Vetted Llama Professionals

“Software engineer with experience across TCS, Rakuten, and USC who has owned production integrations and data pipelines end-to-end. Notably improved a trading platform payment flow by replacing fragile polling with a webhook-driven status system with robust fallbacks, and has shipped LLM-assisted design-to-webpage automation plus evaluation-driven prompt iteration (NYT Connections).”

Cristian Vega

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and RAG

California, null9y exp

“ML/NLP practitioner at Morf Health focused on unifying fragmented healthcare data by linking structured patient/encounter records with unstructured clinical notes. Has hands-on experience with transformer embeddings, vector databases, and domain fine-tuning, plus rigorous evaluation (precision/recall) and human-in-the-loop validation with clinical SMEs to make pipelines production-grade.”

Pavan Punna

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, MLOps, and healthcare-fintech AI

Dallas, TX5y exp

“Built and owned a production GPT-4 RAG assistant for clinical and enterprise query resolution, taking it from initial experiment to deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement. Their work cut resolution time from 45 minutes to under 2 minutes, achieved roughly 95% accuracy, and scaled to thousands of additional monthly queries while emphasizing safety and trust in a sensitive clinical domain.”

“Built and owned an enterprise LLM/RAG document intelligence platform for PNC Financial Services in a compliance-heavy environment, focused on grounded answers over internal finance and policy documents. Stands out for combining GenAI product delivery with production engineering discipline, delivering 60% faster document review and materially better answer quality while creating reusable FastAPI-based AI services for multiple teams.”

“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%.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Full-stack engineer focused on enterprise, cloud-native microservices—building Spring Boot backends and React/Angular front ends with strong security (OAuth/JWT), AWS infrastructure (RDS/S3), and containerized deployments (Docker/Kubernetes). Has delivered data-heavy order/account/transaction platforms and healthcare solutions including EHR integrations for secure patient data exchange, with emphasis on testing, performance tuning, and reliability (load testing).”

“Built and productionized a HIPAA-compliant LLM+RAG Clinical AI assistant at Optum, fine-tuning GPT/LLaMA on de-identified patient notes and integrating FAISS/Pinecone for sub-second retrieval; reported to cut diagnosis time by ~20 minutes per case. Experienced in orchestrating ML pipelines (Airflow, AWS Step Functions, Azure Data Factory) and in reliability techniques for LLM systems (grounding, citations, confidence filters, monitoring) while partnering closely with clinicians and compliance teams.”

“Built and deployed a GPT-based RAG enterprise search system for healthcare clinicians, emphasizing low-latency performance and reduced hallucinations while maintaining end-to-end HIPAA compliance. Demonstrates deep applied experience with PHI-safe data governance (detection/redaction/de-identification), secure Azure ML deployment patterns, and orchestration of production LLM workflows using LangChain and Airflow.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered internal operations automation platform using LangChain RAG (Pinecone) and FastAPI microservices, deployed on AWS EKS, serving 10k+ daily interactions. Implemented a rigorous evaluation/observability stack (golden datasets, prompt regression tests, MLflow, retrieval metrics, hallucination monitoring) that drove hallucinations below 2% and improved reliability, and partnered closely with non-technical ops leaders to cut manual lookup work by 60%+.”

“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.”

Rasika Deodhar

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Generative AI

Dublin, Ireland6y exp

“Full-stack engineer who shipped an end-to-end speech capability for an LLM chatbot UI, integrating OpenAI APIs and publishing via Google Apigee with client documentation. Has experience operating deployments with Jenkins/Kubernetes/Docker and monitoring with Datadog, and has worked in an innovation-center environment building rapid prototypes under ambiguity with tight stakeholder feedback loops.”

Kunal Mahato

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI, full-stack systems, and platform engineering

Virginia, USA6y exp

“Full-stack/AI engineer with experience spanning supply-chain product deployments, biomedical agentic search, and research-grade RAG evaluation. Stands out for owning customer-facing migrations at scale (including 216,000 historical shipments), building measurable LLM systems, and pairing AI experimentation with rigorous evals, rollout controls, and auditability.”

