Vetted ETL Pipelines Professionals

Kris Wen

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AdTech and AI-enabled web engineering

San Francisco Bay Area, CA4y exp

“Software engineer at American Express who built a zero-to-one first-party cookie tracking architecture as the industry moved away from third-party cookies, combining frontend, backend, CI/CD, and AI-assisted QA automation. Particularly strong in developer tooling and workflow automation, with measurable impact including 70% less manual QA, 8+ critical errors caught pre-production, and PR cycles reduced from 48 hours to under 8.”

“Backend/platform engineer who owned an end-to-end financial data ingestion and validation system (Python/Django/FastAPI, Postgres, AWS), including large-file performance tuning, auditability, and CI/CD. Strong Kubernetes/EKS + ArgoCD GitOps practitioner and has delivered both Kafka-based real-time transaction streaming and a legacy on-prem stack migration to AWS (ECS Fargate, RDS, S3, Secrets Manager) with controlled cutovers and data consistency validation.”

“Backend engineer with insurance/claims domain experience who modernized legacy claims processing systems to support AI-assisted claim review. Emphasizes production-ready API design in Python/FastAPI (schemas, async, caching, graceful degradation), strong observability with Prometheus, and layered security including JWT auth plus database row-level security (Supabase/Postgres).”

“ML/LLM engineer with production experience building a RAG-based LLM support assistant (FastAPI, Redis, Kafka) with multi-layer validation and human-in-the-loop feedback loops to improve accuracy over time. Has orchestration and MLOps depth using Airflow and Kubeflow on Kubernetes (autoscaling, alerting, monitoring) and delivered measurable ops impact (40% ticket efficiency improvement) by partnering closely with customer support teams.”

“ML engineer/data scientist who deployed a production credit risk + insurance claims triage platform at Hartford Financial, combining XGBoost default prediction with BERT-based document classification. Demonstrated strong MLOps by cutting inference latency to sub-500ms and building drift monitoring plus automated retraining/deployment pipelines (MLflow, CloudWatch, GitHub Actions, SageMaker) with human-in-the-loop review and SHAP-based explainability for underwriting adoption.”

SREEJA REDDY Konda

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in NLP, MLOps, and predictive analytics

Kentwood, MI6y exp

“AI/ML Engineer at Fifth Third Bank who has shipped production fraud detection and risk analysis systems combining ML models with LLM-powered insights/explanations, including real-time monitoring, drift detection, and automated retraining under regulatory explainability constraints. Also built a hybrid-retrieval internal knowledge-base QA system (+20% top-5 relevance) and delivered a customer support chatbot that reduced first response time by 30% through strong stakeholder collaboration.”

sai Pavan

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in MLOps, NLP, and real-time ML pipelines

5y exp

“Built a production, real-time insurance claims document-understanding and fraud-detection pipeline using TensorFlow + fine-tuned BERT, deployed on AWS (SageMaker/Lambda/API Gateway) with automated retraining via MLflow and Jenkins. Addressed noisy documents and latency using augmentation and model distillation (3x faster), cutting claims ops manual review by ~50% and reducing fraudulent payouts.”

Teja Babu Mandaloju

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist/MLOps Engineer specializing in NLP, GenAI, and cloud ML platforms

Chicago, USA5y exp

“AI/ML engineer who led production deployment of a multimodal (text/video/image) RAG system on GCP using Gemini 2.5 + Vertex AI Vector Search, scaling to 10M+ documents with sub-second latency and +40% retrieval accuracy. Strong MLOps/orchestration background (Kubernetes, CI/CD, Airflow, MLflow) with proven impact on reliability (75% fewer incidents) and deployment speed (92% faster), plus experience delivering explainable ML (XGBoost + SHAP + Tableau) to non-technical retail stakeholders.”

Rajeshwar Peri

Screened

Mid-level Data Analyst specializing in healthcare and financial analytics

Chicago, IL5y exp

“Healthcare analytics candidate with hands-on experience turning messy claims and CRM data into validated reporting tables, automating monthly reporting in Python/Airflow, and operationalizing churn metrics in SQL and Tableau. They appear especially strong in stakeholder-aligned metric design and delivered a reported ~10% churn reduction through cohort analysis, segmentation, and at-risk member targeting.”

