Vetted Hugging Face Transformers Professionals

“Backend/data engineer focused on production-grade Python services and AWS platforms: builds FastAPI microservices on EKS with strong reliability patterns, CI/CD, and observability. Also delivers AWS Glue/Redshift analytics pipelines with schema-evolution and data-quality safeguards, and has modernized legacy batch processing into maintainable services with parallel-run parity validation and feature-flagged rollouts.”

“Built and deployed a real-time hospital readmission risk prediction system at NYU Langone Health, combining structured EHR data with BERT-based NLP on clinical notes and serving predictions to clinicians via Azure ML and FHIR APIs. Emphasizes production reliability and clinical trust through SHAP-based explainability and robust healthcare data preprocessing, and reports a 22% reduction in 30-day readmissions.”

“ML engineer/data scientist who built and deployed a real-time fraud detection platform at Citi on AWS SageMaker, processing 3M+ daily transactions and improving fraud response by 28%. Combines unsupervised anomaly detection (autoencoders) with ensemble models (XGBoost/Random Forest) plus Airflow/Step Functions orchestration, drift monitoring, and explainability (SHAP) to keep models reliable and compliant in production.”

“ML engineer/data scientist who deployed a production credit risk + insurance claims triage platform at Hartford Financial, combining XGBoost default prediction with BERT-based document classification. Demonstrated strong MLOps by cutting inference latency to sub-500ms and building drift monitoring plus automated retraining/deployment pipelines (MLflow, CloudWatch, GitHub Actions, SageMaker) with human-in-the-loop review and SHAP-based explainability for underwriting adoption.”

“Robotics/perception engineer focused on production-grade, real-time systems—optimized self-supervised segmentation on Jetson Nano from ~6–10 FPS to ~20–25 FPS and scaled experimentation/deployment by unifying 15+ edge models in a modular PyTorch Lightning framework. Experienced integrating distributed LiDAR-camera fusion via gRPC/protobuf into mission planning, migrating ROS1→ROS2 Foxy for multi-drone perception, and adding Prometheus-based observability for long-running deployments.”

“Built and deployed NeuroDoc, a production-grade RAG system for PDF Q&A that delivers citation-backed answers with strong anti-hallucination guardrails. Experienced in orchestrating and scaling ML/LLM pipelines with Kubernetes, Airflow/Prefect, and PyTorch Distributed, and in building rigorous evaluation and citation-verification tooling to ensure reliability in production.”

“Software engineer with connected-car/automotive production experience who owned an end-to-end remote door lock/unlock feature and introduced unit testing (GTest) plus rig/simulator validation. Also built and productionized an AI-native AWS cloud cost assistant (Lex + GPT-based LLM + Lambda + RAG/vector DB) with guardrails and achieved 94% evaluation accuracy. Helped replace a third-party solution with an in-house build, saving the company ~€9M.”

Yashi Agarwal

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP, Generative AI, and RAG systems

Los Angeles, CA4y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered phone assistant for a healthcare clinic, combining streaming STT/TTS with RAG over approved clinic documents and strict safety guardrails to prevent unverified medical advice, plus seamless human handoff. Also has hands-on Apache Airflow experience building robust daily ML/data pipelines with data validation, retries/timeouts, monitoring, and metric-gated model deployment, and iterates closely with clinic staff using real call reviews.”

Sowmya Kasu

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in Healthcare IT and cloud-native microservices

Northridge, CA6y exp

“Backend/ML engineer with healthcare experience at Kaiser Permanente building HIPAA-compliant Java/Spring Boot + GraphQL APIs integrated with Epic HealthConnect, including hands-on reliability/performance debugging using Prometheus/Grafana and resolver-level N+1 elimination. Also built an end-to-end malaria parasite detection ML feature (CNN/R-CNN) with evaluation, guardrails, and workflow integration, and has experience designing robust state-machine-based automation with retries, DLQs, and alerting.”

Sai Bandaru

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in fraud detection and LLM systems

Boston, MA6y exp

“At FiVerity, built and deployed a production LLM/RAG-based Information Gathering Tool for credit union fraud analysts that generates auditable investigation summaries from verified evidence. Focused on high-stakes constraints—hallucination prevention, cross-entity leakage controls, compliance/PII-safe monitoring, and latency—while also shipping customer-facing agentic workflows using CrewAI and LangGraph in close partnership with fraud and compliance stakeholders.”

