Vetted Large Language Models (LLMs) Professionals

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Arif Shaikh

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive engineering leader specializing in AI-native platforms and distributed systems

Torrance, CA22y exp
Sony Pictures

Engineering leader and hands-on architect from Sony Pictures Entertainment who has led large-scale platform modernization, digital supply chain delivery, and multiple GenAI/RAG initiatives in media and rights-management domains. Notable for combining people leadership with deep AWS/LLM architecture work, including a 1M+ record GenAI title search system and AI-driven contract insights that reportedly helped unlock a 20% revenue increase.

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Umar Ali - Mid-level Data Analyst specializing in econometrics, ESG, and labor market research in Cambridge, MA

Umar Ali

Screened

Mid-level Data Analyst specializing in econometrics, ESG, and labor market research

Cambridge, MA5y exp
MIT Sloan School of ManagementColumbia University
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Bocheng Wan - Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in consumer robotics and machine learning in Sunnyvale, CA

Bocheng Wan

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in consumer robotics and machine learning

Sunnyvale, CA4y exp
AmazonRice University

Developer with a structured AI-assisted coding workflow centered on algorithmic rigor, type-safe scaffolding, and spec-driven modular design. Used Claude Code to help build an Android SDK for IPC, quickly ramping up on AIDL and compressing delivery including unit tests from several weeks to two weeks.

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SS

Executive software engineer and founder specializing in AI, robotics, and cloud systems

Sunnyvale, CA15y exp
AI TVNortheastern University

AI-native engineer who says 100% of current development is done through coding agents and reports roughly 10x productivity gains. Currently building 'AI TV,' a production video-generation system with multi-agent orchestration, including a motion-graphics pipeline where agents handle high-level design, low-level implementation, and iterative review. Particularly strong in designing codebases and workflows so AI systems can effectively use architectural and product context.

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HS

Hemant Shukla

Screened

Executive AI strategy and product leader specializing in industrial AI and frontier technologies

San Francisco Bay Area, CA33y exp
AVEVAUniversity of Sussex

25+ year professional exploring entrepreneurship; previously helped develop corporate venture capital at Siemens and AVEVA and ran end-to-end diligence through deal close, with heavy technical diligence on pre-seed/pre-revenue companies. Interested in building an AI-enabled hard lending/origination approach to reduce decision-to-close time and scale in a large lending market, and prefers VC studio/EIR models with paid roles rather than equity-only arrangements.

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SA

Shiva Arcot

Screened

Director of Security & Data Platform Engineering specializing in AI-driven cloud security

Sunnyvale, CA24y exp
ProofpointSanta Clara University

Player-coach engineering leader focused on scalable data security scanning and risk detection in hybrid cloud, owning architecture and core implementation of an incremental/parallel DSPM scanning engine. Shipped production improvements including 60% lower scan latency and 30% fewer false positives, with strong emphasis on correctness under concurrency, multi-tenant observability (SLOs/burn-rate alerts), and disciplined rollout practices (feature flags, shadow scans, canaries).

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Dennis Noto - Executive Technology & Security Leader specializing in FinTech, AI platforms, and enterprise modernization in Denver Metro Area

Dennis Noto

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Executive Technology & Security Leader specializing in FinTech, AI platforms, and enterprise modernization

Denver Metro Area36y exp
Etana CustodyUniversity of Oklahoma

Technology transformation leader who builds board-approved roadmaps and scales engineering orgs with strong Agile execution. Led large modernization efforts (e.g., Scottrade: 3,000 programs/4M LOC in 18 months) and scaled POCs into enterprise SaaS platforms using Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform for high-concurrency workloads.

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AP

Arlo Purcell

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI platforms and distributed systems

Remote15y exp
CloneForceOberlin College

Software engineer with experience across early-stage startups and production full-stack systems, including migration work from a Go monolith to a Node.js backend and a clinical research application deployed on Kubernetes in AWS. Has worked across Go, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, SQL databases, and B2B SaaS data-streaming products.

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Chinedu Enwere - Mid Software Engineer specializing in distributed backend systems in Redmond, WA

Mid Software Engineer specializing in distributed backend systems

Redmond, WA4y exp
MicrosoftUniversity of Texas at Austin

Engineering candidate deeply embedded in AI-native development, currently using tools like Cursor and Claude Code to generate most of their code and building internal agents for on-call monitoring, anomaly detection, and automated incident mitigation. Particularly interesting for teams exploring AI-first engineering workflows, multi-agent development setups, and operational automation at scale.

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KV

Executive platform engineering leader specializing in multi-cloud SaaS and data platforms

USA29y exp
WP EngineCity University of Seattle

Senior engineering leader with a rare blend of deep platform/infrastructure expertise and large-scale people leadership, spanning hands-on cloud-native architecture through management of globally distributed organizations of up to roughly 180 engineers. Particularly strong in Kubernetes platform modernization, reliability engineering, and scaling high-throughput SaaS systems while aligning platform investments to customer and business outcomes.

