Vetted ETL Pipelines 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.”

Chandan Chalumuri

Screened

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.”

Sharanya Rao

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in NLP, LLMs, and RAG for finance and healthcare

Remote, USA3y exp

“Built an AI lending assistant (RAG + DeBERTa) used by credit analysts to retrieve policies and past loan decisions, tackling real production issues like hallucinations, document quality, and sub-second latency. Deployed a modular, Dockerized AWS architecture (ECS/EMR + load balancer) with load testing, caching/precomputed embeddings, and CloudWatch monitoring, and used Airflow to automate scheduled data/embedding/vector DB refresh pipelines with retries and alerts.”

Erik Moyer

Screened

Director-level Data Science & Analytics Leader specializing in cloud data platforms and AI/ML

Dallas, TX13y exp

“Candidate states they are very familiar with the venture capital/studio/accelerator landscape and expresses strong willingness to pursue entrepreneurship "at all costs," but did not provide details on a current startup, business plan, fundraising, or prior accelerator/VC involvement during the interview.”

“New grad software engineer with hands-on experience building production full-stack analytics infrastructure during a Swiftwise AI internship and independently shipping AI products. Stands out for combining strong TypeScript/React/backend fundamentals with practical RAG and agent-building experience, including a poker coaching assistant built solo from ingestion and retrieval through prompt tuning and evaluation.”

Alex Guzman

Screened

Principal Software Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and identity systems

Denver, CO17y exp

“Senior backend-leaning engineer with experience spanning an 8-person early-stage startup and production microservices environments. They helped deliver an MVP for a fintech/charitable donations product by building a resilient abstraction API across multiple rewards vendors, and more recently maintained Go services at scale with Kubernetes autoscaling for workloads reaching roughly 1 million requests per day.”

“Product manager with 4 years of PM experience and an earlier software engineering foundation, spanning enterprise healthcare, operations platforms, and AI products. Most notably, they founded and shipped a GenAI app builder SaaS, built evaluation and reliability layers for production use, and exceeded first-quarter adoption targets by 35%.”

“Software engineer experienced owning internal, customer-facing dashboards and internal ops tools end-to-end, emphasizing fast iteration without sacrificing stability (CI/CD, automated tests, feature flags, monitoring). Built a TypeScript/React role-based dashboard backed by Java Spring Boot and has hands-on microservices experience with RabbitMQ, including production hardening with retries, dead-letter queues, logging, and health checks.”

“Engineering/technology leader (CTO-style) with experience scaling orgs and running distributed teams across four continents for over a decade. Led a high-stakes modernization of a securities trading platform at Wedbush—migrating from monolith to microservices on AWS with zero-downtime constraints—driving 45% execution performance improvement and enabling 25% market share growth. Emphasizes business-aligned roadmaps, build-vs-buy rigor, and scalable engineering practices/culture.”

Muaaz Syed

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in NLP and conversational AI

Richardson, TX4y exp

“ML/NLP engineer focused on real-time IT ops analytics, building a predictive maintenance/anomaly detection platform end-to-end (multi-source ETL, streaming, modeling, and production deployment on GCP/Vertex AI). Uses deep learning (LSTMs, autoencoders/VAEs) plus embeddings (SentenceBERT) and vector search to improve incident correlation and search, citing ~40% reduction in duplicate alert noise.”

keerthana s

Screened

Mid-level Backend Software Engineer specializing in Python/FastAPI on AWS

Los Angeles, California4y exp

“Backend engineer with healthcare domain experience building AI-driven radiology workflow systems. Evolved tightly coupled APIs into secure, reliable FastAPI-based services by moving heavy imaging/data processing into idempotent asynchronous pipelines with retries, feature-flagged incremental rollout, and strong data-integrity controls (constraints, backfills, validation). Strong focus on defense-in-depth security for sensitive patient data (OAuth2/JWT, RBAC, and database-level protections).”

Srilekha Jakkula

Screened

Senior Data Engineer specializing in scalable data pipelines and API-driven data services

Chicago, IL5y exp

“Data engineer focused on building scalable, reliable end-to-end data pipelines and backend REST data services, spanning API ingestion plus batch/stream processing with Airflow, Kafka, Spark/PySpark, and SQL. Emphasizes strong data quality validation, monitoring/fault tolerance, and performance tuning for large datasets, with experience deploying in cloud environments using containerization and CI/CD.”

