Vetted Large Language Models (LLMs) Professionals

“Software engineer with experience across data engineering and backend/platform work: owned a Databricks/PySpark real-time pipeline powering customer dashboards with a 15-minute SLA, and helped modernize an investor web app from JSP to React/TypeScript with API + SQL/materialized-view performance improvements. Also contributed to breaking a Java monolith into microservices (Redis + gRPC on AWS EKS) and built an EC2-deployed Play Store/App Store crawler that reduced third-party data costs.”

“Built a college AI chatbot during a master’s program, owning the full Python/Flask backend plus Google Gemini integration and a Postgres persistence layer (course info + conversation history), including caching/performance tuning. Also deployed and migrated ETL/ELT workloads from AWS Lambda into Kubernetes/EKS with GitHub Actions-based GitOps CI/CD, IRSA permissions, and Secrets Manager/S3/Postgres connectivity.”

“JavaScript/Node.js engineer with open-source contribution experience (Mongoose) focused on connection pooling, test reliability, and memory/resource management. Has diagnosed and fixed real-world performance issues in an insurance claims application and improved resilience via failover DB design. Also experienced producing compliance/governance documentation for an EU-based biopharma, enabling stakeholders to make decisions quickly amid changing regulations.”

Ramcharan Reddy

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Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in FinTech platforms and cloud-native microservices

Texas, USA6y exp

“Backend engineer focused on AI-enabled systems, having built a production-style RAG pipeline (vector search + LLM) exposed via Python/Flask endpoints with strong observability and hallucination-reduction techniques. Demonstrates deep performance work in PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy (5x faster analytics queries) and high-throughput optimization using Celery + Redis (800ms to 120ms latency, 3x throughput), plus schema-per-tenant multi-tenancy with tenant-aware middleware and logging.”

Shivani Sharma

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Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in Cloud, DevOps, and MLOps

Boston, MA3y exp

“Built and productionized a recommendation system from notebook prototype into a low-latency, scalable Cloud Run service using Docker, FastAPI, Terraform, CI/CD (GitHub Actions), and MLOps tooling (Vertex AI, MLflow). Experienced diagnosing real-time workflow issues using structured logging/ELK and GCP metrics, including resolving intermittent 504s by fixing unbounded SQL and adding caching. Also partners with sales/customer teams (Wasabi) to deliver tailored demos, troubleshoot, and drive onboarding/adoption.”

Yusuf Abdikadir

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in 3D simulation, digital twins, and robotics

London, United Kingdom6y exp

“UK-based Unity developer who built a 3D simulation/digital-twin platform for an autonomous-vehicle startup, integrating Unity environments with external robotics stacks, web APIs, virtual sensing, and dynamic traffic systems. Interested in moving into VR, though has not shipped VR/Meta Quest titles yet.”

“Backend engineer who built an AI-powered grant matchmaking platform for researchers and professors, combining semantic matching, embeddings, and Semantic Scholar enrichment with rule-based eligibility filters. Stands out for pragmatic AI engineering: they focused on reliability through confidence scoring, logging, manual validation, and production-minded backend design.”

“AI/full-stack product engineer currently owning Fleck Intelligent Survey Chatbot at E15, a production RAG analytics assistant embedded in Compass Group dashboards for 300+ field operators. Stands out for combining LLM orchestration, analytics engineering, and strong systems thinking—cutting hallucinated numeric answers from 14% to 2%, reducing backlog 62%, and previously delivering a low-level protocol redesign at Amadeus that cut P99 latency by 56%.”

Manoj Manjunatha

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack systems and applied AI

Remote, USA4y exp

“Built the backend for “codeGuard,” an AI-powered static code analysis platform, using FastAPI and Docker. Structured the system into API/service/execution layers and addressed heavy-workload container resource/cleanup issues via strict CPU/memory limits and a queued execution model.”

“Backend/microservices engineer (Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, Angular microfrontends) with Teradata experience building distributed analytics/query routing platforms and delivering 20–30% latency reductions through event-driven redesign and reliability hardening. Also built and shipped an end-to-end multimodal medical imaging AI feature (LLaVA/Mistral 7B + LoRA) with production guardrails like confidence-based human review, drift monitoring, and audit logs.”

“Accenture engineer who owned an insurance e-application end-to-end and drove incremental releases that reduced recurring production issues. Also built a TypeScript/React (Next.js) + NestJS microservices platform using PostgreSQL, Redis, Stripe, and Kafka, with strong focus on decoupling, eventual consistency, and scaling consumers under load. Created a hackathon chat-based internal assistant that used live form context and documentation-grounded answers to help agents resolve customer queries during form filling.”

“Built and deployed a production SecureAIChatBot (RAG-based) for secure internal information retrieval, using embeddings/vector search, GPT models, monitoring, and safety filters. Focused on real-world production challenges like latency and output consistency, applying caching, retrieval scoping, smaller models, and controlled prompting, and used LangChain to orchestrate the end-to-end workflow.”

