Vetted FAISS Professionals

Akshay Katageri

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in multi-agent systems and RAG

Jersey City, NJ4y exp

“Built and shipped a production LangGraph-based multi-agent LLM analytics/decision copilot that answers questions across SQL/BI systems and unstructured docs, emphasizing grounded, tool-verified outputs with citations and confidence gating. Deep hands-on experience with orchestration (LangGraph, CrewAI, OpenAI Assistants, MCP) plus real-world latency/cost optimization (vLLM batching/KV caching, speculative decoding, quantization) and rigorous eval/observability. Partnered closely with business/ops stakeholders to deliver explainable reporting automation, cutting manual reporting time by 50%+.”

Surya Danturty

Screened

Intern AI/ML Engineer specializing in computer vision and time-series forecasting

Riverside, CA0y exp

“Undergrad who built a production RAG chatbot for a messy college website using OpenAI embeddings + FAISS, overcoming hard-to-crawl/non-selectable site content and strict API budget limits. Applies information-retrieval best practices (section-based chunking with overlap, precision/recall evaluation) and reliability techniques (edge-case testing, similarity thresholds, fallback responses), and has experience scaling similar indexing work to ~300,000 Wikipedia pages.”

“Built and shipped a widely adopted, production-grade RAG internal search assistant that unified scattered engineering knowledge, deployed as a FastAPI service on Kubernetes with FAISS + LangChain. Demonstrates deep practical expertise in retrieval tuning (chunking, hybrid search, re-ranking) and in making LLM workflows reliable in production via guardrails, monitoring, and evaluation, plus strong cross-functional delivery with non-technical operations teams.”

“Founding/early engineer experience across Asante and a Series A startup (Adgency), shifting from data science/ML into owning production full-stack systems end-to-end. Built core product flows (registration, business profiles, map service), AWS-deployed gRPC microservices with CI/CD, and operated low-latency agent/video ad generation workflows with retries/fallbacks and PostHog-based observability.”

“Built and deployed an end-to-end fintech product, FinSight, for bank statement analysis and financial Q&A using a production-style RAG architecture. Stands out for combining FastAPI, OpenAI embeddings, FAISS, hybrid SQL/vector retrieval, and practical reliability work like chunking optimization, validation, and low-latency performance tuning.”

“Backend-focused engineer with hands-on experience deploying AI-driven document processing and RAG-based workflows using Python, LangChain, FAISS, and REST APIs. Has owned projects from requirements through post-launch monitoring, including debugging production retrieval issues and building reliable pipelines for messy PDFs/scans and compliance-oriented document analysis.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-powered financial intelligence and forecasting platform at Northern Trust using a RAG architecture (LangChain + Hugging Face + FAISS) with end-to-end MLOps (Docker/Kubernetes, Airflow, MLflow). Emphasized regulatory-grade explainability (SHAP/Power BI) and hallucination control (retrieval-only grounding), achieving ~30% forecasting accuracy improvement and ~65% reduction in analyst research time, with sub-second inference and 95% uptime on EKS/AKS.”

“ML/MLOps practitioner from Discover Financial who built and deployed a real-time AI fraud detection platform (LSTM + VAE) on AWS SageMaker with Docker/FastAPI and Jenkins-driven CI/CD. Demonstrated measurable impact (30% accuracy lift, 25% fewer false alerts) and deep expertise in class-imbalance mitigation, drift monitoring, and orchestration (Airflow/Kubeflow), plus strong stakeholder adoption via Power BI dashboards for fraud/compliance teams.”

“Built and shipped a production agentic LLM analytics platform that lets non-SQL business users query relational databases in plain English via a RAG + LangChain/LangGraph workflow and FastAPI service. Emphasizes safety and reliability with guardrails (validation/access control), testing/evaluation frameworks, and performance optimization (caching, monitoring, Dockerized scalable deployment), reducing dependency on data teams and speeding analytics turnaround.”

“Software/ML engineer who built a production automated job-finding and cold-email personalization system for Fortune 500 outreach, using JobSpy for dynamic scraping, LangChain orchestration, and LLM+vector DB semantic search with grounding/relevance metrics and guardrails. Also delivered a predictive investment analytics platform for financial advisors, communicating results via Tableau dashboards and portfolio KPIs like Sharpe ratio and drawdowns.”

“Worked on large financial analytics datasets combining complaint text, transaction logs, and demographics; built end-to-end NLP/ML pipelines (TF-IDF + Random Forest) and data integration in BigQuery with Tableau reporting, citing ~95–98% accuracy. Also implemented entity resolution with fuzzy matching and semantic linking using BERT sentence-transformer embeddings stored in FAISS, including fine-tuning on labeled pairs to improve search/linking relevance.”

“Built and shipped a production RAG assistant using GPT-4, LangChain, and Pinecone/FAISS to search 50K+ institutional documents, with a strong focus on groundedness and hallucination reduction through retrieval optimization and re-ranking. Pairs this with a metrics-driven evaluation/monitoring approach (BLEU/ROUGE, manual sampling, logging) and workflow automation via Airflow, and has experience translating stakeholder needs into iterative AI prototypes.”

