Vetted Hugging Face Transformers Professionals

“ML/computer-vision practitioner who shipped a CycleGAN-based bilingual handwriting translation demo (English↔Telugu) for low-resource scripts using unpaired datasets, focusing on preserving handwriting style and real-time deployment via Gradio. Also delivered a medical imaging pipeline by fine-tuning ResNet-50 and ViT-B/16 for pneumonia detection, emphasizing reproducibility, measurable evaluation, and stakeholder-friendly iteration.”

“Built a production-style LLM document summarization/generation workflow that mitigates token limits and reduces hallucinations using semantic chunking, FAISS-based embedding retrieval (top-k via cosine similarity), and section-wise generation. Orchestrated the end-to-end pipeline with AWS Step Functions and aligned outputs with sales stakeholders through demos, visuals, and documentation.”

“LLM/RAG practitioner who has taken a support-ticket triage automation system from prototype to production, building the full pipeline (fine-tuned models, FastAPI inference services, vector storage, monitoring) and delivering measurable impact (~40% reduction in triage time). Demonstrates strong operational troubleshooting of LLM/agentic workflows (observability-driven debugging, fixing agent routing/looping) and supports adoption through tailored demos and sales-aligned technical communication.”

“Applied AI/ML engineer with hands-on production experience building a RAG-based AI assistant for pharmaceutical maintenance troubleshooting using LangChain + FAISS/Pinecone, including a custom normalization layer to handle inconsistent terminology and duplicate document revisions. Also built Airflow-orchestrated pipelines for document ingestion/embeddings and predictive maintenance workflows (SCADA ETL, drift-based retraining), and partnered closely with production supervisors/quality engineers via Power BI dashboards and real-time alerts.”

“LLM/RAG engineer who has built and shipped production assistants, including a RAG-based teaching assistant (Marvel AI) using LangChain/LlamaIndex/ChromaDB with OpenAI embeddings and Redis vector search, achieving ~30% accuracy gains and ~35% latency reduction. Also deployed FastAPI services on Google Cloud Run with observability and prompt-level monitoring, and partnered with non-technical ops stakeholders to deliver an internal policy-document RAG assistant.”

Sonam Chhatani

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in causal inference and LLM research

New York, USA8y exp

“LLM engineer who has deployed a production system combining LLMs with causal inference (DoWhy) to enable counterfactual “what-if” analysis for experimental research, including a robust variable-mapping/validation layer to reduce hallucinations. Also partnered with non-technical operations leadership at Irriion Technologies to deliver an AI-assisted onboarding workflow that cut onboarding time by 50% and reduced manual errors by ~40%.”

Hari Krishna Kona

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and LLM-powered NLP

Boston, MA3y exp

“LLM/AI engineer who built a production automated document-understanding pipeline on Azure using a grounded RAG layer, designed to reduce manual review time for unstructured financial documents. Demonstrates strong real-world scaling and reliability practices (Service Bus queueing, Kubernetes autoscaling, observability, retries/circuit breakers) plus rigorous evaluation (shadow testing, replaying traffic, multilingual edge-case suites) and stakeholder-friendly, evidence-based explainability.”

Jai Vilatkar

Screened

Junior AI/ML Developer specializing in GenAI, LLM agents, and RAG systems

Pune, India2y exp

“Built and shipped an agentic RAG chatbot module for NexaCLM to answer questions across large volumes of contracts while minimizing hallucinations and incorrect legal interpretations. Implemented routing between vector retrieval and ReAct-style agent retrieval plus an automated grading/validation layer (cosine-similarity thresholds, retries) and deployed via GitHub Actions to Azure Container Apps, partnering closely with legal stakeholders to define risk/clause-focused objectives.”

Srinivasan Gomadam Ramesh

Screened

Mid-level AI/Data Engineer specializing in agentic AI and data platforms

Redmond, WA7y exp

“AI/LLM engineer who built a production resume-parsing and candidate-matching platform at Quadrant Technologies, combining agentic LangChain workflows, VLM-based document template extraction (~85% accuracy), and a hybrid RAG backend for resume-to-JD search. Notably integrated automated LLM evals and metric-based CI/CD quality gates to catch silent prompt/model regressions, and led a 3-person team across frontend/backend/testing.”

“Healthcare-focused ML/LLM engineer who built a production hybrid RAG workflow to automate prior authorization by retrieving from medical guidelines/historical cases (FAISS) and generating grounded rationales for clinicians. Strong in operationalizing ML with Airflow/Kubeflow/MLflow on SageMaker, optimizing latency (ONNX/quantization/async), and reducing hallucinations via evidence-only prompting; also partnered closely with clinical ops to deploy a readmission prediction tool used in daily rounds.”

