Vetted Hugging Face Professionals

“Backend engineer with strong AWS/CI/CD experience (multi-repo deployments, Lambda + core app, immutable ECR and image promotion) and a published master’s thesis building an ML framework for Solar PV energy prediction and CO2 reduction impact modeling using ensemble and meta-learning approaches benchmarked against SAM.”

“Software engineer with experience building a Vue.js/TypeScript internal component library (with Jest testing standards) and improving JS runtime performance via profiling, code splitting, and lazy loading. Also led documentation and community support for a Python ML utility library, diagnosing metric-calculation bugs for imbalanced datasets and driving large reductions in support inquiries through targeted docs, tests, and rapid hotfixes in a startup environment.”

“Research-focused AI engineer who built an agentic pipeline to automatically extract Sphinx-based API documentation/changelogs and generate synthetic tasks for a dynamic LLM code benchmark targeting real-world API evolution and deprecations. Experienced with multi-agent orchestration (AutoGen, LangChain, CrewAI) and rigorous evaluation methods, and has prior multi-agent work from a Microsoft Research internship.”

“Red Hat ML/LLM engineer who designed and deployed a production LLM-powered customer support automation system using RAG, improving latency by 30% via PEFT and vector search optimization. Built security and governance into retrieval (access-level filtering, encrypted Pinecone/ChromaDB) and delivered SHAP-based explainability via a dashboard for non-technical stakeholders. Experienced orchestrating distributed ML/RAG pipelines across AWS SageMaker and OpenShift with Airflow/Prefect, plus multi-agent workflows using CrewAI and LangGraph.”

“Data engineer with experience at Sony and Walmart building high-volume, near-real-time analytics and ingestion systems. Has owned end-to-end pipelines from Kafka/Spark streaming through S3/Parquet and Redshift/Looker, emphasizing data quality (Great Expectations), observability (CloudWatch/Azure Monitor), and reliability (Airflow SLAs, retries, checkpointing), including measurable performance and latency improvements.”

Abhinav Gupta

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs and applied data science

2y exp

“Built and shipped multiple production AI systems, including Auto DocGen (LLM-generated OpenAPI docs kept in sync via AST diffs, schema-constrained generation, and CI/CD on Render) and a multimodal sign-language recognition pipeline at USC orchestrated with FastAPI, MediaPipe, and PyTorch. Also partnered with Esri’s non-technical community team to fine-tune an LLaMA-based spam classifier with a review UI, cutting moderation time by 70%.”

Nikhil Soni

Screened

Junior AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM systems and retrieval-augmented generation

New York, NY2y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered market intelligence and decision-support platform for noisy, real-time financial data, using a high-throughput embedding + vector DB RAG architecture to reduce hallucinations while keeping latency and cost low. Operated it at scale with GPU-backed inference (continuous batching/quantization), FastAPI on Kubernetes, and Airflow-orchestrated ingestion/embedding/retraining workflows, with strong schema-based reliability and monitoring.”

Karan Variyambat

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer/Researcher specializing in computer vision and multimodal AI

San Diego, CA3y exp

“Developed a production wildfire smoke detection system where smoke is visually subtle and easily confused with fog/clouds; addressed this with a hybrid CNN+LSTM+ViT model and multimodal weather features to reduce false positives. Experienced running scalable, reproducible ML pipelines on shared GPU infrastructure using Slurm and Kubernetes-style batch jobs with checkpointing, retries, and rigorous error analysis.”

“Early-career candidate with a thoughtful, engineering-first approach to AI-assisted development: they use AI to accelerate implementation while retaining human ownership of architecture and final code quality. They recently built a speech-to-text workflow using Groq Whisper and showed practical judgment by designing around imperfect transcription accuracy with checks and fallback handling.”

“Backend/platform engineer who has built and run production Python/Flask + Kafka microservices processing RFID and camera/RFID fusion streams for near-real-time retail cart updates at ~4–5M events/day. Strong in reliability/performance debugging (p99 latency, Kafka lag, Cosmos DB RU hot partitions) with measurable impact including ~30% database cost reduction, and has also shipped an end-to-end vulnerability scanning workflow with DynamoDB-backed state, idempotency, and robust retry/verification guardrails.”

“AI/LLM engineer with production experience at Charles Schwab building a RAG-based assistant to help 5,000+ reps answer complex financial policy questions. Implemented a multi-layer anti-hallucination approach (GNN-driven ontology/graph retrieval + citation-only answers) and compliance-focused guardrails (Azure AI Content Safety) in partnership with audit/compliance stakeholders.”

“Built an LLM multi-agent “ingredient safety” analyzer for cosmetics that cuts consumer research time from ~20+ minutes to minutes, using LangGraph orchestration, hybrid retrieval (Qdrant + Tavily), and safety-focused critic validation (false rejections reduced ~30%→~8%). Also has research-internship experience building computer-vision pipelines to classify emerald color/clarity by translating gem-expert heuristics into quantitative model features.”

