Vetted Feature Engineering Professionals

Avni Tripathi

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in NLP, RAG, and information retrieval for RegTech

Gurgaon, India5y exp

“Built and deployed a production document Q&A/research platform that combines semantic search (vector DB embeddings) with structured knowledge-graph querying to reduce analyst research time. Used in high-stakes domains like Politically Exposed Person profiling and extracting critical information from ESG/regulatory documents, with a human-in-the-loop evaluation process (precision@k and source-text highlighting) to ensure accuracy.”

“Built and productionized a real-time social-media sentiment analysis system used by a marketing team to monitor brand/campaign performance. Experienced in orchestrating LLM workflows with LangChain (validation → prompting → parsing → post-processing), plus monitoring, retraining, and RAG-style retrieval using embeddings/vector stores to keep outputs reliable over time.”

“Backend/platform engineer who built an LLM-driven QA automation system (“mockmouse”) using a Flask orchestration microservice, Socket.IO real-time updates, Redis caching, and strict Pydantic schemas to turn prompts into reliable action graphs and automated browser tests. Has hands-on Kubernetes delivery experience (Docker/Helm/Jenkins) and has supported large migration programs, validating ETL cutovers with 1M+ synthetic records and rigorous output comparisons; also built event-driven monitoring/anomaly detection streaming into Grafana.”

“Hands-on engineer who has taken an LSTM Bitcoin forecasting model from notebook to a production-grade, monitored API (Docker/Gunicorn/Nginx, Prometheus/Grafana, blue-green rollback) delivering 99.9% availability and ~110–120ms p95 latency. Also built an RFID self-checkout prototype spanning Raspberry Pi + firmware + networking, using deep instrumentation to eliminate double-charges/timeouts (<0.1%) and reduce checkout time ~20% through idempotency, debounce logic, and hardware fixes.”

“ML practitioner who built a production customer risk scoring system to replace slow manual approvals, owning the full pipeline from feature engineering and XGBoost training to deploying a Dockerized FastAPI prediction service. Emphasizes reliability and business-aligned evaluation (recall/ROC-AUC, threshold tuning, drift monitoring) and is comfortable translating model decisions into stakeholder metrics like conversion rate (experience at EasyBee AI).”

Dhairya Shah

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Entry-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in computer vision and systems

Buffalo, NY1y exp

“ML-focused builder who has shipped an end-to-end income-class prediction product: built the data pipeline, trained models, deployed via Streamlit with a live UI, and tracked success via accuracy (84%), adoption, and latency. Demonstrates strong practical MLOps instincts (Docker/Streamlit Cloud, logging/monitoring, caching) and data engineering reliability patterns (schema checks, idempotency, retries, backfills) while iterating quickly in ambiguous, solo-project environments.”

Yeruva Bala Shreya Reddy

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Entry Data Analyst specializing in ETL pipelines and business intelligence

Charlotte, NC0y exp

“Analytics candidate with hands-on experience building reliable healthcare reporting layers from messy transactional data using SQL and Python. Stands out for combining data transformation, KPI definition, validation rigor, and performance tuning to deliver reusable reporting assets that improve trust in operational metrics.”

Kevin Thomas

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Intern Software Engineer specializing in AI, cloud, and backend systems

Torrance, CA1y exp

“Candidate has internship and graduate-project experience building AI agents, including a production log-analysis assistant using a lightweight agentic/RAG-style workflow with local GPT training and validation against historical logs. They also worked on Android/iOS game build and release processes in a Unity-based robot racing game environment, and highlight measurable LLM outcomes including 80% analysis accuracy, 2-5 second latency, and 50% cost reduction.”

“Built and productionized LLM-powered workflows that generate contextual insights from structured financial data, including prompt/retrieval design, data standardization, and reliability controls like rate limiting and batching. Also diagnosed and fixed real-time failures in an automated order validation system using logs/metrics, staging reproduction, edge-case handling, retries, and alerting, while supporting sales/customer teams with demos, scripts, and FAQs to drive adoption.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM feature that explains DSA problems with real-life explanations, using Grok with automatic failover to OpenRouter (and multiple backup models) to avoid user-facing failures. Improved cost efficiency by implementing difficulty-based token budgets and iterated prompt quality via structured constraints and an in-app feedback mechanism, reporting satisfaction across 38 users.”

Habtom Desta

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Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in Python, ML, and BI dashboards

Dallas, TX5y exp

“Data/NLP practitioner who builds production-oriented pipelines for unstructured text: entity extraction, topic modeling (LDA/BERTopic), and semantic search using Sentence-BERT embeddings with FAISS. Emphasizes rigorous evaluation (coherence/silhouette + manual review), entity resolution with validation, and scalable workflow orchestration using Airflow/Prefect with Spark/Dask.”

HarshelSrivatsava Srivatsava

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Intern Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI-powered SaaS products

Birmingham, AL1y exp

“Solo builder of OGym, shipping production AI features for gyms that turn member behavior/health data (workouts, attendance, nutrition, payments, device metrics) into prioritized, actionable owner and member insights. Designed and implemented FastAPI backends, PostgreSQL-based RAG workflows, guardrails (RBAC/validation/rate limiting), and real-user evaluation loops, with a strong focus on latency/cost optimization and reliable data pipelines.”

“Machine learning lab assistant at Eastern Illinois University who productionized a voice-enabled conversational AI system: redesigned it with RAG, LoRA fine-tuning (including text-to-SQL), and safety guardrails, then deployed a scalable API supporting ~1,000 daily queries. Also partnered with customer-facing teams during a BlueFi internship by building demos/APIs and accelerating releases via Terraform + AWS CI/CD automation.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based internal document Q&A system using LangChain, vector search, and a dockerized FastAPI LLM service. Focused on reliability by systematically reducing hallucinations and improving retrieval through prompt grounding/abstention strategies, chunking and top-k tuning, and iterative evaluation with logged metrics and manual validation.”

“Full-stack developer who owned and shipped an end-to-end web application for LeafNBeyond (React/Node/Postgres), deployed to production at leafnbeyond.com, with reported 35% sales growth and strong UX feedback. Also built Azure-based ETL pipelines using lakehouse/medallion architecture with validation and retry logic, and has AWS fundamentals from a master’s coursework (EC2, RDS, IAM, load balancing).”

Puspa Oli

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP, Computer Vision, and FinTech AI

Kathmandu, Nepal2y exp

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped production RAG and agentic systems end-to-end (LangChain/FAISS, OpenAI+Gemini, FastAPI, Docker, Streamlit), focusing on retrieval quality and low-latency performance. Also partnered with a non-technical PM at deepNow to deliver a forecasting + summarization pipeline for daily market insights with iterative prototyping and a simple UI.”

SaiDheerajReddy Gadikota

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in agentic systems and enterprise LLM platforms

USA, USA4y exp

“Current AI engineer at a startup who has spent the last year architecting multi-agent systems for software development workflows. Stands out for combining LLM speed with engineering discipline—using tools like Pydantic, LangGraph, and LangChain to build reliable, production-ready agent workflows with validation, routing, and retry logic.”