“Built and shipped LLM-enabled decision systems focused on real production reliability rather than chatbot demos, including a multimodal radiology retrieval platform with 28% relevance gains and 35% lower latency. Also architected a 4-agent employee analytics workflow with structured outputs, traceable orchestration, and strong safeguards for messy real-world data.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of fraud detection and investigator-assist systems, combining anomaly detection with RAG-based LLM summarization in production. Stands out for translating research ideas into reliable cloud-deployed workflows that improved precision to 92%, cut review time by 25-30%, and increased investigator throughput by roughly 30% while also building reusable Python infrastructure for team-wide velocity.”

Kevin Delong

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI, LLMs, and RAG systems

Irvine, CA12y exp

“AI/ML engineer with hands-on experience shipping production systems across fintech, travel, and legal use cases. They’ve built end-to-end chatbot, generative content, and RAG solutions on AWS with CI/CD, monitoring, and guardrails, including a loan application platform that generated $3,000 in sales in its first month.”

Abhinava Sai Tirunagari

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI, healthcare, and FinTech systems

Gainesville, FL2y exp

“Frontend-leaning software engineer who built significant parts of an AI platform at Cognura Health, translating complex document-processing and extraction workflows into usable browser interfaces for business and operations teams. Stands out for combining React/TypeScript UI ownership with backend API collaboration, performance tuning, and thoughtful UX for asynchronous AI workflows.”

“Full-stack AI engineer who built HireMate end to end using FastAPI, React, and TypeScript to automate resume-to-job matching and tailoring with LLMs. Demonstrates strong practical judgment around grounding, validation, hallucination prevention, and human-in-the-loop design, and has also shipped an early-stage multi-agent rental research workflow that processed 200-300 listings in parallel.”

“Backend/data engineer who built a production-ready multi-agent financial intelligence system (Mycroft) that orchestrates specialized AI agents to analyze real-time market data using FastAPI and Pinecone vector search. Brings strong security/reliability instincts (rate limiting, JWT/OAuth2, retries/backoff, health checks) and has caught high-impact data integrity issues in financial migrations (timezone normalization across global legacy systems).”

“Robotics/embodied-AI practitioner who built a TurtleBot3 LiDAR-fingerprint localization pipeline end-to-end (autonomous data collection + multi-head NN) achieving ~30 cm error in a 10x10 m space. Also has industry experience at Infineon building large-scale production data/AI pipelines and rapidly fixing a deployed recommendation system by correcting upstream data normalization, improving accuracy by 20%+.”

“Built a production GPT-4/LangChain/Pinecone RAG “AI Copilot” at Northern Trust to automate financial report generation and analyst Q&A over internal structured (SQL warehouse) and unstructured policy data. Focused on real-world production challenges—grounding and latency—achieving major speed gains (seconds to milliseconds) via MiniLM embedding optimization and Redis caching, and implemented rigorous testing/evaluation with MLflow-backed metrics while aligning compliance and finance stakeholders for deployment.”

“ML/AI engineer with production experience in high-scale banking fraud detection at Truist, building an end-to-end pipeline (Airflow/AWS Glue/Snowflake, PyTorch/sklearn) with automated retraining and Kubernetes-based deployment; delivered measurable gains (22% fewer false positives, 15% higher recall) and reduced manual ops ~40%. Also partnered with clinicians at Kellton to deploy an LLM system for summarizing/classifying clinical notes, improving review time and decision speed.”

“Built a production LLM-powered workflow at Frontier to extract structured signals from messy, high-volume documents and route work to the right teams, replacing a multi-day, error-prone manual process. Emphasizes production reliability with schema/consistency validation, re-prompting and deterministic fallbacks, plus async pipeline optimizations for predictable latency. Experienced with multi-agent orchestration (LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI) and AWS workflow tooling (Step Functions, SQS, Lambda), and delivered ~70% safe automation via stakeholder-driven thresholds and human review.”

“ML/NLP engineer with hands-on experience building production systems for unstructured insurance claims and customer data linking. Delivered measurable impact at scale (millions of documents), combining transformer-based NLP, vector search (FAISS/Pinecone), and human-in-the-loop validation, and has strong production workflow/observability practices (Airflow, AWS Batch, Grafana/Prometheus).”