Vetted Large Language Models (LLMs) Professionals

Sourabh Jain

Screened

Director of Software Engineering specializing in enterprise Data, ML & AI platforms

Bay Area, CA23y exp

“Former Walmart Director of Software Engineering who left in March 2025 to build products for clients. Recently delivered an LLM/RAG-based UNSPSC classification solution for an MRO client using a multi-stage retrieval + web search + prompt-engineering workflow, and has led large-scale retail forecasting initiatives and high-severity cloud-migration incidents end-to-end.”

“Frontend tech lead at HubSpot who shipped an LLM-powered insights dashboard that analyzed complex customer interaction histories and surfaced sentiment, challenges, and next-best actions for sales users. Stands out for having taken an AI feature beyond prototype into beta and full production, with strong emphasis on testing, maintainability, and practical production tradeoffs.”

“Candidate has developed a disciplined AI-first engineering workflow that combines design docs, prior PR analysis, testing plans, and multi-agent coordination to accelerate delivery without sacrificing quality. They described acting as a tech lead for AI agents, overseeing code structure, business logic, testing, and service contracts, and reported reducing manual coding effort by nearly 80%.”

“Full-stack engineer with deep serverless AWS experience who built VidToNote, an AI video analysis platform, end-to-end using Next.js App Router/TypeScript and an event-driven pipeline (API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Step Functions, SQS). Strong on production reliability and observability (CloudWatch, X-Ray, structured logging), plus data/analytics work in Postgres with measurable query optimizations and durable LLM evaluation workflows. Amazon background; integrated 22 AWS services and completed AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification within a month.”

“Built and shipped a production agentic RAG system for healthcare analysts that automated compliance/operations knowledge retrieval across PDFs, reports, and databases. Emphasizes production reliability (monitoring, retries, fallbacks, async queues), strong evaluation/iteration loops, and measurable impact (3–10s responses and ~98% top-k retrieval accuracy).”

“ML/AI engineer with experience at Uber and Scale AI, focused on customer service automation across both classical NLP and generative AI systems. Has owned systems from experimentation through production on AWS, including LLM fine-tuning, RAG optimization, safety evaluation, and internal Python platform tooling that improved consistency and engineering velocity.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production AWS experience spanning serverless APIs (Chalice/Lambda/API Gateway/Cognito) and data pipelines (Glue PySpark + Step Functions). Has modernized a legacy SAS reporting system into AWS microservices and implemented schema-drift detection and incident prevention for ETL workflows, plus measurable SQL tuning wins (30 min to <10 min runtime).”

“LLM/RAG engineer who built a production-style multi-agent orchestrator for resume-to-recommendation workflows (PDF ingestion through screening and recommendations), emphasizing prompt tuning and strict JSON output contracts. Currently building a RAG application for an NGO using Airflow (DAGs + embeddings) and tackling messy, missing/imbalanced data; has hands-on retrieval stack experience (FAISS/HNSW, bge embeddings) and uses rigorous evaluation metrics for groundedness and hallucination control.”

“Seed-stage startup engineer owning features end-to-end across full-stack development, DevOps, rollout, and post-launch maintenance. Built data ingestion and evaluation workflows for an LLM data-quality platform using Next.js, MongoDB, Postgres, and GCP Pub/Sub, with a strong focus on reliability, caching, and pragmatic performance improvements.”

“Built GenMedX, a multi-module clinical AI system for emergency department decision support spanning triage prediction, diagnosis, medication Q&A, and visit summarization. Stands out for combining medical LLM fine-tuning, RAG, and rigorous evaluation/monitoring to drive a major triage recall improvement from 38.5% to 76.6%, with a strong focus on safety, edge-case detection, and production reliability.”

“Technical lead who shipped a production GPT-4-powered customer support agent for Square, serving a large fintech customer base through a React chat interface with tool-using orchestration, guardrails, and live handoff paths. Brings strong real-world experience in agent reliability, evaluation, observability, and workflow orchestration using Temporal, Sidekiq, Pinecone, Datadog, and Snowflake.”

