Vetted FAISS Professionals

Vishesh Kumar

Screened

Intern Software & AI Engineer specializing in distributed systems and LLM applications

Palo Alto, CA1y exp

“Stony Brook Fall 2024 capstone contributor who built a ROS2-based warehouse mobile robot prototype, owning perception and SLAM integration end-to-end. Strong in real-time robotics optimization on Jetson Orin (TensorRT/CUDA, ROS2 tracing/Nsight) and in distributed ROS2 communications (DDS discovery/QoS, MAVLink-to-ROS2 bridging), with a full simulation/testing/deployment toolchain (Gazebo, CI tests, Docker/K3s).”

Hari Krishna Kona

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and LLM-powered NLP

Boston, MA3y exp

“LLM/AI engineer who built a production automated document-understanding pipeline on Azure using a grounded RAG layer, designed to reduce manual review time for unstructured financial documents. Demonstrates strong real-world scaling and reliability practices (Service Bus queueing, Kubernetes autoscaling, observability, retries/circuit breakers) plus rigorous evaluation (shadow testing, replaying traffic, multilingual edge-case suites) and stakeholder-friendly, evidence-based explainability.”

“Backend Python engineer who has built an LLM agentic tutoring/assignment helper with a custom pipeline for parsing visually complex textbooks (integrating AlibabaResearch VGT and implementing missing preprocessing from the paper), improving RAG grounding with ~90% cleaner extracted text. Also led major platform scaling work by refactoring monolithic image processing into Celery-based async microservices on AWS (GPU/CUDA + S3), and implemented Kafka streaming for payment webhooks with strict ordering, idempotency, and multi-zone fault tolerance.”

“Robotics/ML engineer who benchmarks and adapts open-source robot action models, building synthetic datasets in Isaac Sim and modifying vendor code to scale training across multiple GPUs. Also built a production-style computer vision pipeline at Zortag—training a tiny YOLO-based classifier for fake-vs-real label detection and deploying it in a real-time iOS app with additional display/spoof detection.”

“Healthcare-focused ML/LLM engineer who built a production hybrid RAG workflow to automate prior authorization by retrieving from medical guidelines/historical cases (FAISS) and generating grounded rationales for clinicians. Strong in operationalizing ML with Airflow/Kubeflow/MLflow on SageMaker, optimizing latency (ONNX/quantization/async), and reducing hallucinations via evidence-only prompting; also partnered closely with clinical ops to deploy a readmission prediction tool used in daily rounds.”

“Data/ML engineer from HCLTech who modernized enterprise data by linking fragmented financial and supply-chain data across SAP/SQL Server/Snowflake using NLP entity linking and embeddings (FAISS). Delivered measurable impact including ~40% reduction in manual error-log triage and entity-linking accuracy improvements from ~86% to ~93%, with results surfaced in Power BI for real-time analytics.”

Vikram Sandigaru

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in AI agents, RAG pipelines, and LLM evaluation

Boston, US3y exp

“Built and shipped production LLM systems at Founderbay, including a low-latency voice agent and a graph-based multi-agent research assistant. Strong focus on reliability in real workflows—hybrid SERP + full-site scraping RAG, grounding guardrails, validation checkpoints, and transcript-driven evaluation—plus performance tuning with async FastAPI, Redis caching, and containerization. Also partnered with a non-technical ops lead to automate post-call follow-ups via call summarization, field extraction, and tool-triggered actions.”

Nagendra Reddy Palugulla

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and MLOps

Florida, United States4y exp

“Built and shipped a production real-time content moderation platform for Zoom/WebEx-style meetings, combining Whisper speech-to-text with fast NLP classifiers and REST APIs to flag hate speech, bias, and HIPAA-related content under strict latency constraints. Demonstrates strong MLOps/infra depth (Airflow, Kubernetes, Terraform/Helm, observability) and a pragmatic approach to reducing false positives via threshold tuning, context validation, and hard-negative data—while partnering closely with compliance and product stakeholders.”

Keeravani Chekuri

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM systems and MLOps

Boston, MA3y exp

“Built and deployed an AI tutoring assistant end-to-end at Nexora School, spanning discovery with school districts, multi-agent LangGraph/RAG architecture, AWS Bedrock migration, and post-launch stabilization. Stands out for combining hands-on LLM systems engineering with strong educator-facing trust building, FERPA-driven architecture decisions, and disciplined production practices around evals, logging, and messy document ingestion.”

