Vetted Large Language Models (LLMs) Professionals

“ML/AI practitioner with hands-on experience shipping production time-series forecasting and RAG-based customer insights platforms in an enterprise setting. At BASF, he improved seed sales forecasting beyond naive baselines using model selection tailored by brand size, and he also led a RAG solution over Salesforce reports, complaints, and surveys that reached 2,000+ users with strong daily engagement.”

“AI/backend engineer who has owned production applied-ML systems end to end, including a Jitsi meeting intelligence platform with custom RoBERTa boundary detection, LLM summarization, and automated retraining from user feedback. Also has healthcare AI experience building a diabetes medication titration system with strict validation, drift monitoring, and safety guardrails—showing both product speed and high-stakes engineering rigor.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer with experience shipping engagement features and core communication systems at DribbleUp and Expys. Stands out for combining rapid MVP execution with rigorous iteration: delivered a leaderboard feature that lifted engagement by 8% initially and 20% overall, built a chat MVP in 3 days, and has hands-on experience deploying LangChain-based concierge agents with evals and human review.”

“UC Berkeley CS–trained hands-on engineering leader with executive experience spanning fundraising and board/customer communication. Led architecture and roadmap for AI-driven fintech platforms (including portfolio data, market signals, document processing, and Bitcoin trading), scaling global orgs (~100 people) and driving modular API-based designs that improved reliability, onboarding speed, and customer retention.”

“Founding Principal Engineer/Head of Engineering at Amberflo (Seed $5M Homebrew; Series A Norwest) who built and shipped an AI Gateway + real-time LLM cost metering/pricing MVP end-to-end (control plane/data plane, AWS infra, CI/CD). Known for extremely fast MVP cycles (often 1–2 weeks), scaling teams (50–60 hires), and driving major pivots (usage-based billing to FinOps) by repurposing an existing metering/pricing platform; based in Chicago and has led a Silicon Valley startup remotely with frequent Bay Area travel.”

“LLM/RAG practitioner who productionized an LLM-driven customer communication and transaction understanding system at PayPal, emphasizing privacy/compliance guardrails and large-scale data normalization. Experienced in real-time debugging of hallucinations via retrieval pipeline tuning and in leading hands-on developer workshops and sales-aligned POCs to drive adoption.”

“Built a production AI-driven QA automation platform using a multi-agent architecture (MCPs + LangGraph) to run parallel website tests across multiple device environments via automated image building and containerization. Currently collaborating with restaurant operators and managers to deliver an agentic restaurant analytics system, emphasizing deep domain discovery with non-technical stakeholders.”

“Engineering manager leading a 15-person team at FBN on the Gridbull platform, shipping a self-serve pricing/quoting tool for structured commodity products using real-time futures market data. Owns architecture and reliability for third-party data integrations (WebSocket + REST fallback), including resolving a day-one production incident caused by undocumented vendor connection resets. Introduced lightweight Technical Implementation Plans to improve cross-functional alignment and delivery speed in a high-growth environment.”

“Former CTO/CTPO with hands-on experience supporting co-founders through pre-seed to Series B fundraising, including investor technical due diligence and architecture deep-dives. In a logistics company, led a customer-interview-driven effort applying AI and workflow tools that cut customer busywork by ~30% in the first iteration, and has experience planning delivery with onshore/offshore teams (LATAM/India).”

“Software engineer with strong end-to-end ownership across frontend, backend, data, and infrastructure, including real-time systems (Kafka/Postgres) and observability (Datadog). Built and productionized an AI-native RAG support assistant (OpenAI embeddings + Pinecone) with prompt/guardrail design, achieving 48% agent adoption and 30% faster responses. Experienced in legacy modernization and reliability work using feature flags, event/transaction replay, and rapid embedded delivery.”

Sandeep Athota

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in cloud MLOps and production ML systems

Texas, USA4y exp

“AI/ML engineer at J.P. Morgan Chase who deployed a production financial-risk prediction platform combining CNN/LSTM/gradient boosting on AWS SageMaker, with automated drift-triggered retraining and governance-grade fairness testing. Leveraged SageMaker Clarify plus SMOTE and LLM-generated synthetic data to improve minority-group F1 by 0.12, and communicated results to non-technical risk/ops teams via Power BI dashboards.”

Pandari G

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in Generative AI and RAG systems

San Francisco, USA5y exp

“GenAI/LLM engineer with production deployments in both fintech and retail: built an AI-powered mortgage document analysis/automated underwriting pipeline at Fannie Mae (OCR + custom LLM) cutting underwriting review from 3–4 hours to under an hour with privacy-by-design controls. Also helped build Sephora’s GenAI product advisory bot using LangChain-orchestrated RAG (Azure GPT-4, Azure AI Search, MySQL HeatWave vector search), focusing on grounding, evaluation, and compliance-aware architecture choices.”

