Vetted Keras Professionals

“AI Engineer at DXC Technology who has shipped production LLM/NLP systems on AWS (SageMaker, FastAPI) and optimized them for real-time latency and unpredictable traffic using quantization, batching, and autoscaling. Strong MLOps and monitoring discipline (MLflow, CloudWatch, SageMaker Model Monitor) and proven business impact—delivered models with 92% predictive accuracy and cut enterprise decision-making time by 30% through close collaboration with product managers.”

“Computer-vision engineer with hands-on experience designing UAV-based production imaging systems for object detection/tracking, including camera selection and resolution/zoom tradeoffs. Improved segmentation/measurement accuracy by implementing orthorectification using ground points plus intrinsic/extrinsic calibration to correct perspective distortion, and has built Python/OpenCV pipelines (including barcode-focused grayscale processing and multithreaded execution).”

“Backend-focused Python engineer who owned high-traffic internal services end-to-end (FastAPI/Django) including REST/GraphQL APIs, PostgreSQL optimization, async task processing via SQS, and full CI/CD. Strong Kubernetes-on-EKS and GitOps (ArgoCD + Helm) experience, plus Kafka real-time streaming work and phased cloud-to-on-prem migration support.”

Monthir Ali

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and VR/XR multimodal systems

Salt Lake City, UT8y exp

“PhD researcher (University of Utah) who built a production RAG-powered Virtual Reality Research Assistant to answer lab research questions with concrete citations. Implemented an end-to-end LangChain pipeline using PyPDFLoader, chunking strategies, OpenAI embeddings, and ChromaDB, with emphasis on grounding to reduce hallucinations and ensure research-grade accuracy. Collaborated closely with a non-technical PhD advisor to scope requirements, manage cost constraints, and demo iterative progress.”

Sakethram Marpu

Screened

Junior Investment Analyst specializing in AI & DeepTech

Bengaluru, India2y exp

“VC-style founder sourcer who uses technical signals (GitHub) and niche communities (Elpha/Indie Hackers/Discord) to identify early-stage opportunities, including thesis-driven sourcing in applied AI infrastructure/observability from YC W24. Emphasizes value-first LinkedIn outreach and long-horizon relationship building (e.g., built a personal relationship with Snitch’s CTO who later reached out first about a new startup).”

“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.”

“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.”

“Built and productionized a clinical NLP + patient risk stratification platform at Dermanture, combining Spark/PySpark pipelines with BERT/BioBERT for entity extraction and text classification and downstream risk models in TensorFlow/scikit-learn. Experienced running regulated, auditable ML workflows with Airflow and AWS SageMaker, emphasizing data validation (Great Expectations), drift monitoring, and explainability (SHAP) to drive clinician trust and adoption.”

“Built and deployed a scalable, production-ready LLM knowledge assistant using a RAG architecture (LangChain + vector store/FAISS) to replace keyword search for internal documents. Demonstrates hands-on expertise in hallucination reduction and retrieval quality improvements through semantic chunking, similarity tuning, prompt design, and human-in-the-loop validation, plus strong stakeholder communication via demos and visual explanations.”

“Built a production "Mini RAG Assistant" for internal document Q&A, focusing on grounded answers (anti-hallucination), retrieval quality, and latency/cost optimization. Uses LangChain/LangGraph for orchestration and applies a metrics-driven evaluation loop (including reranking and semantic chunking improvements) while collaborating closely with product stakeholders.”

“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.”

“ML/NLP engineer with banking domain experience who built a GenAI-powered fraud detection and risk intelligence system at Origin Bank, combining RAG (LangChain + FAISS), fine-tuned BERT NER, and GPT-4/Sentence-BERT embeddings. Delivered measurable impact (25% higher fraud detection accuracy, 40% less manual review) and emphasizes production-grade pipelines on AWS SageMaker/Airflow with strong data validation and scalable PySpark processing.”

“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).”

Ankush Desai

Screened

Junior Robotics Engineer specializing in ROS, perception, and robotic manipulation

2y exp

“Robotics software engineer focused on ROS2 autonomy stacks, with hands-on work spanning semantic 3D SLAM, sensor fusion, and controller customization. Built an indoor GPS-denied semantic SLAM system (>95% accuracy) and extended Nav2’s MPPI controller with a custom C++ critic to keep an agricultural rover centered in crop rows, boosting CO2 laser weeding effectiveness by 40%. Strong in simulation-to-real workflows (Isaac Sim, Gazebo Ignition) and deployment automation (Docker on Jetson Orin NX, GitHub Actions CI/CD).”

prashanth Jamalapurapu

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in data engineering, LLM/RAG pipelines, and recommender systems

5y exp

“Research assistant at St. Louis University who built and deployed a production document-intelligence RAG system (Python/TensorFlow, vector DB, FastAPI) on AWS, focusing on grounding to reduce hallucinations and latency optimization via caching/async/batching. Also developed a personalized recommendation system for the Frenzy social platform and partnered closely with product/UX to define metrics and iterate on hybrid recommenders and cold-start handling.”

Jaykumar Kotiya

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning & AI Engineer specializing in Generative AI, NLP, and MLOps

Boston, MA6y exp

“Built and deployed production LLM systems for summarizing sensitive legal and financial documents, emphasizing GDPR-aligned privacy controls and scalable hybrid cloud architecture. Experienced with Kubernetes/Airflow orchestration and rigorous testing/monitoring practices, and has delivered measurable business impact (18% conversion lift) by translating AI outputs for non-technical marketing stakeholders.”

Vaishnavi M

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in MLOps and Generative AI

5y exp

“At Liberty Mutual, built a production underwriting decision assistant combining LLM reasoning with quantitative models and strong auditability. Implemented a claims-based response verification pipeline that cut hallucinations from 18% to 3% and materially improved user trust/validation scores. Experienced orchestrating ML/LLM workflows end-to-end with Airflow, Kubeflow Pipelines, and Jenkins, including SLA-focused pipeline hardening.”

Kunal Sanghvi

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in AI, NLP, and LLM systems

USA3y exp

“Built and deployed a production AI customer support chatbot at Unique Design Inc. using FastAPI, AWS, Docker, and retrieval-based grounding on internal documents. Stands out for hands-on ownership across discovery, deployment, incident debugging, and post-launch iteration, with a strong focus on making LLM systems reliable and safe in real business workflows.”

“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.”

“ML/computer-vision practitioner who shipped a CycleGAN-based bilingual handwriting translation demo (English↔Telugu) for low-resource scripts using unpaired datasets, focusing on preserving handwriting style and real-time deployment via Gradio. Also delivered a medical imaging pipeline by fine-tuning ResNet-50 and ViT-B/16 for pneumonia detection, emphasizing reproducibility, measurable evaluation, and stakeholder-friendly iteration.”

“Software engineer experienced delivering customer-facing, real-time industrial monitoring dashboards (motors/shafts/turbines) by partnering directly with end users to refine charts, alerts, and performance. Strong in API/platform integrations and production troubleshooting—uses feature flags, logging, validation/mapping, containerization, and performance testing to keep systems stable while iterating quickly.”

“LLM/RAG practitioner who has taken a support-ticket triage automation system from prototype to production, building the full pipeline (fine-tuned models, FastAPI inference services, vector storage, monitoring) and delivering measurable impact (~40% reduction in triage time). Demonstrates strong operational troubleshooting of LLM/agentic workflows (observability-driven debugging, fixing agent routing/looping) and supports adoption through tailored demos and sales-aligned technical communication.”