Vetted Generative AI Professionals

Prayasha Chaudhary

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Senior Engineering Leader specializing in cloud architecture and AI-powered data platforms

Remote5y exp

“Hands-on startup operator with experience across three startups, including companies built from inception and a PEAK6-backed environment. Particularly compelling for early-stage roles: they have rebuilt technical foundations, scaled platforms during growth, and pair strong product ownership with a practical, user-validation-first approach to building scalable systems.”

Kamilah Patterson

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Senior HR Business Partner specializing in talent strategy and workforce analytics

Brooklyn, New York11y exp

“HR Business Partner with GroupM experience supporting multiple mergers, building and transitioning Analytics/Programmatic/Account Management teams through hands-on job architecture, benchmarking, and performance management. Uses HR analytics (including an Excel-based retention model with visual reporting) and cross-functional partnership with IT to reduce disruption and improve retention during restructuring and major policy changes like return-to-office.”

“Robotics software engineer who built a ROS Noetic-based perception-to-control stack for a pick-and-place robotic arm, integrating OpenCV/TensorFlow vision with motion planning and PID tuning. Demonstrated strong real-time debugging skills (rosbag, queue/latency fixes) and experience deploying reproducible robotics environments with Gazebo simulation, Docker, and GitLab CI.”

“AI/ML engineer with CVS Health experience deploying production LLM systems in regulated healthcare settings, including a large-scale RAG solution (1M+ documents) built for compliance-grade, auditable policy/regulatory Q&A with strong anti-hallucination controls. Also delivered an NLP summarization system for physician notes/case narratives by partnering closely with non-technical care operations stakeholders and iterating via prototypes, dashboards, and feedback loops.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered grading platform that automates rubric-aligned scoring and feedback, with strong guardrails (RAG grounding, structured JSON, validation/retries) and operational rigor (metrics, drift monitoring). Experienced using CrewAI to orchestrate multi-agent workflows end-to-end and validating quality via gold-set benchmarking against human graders with regression testing on every prompt/model change.”

“Built an LLM-powered academic research assistant for a professor (LangChain + OpenAI + arXiv) focused on synthesizing papers quickly, with emphasis on reliability (ReAct prompting, citation verification) and cost control (caching). Has production MLOps/orchestration experience at Cisco and HCL Tech using Kubernetes, plus MLflow and GitHub Actions for lifecycle management and CI/CD.”

“ML/NLP practitioner who built a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system for large financial and operational document sets using Sentence-Transformers (all-mpnet-base-v2) and a vector DB (e.g., Pinecone), with a strong focus on retrieval evaluation and chunking strategy optimization. Experienced in entity resolution (rules + embedding similarity with type-specific thresholds) and in productionizing scalable Python data workflows using Airflow/Dagster and Spark.”

“AI/ML Engineer who built a production RAG-based LLM system for insurance policy documents, turning thousands of messy PDFs into a searchable index using LangChain, Azure AI Search vectors, hybrid retrieval, and FastAPI. Strong focus on evaluation (MRR/precision@k/recall@k, REGAS) and performance optimization (vLLM), with prior clinical NLP experience using BERT-based NER validated on ground-truth datasets.”

“Built a secure, on-prem/private GPT assistant to replace manual SharePoint-style search across thousands of policies/SOPs/engineering docs, using a production RAG stack (LangChain/LangGraph, FAISS/Chroma, PyMuPDF+OCR, vLLM). Implemented layout-aware ingestion (including table-to-JSON) and a multi-agent retrieval/generation/verification workflow with strong observability and compliance guardrails, delivering ~70% reduction in search time.”

“Recent J&J intern who built a conversational RAG agent and led a shift from a monolithic model to a modular RAG workflow, cutting response time from several days to under a second by tackling data fragmentation, context retention, and embedding/latency optimization. Also worked on a large (7B-parameter) multimodal VQA pipeline for healthcare research and stays current via NeurIPS/ICLR and open-source contributions.”

“AI/ML engineer who has deployed transformer-based NLP systems to production via Python REST APIs and Kubernetes on AWS/Azure, with a strong focus on latency optimization (p95), reliability, and scalable orchestration. Demonstrates pragmatic model tradeoff decision-making and strong stakeholder collaboration—improving adoption by making outputs more actionable with summaries, extracted fields, and confidence indicators.”

“Built and deployed an end-to-end product that brings a research-paper approach into production for large-scale time-series clustering, with attention to partitioning, latency, and scalability. Also designed a Python-based backend validation service (comparing outputs to database ground truths) and handled production reliability issues by reproducing dataset-specific crashes and hardening corner-case behavior with client-friendly errors.”

“Backend engineer working on high-volume insurance claims intake systems who shipped a production GenAI document-classification capability in Spring Boot microservices. Emphasizes reliability in LLM systems (strict schemas, confidence thresholds, monitoring, and manual-review fallbacks) and runs evaluation loops with labeled historical documents to drive prompt/validation improvements and reduce manual review.”

“Serial entrepreneur since leaving corporate in 2009, working largely for equity on multiple startups. Building (1) academically rigorous, anti-overfitting quant/backtesting tools for retail investors (with potential applicability to smaller hedge funds lacking quant staff) and (2) a partner-led “social-as-a-service” platform for verticals like real estate/PropTech (including FSBO use cases) focused on first-party data capture vs. big tech.”

Chandan Chalumuri

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in ML, NLP, and Generative AI

Tempe, AZ4y exp

“Data engineering / ML practitioner with experience at MetLife building transformer-based sentiment analysis over large unstructured datasets and productionizing pipelines with Airflow/PySpark/Hadoop (reported 52% efficiency gain). Also implemented embedding-based semantic search using Pinecone/Weaviate to improve retrieval relevance and enable RAG for customer support and document matching use cases.”