Vetted FAISS Professionals

“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.”

“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/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.”

“Built and shipped production generative AI/RAG assistants in regulated financial contexts (S&P Global), automating compliance-oriented Q&A over earnings reports/filings with grounded answers and citations. Experienced across the full stack—AWS-based ingestion (PySpark/Glue), vector retrieval + LangChain agents, GPT-4/Claude model selection, and production reliability (monitoring, caching, retries) plus rigorous evaluation and regression testing.”

“AI/ML-focused backend engineer who shipped two production systems: PersonaPal (agentic LLM chatbot with RAG, FAISS-based retrieval, and Redis semantic caching) and CervixScan (clinical diagnostics platform with PostgreSQL data modeling and human-in-the-loop safety for low-confidence predictions). Demonstrates strong performance/reliability work (indexed vector search, caching, query optimization to ~200ms) and end-to-end ownership from orchestration design through deployment.”

Daniel Berhane Araya

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in production-grade LLM systems for regulated finance

Fairfax, VA9y exp

“AI/LLM engineer with published work who built FinVet, a production financial misinformation detection system using multi-pipeline RAG, confidence-based voting, and evidence-backed outputs (F1 0.85, +37% vs baseline). Also built NexusForest-MCP, a Dockerized Model Context Protocol server exposing structured global deforestation/carbon data via SQL tools for reliable LLM tool use. Previously delivered borrower risk-rating (PD) models at BMO Financial Group that were validated and integrated into an enterprise credit system through close collaboration with credit officers and portfolio managers.”

Hritvik Gupta

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and healthcare AI

San Francisco, CA3y exp

“Built and scaled an AI-powered voice/chat patient engagement platform at Penn Medicine from early prototype into production clinical workflows, focusing on latency, edge cases, and user trust. Strong in LLM reliability engineering (structured prompts, validation/fallbacks), real-time troubleshooting with observability, and cross-functional enablement through pilots, demos, and sales/customer partnership.”

“Analytics-focused candidate with internship and project experience at Recotap and CoUnderscore, combining SQL, Python, and BI dashboards to turn messy marketing and engagement data into decision-ready reporting. Stands out for tying analytics work to business outcomes, including ~15% CTR improvement, identifying ~40% misattributed spend, and enabling a ~$75K budget shift through better targeting.”

“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.”

John Chance

Screened

Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in conversational AI and healthcare ML

Greenwood, LA9y exp

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of both classical recommender systems and safety-sensitive LLM agent platforms. They combine production MLOps depth with behavioral health domain experience, including clinical safety validation, explainability, and multi-agent orchestration, and cite measurable impact in both business metrics and latency reduction.”

“GenAI/ML engineer with hands-on experience building production financial intelligence and document summarization systems at Citibank. Stands out for combining LLM fine-tuning, hybrid RAG, multi-agent workflows, and strong MLOps/observability practices to deliver measurable business impact, including 60% faster analyst retrieval, 31% higher precision, and 99%+ uptime.”

“Software engineer currently building AI-powered backend systems for interview analysis, with end-to-end ownership of an LLM-based monitoring platform. Stands out for combining practical product delivery in an ambiguous early-stage environment with measurable impact: over 40% reduction in manual review effort and roughly 20% lower inference cost.”

Koushik Ravikumar

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud-native Java and AI platforms

Kyle, TX4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong cloud and platform experience spanning React, Go, AWS, Kafka, and Terraform. Has led complex migrations from monolithic/containerized systems to microservices and cloud deployments, built compliance-oriented logging infrastructure, and improved a broken frontend codebase to achieve a 3x performance gain while making it easier for other developers to extend.”

“Built end-to-end product features spanning full-stack web development and LLM-powered systems in an early-stage startup environment. Notably shipped an AI financial assistant chatbot with agent routing, validation, fallback handling, and production monitoring, and also owned a scheduling system integrating Next.js, backend APIs, database design, and Google Calendar OAuth.”

