Vetted ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) Professionals

“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.”

“Backend engineer (Marsh McLennan) who evolved a high-volume claims automation pipeline in Python, emphasizing thin APIs with background job processing, strong validation/retries, and production-grade observability. Experienced in secure FastAPI API design (centralized JWT/RBAC), multi-tenant Postgres/Supabase-style row-level security, and low-risk refactors using parallel runs and feature flags; targeting founding-engineer scope roles.”

“Data engineer focused on reliable, production-grade pipelines and data services: has owned end-to-end ingestion-to-serving workflows processing millions of records/day, using Airflow, Python/SQL, and PySpark. Demonstrates strong operational rigor (monitoring, retries, idempotency, backfills) and measurable outcomes (98% stability, ~30% faster processing), plus experience exposing curated warehouse data via versioned REST APIs.”

“Data engineer in a banking context who has owned end-to-end Azure lakehouse pipelines ingesting financial/vendor data from APIs, Azure SQL, and flat files into Databricks/Delta (bronze-silver-gold). Emphasizes production reliability via schema-drift validation, data quality controls, monitoring/alerting, retries/checkpointing, and Spark/Delta performance tuning, with outputs served to BI/reporting teams (e.g., Tableau).”

Apurva Banka

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack & AI Engineer specializing in cloud, data platforms, and LLM automation

Houston, TX5y exp

“Software engineer/product builder who has owned an agentic affiliate lead-gen platform end-to-end (Django + React/TypeScript) and deployed it on Kubernetes in anticipation of 10x user growth from ~5K DAUs. Also has healthcare claims microservices experience using Kafka, including hands-on performance tuning to address consumer lag and broker pressure, and built an internal downtime alerting tool adopted across the organization.”

srilekha pothula

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in cloud data pipelines for healthcare and financial services

Bloomfield, CT4y exp

“Data engineer with ~4 years of experience (Cigna) building and operating Azure Data Factory pipelines for healthcare claims/member/provider data at 2–3M records/day. Emphasizes reliability and downstream safety via schema/data-quality validation, quarantine workflows, idempotent processing, and backfills; also improved runtime ~20% through SQL optimization and served curated datasets through versioned views and well-documented, analyst-friendly interfaces.”

Harideep Balusa

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in FinTech risk, fraud detection, and GenAI/RAG systems

USA6y exp

“Built and productionized Azure-based LLM/RAG systems for regulatory/compliance use cases, including automating analyst research and compliance report generation across large unstructured document sets. Demonstrates strong practical depth in hallucination mitigation, hybrid retrieval tuning (BM25 + embeddings), and production MLOps (Databricks, Cognitive Search, AKS, Airflow/MLflow), plus proven ability to deliver auditable, explainable solutions with non-technical compliance teams.”

“Analytics candidate currently at Facteus with hands-on experience turning messy transactional data into trusted reporting layers in Snowflake and Power BI. They combine SQL and Python automation with strong validation, performance tuning, and stakeholder-facing metric design, including cohort-based retention and segmentation work that improved trust and adoption of analytics.”

Cia Hang

Screened

Executive IT and Operations leader specializing in digital transformation and security

Chicago, IL13y exp

“Candidate is very familiar with the venture capital and broader investment landscape, but is not interested in founding a company. They have worked with several TPG-backed or TPG-owned organizations, helping drive business scaling, cost reduction, and execution against investor governance requirements.”

“Built and productionized an enterprise retrieval-augmented generation platform for internal knowledge over large unstructured corpora, emphasizing trust via strict citation/grounding and hybrid retrieval (BM25 + FAISS + cross-encoder re-ranking). Demonstrates strong scaling and cost/latency optimization through incremental indexing/embedding and index partitioning, plus disciplined evaluation/observability practices. Has experience operationalizing pipelines with Airflow/Databricks/GitHub Actions and partnering closely with risk & compliance stakeholders on auditability requirements.”

“AI/LLM engineer with production experience in legal tech: built a GPT-4 + LangChain RAG summarization system at Govpanel that reduced legal case-file review time by 50%+. Previously at LexisNexis, orchestrated end-to-end Airflow data/AI pipelines processing 5M+ legal documents daily, improving ETL runtime by 35% with robust validation, monitoring, and SLAs.”

“Customer-facing data engineering professional who builds and deploys real-time reporting/dashboard solutions, gathering reporting and compliance requirements through direct stakeholder engagement. Experienced with Google Cloud IAM governance, secure integrations (encryption, audit logging), and fast production troubleshooting of ETL/pipeline failures with follow-on monitoring and automated recovery improvements; motivated by hands-on, travel-oriented customer work.”

Brian Mar

Screened

Senior Data Engineer specializing in data infrastructure and marketing/CRM analytics

San Mateo, CA8y exp

“Salesforce-focused implementation/solutions engineer from Full Circle Insights who owned end-to-end campaign attribution and reporting deployments for multiple customers at once (3–5 concurrently), including sandbox testing, KPI monitoring, and rollback-safe migrations from legacy reporting. Also builds personal multi-agent workflows and uses Claude Code to rapidly scaffold data/analytics scripts like an advertising optimization parser over CSV/XLSX inputs.”

“Data engineer focused on marketing/web analytics and external API pipelines, handling ~10M records/week. Built Azure-based ingestion and PySpark transformations with rigorous data quality checks, then served curated datasets into Synapse/Redshift for Power BI. Also designed an Airflow-orchestrated crypto REST API pipeline with monitoring, retries/exponential backoff, schema-change detection, and backfill-friendly reprocessing.”