Vetted Hugging Face Professionals

Sahil Gupta

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Junior AI Software Engineer specializing in LLM agents, RAG, and healthcare NLP

MA, U.S.A1y exp

“Backend engineer who built an agentic LLM system for private equity/finance that answers questions over enterprise contracts and documents using a vector-db RAG pipeline. Differentiator is a trust-focused citation framework (with highlighted source text) to reduce hallucinations in high-stakes workflows, plus strong DevOps experience deploying microservices on Kubernetes with Helm/GitOps and building Kafka real-time pipelines.”

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped production systems end-to-end, including a note-taking product (Notey) combining audio/image capture, ASR, summarization, and a semantic chat agent over past notes. Also has applied ML experience in healthcare, collaborating directly with doctors to validate an EEG seizure-detection pipeline, and uses Kubernetes to optimize GPU usage for LLM training.”

“Built an AI-powered stylist / outfit recommendation product end to end, spanning React/TypeScript frontend, Postgres data modeling, serverless backend flows, and LLM-driven recommendation/explanation systems. Stands out for combining hands-on full-stack execution with strong product judgment around ambiguity, UX polish, reusable primitives, and AI trust/explainability.”

“Full-stack product builder with hands-on experience improving onboarding and reducing churn through guided tours, instrumentation, and A/B-tested feedback loops. They’ve also prototyped AI systems including a text-to-SQL RAG-based multi-agent workflow and built a real-time multiplayer React/TypeScript app on Supabase, while showing strong instincts around evaluation, UX, and production trade-offs.”

Isha Harne

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in ML applications and LLM platform engineering

New York, NY1y exp

“Full-stack engineer who builds and scales customer-facing and internal AI products end-to-end (React/TypeScript/FastAPI/MongoDB) with strong product instrumentation and rapid MVP iteration. Built an AI-powered code review assistant adopted across teams and integrated into CI/CD, reducing manual review time by 30%+, and has hands-on experience with LLM retrieval/reasoning systems (LangChain + FAISS) and microservices scaling using RabbitMQ, Docker, and AWS.”

Deva Sai Kumar Bheesetti

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in data automation, cloud & AI

Lowell, MA5y exp

“JavaScript engineer who effectively "maintains" an internal open-source-style React/Node.js shared library used by multiple teams—owning API stability, semantic versioning, CI/testing, logging, and documentation. Demonstrates strong cross-team debugging and change-management skills (schema-driven refactors, feature flags, validation layers) to ship new features without breaking existing workflows, plus a profiling/benchmarking-driven approach to performance.”

“BI/analytics candidate with healthcare and product analytics experience spanning Honor Health and ASU. They’ve worked on messy multi-system hospital supply data and also owned analytics for an AI-powered tax assistant, with quantified outcomes including 97% faster search, 92% retrieval accuracy, 30% fewer ad hoc procurement requests, and 15% lower operational cost.”

“AI/ML engineer with hands-on experience building a healthcare-focused generative AI application end-to-end, from architecture and data design through deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement. Particularly strong in multi-agent LLM systems, fine-tuning, and safety guardrails, with measurable impact including a 20% accuracy lift to 91% and 10% latency improvement in a nutrition recommendation pipeline.”

“Healthcare-focused ML/AI engineer who has built clinical note summarization and medical image annotation solutions using LLMs, RAG, and multimodal models. They combine experimentation across major model providers with practical production concerns like monitoring, drift detection, and latency/cost tradeoffs, and also earned 2nd place in a Google hackathon for a medical AI assistant.”

“New grad candidate with graduate research experience building a multi-agent RAG pipeline from scratch, including worker-coach orchestration and an evaluation framework. Most notably, they improved structural similarity from 67% to 98% by designing validation and retry logic to reduce hallucinations, showing strong practical depth in agentic AI systems.”

“Software engineer with startup experience building finance ERP features across invoices, billing, tax updates, and bank reconciliation, now pivoting toward AI/ML through an ML internship and hands-on NLP projects. Brings a mix of full-stack product exposure, early-stage comfort, and practical experimentation with BERTopic, HDBSCAN, LangChain, MongoDB vector search, and sentiment modeling.”

Joe Zayd

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI and cloud-native platforms

Woodbridge, VA8y exp

“Full-stack engineer who has operated in a very lean startup setting, helping a non-technical founder turn an AI-focused education product idea into a shipped MVP in roughly six weeks. Also brings B2B SaaS experience from a real estate rental platform with payment flows and Experian-based background and credit check integrations.”

“Backend engineer with fintech/AI startup experience who built an Azure serverless, event-driven pipeline for large-scale crypto sentiment analysis and semantic search (OCR/NLP to vector search) and integrated LLM + blockchain data for predictive insights. Demonstrated measurable impact (25% lower retrieval latency, 10% fewer data errors, 15% higher engagement) and has led safe microservices migrations with strong security and reliability practices.”

“Research assistant who single-handedly built and integrated an indoor autonomous wheelchair system using NVIDIA Jetson Nano, LiDAR, and a stereo camera. Implemented a multi-sensor perception pipeline (OpenCV/PCL) with ROS-based modular nodes, TF frame management, and robust debugging via RViz/rosbag, plus simulation testing in Gazebo and Dockerized environments for portability.”

“Backend/data engineer with strong production experience across Python microservices (FastAPI) and AWS serverless/data platforms (Lambda, API Gateway, Glue, Redshift). Demonstrates reliability and incident ownership (rate limits, retries/circuit breakers, monitoring) and has delivered measurable SQL performance gains (12–15s to <800ms, ~60% CPU reduction). Seeking fully remote work and not open to relocation/onsite meetings.”

“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.”