Vetted Large Language Models (LLMs) Professionals

“Wayfair ML/AI engineer who has shipped and operated production LLM systems for both internal analytics and customer-facing assistants. Stands out for combining strong RAG/retrieval engineering with production-grade platform work—improving trust, reducing latency by ~30%, and cutting ad hoc reporting demand by ~50%.”

“Engineer with a process-driven approach to AI-assisted software development, focused on orchestrating where AI adds value while maintaining human review and verification. Has applied this in backend work such as an S3-based invoice pipeline and used multi-agent workflows to speed up large API refactors across many endpoints.”

Siva Harini Sri Janaki Raman

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in cloud data platforms

Dallas, TX3y exp

“Built an AI-powered internal support assistant at CVS Health using GPT-4, LangChain, and Pinecone, applying RAG, validation, and monitoring to reduce repetitive support tickets while protecting sensitive healthcare data. Stands out for a pragmatic approach to AI engineering: using multi-agent and LLM workflows to accelerate development while keeping systems constrained, observable, and production-friendly.”

“LLM/agentic systems practitioner who specializes in moving demo-only assistants into reliable, observable, cost-controlled production services. Strong in real-time diagnosis of complex agent workflows (including tracing, loop detection, and guardrails) and in customer-facing enablement—running workshops, building tailored PoCs, and partnering with sales to close deals by proving reliability in high-risk pilots.”

“Backend/platform engineer who has owned a Python/FastAPI results API and deployed it on Kubernetes with Helm and GitHub Actions-driven CI/CD. Demonstrates strong production operations mindset across performance tuning, monitoring, safe rollouts/rollbacks, and phased migrations, plus hands-on Kafka streaming experience focused on ordering and idempotency.”

Vineet Jujjavarapu

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native data platforms

College Park, MD3y exp

“Software engineer with hands-on experience using AI coding assistants and LangChain-based agent workflows in RAG/LLM projects. Stands out for combining practical multi-agent experimentation with strong grounding in system design, distributed systems, and production-minded validation of AI-generated outputs.”

“Entry-level software engineer with hands-on experience building a GPA predictor web app in a school project, focused on React/TypeScript frontend, authentication, and UX for AI-driven syllabus parsing. Stands out for translating ambiguous product ideas into a usable MVP, improving onboarding flow, and adding resilient loading/error states for unreliable parsing and API behavior.”

“Veteran software engineering leader who started as an early internet engineer in the mid-1990s and has since grown into Director/VP-level leadership across legacy web platforms, logistics systems, and modern data engineering. Particularly compelling for companies needing a hands-on leader who can modernize complex Perl/UNIX monoliths, manage large cross-functional teams, and deliver operational systems in warehouse, marketplace, and reverse-logistics environments.”

“AI/full-stack engineer who has built a production-style LLM knowledge assistant from scratch, combining FastAPI, LangChain, FAISS, semantic retrieval, and a user-facing chat interface. Stands out for owning both the technical architecture and the product usability layer, including latency optimization, prompt refinement, and source-backed responses to improve trust for non-technical users.”

“Doctoral researcher who built an end-to-end deep learning thesis project translating nutritional time-series logs into natural-language behavioral health summaries for users such as Type 2 diabetics. Particularly interesting for AI/ML roles that value research rigor, ambiguity tolerance, and thoughtful evaluation, even though their experience is primarily academic and side-project based rather than production industry systems.”

“LLM/RAG engineer with production deployments in highly regulated domains (Frost Bank and GE Healthcare). Built secure, explainable document-grounded Q&A systems using LoRA fine-tuning, strict RAG with confidence thresholds, and citation-based responses; also established evaluation/monitoring (golden QA sets, hallucination tracking, drift) and achieved ~40% latency reduction through retrieval/prompt tuning.”

“LLM/RAG engineer who took a PDF-heavy agent from prototype to production for an Africa-based client, combining Pinecone retrieval with robust PDF parsing (unstructured.io, OCR, structured table extraction). Demonstrates strong production mindset (eval metrics, prompt hardening, security/scalability) and measurable optimization impact (30% efficiency gain, 2x faster responses), and has helped close deals by building security-focused POCs for skeptical IT stakeholders.”

“AI engineer who deployed a production LLM-powered safety system for an education platform, combining rule-based checks, multi-LLM verification, and selective context (prompt+image vs image-only) to prevent explicit prompts/images from getting through. Strong focus on reliability via benchmarking, trace-based failure analysis, and continuous improvement driven by stakeholder feedback and manual review.”

“Backend engineer who has delivered large, measurable performance wins (10x throughput, 67% latency reduction) by combining Flask microservices, Redis caching, and AWS autoscaling/observability. Has hands-on depth in SQLAlchemy/Postgres optimization and production scaling pitfalls (cache consistency, connection exhaustion), plus experience deploying real-time ML inference (XGBoost) on AWS Lambda and building secure multi-tenant Kubernetes isolation.”

