Vetted Hugging Face Professionals

“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.”

“Built a production SQL chatbot for access-log analytics that replaced manual custom report requests with natural-language querying, using LangGraph and a ChromaDB-backed RAG pipeline for grounded, consistent answers. Implemented a privacy-preserving design where the LLM never sees raw customer data (only query metadata) and has experience building multi-agent/tool-calling systems with LangGraph (DeepAgents), including solving sub-agent communication drift via self-reflection.”

“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.”

“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.”

“University hackathon finalist (2nd place) who built CareerSpark, a production-style multi-agent career guidance app in 24 hours using a hierarchical debate architecture with a moderator/judge agent. Has startup internship experience at LiveSpheres AI using LangChain for multi-LLM orchestration, and demonstrates a structured approach to testing/evaluation (golden sets, integration sims, latency/accuracy KPIs) plus strong non-technical stakeholder communication.”

“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.”

“Robotics engineer with hands-on experience scaling a multi-vendor heterogeneous warehouse robot fleet, building a distributed “traffic manager” for collision avoidance and real-time rerouting using CBS/MAPF and DCOP-style negotiation. Strong real-time/safety-critical systems background (RTOS, deterministic lock-free multithreading) plus modern perception and simulation tooling (CNN-LSTM/transformers, CARLA/Isaac Sim, VIO/GTSAM, camera-IMU calibration). Startup-oriented and comfortable moving quickly from prototype to production.”

“Full-stack engineer who shipped a production "Financial Insight" assistant dashboard in Next.js App Router/TypeScript, integrating a RAG pipeline (embeddings + ChromaDB + LLM) via route handlers and owning post-launch performance (latency, token cost, retrieval relevance). Also built/optimized Postgres-backed workflows for an outbound dialer and callback routing engine handling ~10,000 daily contacts, validating query performance with EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS).”

Asvad Shaik

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI, RAG, and NLP

Dallas, TX5y exp

“Backend engineer who built and migrated a large-scale document intelligence platform used by legal, healthcare, and insurance clients, processing millions of pages. Experienced moving from a monolithic, LLM-heavy approach to a modular FastAPI service architecture with ML classification + RAG, strong validation/auditability, and enterprise security (JWT/OAuth, RBAC, PostgreSQL RLS) with zero-downtime incremental rollouts.”

“Healthcare AI engineer with hands-on ownership of production ML and LLM systems at McKesson, spanning clinical risk prediction and RAG-based documentation tools. Stands out for combining deep clinical-data experience, HIPAA-aware deployment practices, and measurable impact through reduced readmissions, clinician workflow gains, and 20% to 30% faster ML delivery for engineering teams.”

Devang Borkar

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in LLM agents and evaluation systems

California, USA4y exp

“Built an end-to-end Python integration for an emotion-aware presentation feedback system that processed uploaded or live video and analyzed facial emotion, tone, and gestures. Also has Playwright automation experience in a loan management workflow, with emphasis on reliability, observability, security, and iterative delivery under ambiguous requirements.”

“ML engineer at CGI who built demand forecasting models end-to-end, from feature engineering and training through AWS deployment. Stands out for a production-first mindset and strong skepticism of AI-generated code, including catching a Copilot-generated SQL query that would have caused a costly full table scan in production.”

“Robotics software/ML engineer who built perception and navigation-related ML systems for autonomous supermarket carts, including object detection, shelf recognition, and obstacle avoidance. Strong ROS/ROS2 practitioner who optimized real-time performance (reported 50% latency reduction) and deployed containerized ROS/ML pipelines at scale using Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD.”

“Backend/data platform engineer who owned end-to-end production services for a fleet analytics/GenAI platform, spanning FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes and AWS (EKS + Lambda) event-driven workloads. Strong in reliability/observability (OpenTelemetry, circuit breakers, idempotency), data pipelines (Glue/Airflow/Snowflake), and measurable performance/cost wins (SQL 10s to <800ms P95; ~30% compute cost reduction).”

“AI/LLM practitioner at iFrog Marketing Solutions who drove a RAG chatbot from prototype to production in a legacy, AI-resistant environment by validating customer needs and building a business case. Implemented production-grade LLM practices (CI/CD eval gating, rollbacks, prompt/context engineering) and led internal workshops to bring non-AI-native developers up to speed while partnering with sales on tailored demos to drive adoption.”

“GenAI engineer who has deployed production LLM/RAG chatbots for internal document search, focusing on reliability (hallucination reduction via prompt guardrails + retrieval filtering) and performance (latency improvements via caching). Experienced with LangChain/LangGraph orchestration for multi-step agent workflows and iterates using monitoring/logs and benchmark-driven evaluation while partnering closely with product and business teams.”

“GenAI/ML engineer with production experience at Cognizant and Ally Financial, building end-to-end LLM/RAG systems and ML pipelines. Delivered a domain chatbot trained from 90k tickets and 45k docs, improving intent accuracy (65%→83%), scaling to 800+ concurrent users with 99.2% uptime and sub-150ms latency, and driving +14% customer satisfaction. Strong in Azure ML + DevOps CI/CD, Dockerized deployments, and explainable/PII-safe modeling using SHAP/LIME to satisfy stakeholder trust and GDPR needs.”

“Robotics software engineer who built the software layer for an autonomous warehouse sorting system, spanning navigation/path planning, task scheduling, and backend services. Deep hands-on ROS 2 Foxy experience (Nav2/costmaps) and real-time multi-robot debugging, using simulation-driven analysis plus incremental/partial re-planning to handle dynamic obstacles in production-like warehouse environments.”

“Built and productionized an agentic LLM workflow during a summer internship to transform unstructured clinical reports into analytics-ready structured data, using a LangChain multi-agent design plus an LLM-as-a-judge layer to control quality in a regulated setting. Also has experience orchestrating ML pipelines at Piramal Capital using AWS Step Functions/EventBridge/CloudWatch, with strong emphasis on observability, evaluation rigor, and measurable impact (80–90% reduction in manual data entry).”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who ships AI-enabled products end-to-end: built CodeChat, a production internal codebase Q&A tool using RAG with Pinecone and a model-agnostic wrapper across OpenAI/Anthropic/AWS Bedrock, cutting AWS costs ~50% and latency ~45%. Also built and operated RealityStream, a Flask-based real-time forecasting API with JWT/RBAC, MLflow model versioning, and Prometheus/Grafana observability, including handling a real production latency incident via rollback, preloading, and caching.”

Muaaz Syed

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in NLP and conversational AI

Richardson, TX4y exp

“ML/NLP engineer focused on real-time IT ops analytics, building a predictive maintenance/anomaly detection platform end-to-end (multi-source ETL, streaming, modeling, and production deployment on GCP/Vertex AI). Uses deep learning (LSTMs, autoencoders/VAEs) plus embeddings (SentenceBERT) and vector search to improve incident correlation and search, citing ~40% reduction in duplicate alert noise.”