“Worked on industrial pump analytics at SitePro, where they built an anomaly detector using messy sensor and pump data and used historical failure and maintenance cost analysis to make the business case to stakeholders. They combine SQL/Python data preparation with practical stakeholder communication around metrics like churn and operational impact.”

“Healthcare analytics candidate with hands-on experience turning messy EHR, billing, and operational data into validated SQL datasets and automated Python/Airflow pipelines. They appear strongest in hospital KPI reporting—especially length of stay, readmissions, retention, and bed utilization—and have owned projects from metric definition through Power BI delivery and impact measurement.”

“Full-stack/backend-heavy engineer with experience across real-time product systems and high-scale financial analytics, citing work on Flashcode, Netflix, and Bank of America via TCS. Particularly strong in Kafka-based event-driven architecture, streaming pipelines, and production performance tuning, with concrete wins including a 15% latency reduction and scaling reliability from 30k to 50k+ concurrent events.”

“Built and deployed a production SecureAIChatBot (RAG-based) for secure internal information retrieval, using embeddings/vector search, GPT models, monitoring, and safety filters. Focused on real-world production challenges like latency and output consistency, applying caching, retrieval scoping, smaller models, and controlled prompting, and used LangChain to orchestrate the end-to-end workflow.”

“Built and led deployment of an autonomous, self-correcting multi-agent knowledge retrieval and validation system at HCA Healthcare to reduce heavy manual research/validation in clinical/compliance documentation. Deeply focused on production reliability and cost—used LangGraph StateGraph orchestration plus ONNX/CUDA/quantization to cut GPU costs by 25%, and partnered with the Compliance VP using real-time contradiction-rate dashboards to hit a 40% automation goal without compromising compliance.”

“AI/ML Engineer with 4+ years of experience (Capital One, Odin Technologies) and a master’s in Data Analytics (4.0 GPA) who has deployed LLM/RAG systems to production for compliance/risk and document review. Strong in orchestration and MLOps (Airflow, Kubernetes, MLflow, GitHub Actions) and in tackling real-world LLM constraints like latency, context limits, and data privacy, with measurable impact (20%+ manual review reduction; 33% faster release cycles).”

“Full-stack/backend engineer with deep insurance claims domain experience who built and operated a microservices + ETL platform (Java/Spring Boot + Python + Kafka/Databricks) processing 1M+ daily transactions. Combines production-grade reliability (99.7% uptime, zero-downtime blue/green releases, strong observability) with customer-facing UI delivery (AngularJS/React+TS dashboards and a hackathon-winning research chatbot).”

Yashodhar Pansuria

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in capital markets and trading systems

East Windsor, NJ12y exp

“Backend/data engineer with production experience in payment initiation/processing services built in Python/FastAPI, emphasizing reliability patterns (JWT/RBAC, timeouts, retries, circuit breakers). Has delivered AWS deployments on ECS (ALB, autoscaling, CI/CD to ECR) plus Lambda-based reporting, and built AWS Glue ETL pipelines with schema evolution and CloudWatch monitoring. Also modernized a legacy SAS reporting platform to Python/PostgreSQL with regression parity testing and parallel-run migration, and achieved a 70% SQL performance improvement.”

“Built a production, real-time clinical documentation system at HCA that converts doctor–patient conversations into structured clinical summaries using speech-to-text, LLM summarization, and RAG. Demonstrated measurable gains from medical-domain fine-tuning (clinical concept recall +18%, ROUGE-L 0.62 to 0.74) while meeting HIPAA constraints via PHI anonymization and encryption, and deployed via Docker/FastAPI with CI/CD and monitoring.”

“Backend-focused engineer with experience at Charles Schwab owning financial workflow deployments end-to-end, including API/database design, SQL optimization, Python automation, and AWS-based production stabilization. Also brings applied AI quality experience through building LLM/agent validation pipelines focused on scenario testing, edge-case detection, and reducing production risk.”