Vetted Hugging Face Professionals

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.”

Harideep Balusa

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in FinTech risk, fraud detection, and GenAI/RAG systems

USA6y exp

“Built and productionized Azure-based LLM/RAG systems for regulatory/compliance use cases, including automating analyst research and compliance report generation across large unstructured document sets. Demonstrates strong practical depth in hallucination mitigation, hybrid retrieval tuning (BM25 + embeddings), and production MLOps (Databricks, Cognitive Search, AKS, Airflow/MLflow), plus proven ability to deliver auditable, explainable solutions with non-technical compliance teams.”

Naga Chandra mouli Thammineni

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in React and Spring Boot

Hyderabad, Telangana, India2y exp

“Software engineer who built and owned a centralized Asset Management platform at Hyundai Mobis used daily by multiple internal teams, delivering everything from UI/TypeScript React frontend to Spring Boot services, databases, deployment, and post-release support. Experienced in scaling microservices with Kafka-based async workflows, improving data consistency/real-time updates, and implementing reliability patterns like standardized API contracts, retries, DLQs, and targeted caching.”

Ojasmitha Pedirappagari

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and agentic platforms

Jersey City, NJ5y exp

“Built and shipped a production RAG-based assistant that lets parents ask natural-language questions about their child’s learning progress, using pgvector retrieval (child-id filtered) and Redis caching to hit ~180ms latency. Implemented real-world guardrails and compliance (Llama Guard, COPPA, retrieval thresholds, fallbacks) with 99.5% uptime, and ran human-in-the-loop eval loops that improved satisfaction from 3.8 to 4.2 while serving 60k+ monthly users and reducing costs significantly.”

“Founding member of Tausight, building AI systems to detect and protect PHI for healthcare organizations; helped take the company through post–Series A funding and exited after ~6 years. Drove a strategic collaboration with Intel’s OpenVINO team—becoming the first to deploy it in a real production system and improving model performance by ~30% on customer Intel-CPU machines.”

“Accenture engineer who owned an insurance e-application end-to-end and drove incremental releases that reduced recurring production issues. Also built a TypeScript/React (Next.js) + NestJS microservices platform using PostgreSQL, Redis, Stripe, and Kafka, with strong focus on decoupling, eventual consistency, and scaling consumers under load. Created a hackathon chat-based internal assistant that used live form context and documentation-grounded answers to help agents resolve customer queries during form filling.”

“Built and shipped a production RAG-based enterprise knowledge assistant to replace slow/inaccurate search across millions of documents, using LangChain orchestration with GPT-4/LLaMA and vector databases. Strong focus on production constraints—latency, hallucination control, and cost—using hybrid retrieval, guardrails, LLM-as-judge validation, and model routing, and has experience translating non-technical stakeholder pain points into measurable outcomes.”

“BNY Mellon engineer who has built and operated production AI systems end-to-end: a LangChain/Pinecone RAG platform scaled via FastAPI + Kubernetes to 1000 RPM with 99.9% uptime, supported by monitoring and data-drift detection. Also deep in data/infra orchestration (Airflow, Dagster, Terraform on AWS/EMR/EC2), processing 500GB+ daily and delivering measurable reliability and performance gains, plus strong compliance-facing model explainability using SHAP and Tableau.”

“LLM/agentic workflow engineer with healthcare domain experience who built a HIPAA-compliant multi-agent RAG system for clinical review automation at UnitedHealth Group, achieving 92% precision and cutting latency 40% through async orchestration and Redis semantic caching. Also has strong data engineering orchestration background (Airflow on AWS EMR with Great Expectations) and a proven clinician-in-the-loop feedback process that improved model faithfulness by 18%.”

“Built and led deployment of an autonomous, self-correcting multi-agent knowledge retrieval and validation system at HCA Healthcare to reduce heavy manual research/validation in clinical/compliance documentation. Deeply focused on production reliability and cost—used LangGraph StateGraph orchestration plus ONNX/CUDA/quantization to cut GPU costs by 25%, and partnered with the Compliance VP using real-time contradiction-rate dashboards to hit a 40% automation goal without compromising compliance.”

Somil Shah

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in generative AI, RAG platforms, and LLM agents

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped 10+ production applications, including InvestIQ on GCP—a production-grade RAG due-diligence engine that ethically scrapes web/PDF sources, builds a ChromaDB knowledge base, and delivers analyst-style dashboards plus a citation-backed chat copilot. Deep focus on reliability (evidence-only answers, hard citations, refusal gating), retrieval tuning, and orchestration (Airflow/Cloud Composer), plus multi-agent systems (CrewAI with 7 specialized finance agents).”

