Vetted Hyperparameter Tuning Professionals

Snigdha Reddy Podduturi

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Junior Data & AI Engineer specializing in cloud AI and analytics

Remote3y exp

“Built production AI backend systems in healthcare and e-commerce, including a healthcare agent that automated clinical workflows like medication refills, immunizations, and scheduling using FHIR APIs and cloud-native infrastructure. Strong in end-to-end backend ownership, LLM orchestration, and adding guardrails/validation for high-stakes and customer-facing AI workflows.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered text-to-SQL/document intelligence chatbot on AWS that lets non-technical business users query complex enterprise databases in plain English. Demonstrates deep practical expertise in schema-aware prompting, embeddings-based schema retrieval, SQL safety/validation guardrails, and rigorous offline/online evaluation with human-in-the-loop approvals for risky queries.”

“Built a production-grade, semi-automated document recognition and classification system for large volumes of scanned PDFs, starting from little/no labeled data and handling highly variable scan quality. Deployed on AWS using SageMaker + Docker and orchestrated on EKS with a microservices design that scales CPU-heavy OCR separately from GPU inference, with strong reliability controls (validation, fallbacks, retries, readiness probes).”

“Graduate student taking advanced coursework in NLP, generative image modeling, and computer vision; built a PPO reinforcement-learning agent for a Super Mario platformer with careful reward shaping and metric-driven evaluation. In a recent internship designing credit risk models, created a 10-method feature-selection voting framework and achieved ~10% out-of-sample performance improvement while reducing features to mitigate overfitting.”

“Data/ML practitioner who has built a production RAG-based knowledge assistant integrated into Microsoft 365/internal dashboards to help employees query internal documents in plain English. Experienced orchestrating and hardening ETL pipelines with Airflow and Azure Data Factory (validation, retries, monitoring) and running end-to-end model evaluation and production performance tracking via Power BI.”

Siddhartha Geddam

Screened

Junior Robotics/ML Engineer specializing in autonomous UAVs and perception

2y exp

“Machine learning robotics engineer with internship experience deploying object detection and semantic segmentation models to an autonomous vehicle fleet operating in airports and naval docking stations, optimizing with ONNX/TensorRT for NVIDIA Jetson edge deployment. Also built ROS/ROS2-based decentralized multi-drone coordination (TF trees, shared telemetry) validated in Gazebo and networked via Nimbro with sub-10ms latency messaging.”

“Independent builder of production-grade systems: shipped an end-to-end URL shortener with JWT auth, Redis rate limiting/caching, Postgres, Docker, and real-time analytics, and separately architected a Redis-backed distributed task queue handling 1000+ tasks/min. Demonstrates strong distributed-systems instincts (atomicity, retries/DLQ, idempotency, heartbeats) plus a focus on maintainable code and self-documenting APIs (FastAPI/OpenAPI, versioned routes).”

“Built GynAI, an end-to-end maternal clinical decision support platform for OB/GYN practices and hospitals in North America, combining predictive ML with RAG-based LLM explainability. The candidate emphasizes real production ownership across experimentation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration, with reported impact including fewer delayed interventions in high-risk pregnancies and a 15-20% reduction in false positives.”

Reenam Jot Kaur

Screened

Junior Business Operations & Systems Analyst specializing in automation, QA, and analytics

San Francisco, CA3y exp

“Operational/data-focused QA professional who applies manufacturing-style quality gates to supplier workflows, owning supplier data quality from onboarding through billing readiness. Built automated validation and variance-threshold checks (Tableau/Excel-driven monitoring) and partnered directly with suppliers to resolve pricing discrepancies early, preventing large-scale transaction and billing issues.”

“Built DocMind, an end-to-end PDF chat assistant using React/TypeScript, FastAPI, and Postgres/pgvector, showing full-stack ownership plus practical performance tuning and AWS debugging skills. At Social Tech Labs, improved onboarding, shipped lean under ambiguity, and created a reusable low-latency feature serving layer that reduced duplicated infrastructure work across models.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-powered customer support system using a RAG architecture with structured document ingestion, embedding retrieval, and prompt templates for product-specific grounding. Experienced diagnosing live agent/workflow failures (e.g., retrieval regressions after new docs) by refactoring ingestion/chunking and adding grounding constraints plus evaluation benchmarks. Also supports go-to-market by joining discovery calls, shaping MVP workflows into demos/prototypes, and creating post-launch documentation to drive adoption.”

Ritika Sisodiya

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Junior Data Scientist specializing in statistical modeling and machine learning

California, USA2y exp

“AI Researcher with production experience building a real-time computer-vision detection pipeline augmented by an LLM-based verification layer to cut false positives (~78%) and reach ~90% real-world accuracy. Also partners cross-functionally with Product/Sales/Marketing to shape AI feature prioritization and market positioning using analysis and interactive dashboards.”

“Robotics software engineer who built a ROS 2 Humble autonomous hospital-equipment detection/localization robot end-to-end in Gazebo (custom worlds/models, Nav2 waypoint navigation, YOLOv8n perception, TF2-based depth fusion) and solved real-time integration issues via multithreading and QoS tuning. Also implemented and tuned an MPPI controller to enable smooth reverse parking on an OpenPodCarV2 platform, including real-world reverse engineering and hardware/software debugging.”

“Backend engineer (Encore) who led the evaluation and redesign of a high-volume, low-latency real-time retrieval/ranking and inference platform on AWS, shifting from tightly coupled services to a modular architecture for better fault isolation and independent scaling. Strong focus on production reliability, observability, and security (JWT/RBAC, multi-tenant scoping, Postgres/Supabase RLS), with disciplined migration playbooks (feature flags, shadow traffic, dual writes/reconciliation).”

“Built and deployed a production AI-powered personalized learning platform (Django + FastAPI) featuring an LLM+RAG tutoring assistant and automated grading. Demonstrates strong applied LLM reliability engineering (structured JSON outputs with Pydantic validation, hallucination control via FAISS-based RAG thresholds and refusals) plus scalable async microservice design and Airflow-orchestrated ETL across AWS/GCP.”

Riya Stanly

Screened

Intern Data Scientist specializing in machine learning, NLP, and LLM fine-tuning

2y exp

“Built a production-style AI meeting summarization and action-item extraction system (Azure Speech-to-Text + transformer summarization/NER) exposed via a Flask REST API, with explicit guardrails to prevent hallucinated tasks. Strong focus on reliability: modular agent/workflow design, precision-first evaluation with human-validated golden notes, and practical orchestration patterns (tool-augmented agents; ready to scale into Airflow/LangGraph/Prefect).”

Jeevan Hebbal Manjunath

Screened

Junior Robotics & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in autonomous systems

Tempe, AZ2y exp

“Robotics engineer leading development of a Physical Reservoir Computing controller for a pneumatic soft robotic arm, owning everything from automated data collection and leak-testing automation to hardware design/manufacturing and cross-lab integration with Virginia Tech. Built ROS 2/DDS-based multi-robot systems integrating OptiTrack, a lab quadruped, and a UR5e, and pairs simulation (Gazebo/MuJoCo) + PPO RL training with production-ready tooling (Docker, CI/CD, Flask dashboards, RAG chatbot portfolio).”

“Robotics software candidate who built a Q-learning smart delivery drone navigation system, focusing on 2D path planning with dynamic obstacle avoidance using reward shaping and real-time sensor feedback. Actively learning ROS 2 by building Python simulation projects with publisher/subscriber patterns and has experience coordinating multi-agent drone simulations via message passing.”