Vetted Generative AI 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%+.”

Pravalika Kuppireddy

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and intelligent automation

4y exp

“LLM engineer who built and productionized a system to classify GitHub commits (performance vs non-performance) using zero-/few-shot approaches over commit messages and diffs, working at ~5M-record scale on multi-node NVIDIA GPUs. Experienced orchestrating end-to-end LLM pipelines with Airflow and GitHub Actions, and emphasizes reliability via testing, guardrails, and observability while collaborating closely with non-technical product stakeholders.”

“Outbound-focused SaaS seller with a track record of creating pipeline in ambiguous/early-stage environments and closing complex deals. Notably sourced a New Zealand opportunity via LinkedIn, convinced the account to reopen a closed RFP, ran demos/POC, and closed a $1.8M deal over ~7 months; also experienced in security/legal redlines and multi-stakeholder consensus building (including winning over a resistant VP of IT).”

“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.”

“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.”

“Unity/C# developer focused on Meta Quest VR simulations and indie game development; built a factory onboarding VR experience largely solo, including modular scenario orchestration, interaction systems, and branching NPC dialogue. Also created multiple Unity games in the last year and built reusable internal packages (game management + UI/screens), while using an AI-driven pipeline for rapid prototyping and 3D asset generation.”

“CoreAI intern at The Home Depot who improved the Magic Apron Assistant by building a production video ingestion + RAG retrieval system for long videos (uploads and YouTube), including a graph-based retrieval module to speed up and improve relevance. Experienced with Kubernetes orchestration (HPA) and production reliability practices like caching, monitoring, regression testing, and stakeholder-driven requirements.”

“Backend engineer who owned an order management API built with Python/FastAPI and PostgreSQL, integrating payment and shipping providers with strong reliability patterns (idempotency, async workers, retries/backoff, circuit breakers). Experienced deploying services to Kubernetes using a GitOps model with ArgoCD (auto-sync, self-healing, pruning, rollbacks) and building high-volume Kafka streaming pipelines. Has also supported phased cloud-to-on-prem migrations with a focus on security monitoring/SIEM log continuity.”

“Healthcare AI/ML engineer with Epic experience who built and deployed a HIPAA-compliant GPT-4 RAG clinical assistant over large medical document sets, emphasizing privacy controls and low-latency performance. Also automated end-to-end retraining and deployment of patient risk models using orchestration/CI-CD (Jenkins, SageMaker, MLflow), cutting deployment time from hours to minutes while improving reliability.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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.”

Ponugoti Sushma

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in IoT, edge AI, and enterprise ML

Texas, USA5y exp

“Built and productionized an LLM/RAG question-answering service over technical documentation, focusing on retrieval quality (reranking + IR metrics), latency, and scaling. Experienced orchestrating end-to-end ETL/ML workflows with Airflow/Prefect/AWS Step Functions and improving reliability via parallelism, retries, and shadow testing. Also delivered an explainable healthcare risk-flagging classifier with a stakeholder-friendly dashboard for a non-technical program manager.”

Lakshmi Priya Ramisetty

Screened

Mid-level ML & Data Engineer specializing in GenAI, graph modeling, and fraud/risk analytics

Redwood City, CA5y exp

“Built a production AI fraud/risk scoring platform at BlueArc that ingests web business/product/site data, generates text+image embeddings, and connects entities in a graph to detect reuse patterns and links to known bad actors. Optimized for scale with incremental graph re-scoring and delivered investigator-friendly explainability by surfacing the exact signals/relationships behind each score; orchestrated workflows with Airflow and GCP event-driven components (Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Cloud Run) and has recent LLM workflow orchestration experience (retrieval, prompting, scoring).”

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.”

Varun Sharma

Screened

Mid-level AI Builder and Data Engineer specializing in GenAI and data pipelines

Remote, USA4y exp

“Full-stack AI product engineer who personally built ViGenAir, a multimodal system that turns long-form video into ads using FastAPI, React, and agentic scoring. Stands out for handling complex 50GB+ media pipelines, re-architecting systems to eliminate OOM failures, and making opaque AI workflows usable through interactive visual UX that improved trust, speed, and retention.”

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.”

“Frontend engineer with 3 years of professional experience and a Master's degree who has built a React/TypeScript interface for a two-sided marketplace with role-based dashboards and Stripe escrow flows. Stands out for combining security-conscious UI architecture, measurable browser performance optimization, and polished workflow design for demanding users across desktop and mobile.”

“Robotics software engineer with a Master’s thesis building an end-to-end monocular-vision pick-and-place controller for construction use cases on TurtleBot3 + OpenManipulator, spanning synthetic data creation, transfer learning, simulation in Gazebo, and real-robot deployment. Leveraged ROS distributed architecture to run two heavy AI models across networked GPUs to achieve usable real-time performance, and has production CI/CD experience as a Senior Software Engineer in AI/analytics.”

“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.”

“Healthcare data/NLP practitioner with experience at UnitedHealthcare building production ML systems that connect unstructured call center transcripts and medical notes to structured claims data. Has delivered measurable impact (25% classification accuracy lift; ~30% relevance improvement) using classical NLP, embeddings (Sentence-BERT + FAISS), and AWS SageMaker deployments with robust validation and drift monitoring.”

“Video editor with hands-on Adobe Premiere + After Effects experience across short-form social (Reels/Shorts) and longer-form YouTube, plus feature/short film and product/explainer/talking-head content. Has led an editing function at Prudential by creating templates and mentoring other editors, and has worked with the YouTube channel CanikUSA.”

“Built Hexagon’s production Text-to-CAD Copilot that converts text and rough sketches into editable CAD code, combining GraphRAG (Neo4j/LangChain) with a Gemini-powered vision module and multi-agent geometric validation—cutting manual modeling from a day to ~45 seconds and driving retrieval latency below 50ms. Also has large-scale GCP data/ML orchestration experience (Airflow/Cloud Composer, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Snowflake) processing 50M+ daily records with drift monitoring and automated reliability controls.”