“Built and deployed an LLM-to-SQL automation system in a closed/internal environment, using a retriever–reranker–validator architecture on Kubernetes with strong security controls (semantic + rule-based validation and RBAC), achieving 99% uptime and cutting manual query time ~40%. Also worked on genomic sequence classification and semantic search workflows, orchestrating data prep with Airflow, tracking/deploying with MLflow, and optimizing distributed multi-GPU training on a university Kubernetes cluster.”

“At Provenbase, built and shipped a production LLM-powered semantic search and candidate matching platform (RAG with GPT-4/Gemini, multi-agent orchestration, Elasticsearch vector search) to scale sourcing across 10M+ candidate records and 1000+ data sources. Drove sub-second performance, cut LLM spend 30% with routing/caching, and improved recruiting outcomes (+45% sourcing accuracy; +38% visibility of underrepresented talent) through bias-aware ranking and tight collaboration with recruiting stakeholders.”

“Robotics/AV-focused candidate who contributed to an F1TENTH autonomous vehicle college project, building key autonomy components from raw sensor data to driving commands. Strong in perception and state estimation (visual odometry, particle-filter localization), plus mapping (occupancy grids) and planning/control (RRT, Gap Follow, PID), with hands-on ROS tooling and simulation validation in Gazebo/RViz and ROS environment containerization using Docker.”

Krishna K

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in multimodal systems and LLMs

Jersey City, NJ2y exp

“Built and productionized a domain-specific LLM-powered RAG knowledge assistant at JerseyStem for answering questions over large internal document corpora, owning the full stack from FAISS retrieval and LoRA/QLoRA fine-tuning to AWS autoscaling GPU deployment. Drove measurable gains (28% accuracy lift, 25% latency reduction) and improved reliability through hybrid retrieval, grounded decoding, preference-model reranking, and Airflow-orchestrated pipelines (35% faster runtime), while partnering closely with non-technical stakeholders to define success metrics and ensure adoption.”

Aneri Patel

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLM fine-tuning and semantic retrieval

Washington, D.C.2y exp

“Backend engineer with legal-tech and AI workflow experience: built JurisAI, an end-to-end legal research system using OCR + embeddings + Pinecone vector search to deliver citation-grounded LLM answers with safe failure modes (~90% recall@K). Also led a GW Law metadata migration into Caspio with batch validation and parallel rollout, and has strong FastAPI/GCP production reliability and observability practices.”

Hemanth Suddala

Screened

Mid-level GenAI Engineer specializing in LLM automation, RAG, and document intelligence

Boca Raton, FL3y exp

“Built and deployed a production GenAI resume screening and matching system for Florida Atlantic University, focused on improving recruiter efficiency and search relevance. Demonstrates strong RAG engineering (embeddings, query rewriting, metadata filtering, threshold tuning) plus practical reliability work (grounding constraints, fallbacks, and evaluation using real user queries) using Python REST APIs and orchestration frameworks like LangChain and LlamaIndex.”

Tamanna Nandlal Choithani

Screened

Entry-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI and distributed systems

California, USA1y exp

“Full-stack engineer who built an AI-based inventory/procurement query system at Botlily/Botlerly using Flask and Google Sheets as a live knowledge base, overcoming Sheets latency with caching and structured in-memory models. Demonstrated strong LLM product engineering (40% accuracy improvement via preprocessing/prompting) and customer-driven iteration with bar/restaurant owners, evolving the tool into a more comprehensive inventory management and forecasting solution.”

“Full-stack product engineer who led system design and backend/cloud architecture for a senior-living platform spanning an Android kiosk and admin web portal. They combine Azure microservices expertise with strong accessibility instincts, and their UI/UX improvements for seniors and wheelchair users reportedly helped drive 21% revenue growth and a new customer through word of mouth.”

“Graduate-level candidate who uses AI as a disciplined engineering assistant rather than an autonomous replacement, with hands-on experience coordinating manual multi-agent coding workflows across planning, implementation, and testing. They emphasize scoped execution, clear constraints, and human ownership of final merges, suggesting a thoughtful and practical approach to AI-augmented software development.”