanning banking and retail/marketing analytics. Has hands-on experience building churn analytics pipelines in SQL and Python, optimizing large-query performance, and turning stakeholder-aligned metrics into recurring dashboards and business actions.”

“Analytics professional with Intuit experience spanning modern data stack work, behavioral segmentation, and applied AI. They built dbt/Snowflake pipelines powering retention and churn dashboards, automated feedback classification with OpenAI/LangChain, and partnered closely with product and marketing teams to turn analytics into onboarding, targeting, and lifecycle messaging decisions.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on experience building production MLOps systems for predictive maintenance and demand forecasting, including deployment, monitoring, and iterative retraining. Also shipped a RAG-based employee onboarding chatbot integrated with ServiceNow APIs and reports business impact of roughly $300k/month in reduced stockout and overstock costs.”

Lokesh Jain

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in supply chain and healthcare systems

Bentonville, AR6y exp

“Built and deployed AcademiQ Ai, a production LLM-based teaching assistant using GPT/BERT with RAG (LangChain + Pinecone) to handle large student notes and generate adaptive explanations/quizzes. Demonstrated measurable retrieval-quality gains (18% precision improvement, 22% less irrelevant context) by tuning similarity thresholds and chunking based on user satisfaction signals. Also orchestrated terabyte-scale, real-time demand forecasting pipelines using Airflow and Kubeflow on GCP with strong monitoring, shadow deployment, and feedback-loop practices.”

“Graduate student who has built both full-stack web products and an offline Android AI assistant for visually impaired users. Particularly interesting for roles spanning product engineering and applied AI, with hands-on experience in on-device ML, privacy-sensitive deployment, and making complex AI interactions usable for non-technical users.”

“Built and shipped enterprise AI products including a conversational SQL analytics platform and a production RAG system at Johnson & Johnson. Combines full-stack engineering with LLM systems expertise, and has delivered measurable impact at scale, including 48% lower retrieval latency and 37% better response relevance across 12M+ records.”