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Pavithra Kollu - Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and search systems in San Francisco, CA

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and search systems

San Francisco, CA5y exp
PerplexityNortheastern University

Backend/ML infrastructure engineer with experience at Perplexity and Meta building production evaluation, monitoring, and retrieval systems for AI search, autonomous agents, and LLM-powered workflows. Particularly strong in turning messy manual quality-review processes into reusable Python/FastAPI automation with measurable impact, including major gains in search relevance, latency, and grounded answer quality.

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Yishi Wang - Junior Machine Learning & Data Science professional specializing in LLMs and analytics in Chicago, IL

Yishi Wang

Screened

Junior Machine Learning & Data Science professional specializing in LLMs and analytics

Chicago, IL3y exp
MintelNorthwestern University

Amazon internship experience building production GenAI analytics for the returns organization: a multi-agent LLM+RAG system that let analysts query multiple heterogeneous data sources in natural language without hand-written SQL. Also built and operationalized four Apache Airflow DAGs for large-scale ETL, emphasizing observability and freshness-aware metadata to keep outputs accurate and up to date.

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Jun Ouyang - Principal Software Engineer / Tech Lead specializing in distributed systems, payments, and reliability in San Francisco, CA

Jun Ouyang

Screened

Principal Software Engineer / Tech Lead specializing in distributed systems, payments, and reliability

San Francisco, CA20y exp
DoorDashZhejiang University

Backend engineer with DoorDash experience building production-critical systems spanning LLM-based real-time safety moderation (SendBird callbacks + ChatGPT risk scoring with automated actions) and large-scale payments data pipelines (Kafka to CockroachDB with aggregation APIs). Also led cross-team reliability work to standardize SLOs and drove an incident redesign from batch pull to real-time push callbacks to eliminate critical-event latency.

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Vinay Ramrupe - Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM and enterprise generative AI in San Francisco, CA

Vinay Ramrupe

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM and enterprise generative AI

San Francisco, CA5y exp
DatabricksCleveland State University

ML/AI engineer focused on taking LLM systems from experimentation to reliable production, including enterprise copilot and RAG-based knowledge retrieval use cases. Stands out for combining data pipelines, model training, inference optimization, automated evaluation, and safety guardrails, with cited impact including 20% throughput gains and 30% less manual evaluation effort.

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SB

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in FinTech and digital transformation

Dublin, CA18y exp
Saralta

Engineering leader with deep hands-on experience across eCommerce, retail commerce, regulatory tech, and IP PBX systems, including building a no-code web application platform. Has managed organizations of up to 65 people while staying involved in architecture and production debugging, and cites measurable impact such as 50% efficiency gains, 100% productivity improvement, and 90% error reduction through partner/API remediation.

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AP

Engineering Manager specializing in full-stack web platforms, payments, and AI features

18y exp
DoorDash

Hands-on engineering manager on a large web product who built an AI-driven navigation search and led a major post-acquisition unification effort across 3 companies and 5–7 teams, including front-end architecture for 60+ developers. Also owns a high-scale BFF (800 endpoints) and drove a deep reliability fix involving Kubernetes/Envoy/Redis session bloat, adding monitoring and preventative controls.

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William Yang - Senior Software Engineer specializing in ML, search, and AI-powered backend systems in Jersey City, NJ

Senior Software Engineer specializing in ML, search, and AI-powered backend systems

Jersey City, NJ10y exp
AmazonRutgers University–New Brunswick
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Suresh Bathini - Executive Engineering Leader specializing in AI, Cloud Platforms, and Personalization at scale in Los Gatos, United States

Executive Engineering Leader specializing in AI, Cloud Platforms, and Personalization at scale

Los Gatos, United States31y exp
InformaticaUniversity of Louisiana at Lafayette
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Gaurav Madhav - Staff Software Engineer specializing in LLMs and ML platforms in Pleasanton, CA

Staff Software Engineer specializing in LLMs and ML platforms

Pleasanton, CA19y exp
Blackhawk NetworkJaypee Institute of Information Technology
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ML

Executive product leader specializing in AI, marketplaces, and advertising technology

Denver, CO15y exp
ShelfiAIUniversity of Florida
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Shikha Gupta - Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML, search, and recommendation systems in San Diego, CA

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML, search, and recommendation systems

San Diego, CA7y exp
AppleStony Brook University
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Chandra Soni - Director of Machine Learning specializing in GenAI platforms and enterprise AI/ML in San Ramon, CA

Director of Machine Learning specializing in GenAI platforms and enterprise AI/ML

San Ramon, CA24y exp
Capital OneBarkatullah University
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CL

Intern Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and model quantization

San Francisco, California1y exp
DoorDashUCLA
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SC

Senior Full-Stack AI/ML Engineer specializing in cloud data platforms and GenAI

Orlando, FL11y exp
Scale AIFlorida State University
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