Vetted Hugging Face Professionals

“Developed and deployed CaptionFace, a production vision-language system that boosts low-resolution/surveillance face recognition by generating discriminative natural-language captions (ViT encoder + GPT-2 decoder) and enabling text-to-face retrieval and zero-shot recognition. Orchestrated distributed training on Kubernetes with MLflow tracking, mixed-precision optimization, and comprehensive evaluation including out-of-domain robustness; collaborated with non-technical NSF project stakeholders via demos, visualization, and clear documentation.”

“AI engineer who shipped a production KYC facial liveness/recognition pipeline (10k+ monthly verifications), including an on-prem, GPU-hosted Qwen3-VL vision-language fallback to detect spoofing/replay attacks. Also helped build a deterministic multi-agent orchestration layer powering a marketplace with Solana on-chain payments, abstracting blockchain complexity behind an API, and has experience translating real-world needs from non-technical stakeholders (construction) into practical document-reading solutions.”

“Backend engineer who built an Emergency Alert System with Virginia Tech for the City of Alexandria, focusing on real-time ingestion, secure dashboards, and AI-assisted prioritization. Emphasizes high-stakes reliability with guardrails (hybrid rules+LLM, confidence-based fallbacks), scalable async processing, and defense-in-depth security (JWT/RBAC plus database row-level security).”

“Backend/AI engineer who has shipped production LLM systems end-to-end, including an AI request-routing service (FastAPI + BART MNLI + OpenAI/Gemini) that improved accuracy ~25% after launch via eval-driven prompt/category iteration. Also built an enterprise document intelligence/RAG platform on Azure (Blob/SharePoint/Teams ingestion, OCR/NLP chunking, embeddings in Azure Cognitive Search) with PII guardrails (Presidio), confidence gating, and scalable event-driven pipelines handling millions of documents.”

Akshay Bharadwaj Kunigal Harish

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP, computer vision, and LLM systems

Boston, MA5y exp

“Built a production multi-agent cybersecurity defense simulator orchestrated with CrewAI, combining Red/Blue team LLM agents, a RAG runbook retriever, and an RL remediation agent trained via state-space simplification and reward shaping for rapid incident response. Also partnered with quant analysts and fund managers to deliver an automated trading and portfolio management system using statistical methods plus CNN/LSTM models, reporting up to 15% weekly ROI.”

Muhammad Waqas Ashraf

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps

Lahore, Pakistan7y exp

“Frontend engineer focused on building and scaling data-heavy, real-time dashboards with React/Next.js/TypeScript. Emphasizes performance and reliability at scale through modular architecture, centralized state (Zustand/Redux), strict API contracts, automated testing, and production monitoring (Grafana/CloudWatch), and has experience shipping quickly with feature-flagged rollouts and rapid iteration from user feedback.”

Ashritha G

Screened

Mid-Level Software Development Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud microservices

USA3y exp

“Software engineer with enterprise, customer-facing delivery experience across Outlier AI and Wipro—builds and productionizes workflow and integration solutions with a strong focus on real-world performance and reliability. Delivered a Firestore/Redis-backed real-time pipeline that cut page load times by 20% and held consistent performance across 10,000+ sessions, and has hands-on production incident experience stabilizing high-traffic microservices via caching, indexing, and safe canary deployments.”

Abhishek Ingle

Screened

Junior Full-Stack & AI Software Engineer specializing in React/Next.js and LLM systems

Bloomington, IN2y exp

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience building low-latency, high-concurrency real-time chat on AWS (Node.js/Socket.IO/MongoDB) and improving reliability under unstable networks, contributing to ~40% user adoption growth. Also built FastAPI-based AI assistant context retrieval (RAG) APIs with embeddings/vector search, and has strong production experience in rate-limit handling, async refactors with safe rollout, and Supabase Auth/RLS optimization.”

Raunak Bandyopadhyay

Screened

Intern-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI and web systems

Amherst, MA0y exp

“Backend-focused intern in telehealth who combined engineering, QA leadership, and emergency infrastructure ownership. Built a text chat feature and an OpenAI-powered therapy chatbot, then stepped up to rebuild AWS infrastructure after it was accidentally deleted, while also improving chat responsiveness and reporting a 30% engagement lift.”

“ML engineer with hands-on experience building banking AI systems end-to-end, including a customer-targeting model that improved campaign response rates by about 10%. Also shipped a RAG-based banking FAQ/support feature with safety guardrails and production optimizations around retrieval quality, latency, and cost, plus reusable Python services that reduced duplicate work for other engineers.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across Python/Flask microservices and AWS serverless/data platforms (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Glue/PySpark). Demonstrated strong reliability and operations mindset (JWT/RBAC, retries/timeouts/circuit breakers, CloudWatch/SNS alerting) and measurable performance wins (SQL report runtime cut from 10 minutes to 30 seconds). Seeking ~$150k base and cannot travel for onsite meetings for the next 5–6 months due to family medical constraints.”