“Built and shipped production AI features for Aiden, including a natural-language agent and a Knowledge Hub ingestion/retrieval system. Stands out for hands-on debugging of real LLM production issues across providers like OpenAI and AWS Bedrock, improving reliability and achieving 90% response/retrieval consistency through direct LiteLLM integration, validation, monitoring, and async system design.”

“Data engineering/software development candidate who built a stock market pipeline and uses that project to demonstrate strong architectural thinking across Kafka, Spark, and Airflow. They stand out for a pragmatic approach to AI: using tools like Copilot, ChatGPT, LangChain, and AutoGen to accelerate development while maintaining human oversight, testing, and system-level decision making.”

“Early-career engineer with undergraduate research and hospital internship experience building Python/LLM automation systems, including a Study Planner AI and internal RAG tools for messy legal and clinical data workflows. Stands out for combining web scraping, vector search, and frontend integration to replace manual CSV-heavy processes under tight timelines.”

“AI/backend engineer who has built multiple applied AI systems end-to-end, including an underwriting document intelligence copilot, ambient clinical documentation workflows, and a financial analysis agent. Stands out for combining practical LLM architecture choices with reliability mechanisms like human-in-the-loop review, eval frameworks, and grounded retrieval in production settings.”

Abhinava Sai Tirunagari

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI, healthcare, and FinTech systems

Gainesville, FL2y exp

“Frontend-leaning software engineer who built significant parts of an AI platform at Cognura Health, translating complex document-processing and extraction workflows into usable browser interfaces for business and operations teams. Stands out for combining React/TypeScript UI ownership with backend API collaboration, performance tuning, and thoughtful UX for asynchronous AI workflows.”

Michael Adeniyi

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack & AI Engineer specializing in LLM-integrated cloud applications

New York, NY3y exp

“Built an AI immigration compliance co-pilot for F1 OPT and STEM OPT students, combining rule-based risk assessment with LLM-powered guidance on a React/TypeScript and AWS serverless stack. Stands out for thoughtful handling of high-risk AI: grounding responses in structured compliance data, adding guardrails, and keeping legal interpretation human-in-the-loop. Also contributed to an education-focused AI product for teachers and helped expand it with quiz generation and document editing features.”

“Built a production GPT-4/LangChain/Pinecone RAG “AI Copilot” at Northern Trust to automate financial report generation and analyst Q&A over internal structured (SQL warehouse) and unstructured policy data. Focused on real-world production challenges—grounding and latency—achieving major speed gains (seconds to milliseconds) via MiniLM embedding optimization and Redis caching, and implemented rigorous testing/evaluation with MLflow-backed metrics while aligning compliance and finance stakeholders for deployment.”

“Built a production LLM-powered workflow at Frontier to extract structured signals from messy, high-volume documents and route work to the right teams, replacing a multi-day, error-prone manual process. Emphasizes production reliability with schema/consistency validation, re-prompting and deterministic fallbacks, plus async pipeline optimizations for predictable latency. Experienced with multi-agent orchestration (LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI) and AWS workflow tooling (Step Functions, SQS, Lambda), and delivered ~70% safe automation via stakeholder-driven thresholds and human review.”

“ML/NLP engineer with hands-on experience building production systems for unstructured insurance claims and customer data linking. Delivered measurable impact at scale (millions of documents), combining transformer-based NLP, vector search (FAISS/Pinecone), and human-in-the-loop validation, and has strong production workflow/observability practices (Airflow, AWS Batch, Grafana/Prometheus).”

Haritha Kuraparthi

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud data engineering and analytics

West Haven, CT4y exp

“Software developer with hands-on experience owning customer-facing work end-to-end (requirements, implementation, testing, and feedback-driven iteration) using Python and React.js. Also described remodeling an internal legacy page/tool to improve performance and accuracy, and has exposure to microservices and RabbitMQ plus ETL-based system work.”