“BNY Mellon engineer who has built and operated production AI systems end-to-end: a LangChain/Pinecone RAG platform scaled via FastAPI + Kubernetes to 1000 RPM with 99.9% uptime, supported by monitoring and data-drift detection. Also deep in data/infra orchestration (Airflow, Dagster, Terraform on AWS/EMR/EC2), processing 500GB+ daily and delivering measurable reliability and performance gains, plus strong compliance-facing model explainability using SHAP and Tableau.”

“Full-stack engineer focused on productionizing LLM applications, including an Android privacy-policy risk summarization app (Kotlin/React Native + FastAPI + Ollama) that cut response times from ~10s to ~5–6s via batching, caching, async, and event-driven architecture. Currently at PRGX building an LLM-based legal contract clause extraction system, partnering closely with legal/procurement SMEs to create schemas, labeled datasets, and evaluation pipelines that improved accuracy from 70% to 85%. Also has experience architecting real-time voice/LLM systems with streaming microservices (Kafka, Kubernetes, gRPC/WebSockets) and an avatar chatbot pipeline (TalkingHead, Google TTS, AnythingLLM).”

“Built production LLM tooling focused on reproducibility and verification by enforcing JSON schemas and using multi-step checks with tools like Firecrawl and Perplexity. Also implemented the containerized infrastructure layer for a 9-agent app on K3s, dealing with rolling updates and uptime, and has experience advising a non-technical builder on search grounding and LLM data-flow design.”

“Infrastructure/platform engineer with hands-on ownership of on-prem OpenStack/VMware and Kubernetes clusters deployed via Kubespray, including OpenStack-integrated networking and Ceph-backed storage. Built a GitOps-style Terraform delivery model in GitLab with CI/CD and security scanning (SAST/DAST/Checkov), and operated a hybrid on-prem/AWS ecommerce architecture with PCI-segmented payment systems over site-to-site VPN.”

Brian Cho

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Mid-level Robotics Researcher specializing in robot learning and surgical robotics

Salt Lake City, UT7y exp

“Robotics software/ML engineer who led an end-to-end transformer-based real-time 3D shape prediction system for a tendon-driven continuum robot on a KUKA arm, including ROS2 multi-camera RGB-D data collection, multi-view calibration, and optimized ICP point-cloud registration. Also optimized an online sensing + motion planning loop for robot-assisted surgery using Bayesian Hilbert maps and A* search, and has Gazebo + RL experience for a robotic salamander.”

Hritvik Gupta

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Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and healthcare AI

San Francisco, CA3y exp

“Built and scaled an AI-powered voice/chat patient engagement platform at Penn Medicine from early prototype into production clinical workflows, focusing on latency, edge cases, and user trust. Strong in LLM reliability engineering (structured prompts, validation/fallbacks), real-time troubleshooting with observability, and cross-functional enablement through pilots, demos, and sales/customer partnership.”

“Analytics professional with hands-on experience unifying marketing-platform data through Fivetran and Snowflake, building reporting views, and catching source-to-report issues like timezone-driven spend discrepancies. They also owned subscription LTV/cohort analysis and engagement tracking initiatives, partnering with e-commerce, product, and senior leadership to turn behavioral and demographic data into dashboards, lead-qualification metrics, and lifecycle marketing insights.”

“Built a production, real-time clinical documentation system at HCA that converts doctor–patient conversations into structured clinical summaries using speech-to-text, LLM summarization, and RAG. Demonstrated measurable gains from medical-domain fine-tuning (clinical concept recall +18%, ROUGE-L 0.62 to 0.74) while meeting HIPAA constraints via PHI anonymization and encryption, and deployed via Docker/FastAPI with CI/CD and monitoring.”

“Research-heavy ML/AI candidate with a PhD/publications background who translated LLM evaluation and clinical summarization techniques into production at ModMed. They owned an end-to-end healthcare GenAI pipeline that cut clinician documentation time from ~22 minutes to ~7-8 minutes, reduced token costs by ~30%, and built an internal evaluation framework later adopted by multiple teams.”

John Chance

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Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in conversational AI and healthcare ML

Greenwood, LA9y exp

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of both classical recommender systems and safety-sensitive LLM agent platforms. They combine production MLOps depth with behavioral health domain experience, including clinical safety validation, explainability, and multi-agent orchestration, and cite measurable impact in both business metrics and latency reduction.”

“GenAI/ML engineer with hands-on experience building production financial intelligence and document summarization systems at Citibank. Stands out for combining LLM fine-tuning, hybrid RAG, multi-agent workflows, and strong MLOps/observability practices to deliver measurable business impact, including 60% faster analyst retrieval, 31% higher precision, and 99%+ uptime.”

kartikeya tiwari

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI systems and platform engineering

Bangalore, India6y exp

“Backend/AI engineer with experience owning production systems in fintech and product startups, including a predictive scaling platform that cut AWS spend by 40% and an ambiguous social-intelligence feature that doubled MRR from $50K to $100K. Also building AI search and document-processing workflows, with reported 99.7% extraction accuracy and hands-on use of both classical forecasting and modern LLM stacks.”