“AI product engineer with hands-on experience shipping enterprise LLM systems at General Motors, including NL2SQL analytics, RAG-based enterprise search, and multi-agent document analysis. Stands out for combining strong technical depth in LangChain/Vertex AI/Pinecone/Redshift with disciplined evals, human-in-the-loop design, and clear business impact such as 70% to 90%+ accuracy gains, 3x analyst throughput, and rapid MVP delivery in 6 weeks.”

“AI/full-stack engineer with hands-on experience shipping both computer vision and LLM products in production across marketplace and healthcare settings. Built an automated device grading system at Northladder and improved a Deloitte healthcare chatbot using RAG, with a strong emphasis on grounding, validation, uncertainty handling, and human review for high-impact decisions.”

Jaisurya Kolluru

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native backend and AI systems

Virginia, USA5y exp

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership across React/TypeScript frontends, Node.js backends, and PostgreSQL on AWS. Stands out for production-focused database optimization, including execution-plan analysis, indexing, safe migrations, and architectural improvements that reduced database bottlenecks through a centralized REST API layer.”

“Healthcare-focused LLM engineer who deployed a production triage and clinical knowledge retrieval assistant using RAG and LangGraph-orchestrated multi-agent workflows. Emphasizes clinical safety and compliance with robust hallucination controls, HIPAA/PHI protections (tokenization, encryption, audit logging, zero-retention), and human-in-the-loop escalation; reports a 75% latency reduction in a healthcare agent system.”

“Built a production multi-agent orchestration platform to automate healthcare claims and HR workflows, combining LangChain/CrewAI/AutoGPT with RAG (FAISS/Pinecone) and fine-tuned open-source LLMs (LLaMA/Mistral/Falcon) in private Azure ML environments to meet HIPAA requirements. Emphasizes rigorous agent evaluation/observability (trajectory eval, adversarial testing, LLM-as-judge, drift monitoring) and reports measurable outcomes including 35% faster claims processing and 40% fewer chatbot errors.”

“Telecom (Verizon) AI/ML practitioner who built a production multimodal system that ingests messy customer issue reports (calls, chats, emails, screenshots, videos) and turns them into confidence-scored incident summaries with reproducible steps and evidence links. Also built KPI/alarm-to-ticket correlation to rank likely root-cause domains (RAN/Core/Transport), cutting triage from hours to minutes and improving MTTR.”

“AI/ML engineer with forensic analytics and healthcare claims experience (Optum), building production LLM/RAG systems to surface context-driven fraud patterns from unstructured claim notes and explain risk to investigators. Strong in large-scale retrieval performance tuning, legacy API integration with reliability patterns (SQS, circuit breakers), and MLOps orchestration on Airflow/Kubernetes with rigorous testing, monitoring, and stakeholder-friendly interpretability.”

“IBM engineer who built and deployed a production RAG-based LLM assistant using LangChain/FAISS with a fine-tuned LLaMA model, served via FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes, achieving 99%+ uptime. Demonstrates strong practical expertise in reducing hallucinations (semantic chunking + metadata-driven retrieval) and managing latency, plus mature MLOps practices (Airflow/dbt pipelines, MLflow tracking, monitoring, A/B and shadow deployments) and effective collaboration with non-technical stakeholders.”

“At CVS Health, the candidate productionized a RAG-based LLM solution in a regulated healthcare setting, emphasizing reliable data pipelines, LoRA fine-tuning, monitoring, safety guardrails, and A/B testing. They have hands-on experience troubleshooting real-time RAG failures (e.g., chunking/embedding issues) and regularly lead developer-focused demos/workshops while translating technical architecture into business value for stakeholders.”

Aishwarya Thorat

Screened

Intern Data Scientist specializing in ML engineering and LLM agentic workflows

San Francisco, CA6y exp

“Built an agentic, multi-step LLM system that generates full-stack code for API integrations using LangChain orchestration, Pinecone/SentenceBERT RAG, and a human-in-the-loop feedback loop for iterative code refinement. Also collaborated with non-technical content writers and PMs during a Contentstack internship to deliver a Slack-based AI workflow that generates and brand-checks articles with one-click approvals.”