Vetted LlamaIndex Professionals

Manasa Pantra

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI, LLM systems, and full-stack development

Stony Brook, NY2y exp

“Product-focused full-stack engineer at startup (Zippy) who shipped a production multi-agent AI system for restaurant operations plus payments workflows. Built end-to-end: RAG grounded on a Notion knowledge base, structured function-calling task routing, FastAPI/JWT multi-tenant backend, and a polished React+TypeScript owner dashboard. Has real production incident experience (duplicate Stripe webhooks) and reports ~94% task-routing accuracy under load.”

“Interned at Larsen & Toubro where they built and deployed an agentic RAG document question-answering system to reduce time spent searching documents and improve trustworthiness. Implemented ReAct-style multi-step orchestration with LangChain/LlamaIndex plus evidence-bounded generation, grounding/citations, and rigorous evaluation—cutting latency ~40%, hallucinations ~35%, and unsafe outputs ~40% while collaborating closely with non-technical business/ops stakeholders.”

“LLM/ML engineer who has shipped an enterprise RAG-based Q&A system (LangChain/LlamaIndex, FAISS + Azure Cognitive Search, GPT-3.5/4 via OpenAI/Azure OpenAI) to production on Docker + Kubernetes/OpenShift, tackling hallucinations, retrieval quality, latency/cost, and RBAC/IAM security. Also partnered with operations leaders to turn manual reporting into an LLM-powered summarization and forecasting dashboard driven by real KPIs and iterative stakeholder feedback.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM system that scraped Google Maps menu photos, extracted structured prices via OpenAI, and cross-validated them against website-scraped data to automate data-quality verification at scale (replacing costly manual contractor checks). Demonstrates strong reliability instincts—precision-first prompting, output gating with image-quality metadata, and fuzzy matching/RAG techniques—plus solid orchestration (Dagster/Airflow) and observability (Sentry, Prometheus/Grafana).”

“Currently at Huntington Bank, built a production-grade RAG system that helps business/operations teams get grounded answers from large volumes of internal enterprise documents. Owns ingestion and FastAPI backend, tuned hybrid BM25+vector retrieval and chunking for relevance, and evaluates reliability with metrics and observability (LangSmith, CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana) while partnering closely with non-technical stakeholders.”

Pavan Punna

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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.”

premkumar narla

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Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI, RAG, and enterprise ML systems

Chicago, IL5y exp

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on experience at Morgan Stanley building production fraud detection and enterprise RAG systems. Stands out for owning systems end-to-end—from experimentation and deployment to monitoring and iteration—and for delivering measurable impact, including an 18% reduction in fraud false positives, 40% lower inference latency, and internal tooling that reduced model deployment time from days to hours.”

ASHISH DONDAPATI

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Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI for Financial Services

San Francisco, USA6y exp

“ML/AI engineer with strong financial-services domain experience who has built production systems spanning trade anomaly detection, investment-research RAG, and agentic LLM workflows. Particularly compelling for teams needing someone who can take ML/GenAI from prototype to monitored production while balancing compliance, latency, cost, and reliability.”

“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%.”

Siva Harini Sri Janaki Raman

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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.”

Aditya Rao

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend, AI, and distributed systems

San Jose, CA5y exp

“Software engineer with 4.5 years of startup experience across programmatic advertising, health tech e-commerce, and automobile diagnostics, plus both bachelor's and master's degrees in CSE. Built an agentic global supply chain platform in a hackathon using a highly structured AI-first workflow, and has hands-on experience designing multi-agent debate systems, rollout safeguards, and observability-driven production fixes.”

“Built a production AI-driven contract/document extraction system combining OCR, normalization, and LLM schema-guided extraction, orchestrated with PySpark and Azure Data Factory and loaded into PostgreSQL for analytics. Emphasizes reliability at scale—using strict JSON schemas, confidence scoring, targeted retries, and multi-layer validation to control hallucinations while processing thousands of PDFs per hour—and partners closely with non-technical business teams to refine fields and deliver usable dashboards.”

“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.”

“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.”

“ML/LLM engineer who has shipped production RAG systems (LangChain + HF Transformers + FAISS) with hybrid retrieval and cross-encoder re-ranking, deployed via FastAPI/Docker/Kubernetes and monitored with MLflow. Also partnered with wealth advisors at Edward Jones to deliver a client retention model with SHAP-driven explanations and a dashboard that improved trust, adoption, and reduced high-value client churn.”