Vikram Sandigaru

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in AI agents, RAG pipelines, and LLM evaluation

Boston, US3y exp

“Built and shipped production LLM systems at Founderbay, including a low-latency voice agent and a graph-based multi-agent research assistant. Strong focus on reliability in real workflows—hybrid SERP + full-site scraping RAG, grounding guardrails, validation checkpoints, and transcript-driven evaluation—plus performance tuning with async FastAPI, Redis caching, and containerization. Also partnered with a non-technical ops lead to automate post-call follow-ups via call summarization, field extraction, and tool-triggered actions.”

Nagendra Reddy Palugulla

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and MLOps

Florida, United States4y exp

“Built and shipped a production real-time content moderation platform for Zoom/WebEx-style meetings, combining Whisper speech-to-text with fast NLP classifiers and REST APIs to flag hate speech, bias, and HIPAA-related content under strict latency constraints. Demonstrates strong MLOps/infra depth (Airflow, Kubernetes, Terraform/Helm, observability) and a pragmatic approach to reducing false positives via threshold tuning, context validation, and hard-negative data—while partnering closely with compliance and product stakeholders.”

Yash Amre

Screened

Intern Data Scientist specializing in machine learning and NLP

California, USA1y exp

“Analytics-focused early-career candidate with internship experience owning reporting and system performance analysis projects end to end. They combine SQL data preparation, Python automation, and dashboard delivery with measurable impact, including roughly 50% less manual reporting and about 20% better forecast accuracy.”

“Backend-focused engineer with experience at Ramp, Easebuzz, and George Mason University, spanning data pipelines, workflow automation, and production reliability. Stands out for quantifiable performance gains, strong debugging instincts in distributed job systems, and translating ambiguous finance operations processes into measurable automation outcomes.”

Abhishek Ghaisas

Screened

Intern-level Data Scientist specializing in AI and full-stack applications

Pune, India1y exp

“Engineer with hands-on experience building production ML and Python backend systems, including a real-time social media monitoring pipeline handling 1000+ events per second and a prototype AI operations assistant for Seattle-Tacoma Airport. Stands out for combining reliability engineering, automation, and LLM/NLP-to-SQL work, with measurable impact such as improving uptime from 92% to 99.4%.”

“Built and deployed an LLM-to-SQL automation system in a closed/internal environment, using a retriever–reranker–validator architecture on Kubernetes with strong security controls (semantic + rule-based validation and RBAC), achieving 99% uptime and cutting manual query time ~40%. Also worked on genomic sequence classification and semantic search workflows, orchestrating data prep with Airflow, tracking/deploying with MLflow, and optimizing distributed multi-GPU training on a university Kubernetes cluster.”

“At Provenbase, built and shipped a production LLM-powered semantic search and candidate matching platform (RAG with GPT-4/Gemini, multi-agent orchestration, Elasticsearch vector search) to scale sourcing across 10M+ candidate records and 1000+ data sources. Drove sub-second performance, cut LLM spend 30% with routing/caching, and improved recruiting outcomes (+45% sourcing accuracy; +38% visibility of underrepresented talent) through bias-aware ranking and tight collaboration with recruiting stakeholders.”

“Robotics/AV-focused candidate who contributed to an F1TENTH autonomous vehicle college project, building key autonomy components from raw sensor data to driving commands. Strong in perception and state estimation (visual odometry, particle-filter localization), plus mapping (occupancy grids) and planning/control (RRT, Gap Follow, PID), with hands-on ROS tooling and simulation validation in Gazebo/RViz and ROS environment containerization using Docker.”

Krishna K

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in multimodal systems and LLMs

Jersey City, NJ2y exp

“Built and productionized a domain-specific LLM-powered RAG knowledge assistant at JerseyStem for answering questions over large internal document corpora, owning the full stack from FAISS retrieval and LoRA/QLoRA fine-tuning to AWS autoscaling GPU deployment. Drove measurable gains (28% accuracy lift, 25% latency reduction) and improved reliability through hybrid retrieval, grounded decoding, preference-model reranking, and Airflow-orchestrated pipelines (35% faster runtime), while partnering closely with non-technical stakeholders to define success metrics and ensure adoption.”

Lakshmi Meghana

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in production ML, MLOps, and NLP

Bristol, PA4y exp

“Built and deployed a transformer-based clinical document classification system that processes unstructured clinical notes in a HIPAA-compliant healthcare setting, served via FastAPI on AWS and integrated into an Airflow/S3 pipeline. Demonstrates strong end-to-end MLOps skills (data quality remediation, low-latency inference optimization, monitoring with MLflow/CloudWatch) and effective collaboration with clinicians to drive adoption.”

Aneri Patel

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLM fine-tuning and semantic retrieval

Washington, D.C.2y exp

“Backend engineer with legal-tech and AI workflow experience: built JurisAI, an end-to-end legal research system using OCR + embeddings + Pinecone vector search to deliver citation-grounded LLM answers with safe failure modes (~90% recall@K). Also led a GW Law metadata migration into Caspio with batch validation and parallel rollout, and has strong FastAPI/GCP production reliability and observability practices.”