Dhairya Desai

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in healthcare NLP and predictive analytics

Chicago, IL13y exp

“ML/NLP engineer with healthcare and industrial IoT experience: built an Optum pipeline that converted 2M+ physician notes into structured entities and linked them with claims/pharmacy data to create an actionable patient timeline. Deep hands-on expertise in production NER, entity resolution, and hybrid search (Elasticsearch + embeddings/FAISS), plus robust data engineering practices (Airflow, Spark, data contracts, auditability) and experimentation-to-production rollout via shadow mode and feature flags.”

Pooja Miryala

Screened

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

Ohio, USA4y exp

“Deployed a real-time LLM-driven call center summarization and agent-assist platform at Fifth Third Bank, combining transformer models (BERT/GPT) with FastAPI inference on AKS and vector storage (ChromaDB/PostgreSQL). Emphasizes production-grade reliability (autoscaling, CI/CD, monitoring) and measurable evaluation (A/B testing), and translates model outputs into business-facing Power BI insights for call center leadership.”

Sai somapalli

Screened

Senior LLM Engineer specializing in Generative AI, RAG, and multimodal assistants

USA6y exp

“GenAI/NLP engineer with experience building classification and summarization pipelines in PyTorch and deploying multimodal GPT-4-style workflows. Has integrated LLM applications across OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, and Amazon Bedrock, and uses LangChain/LlamaIndex/Semantic Kernel to orchestrate RAG and agent workflows with production-focused evaluation metrics like task success rate and groundedness.”

Daanesh Potnuri

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in API-driven microservices and cloud delivery

5y exp

“Software engineer with hands-on experience building a decentralized file-sharing dApp, bridging a React frontend with Ethereum smart contracts via Web3.js and integrating IPFS for decentralized storage. Demonstrates a rigorous, measurement-driven approach to performance optimization (profiling + benchmark/regression loop) and strong ownership in high-stakes environments, including Fircosoft sanctions platform optimization and rapid production hotfixes for user-impacting issues.”

Varun Kothapalli

Screened

Mid-level AI/Machine Learning Engineer specializing in Generative AI, NLP, and MLOps

Saint Louis, MO6y exp

“Built a production LLM/RAG document analysis system for large financial documents (credit reports/PDFs) to help business analysts extract insights faster. Implemented end-to-end pipeline orchestration with LangChain, vector search (e.g., FAISS), and hallucination controls (context grounding, similarity thresholds, and no-answer fallback), delivered as a Dockerized Python API.”

Sreedivya Nagalli

Screened

Junior AI/ML Engineer specializing in deep learning and full-stack ML applications

2y exp

“Built and operated a production-used RAG-based AI study planner (GPT-4 + FAISS) that handled 250+ concurrent users, with real-world reliability engineering (caching, fallbacks, schema validation, Redis state, monitoring). Also has healthcare data integration experience at Medinet Analytics, standardizing messy EHR/practice-management data with canonical schemas, idempotency hashing, and compliance-grade audit trails.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on ownership of a production POS platform, including architecture, CI/CD, Kubernetes deployment, and live incident handling. Also built a RAG-based document Q&A system using OpenAI/Anthropic with hybrid retrieval, evaluation metrics, and fallback logic, showing both traditional backend depth and practical applied AI experience.”

Surya Padmini Konjula

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud, and AI for FinTech

San Jose, CA6y exp

“Senior full-stack engineer focused on AI-powered workflow automation and customer support products, with hands-on ownership from React/TypeScript UI through FastAPI microservices, retrieval pipelines, and Kubernetes deployment on GCP. Particularly strong in turning ambiguous zero-to-one AI initiatives into production systems that reduce manual operations, improve turnaround time, and remain reliable through strong orchestration and monitoring practices.”

“Senior product leader who helped transform Submittable from a single-program grant tool into a multi-program impact platform, driving ARR from $20M to $70M+ while improving retention and margins. Particularly strong in enterprise platform strategy and human-centered AI, with a clear philosophy of using AI to augment expert judgment rather than replace it.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-driven data harmonization/record-matching pipeline for pharmaceutical datasets, combining normalization, embeddings/vector search, and an LLM validation step. Emphasizes production reliability via guardrails, confidence thresholds, idempotent/retryable stages, and human-in-the-loop fallbacks, with monitoring focused on manual review and error rates to reduce false positives.”

“AI Automation Engineer at BalancedTrust who single-handedly shipped production LLM features for FinTech compliance: a policy gap-analysis pipeline (SOC 2/GDPR) and a RAG-based regulatory chatbot. Deeply focused on reliability in high-stakes legal/compliance settings, with strong production engineering (edge functions, parallelized batching to cut latency, structured JSON outputs, guardrails, and monitoring) and close collaboration with non-technical compliance experts.”

“AI/ML engineer with experience at Northern Trust and Persistent Systems building production LLM + RAG systems for regulated financial use cases, including liquidity forecasting, anomaly detection, and credit scoring. Emphasizes compliance-first design with explainability (SHAP), traceability (MLflow), and hallucination controls (FAISS + citation-grounded prompting), and has delivered drift-triggered retraining pipelines using Airflow and Kubernetes while translating model outputs into business-ready marketing segments.”