Daniel Berhane Araya

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in production-grade LLM systems for regulated finance

Fairfax, VA9y exp

“AI/LLM engineer with published work who built FinVet, a production financial misinformation detection system using multi-pipeline RAG, confidence-based voting, and evidence-backed outputs (F1 0.85, +37% vs baseline). Also built NexusForest-MCP, a Dockerized Model Context Protocol server exposing structured global deforestation/carbon data via SQL tools for reliable LLM tool use. Previously delivered borrower risk-rating (PD) models at BMO Financial Group that were validated and integrated into an enterprise credit system through close collaboration with credit officers and portfolio managers.”

Archana yaramala

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in deep learning, MLOps, and LLM applications

NY, USA4y exp

“Built and deployed production LLM assistants for internal Q&A and customer-feedback summarization, emphasizing reliability (RAG, prompt tuning, validation/whitelisting) and privacy safeguards. Improved adoption by adding explainable outputs and a user feedback mechanism, and has hands-on orchestration experience with Aflow and Azure Logic Apps.”

“Analytics-focused candidate with internship and project experience at Recotap and CoUnderscore, combining SQL, Python, and BI dashboards to turn messy marketing and engagement data into decision-ready reporting. Stands out for tying analytics work to business outcomes, including ~15% CTR improvement, identifying ~40% misattributed spend, and enabling a ~$75K budget shift through better targeting.”

“Research-heavy ML/AI candidate with a PhD/publications background who translated LLM evaluation and clinical summarization techniques into production at ModMed. They owned an end-to-end healthcare GenAI pipeline that cut clinician documentation time from ~22 minutes to ~7-8 minutes, reduced token costs by ~30%, and built an internal evaluation framework later adopted by multiple teams.”

“Software engineer currently building AI-powered backend systems for interview analysis, with end-to-end ownership of an LLM-based monitoring platform. Stands out for combining practical product delivery in an ambiguous early-stage environment with measurable impact: over 40% reduction in manual review effort and roughly 20% lower inference cost.”

“AI/LLM engineer who built a production intelligent support system using RAG over a vectorized documentation library, addressing real-world issues like lost-in-the-middle context failures and doc freshness via automated GitHub-driven re-embedding pipelines. Emphasizes rigorous agent evaluation (component/E2E/ops) and prefers lightweight, decoupled workflow automation using message brokers (Redis/RabbitMQ) over heavyweight orchestration frameworks.”

“Healthcare-focused LLM engineer who deployed a production triage and clinical knowledge retrieval assistant using RAG and LangGraph-orchestrated multi-agent workflows. Emphasizes clinical safety and compliance with robust hallucination controls, HIPAA/PHI protections (tokenization, encryption, audit logging, zero-retention), and human-in-the-loop escalation; reports a 75% latency reduction in a healthcare agent system.”

“Has production deployment experience delivering computer-vision systems on AWS (Docker + S3) including a GDPR-focused face/license-plate obfuscation pipeline and a semantic-segmentation project aimed at reducing annotation time. Worked closely with DevOps and frontend teams and partnered with CEO/CMO to present an AI-driven annotation workflow to non-technical VC stakeholders.”

“Machine Learning Intern at Docsumo who delivered a customer-facing fraud-detection solution end-to-end: rebuilt the pipeline, deployed a Random Forest model, and shipped a Python/Flask microservice on AWS SageMaker. Drove measurable production impact (precision +30%, processing time cut in half, manual review -60%, customer satisfaction +15%) and demonstrated strong customer integration and live-incident response skills.”

“AI/ML engineer with forensic analytics and healthcare claims experience (Optum), building production LLM/RAG systems to surface context-driven fraud patterns from unstructured claim notes and explain risk to investigators. Strong in large-scale retrieval performance tuning, legacy API integration with reliability patterns (SQS, circuit breakers), and MLOps orchestration on Airflow/Kubernetes with rigorous testing, monitoring, and stakeholder-friendly interpretability.”

“Built and deployed an LLM-powered financial/regulatory document analysis platform at State Street, combining fine-tuned transformer models with a RAG pipeline over internal knowledge bases. Owned the productionization stack (FastAPI, Docker, SageMaker, Terraform, CI/CD) plus monitoring for drift/latency/hallucinations, delivering ~40% faster analyst review and improved reliability through chunking/embeddings and grounding.”

“Built a production multimodal LLM-based vendor risk assessment platform that ingests SOC reports and other documents, uses a strict RAG pipeline with grounded evidence (page/paragraph citations), and dramatically reduces analyst review time. Experienced with LangGraph/LangChain/AutoGen for stateful, fault-tolerant agent workflows, and emphasizes reliability (schema validation, guardrails) plus low-latency delivery (~1–2s) through hybrid retrieval, reranking, caching, and model tiering.”

“Accenture consultant who shipped an LLM-based production solution during a client cloud migration to parse application code and identify only the database objects actually used, cutting migration time by 30% and accelerating realization of cloud cost benefits. Emphasizes production robustness with timeouts/retries/fallback routing, validation, observability, and a disciplined eval/monitoring loop that turns failures into regression tests.”