“Backend engineer who built and owned an AI-powered SMS survey platform for a nonprofit serving at-risk communities (internet-limited users), using Cloudflare Workers + Twilio and a state-machine survey engine. Scaled it to ~10k active users with near-zero downtime, added English/Spanish support, and iteratively improved LLM behavior (Claude 3.7 Sonnet) to handle nuanced, real-world SMS responses reliably.”

“Data/ML practitioner with experience applying NLP and classical ML to large-scale customer data (2B+ records) for segmentation, prediction, and survey-text classification, delivering measurable business impact (~18% engagement efficiency). Has hands-on entity resolution across multi-source datasets and has built embedding-based semantic search using SentenceBERT + a vector database with domain fine-tuning (~20% relevance improvement), plus production workflow experience with Spark/Airflow and cloud tooling (AWS/Azure).”

“ML/AI engineer with production experience across retail and healthcare: built a real-time computer-vision shelf monitoring system at Walmart and optimized edge inference latency by ~30% using TensorRT/ONNX and pruning. Also partnered with CVS Health clinical/pharmacy teams to deliver a medication-adherence predictive model, using Streamlit explainability dashboards and achieving an 18% adherence improvement.”

Wei Jiang

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in MLOps and statistical modeling

Greenwood, SC3y exp

“Integration engineer at ES Foundry who led deployment of ELsentinel, a production EL image-based solar cell quality monitoring system using a Swin Transformer classifier (>0.8 F1 across 15+ classes) plus a live real-time prediction dashboard. Strong in solving messy labeling/data-quality problems with process-team collaboration and shipping ML systems despite limited compute/infrastructure.”

Vaibhav Sharma

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and data platforms

Remote, USA5y exp

“AI/ML engineer who built a production agentic system to automate computational research experiments (simulation execution, parameter exploration, and numerical analysis) and mitigated context-window failures using constrained tool-calling/prompt-chaining patterns in LangChain with OpenAI tool-enabled models. Also has adtech/big-data pipeline experience at InMobi, orchestrating Spark jobs in Airflow to filter bot-like user IDs and publish clean IDs to an online NoSQL store for live serving, plus Apache open-source collaboration experience.”

Utkarsh Mittal

Screened

Intern Data Scientist specializing in computer vision and LLM agents

Sunnyvale, CA0y exp

“Software engineering candidate with hands-on experience building and shipping LLM agents: created a production AI enrichment/coding agent at Covalent Metrology using Apollo.io + OpenAI, and built a Mistral hackathon router that dynamically selects among models to reduce token cost while maintaining quality. Also developed a real-time financial margin analysis agent that emails actionable insights and iterated on reliability issues (e.g., fixing misrouted emails, improving news relevance filtering).”

Suloni Praveen

Screened

Entry-Level Software Engineer specializing in data engineering and ML systems

Los Angeles, CA0y exp

“Built an end-to-end Next.js/TypeScript LLM-based scientific PDF analyzer using local Ollama/Llama inference to prioritize privacy and cost, producing structured research artifacts (e.g., authors/methods/findings) with ~92% extraction accuracy. At Qualtrics, helped replace a batch pipeline with a real-time, low-latency ML inference service (Python/Go on Kubernetes) using Redis caching, Grafana-based observability, and graceful fallbacks to protect UX during failures.”

Atharva Bhide

Screened

Entry Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and multimodal systems

Los Angeles, CA1y exp

“Built and shipped a production healthcare AI platform for a clinic in Brea, LA that combined LLM-based clinical report generation, voice agents for appointment workflows, and camera-based patient monitoring. Stands out for pairing multimodal AI architecture with production-grade reliability and compliance practices, while delivering concrete business results including 90% workflow automation, 200 hours saved per month, and a 60% improvement in customer retention.”

“Early-career analytics candidate with hands-on experience in SQL/Python data pipelines, Tableau reporting, and marketing engagement analytics across internship and startup settings. Stands out for combining rigorous data quality practices with practical AI system design, including an end-to-end GPT-4 grading capstone that emphasized explainability and human oversight.”

“AI/backend engineer who has owned production applied-ML systems end to end, including a Jitsi meeting intelligence platform with custom RoBERTa boundary detection, LLM summarization, and automated retraining from user feedback. Also has healthcare AI experience building a diabetes medication titration system with strict validation, drift monitoring, and safety guardrails—showing both product speed and high-stakes engineering rigor.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer who has built AI-heavy systems spanning Next.js/TypeScript frontends, Python/FastAPI backends, queues, databases, and workflow infrastructure. Stands out for combining strong technical depth with UX instincts—improving trust in AI assistants, shipping ambiguous client features quickly, and creating reusable primitives for AI generation and analysis products.”