Vetted GitHub Actions Professionals

“AI Engineering Intern at The Etherloop building the backend for a healthcare lifestyle recommendation app, including a multi-agent RAG-based system that uses curated SME data plus web search to generate personalized supplement recommendations from user lifestyle details and blood biomarkers. Evaluates against 500+ SME ground-truth profiles with ranking metrics and focuses on HIPAA-aligned deployment, privacy/security, and guardrails to reduce hallucinations and unsafe outputs.”

“AI engineer with experience taking a GPT-4-powered GenAI career coach toward production on Azure AI Foundry, re-architecting the backend with hybrid (vector + keyword) search and RAG optimizations to cut latency by 50%. Also has client-facing TCS experience building healthcare ETL pipelines and delivering error-free monthly reports, plus current work analyzing agentic system reasoning traces and guardrail drift as an AI research fellow.”

“Founding AI engineer at an AI SaaS startup who built the full GTM knowledge and retrieval stack for non-technical teams, driving 60% less manual effort and 25% faster deployments. Also brings enterprise B2B SaaS integration experience from Wipro, including external API/documentation work for large-scale partner ecosystems.”

Likitha Kukunarapu

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Mid-level Applied AI Engineer specializing in data engineering and healthcare AI

Remote, USA3y exp

“Built production LLM agents spanning document Q&A, financial insight generation, and ERP-like operational data workflows, with a strong focus on reliability, grounding, and evaluation. Stands out for translating LLM systems into measurable business outcomes, including 70%–80% support workload reduction and a fallback-rate improvement from 18% to 8% through targeted RAG iteration.”

Amrit Srivastava

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Junior Software Engineer specializing in robotics simulation and machine learning

3y exp

“Undergraduate AI/robotics research assistant who built a city-scale robotics simulation stack for embodied question answering, including JSON-driven environment generation and a ROS 2 pipeline bridging Isaac Sim sensors (CV/LiDAR) to external ML/RL algorithms. Also created and deployed an open-source library workflow tool adopted across multiple local libraries, using GitHub Actions CI/CD for signed releases and automated updates.”

Nicholas Pinero

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in Unity XR/VR training simulations

Remote, USA8y exp

“Unity/C# VR developer who owned a next-gen replay/review system end-to-end, improving determinism so recorded actions (e.g., shots) replayed consistently. Also built a Jenkins-triggered GameDriver-based VR QA automation suite that ran nightly builds and cut manual QA effort by ~75%, and contributed to Photon PUN multiuser mode with hands-on network debugging.”

“Backend/platform engineer who has owned a real-time data ingestion/processing/reporting API built with FastAPI, Redis, and Celery, including performance tuning via query/index optimization, caching, and async workers. Strong Kubernetes + CI/CD + GitOps (ArgoCD) experience, plus hands-on monitoring/logging (Prometheus/Grafana/ELK) and a Kafka/Spark real-time streaming project from their master’s program.”

“Built and shipped a production RAG system (“TROJAN KNOWLEDGE”) for answering questions over technical PDFs, using a 3-stage retrieval stack (BM25 + FAISS + cross-encoder) to lift F1 from 71% to 84%. Drove major performance gains with a 3-level cache (memory/Redis/disk) cutting latency from ~200ms to ~10ms, and added Prometheus/Grafana monitoring plus LangChain-based fallback logic to handle OpenAI rate limits under load.”

“Infrastructure/platform engineer with end-to-end ownership across Kubernetes and VMware/vSphere, emphasizing automation (Terraform/Ansible), phased upgrades, and reliability validation via testing/failover/monitoring. Has operated hybrid on-prem VMware to AWS environments with VPN/Direct Connect, BGP routing, and security controls, including resolving production connectivity instability and adding redundancy.”

Preethi Bandari

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in scalable web applications

Memphis, TN5y exp

“Developer who uses AI tools pragmatically to accelerate coding while keeping full ownership of system design and decision-making. Emphasizes rigorous review, testing, and alignment with architecture, security, and performance standards, and stays current on AI through both industry sources and hands-on experimentation.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who has built AI-powered analytics products from 0→1, including a predictive analytics dashboard and an AI orchestrator for natural-language-to-database querying. Particularly strong in making LLM systems production-safe through schema validation, self-healing retries, monitoring, and retrieval optimization, with quantified impact on cost, latency, and quality.”

