Vetted Large Language Models (LLMs) Professionals

“Backend engineer who built a production retrieval-augmented narrative analysis platform for 100-page screenplays using a Node/Express orchestrator and a Python/FastAPI AI engine, including a key redesign from disk-based uploads to in-memory streaming to eliminate Windows file-lock failures. Also led a refactor of a municipal vehicle tracking system into a C-based distributed engine handling 4M+ daily packets with 99.99% data integrity and automation that reduced manual ops by 50%.”

“Production-focused ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership across classical ML and GenAI systems, from CV/NLP services to enterprise RAG. Stands out for combining research-to-production execution with measurable business impact: 40% processing-efficiency gains, 35% fewer support tickets, 5x latency improvement, and 3x throughput gains while maintaining safety and quality.”

“Built a real-time AI meeting assistant using a Chrome extension that streams audio to a backend LLM workflow with transcription and RAG, then hardened it for production with queue-based streaming, async pipelines, security controls, and full observability. Also has hands-on startup sales experience, partnering with customers to define measurable technical win conditions (latency/accuracy) to close deals and drive adoption.”

“Data scientist who has built production LLM agents (GPT-4o + LangChain + RAG) to automate analyst-style ad hoc CSV analysis with guardrails and GPT-as-a-judge evaluation. Also delivered an explainable healthcare NLP system for ICD code classification by collaborating closely with clinicians, using a hybrid rule-based decision tree + BERT model to reach 97% accuracy and cut manual review time.”

“Built and shipped a production AI/LLM agent-based, event-driven credit underwriting/decisioning workflow that automated document understanding, retrieval, risk scoring, and compliance checks—cutting turnaround from ~90 days to ~5 minutes while boosting throughput 200x+ and approvals ~50%. Experienced with Airflow/Prefect orchestration, Redis/RabbitMQ queues, rigorous eval/monitoring, and close collaboration with non-technical underwriting teams.”

“Startup-style full-stack/backend engineer with hands-on AWS architecture experience who shipped an LLM-driven assessment-question automation feature (Python microservice calling AWS Bedrock via SQS, deployed on Lambda) with strong validation/guardrails and retry strategies. Also improved production scalability by moving a CPU/IO-heavy file upload path out of a Go API into a queue/Lambda design monitored with CloudWatch, and has React+TypeScript experience optimizing analytics dashboards.”

“Built and shipped a production multi-agent LLM system at Solena that automated internal project intake, validation, reporting, and stakeholder communications using Python, SQL, and LangChain, with strong emphasis on reliability (structured validation, safe defaults, logging, and state tracking). Also used LangGraph to orchestrate a multi-step video summarization pipeline, and has experience partnering with non-technical stakeholders to define “completion” criteria and reporting needs.”

Sree Manasa Vuppu

Screened

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

Charlotte, NC5y exp

“Internship at Discovery Education building a production LLM/RAG chatbot that let marketing and sales teams query and interpret Looker/BI dashboards in natural language, with responses grounded in compliance and state education standards. Emphasizes rigorous evaluation (faithfulness/precision/recall/latency) plus user-feedback analytics, and used LangChain for orchestration, chunking/context-window control, and integration with enterprise sources like SharePoint.”

Abhinav Malkoochi

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI and automation

Dallas, TX1y exp

“Startup-focused builder who created and iterated an MVP for Enky, a two-sided marketplace connecting music artists and creators, informed by hundreds of customer interviews. Implemented CI/CD, monitoring (PostHog/Sentry), and a complex payout pipeline involving scraping social platforms and routing escrow payments via Stripe, and has a track record of quickly debugging production issues (e.g., iOS-specific OAuth cookie failures).”

“Built and owned a production-grade RAG/LLM support automation system on AWS using GPT-4, Pinecone, FastAPI, and Redis, taking it from initial experimentation through deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement. Their work reduced support workload and ticket volume by about 40%, improved CSAT and self-service resolution, and they also created shared Python/LLM infrastructure that accelerated other teams' delivery from weeks to days.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based multilingual analytics assistant for healthcare operations, enabling non-technical teams to query claims/EHR and risk metrics with grounded explanations. Demonstrates strong end-to-end LLM system engineering (retrieval tuning, re-ranking, hallucination controls, verification layers) plus workflow orchestration (Airflow/Composer/Step Functions) and stakeholder-driven iteration via prototypes and dashboards.”

“Built and deployed a production generative-AI copilot at Tungsten that automates invoice/form extraction template creation, reducing weeks of manual model-building work. Combines fine-tuned LLMs (PyTorch/HuggingFace) with OpenCV layout grounding to reduce hallucinations, and runs an end-to-end Kubeflow-based MLOps pipeline with drift monitoring, canary releases, and automated retraining.”