HEMANTH KUMAR KOTTAPALLI

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in GPU-accelerated LLMs and MLOps

GA, USA4y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered decision-support system for supply-chain planners that explains demand forecast changes using grounded retrieval from sales, promotion, inventory, and supplier data. Implemented strict anti-hallucination guardrails and latency optimizations, deployed as a real-time AWS API with monitoring, and reported ~15% forecast accuracy improvement and ~12% supply-chain risk reduction. Experienced orchestrating data/ML/LLM workflows with Airflow, LangChain/LangGraph-style patterns, and AWS Step Functions while partnering closely with non-technical business users via demos and example-based requirements.”

Anishkumar Mahalingam Iyer

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML infrastructure and applied machine learning

Palo Alto, CA2y exp

“Interned at Rivian where they built and deployed a production Whisper-based ASR + LLM real-time event labeling pipeline to help autonomous-vehicle engineers diagnose failures and route issues to triage teams. Also built a stateful multi-agent "Code Partner" developer assistant using LangGraph/LangChain (planner/router/coder/critique/tester) with evaluation, adversarial testing, and stakeholder-friendly communication practices.”

jiayu Zhao

Screened

Junior Quantitative Analyst and Full-Stack Engineer specializing in FinTech and web platforms

Chicago, IL6y exp

“Backend/distributed-systems engineer with AI infrastructure experience who built an AI-driven video generation platform, focusing on an asynchronous FastAPI-based orchestration layer between user APIs and heavy inference services. Strong in production instrumentation and latency/concurrency optimization; actively learning ROS 2 but has not yet worked on physical robotics or ROS-based deployments.”

Mathew Martin

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud data platforms and LLM applications

New York, USA4y exp

“LLM/agent builder with experience shipping production LLM features at an early-stage ed-tech mental wellness startup (conversation analysis + structured feedback via FastAPI, OpenAI API, Render, CI/CD). Also built a multi-step dining concierge agent using OpenSearch over Yelp data with fallback query relaxation, and has enterprise data engineering experience at Capgemini migrating databases to Snowflake with robust ETL normalization and data-quality handling.”

“Candidate founded a non-profit and developed unconventional funding mechanisms for it, including a book whose proceeds support the organization and a patented AI stack designed for licensing royalties. They also bring early startup experience and acquisition due-diligence exposure, and are specifically interested in contributing their technical and venture incubation background within an existing entrepreneurial company rather than founding a new one.”

“Built internal production LLM tools for engineering and support, including a customer-health assistant and a RAG-based incident explainer grounded in logs, metrics, and deploy data. Stands out for combining strong GenAI safety/evaluation practices with pragmatic backend engineering, delivering measurable impact like a 40% drop in data-help requests and answers in seconds instead of minutes or hours.”

Vamsi Reddy

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Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in healthcare and financial ML systems

Nashville, TN5y exp

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on experience shipping both predictive healthcare models and clinical GenAI assistants into production. They combine strong MLOps depth across Azure and AWS with healthcare-specific safety thinking, including PHI guardrails, retrieval grounding, and production monitoring, and they also built internal Python tooling for fraud ML workflows at Capital One.”

“Backend/ML engineer who built and operated a production WhatsApp assistant end-to-end using a modern RAG stack, delivering >90% automation with sub-2-second latency. Shows strong depth in retrieval quality, observability, evaluation, and incident handling, and has also applied similar AI workflow patterns to a clinical diagnostic assistant processing medical PDFs.”

“AI engineer and current tech lead building a RAG-based multi-agent QA platform for financial document analysis at significant scale (40,000-50,000 documents). They combine Python, CrewAI, FastAPI, Hugging Face embeddings, Pinecone, and AWS SageMaker to deliver retrieval, calculation, summarization, forecasting, and visualization workflows, while leading a small cross-functional team.”

Arpan Acharya

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Executive engineering leader specializing in AI, data platforms, and healthcare SaaS

Pittsburgh, PA21y exp

“Senior product and platform engineering leader with experience spanning startup-style incubation and large-scale enterprise transformation at Omnicell. Led architecture used by 400+ engineers, scaled a new data-focused team from 10 to 60, and drove an inventory optimization platform that helped secure the company’s first $100M+ multi-product contract.”

“AI product leader working at TAU Ventures Innovation Lab and previously at Verint and NYSHEX, with a track record of turning legacy and ambiguous AI opportunities into shippable, human-centered products. Notably led Verint’s evolution into a low-code AI orchestration platform with 20+ capabilities and measurable gains in CSAT, handle time, and recurring revenue, while consistently emphasizing trust, workflow fit, and human-in-the-loop design.”

“Product leader working at the intersection of AI, data governance, and industrial/energy operations. They have led a major finance-platform rewire for solar and wind asset forecasting at NextEra and previously built an AI-assisted field service app for fire alarm technicians across four business units, showing unusual depth in both enterprise data architecture and safety-critical mobile workflows.”