Anushka Bhagchandani

Screened

Intern Product & Software Engineer specializing in GenAI/LLM and e-commerce platforms

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Software engineer (2+ years in India) and current GenAI intern who shipped LLM-powered review-writing enhancements at Myntra (Walmart-backed), using pilots and A/B tests to lift review quality by 5% in 30 days. Demonstrates strong LLM operations discipline (logging, dashboards, alerts, rollback) and fast incident response, plus experience delivering developer-focused workshops and public technical talks.”

“Aspiring founder exploring a deep-tech startup at the intersection of HPC and AI, focused on tightly integrated systems that generate high-quality simulation data for applications like drug discovery and weather prediction. They appear especially motivated by unmet market opportunities and take a pragmatic view of startup risk, prioritizing ideas with strong growth potential that can become real within five years.”

“Candidate describes a development approach centered on AI-assisted coding, testing, and agent-driven workflows, including production exposure to multi-agent systems and governance-oriented logging. They appear particularly focused on combining AI speed with structured validation through unit tests, boundary tests, and edge-case monitoring.”

“Engineer who uses AI thoughtfully as a productivity multiplier rather than a crutch, with hands-on experience applying agent-based workflows to coding, debugging, documentation, and testing. Particularly strong in rapid backend and data-processing development, with a clear emphasis on validation, architecture, and scalability.”

“AI/LLM-focused engineer with hands-on experience building RAG pipelines, prompt engineering workflows, and multi-agent systems using tools like LangChain. Stands out for combining AI-assisted development with production-grade validation and for leading the architecture/orchestration of agent-based recommendation systems that improved response time, accuracy, and scalability.”

Swarnabha Roy

Screened

Mid-level Robotics & Computer Vision Engineer specializing in autonomous systems and edge AI

College Station, TX6y exp

“Robotics/perception researcher (MVOS Lab, South Dakota State University) who built an end-to-end multimodal RGB-D + LiDAR pipeline for autonomous greenhouse harvesting and 3D plant phenotyping. Demonstrated strong production ownership by diagnosing motion blur with ROS-bag + OpenCV metrics and shipping an edge-deployed, scan-quality-aware workflow that boosted barcode read rate to 98% and supported ~70% autonomous pepper detection/harvesting accuracy.”

Yash Jajoo

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI and FinTech platforms

New York City, NY8y exp

“Built a production LLM pipeline at Walter AI that scans massive user inboxes, identifies financial newsletters, and extracts trading strategies into structured JSON for downstream paper-trading workflows. Stands out for combining agent architecture with strong production discipline—cutting scan time from 20 to 5 minutes, reducing LLM costs by 90%, and achieving 3-second P99 latency while handling messy, inconsistent email data at scale.”

Josh Rhoades

Screened

Executive Technology Leader (CTO) specializing in AI-enabled SaaS and regulated platforms

Los Angeles, CA30y exp

“Senior engineering leader with experience at Disney and BlackLine who drives business-aligned technology roadmaps through deep Product/Engineering partnership (two-in-a-box) and pragmatic prioritization frameworks. Has led major modernization initiatives—private-to-public cloud migration to GCP with multi-cloud evolution, data-layer performance improvements (Mongo/Redis, caching/query optimization), and tooling upgrades (VSS to GitHub)—while scaling teams with strong quality and accountability culture.”

Kevin Hoffman

Screened

Director-level product and engineering leader specializing in distributed systems and cloud platforms

Windsor, CT16y exp

“Former CTO and co-founder of Cosmonic who led technology vision, roadmap, and team building while also serving as the technical lead in investor and VC meetings. Has hands-on experience supporting seed and Series A rounds, plus strategic exposure to later-stage fundraising at Synadia, combining startup-building depth with a pragmatic view of risk and business viability.”