Naveena Musku

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in agentic AI and LLM systems

5y exp

“Backend engineer focused on productionizing LLM systems: built a FastAPI-based RAG and multi-agent automation platform deployed with Docker/Kubernetes, prioritizing safe execution and reduced hallucinations. Experienced in refactoring monolithic ML services with feature-flagged incremental rollouts, and implementing JWT/RBAC plus row-level security (e.g., Supabase) for secure, scalable APIs.”

“Built and productionized a multi-agent, LLM-powered document understanding system to replace manual review of long documents, using LangGraph orchestration plus RAG to reduce hallucinations. Implemented layered reliability controls (structured templates, checker agent, and human-in-the-loop feedback) and reported ~40% speed improvement after orchestration; also has hands-on Airflow experience for scheduled data pipelines.”

“LLM/agentic systems builder who has deployed multi-agent educational chatbots using LangChain + LangGraph, with LangFuse-based tracing and FastAPI hosting. Focused on production reliability and performance (latency reduction via agent decomposition and caching) and on evaluation/testing (routing test scenarios, LLM-as-judge). Partnered with product to add image understanding by parsing and storing images in S3, expanding chatbot coverage to 30+ books with images.”

“LLM/GenAI engineer with US Bank experience building a production financial-document intelligence platform using LangChain/LangGraph, GPT-4, and Amazon OpenSearch. Delivered a RAG-based assistant for compliance/audit teams with grounded, cited answers, focusing on reducing hallucinations and latency, and deployed securely on AWS (SageMaker/EKS) with CI/CD and evaluation tooling (LangSmith, RAGAS).”

Jianbo Wu

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM reasoning and inference optimization

Santa Clara, CA4y exp

“Former Field Application Engineer at TestTorrent supporting proprietary hardware deployments. Built and integrated customer-requested benchmarking (including MLPerf-style work) by adapting GPU benchmark implementations and validating performance against NVIDIA baselines, plus delivered a backend fix that enabled customer performance testing and helped close a deal. Also has experience running models on AWS/GCP with multi-instance cost optimization techniques like memory offloading.”

Aniket Janrao

Screened

Junior Data Scientist specializing in healthcare ML and clinical NLP/LLMs

Houma, LA2y exp

“Healthcare-focused LLM engineer who has built two production clinical applications: an automated structured clinical report generator from physician-patient conversations and a RAG-based chatbot for retrieving patient history (procedures, allergies, etc.). Demonstrates strong applied RAG expertise (overlapping chunking, entity dependency graphs, temporal filtering, graph RAG) to reduce hallucinations/omissions and partners closely with clinicians to automate hospital workflows.”

Chandra Shekar Akkandra

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in fraud detection and risk analytics in Financial Services

Newark, CA5y exp

“Finance-domain ML/LLM engineer who has shipped production systems including a RAG-based financial insights assistant with a custom post-generation validation layer that verifies atomic claims against retrieved source text to prevent hallucinations in compliance-critical workflows. Also built large-scale MLOps automation on AWS using Kubeflow + MLflow + CI/CD for fraud detection and credit risk models processing 500M+ transactions/day with a 99.99% uptime goal, and partnered closely with JP Morgan risk/compliance stakeholders on NLP-driven compliance monitoring.”

“At KPMG, built and productionized a secure RAG-based LLM assistant that lets business and risk stakeholders query data warehouses in natural language, reducing dependence on data engineers for ad-hoc analysis. Demonstrates strong production rigor (Airflow orchestration, CI/CD, containerization), retrieval/embedding tuning (rechunking, semantic abstraction for structured data), and reliability controls (confidence thresholds, refusal behavior, monitoring and canary evals).”

“Built and deployed LLM-powered agentic systems including a multi-agent travel planning assistant using LangChain, RAG (FAISS), real-time APIs, and a supervisor agent to manage coordination and reduce hallucinations. Also developed a Text-to-SQL system with schema-aware validation guardrails, and collaborated with drilling domain experts at CNPC USA to build an ML model predicting rate of penetration (ROP).”