“Built across cloud infrastructure, AI-powered product workflows, and backend data reliability in environments including Northeastern, Knead, and Grafx. Particularly compelling for roles needing someone who can both ship AWS-based systems end-to-end and debug messy production issues involving caching, APIs, and data pipelines.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of production recommendation and GenAI systems, spanning experimentation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration. Stands out for delivering measurable outcomes—22% CTR lift, 15% conversion lift, and a 30% reduction in support tickets—while demonstrating strong judgment on latency, cost, and safety tradeoffs in real-world systems.”

“Software engineer with 2 years of professional full-stack experience plus a CS master's journey in the US, who has since focused heavily on building hackathon-winning AI systems. Stands out for combining production-minded backend architecture, TypeScript-heavy reliability work, and multi-agent LLM applications spanning physical security and insurance claims automation.”

“Frontend engineer/lead who has owned end-to-end architecture for large customer-facing React/Next.js platforms, emphasizing strong API contracts (GraphQL + TypeScript codegen), automated quality guardrails, and performance as a feature. Built complex workflow UIs including a multi-step patient booking flow for New York’s largest healthcare provider and an admin dashboard handling 400,000+ USDA ingredient records, with disciplined state management, staged rollouts, and real-user monitoring.”

Kris Wen

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AdTech and AI-enabled web engineering

San Francisco Bay Area, CA4y exp

“Software engineer at American Express who built a zero-to-one first-party cookie tracking architecture as the industry moved away from third-party cookies, combining frontend, backend, CI/CD, and AI-assisted QA automation. Particularly strong in developer tooling and workflow automation, with measurable impact including 70% less manual QA, 8+ critical errors caught pre-production, and PR cycles reduced from 48 hours to under 8.”

Phanindra Satya Tharun Gunturi

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Mid-level DevOps/SRE Engineer specializing in cloud CI/CD, IaC, and Kubernetes

Nashville, TN5y exp

“Infrastructure engineer with deep production IBM Power/AIX experience (AIX 7.2/7.3, HMC, dual VIOS, PowerHA) supporting ~25–30 LPARs and handling live DLPAR tuning, HA failovers, and Power7→Power9 migrations. Also builds modern cloud delivery platforms—Azure DevOps CI/CD deploying Dockerized microservices to Kubernetes with Terraform-managed AWS infrastructure, strong controls around secrets, drift, and safe rollouts.”

“Backend/platform engineer in healthcare and consulting (Molina Healthcare, TCS) who productionized real-time eligibility/authorization and care navigation workflows with strong reliability and HIPAA security. Demonstrated measurable performance gains (≈40% latency reduction, ~99% uptime) using Spring Boot APIs, SQS decoupling, Redis caching, and deep observability, and regularly leads technical demos that accelerate client adoption.”

“AI/LLM engineer with healthcare domain experience who built a production clinical support “chart bot” for Molina, including PHI-safe ingestion of 200k+ PDF policies, vector retrieval, and a fine-tuned LLaMA served via vLLM on ECS Fargate. Demonstrated measurable performance wins (HNSW + namespace partitioning; 30% inference latency reduction) and a rigorous evaluation/monitoring approach, while partnering closely with nurses and operations teams to shape workflows and guardrails.”

“LLM/agent production specialist with strong customer-facing and pre-sales chops: turns demo-grade prototypes into reliable, compliant deployments using RAG tuning, guardrails, evals in CI, and observability with staged rollouts/rollback. Known for engineering-first workshops (including live break-and-fix on retrieval misses, tool timeouts, and prompt injection) that win over skeptical senior developers and drive adoption.”

Siva Pothuru

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Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, MLOps, and cloud-native ML

San Antonio, TX5y exp

“LLM/agent engineer at USAA who built a production GPT-4o RAG conversational assistant for financial analysts, focused on regulatory interpretation and internal documentation search. Emphasizes compliance-grade reliability with strict grounding, safe fallbacks, and full auditability via MLflow/DVC plus human-in-the-loop review; reports ~45% reduction in ticket resolution time.”

“Backend-heavy engineer with deep experience building enterprise and real-time systems across healthcare, operations monitoring, e-commerce, and 911 call center domains. He has led and personally coded greenfield and customer-facing platforms, including cloud/on-prem integrations, custom workflow tooling, and microservices architectures, while now independently upskilling into modern TypeScript/React-based frontend technologies.”