“Founder building SmartTreeQuote, an AI-powered quoting and lead qualification platform for tree service companies, created from direct operator pain points and validated via an image-based remote quoting workflow. Has already built a targeted customer acquisition motion resulting in 5 active paying subscribers, and brings experience proposing AI-driven workflow automation to remove operational bottlenecks in a high-volume install environment.”

“Software engineer who built an AI marketing/outreach agent end-to-end: Next.js (App Router + TypeScript) frontend integrated with a Python/Django REST backend using LLMs (Gemini, ChatGPT-4o) and SQL databases. Demonstrated measurable performance wins—improved a 100k-record UI by 15% (Lighthouse) and cut a Postgres-backed search API from ~3s to ~1ms via indexing—while also owning post-launch monitoring (webhooks/cron, New Relic/CloudWatch) and customer support.”

Rethvick Sriram Yugendra Babu

Screened

Junior AI/ML Software Engineer specializing in Generative AI and scalable data pipelines

Tucson, AZ2y exp

“Built and operated large-scale biodiversity/ecological research platforms, integrating 50+ heterogeneous global datasets into a unified BIEN 3 schema on PostgreSQL/PostGIS and improving data consistency by 35%. Strong production engineering background (Linux monitoring, CI/CD performance gates, Docker on AWS/Azure) plus applied AI work building a Python RAG system (0.90 precision) and halving latency with Elasticsearch.”

Taruni Reddy Ampojwala

Screened

Mid-level GenAI Engineer specializing in LLM agents and RAG systems

Brooklyn, NY4y exp

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based LLM assistant that answers day-to-day operational questions from internal PDFs/SOPs, with strong emphasis on data consistency (metadata versioning, confidence thresholds, conflict handling) and low-latency retrieval at scale. Experienced designing and orchestrating multi-agent LLM workflows (retrieval/validation/generation) and pipeline orchestration for ingestion/embedding/vector-store updates, plus iterative delivery with non-technical operations/business stakeholders.”

Yashwant Gandham

Screened

Junior Machine Learning & Backend Engineer specializing in LLM systems and ML infrastructure

Boulder, CO1y exp

“Built and deployed production RAG-based document search/Q&A systems (DocChat and an internship marketing RAG), using a React + FastAPI stack on GCP with docs stored in GCP buckets and retrieval via embeddings/vector DB. Emphasizes cost/performance tradeoffs (reported ~40% cost reduction) and ships via Docker (Railway), with load/API testing using JMeter and Swagger; regularly collaborates with a CEO stakeholder to iterate and push changes to production.”

YERTAYEV ARMAN

Screened

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

Seoul, South Korea

“Robotics/SLAM-focused engineer who worked on RT-Appearance mapping using NetVLAD, replacing traditional CV feature extraction with a deep learning approach to improve loop closure in repetitive green environments. Has hands-on ROS1/ROS2 experience (including bridging), point-cloud alignment with G-ICP for sensor-parameter matching, and Gazebo+Docker simulation testing for motion planning/perception.”

“Software engineer with hands-on experience across platform modernization, production AI agents, and workflow automation. They led a monolith-to-microservices migration that increased deployment speed from weekly to daily, built a self-healing GPT-powered browser agent with an 85% autonomous recovery rate, and founded/ran ZapDash, where they hardened Kafka-based integrations against silent data loss.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-powered customer support system using a RAG architecture with structured document ingestion, embedding retrieval, and prompt templates for product-specific grounding. Experienced diagnosing live agent/workflow failures (e.g., retrieval regressions after new docs) by refactoring ingestion/chunking and adding grounding constraints plus evaluation benchmarks. Also supports go-to-market by joining discovery calls, shaping MVP workflows into demos/prototypes, and creating post-launch documentation to drive adoption.”

Vishnu Priyan Sellam Shanmugavel

Screened

Mid-Level Applied AI Engineer specializing in LLM services, RAG, and OCR/NLP extraction

Arlington, VA4y exp

“Backend/platform engineer who built and evolved a large-scale healthcare document processing system (OCR + LLM orchestration) in Python/FastAPI on Google Cloud (Cloud Run, GCS, Firestore), processing ~1.5M files per batch and tens of millions overall. Emphasizes reliability and operational safety via deterministic IDs, idempotent state machines, strong observability, and self-healing reconciliation, plus disciplined migrations using dual-run validation and incremental rollouts.”

“Built and shipped Site Audit AI, a production multi-turn Claude-based agent that autonomously crawls websites, calls tools, and generates scored audit reports—reducing a manual 2-3 hour developer workflow to under 60 seconds. Also brings practical experience integrating inconsistent payroll/HR data across platforms like QuickBooks and Keka, with a strong focus on validation, fault tolerance, and resumable workflows.”

“Marketing and product-focused analytics candidate with hands-on experience turning messy large-scale data from Hadoop/HDFS, Azure Data Lake, and transaction systems into validated reporting tables. They combine SQL and Python automation with strong metric design, cohort/retention analysis, and stakeholder-friendly dashboards, including a reported 30% query performance improvement and weekly reporting automation.”