“Software engineer with production experience building a serverless monolith and multi-layer video pipeline at easyML, plus hands-on integration of multiple LLM providers (Grok/Claude/OpenAI) into a full-stack app. Interested in robotics via computer vision (OpenCV/OpenMMLab), with a strong real-time systems mindset around SLOs, latency, determinism, and reliability; also has low-level OS experience writing a keyboard device driver.”

“Built and deployed a production compliance automation RAG system (at Citi) that generates citation-backed, schema-validated risk summaries for regulatory document review. Emphasizes regulated-environment reliability with retrieval-only grounding, abstention, confidence thresholds, and immutable audit logging, plus orchestration using LangChain/LangGraph and Airflow. Reported ~60% reduction in compliance review effort while maintaining high precision and traceability.”

“Built a production internal LLM-powered knowledge assistant using a RAG architecture (Python, LLM APIs, cloud services) that answers employee questions with sourced, grounded responses from internal documents. Demonstrates strong practical depth in retrieval tuning (chunking/metadata filters), orchestration with LangChain, and production reliability practices (latency optimization, automated embedding refresh, evaluation metrics, logging/monitoring) while partnering closely with non-technical operations teams.”

Jaideep bommidi

Screened

Senior ML Engineer & Data Scientist specializing in LLM agents, retrieval/ranking, and MLOps

Denton, TX8y exp

“Machine Learning Engineer currently at Webster Bank building an enterprise-scale LLM agent for Temenos Journey Manager/Maestro, using RAG-style multi-stage retrieval with FAISS/Pinecone, hybrid dense+sparse search, and LoRA fine-tuning optimized via NDCG/MAP and A/B testing. Previously handled messy incident/telemetry data at Deuta Werke GmbH with deterministic + fuzzy entity resolution, and has strong production data engineering experience across Spark/Hadoop and Python ETL systems.”

Bryan West

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI, cloud infrastructure, and full-stack development

Chantilly, VA17y exp

“ML/NLP engineer who built a production system that converts large-scale unstructured text into a connected, searchable knowledge base using spaCy + Sentence Transformers/FAISS and a Neo4j knowledge graph, with BERTopic and XGBoost for organization/labeling. Strong focus on production-grade Python workflows (FastAPI/Celery, Pydantic validation, Docker, AWS ECS/Lambda) and robust entity resolution with measurable precision/recall and human review for low-confidence matches.”

Sai Vamsi

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in backend microservices and cloud-native systems

TX, USA4y exp

“ServiceNow engineer who built an AI-powered ticket summarizer end-to-end (RAG with vector DB + GPT, Redis latency optimizations, fallback summarization, and a React UI widget for agent feedback). Also has hands-on ROS 2 experience building real-time sensor-fusion nodes (LiDAR/IMU), debugging SLAM/navigation issues via rosbag + EKF tuning, and bridging heterogeneous robots by translating ROS 2 topics to MQTT/JSON. Strong DevOps background with Docker, Jenkins CI/CD, and Kubernetes orchestration for scalable deployments.”

Preetham Reddy Konuganti

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI applications and scalable web platforms

San Jose, CA2y exp

“Full-stack engineer with customer-facing delivery experience who built and deployed a multi-platform social media automation product (Next.js/Node/MongoDB) and optimized it using BullMQ/Redis background jobs, retries, and rate limiting for reliable posting at scale. Also delivered an AI-powered false-positive analysis service in a cybersecurity context, resolving production pipeline stalls via log-driven debugging, parallelization, caching, and LLM guardrails.”

Divyansh Agarwal

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in computer vision and LLM applications

New York, NY3y exp

“Built and led an autonomous driving software effort for Formula Student, owning the full autonomy stack (perception, planning, control) orchestrated in ROS. Implemented stereo depth + YOLO object detection, RRT/RRT* planning, and a robust SLAM pipeline (Kalman filter, submapping) while leveraging Gazebo simulation and modern deployment tooling (Docker/Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions CI/CD).”

SAITEJA MALLEMPUDI

Screened

Senior Data Scientist and AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI and cloud ML

Chicago, IL6y exp

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on experience owning systems from experimentation through deployment and monitoring, including a Bank of Montreal project that improved timely interventions by 12%. Also brings GenAI/RAG experience with evaluation and safety guardrails, plus clinical NLP pipeline work extracting medication data from notes for patient risk prediction.”

“Backend/AI infrastructure engineer focused on production-ready LLM systems and distributed workflows. They described building a RAG-based multi-step agent with strong reliability controls, evaluation loops, and graceful degradation that improved latency by 30%, retrieval accuracy by 15%, and reduced support workload by 40%.”