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped production RAG chatbots using LangChain/OpenAI with FAISS and FastAPI, focusing on real-world constraints like context windows, concurrency, and latency (reported ~40% latency reduction and <2s average response). Experienced orchestrating AI pipelines with Celery and fault-tolerant long-running workflows with Temporal, and has applied NLP model tradeoff testing (Word2Vec vs BERT) to drive measurable accuracy gains.”

“AI/LLM engineer with production experience building an LLM-powered investment recommendation system using RAG and chatbots, deployed via Docker/CI/CD and scaled on Kubernetes. Demonstrated measurable performance wins (sub-200ms latency) through QLoRA fine-tuning and TensorRT INT8/INT4 quantization, plus strong MLOps/orchestration background (Airflow ETL + scoring, MLflow monitoring) and stakeholder-facing delivery using demos and Tableau dashboards.”

Harsh Chauhan

Screened

Junior AI Engineer specializing in Generative AI, RAG, and NLP

Remote, US3y exp

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped a production RAG platform at Ticker Inc. on GCP (Qdrant + Postgres) delivering sub-second retrieval over 550k+ items, with measurable gains in latency and answer quality (HNSW optimization, MMR re-ranking). Also built an asynchronous LangChain/LangGraph multi-agent research system (10x faster cycles) and partnered with Indiana University doctors on synthetic patient records and ML error analysis using clinician-friendly F1/loss dashboards.”

Mayur Agrawal

Screened

Entry-Level Backend Engineer specializing in analytics automation and cloud data pipelines

Bengaluru, India1y exp

“Forward Deployment Engineer focused on application security and production integrations, with hands-on experience hardening API-driven ticketing systems (JWT/RBAC/rate limiting/log redaction) and implementing CI/CD security controls (Bandit SAST, SCA, container hardening). Strong in diagnosing peak-load production issues using logs/metrics/infra signals and driving durable fixes like adaptive throttling and backoff, while aligning engineering, business, and leadership stakeholders on risk and SLA impact.”

“Backend Python engineer who has built an LLM agentic tutoring/assignment helper with a custom pipeline for parsing visually complex textbooks (integrating AlibabaResearch VGT and implementing missing preprocessing from the paper), improving RAG grounding with ~90% cleaner extracted text. Also led major platform scaling work by refactoring monolithic image processing into Celery-based async microservices on AWS (GPU/CUDA + S3), and implemented Kafka streaming for payment webhooks with strict ordering, idempotency, and multi-zone fault tolerance.”

“At ReferU.AI, designed and deployed an agentic RAG pipeline that automates multi-jurisdiction legal document drafting, emphasizing hallucination reduction through hybrid retrieval, validation agents, guardrails, and iterative regeneration. Experienced with orchestration frameworks (especially CrewAI) and rigorous testing/evaluation practices including human-in-the-loop review, adversarial testing, and production metrics/logging.”

“Robotics/ML engineer who benchmarks and adapts open-source robot action models, building synthetic datasets in Isaac Sim and modifying vendor code to scale training across multiple GPUs. Also built a production-style computer vision pipeline at Zortag—training a tiny YOLO-based classifier for fake-vs-real label detection and deploying it in a real-time iOS app with additional display/spoof detection.”

“Built a production lead-generation system using AI agents that researches the internet for relevant leads and integrates RAG-based contact enrichment/shortlisting aligned to existing CRM data, enabling sales reps to focus more on selling. Also has hands-on AWS data orchestration experience (Glue, Step Functions) moving raw data into Redshift and evaluates agent performance with human-in-the-loop plus BLEU/perplexity metrics.”

Mrudula Devaguptapu

Screened

Mid-Level Software/AI Engineer specializing in backend systems, data pipelines, and RAG automation

United States3y exp

“Backend engineer with experience modernizing high-traffic subscription and payment systems (TCS) by moving to event-driven Spring Boot microservices with Kafka, adding idempotency/state management to eliminate duplicate processing. Built and scaled FastAPI services for AI automation workflows (360DMMC) with versioned contracts, JWT security, and strong observability, and has led live refactors using feature flags, parallel runs, and data reconciliation.”

Arjun Shrestha

Screened

Intern AI/GenAI Engineer specializing in NLP, RAG, and Snowflake Cortex

Columbus, Ohio1y exp

“Built and deployed a production AI invention/patent review platform that compares invention submissions against patent rules to provide instant feedback, reportedly cutting legal team review time by ~80%. Learned Snowflake Cortex LLMs and production deployment (Docker + AWS) on the job, and validated system quality through human-in-the-loop testing with experienced legal stakeholders.”

Satish Kumar Reddy

Screened

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

Remote, NJ5y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG intelligent document understanding platform for healthcare clinical documents (notes, discharge summaries, diagnostic reports), integrating spaCy entity extraction, Pinecone vector search, and a Spring Boot API on AWS with monitoring and guardrails. Demonstrates strong MLOps/orchestration (LangChain, Airflow, Kubeflow/Kubernetes) and a metrics-driven evaluation approach, and partnered with a healthcare operations manager to cut manual review time by 80%.”