Vetted LoRA Professionals

“Robotics/perception engineer focused on production-grade, real-time systems—optimized self-supervised segmentation on Jetson Nano from ~6–10 FPS to ~20–25 FPS and scaled experimentation/deployment by unifying 15+ edge models in a modular PyTorch Lightning framework. Experienced integrating distributed LiDAR-camera fusion via gRPC/protobuf into mission planning, migrating ROS1→ROS2 Foxy for multi-drone perception, and adding Prometheus-based observability for long-running deployments.”

“Built and deployed NeuroDoc, a production-grade RAG system for PDF Q&A that delivers citation-backed answers with strong anti-hallucination guardrails. Experienced in orchestrating and scaling ML/LLM pipelines with Kubernetes, Airflow/Prefect, and PyTorch Distributed, and in building rigorous evaluation and citation-verification tooling to ensure reliability in production.”

“Built and shipped an AI-powered driver ranking/assignment system at AffirmoAI using LLM intent classification + RAG over pgvector/Postgres, served via FastAPI with a React UI that explains scores. Drove measurable improvements through optimization and iteration (latency down to <800ms, adoption 60%→90%+) and implemented rigorous eval loops with dispatcher ground truth plus cold-start handling for new drivers.”

Sai Bandaru

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in fraud detection and LLM systems

Boston, MA6y exp

“At FiVerity, built and deployed a production LLM/RAG-based Information Gathering Tool for credit union fraud analysts that generates auditable investigation summaries from verified evidence. Focused on high-stakes constraints—hallucination prevention, cross-entity leakage controls, compliance/PII-safe monitoring, and latency—while also shipping customer-facing agentic workflows using CrewAI and LangGraph in close partnership with fraud and compliance stakeholders.”

Rahul Ganesan

Screened

Intern AI Engineer specializing in LLM systems, RAG, and cloud data pipelines

Washington, PA0y exp

“Built and deployed a production Dockerized multimodal (voice+text) LLM agent for knowledge management that retrieves from Notion and documents and falls back to Tavily-powered web search with citations when internal notes are missing. Emphasizes production reliability via model-switching fallbacks, caching, strict structured outputs (Pydantic/JSON schema), and MCP-based orchestration with state-aware gating and monitoring to reduce redundant tool calls and improve success rates.”

“ML/LLM engineer with production experience building medical RAG systems to automate chart review, including retrieval + re-ranking and rigorous evaluation. Notably uncovered errors/bias in physician-curated ground truth by tracing answers back to source note chunks and presented evidence to an academic partner, accelerating deployment. Also built a RAG-based FAQ chatbot for a health insurance company and delivered it to non-technical stakeholders via demos.”

“LLM/agent engineer who built a production multi-agent research automation system using LangGraph (planner, retriever with FAISS, supervisor, evaluator) with structured outputs and citation tracking for traceable reports. Emphasizes reliability and operations—LangSmith-based observability, multi-level testing, hallucination mitigation, and latency/cost controls—plus prior experience as a Computer Vision Software Engineer at Deepsight AI Labs working directly with non-technical customers.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG system at CVS to automate clinical documents, addressing PHI compliance, retrieval accuracy, and latency; achieved a 35–40% reduction in review effort through chunking and FP16/INT8 optimization. Also has experience translating AI outputs into actionable insights for non-technical stakeholders (sports analysts).”

“Built a production LLM-powered workflow at Frontier to extract structured signals from messy, high-volume documents and route work to the right teams, replacing a multi-day, error-prone manual process. Emphasizes production reliability with schema/consistency validation, re-prompting and deterministic fallbacks, plus async pipeline optimizations for predictable latency. Experienced with multi-agent orchestration (LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI) and AWS workflow tooling (Step Functions, SQS, Lambda), and delivered ~70% safe automation via stakeholder-driven thresholds and human review.”

“Built and deployed a production Llama 3-based RAG document Q&A system using FAISS, addressing context-window limits through chunking and keeping retrieval accurate by regularly refreshing embeddings. Has hands-on orchestration experience with LangChain and LlamaIndex for multi-step LLM workflows (including memory management) and collaborates with non-technical teams (e.g., marketing) to deliver AI solutions like recommendation systems.”

Bhavya Sri Gunnapaneni

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in fraud detection and NLP

United States4y exp

“Built production AI/RAG-style systems for message Q&A and insurance claims workflows, combining data ingestion, indexing/retrieval, and LLM integration with fallback modes. Has hands-on orchestration experience (Airflow, Prefect, LangChain) and cites large operational gains (claims processing reduced to ~45 seconds; manual review -50%; false alerts -30%) through automated, monitored pipelines and close collaboration with non-technical stakeholders.”

Ranxin Li

Screened

Mid-Level AI/Full-Stack Engineer specializing in agentic LLM systems and RAG

San Jose, USA2y exp

“Built and deployed Clyra.AI, an AI-driven daily scheduling product that uses a LangGraph-based multi-agent LLM pipeline (task extraction, verification, reflection) grounded with strict RAG over emails/documents/calendars and real-world signals like health metrics. Designed a custom agent orchestrator with bounded loops/termination conditions and a self-auditing verification/reflection layer to reduce hallucinations while controlling latency and cost via caching and model distillation.”

Gabriel Fagundes

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML & Backend Engineer specializing in AI platforms and computer vision

New York, New York6y exp

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience building real-time, low-latency systems: owned the Python backend for a real-time crowd-monitoring product (top 5% at HackHarvard 2025) using OpenCV, GPU YOLO inference (PyTorch), WebRTC, and OAuth. Also has production Kubernetes/GitOps experience (Helm/Kustomize, GitHub Actions, Argo CD), Kafka-based event pipelines, and executed a minimal-downtime on-prem PostgreSQL migration to AWS EC2.”

Atharva Deshmukh

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI and cloud MLOps

Rochester, New York4y exp

“Applied LLMs to high-stakes domains (wildfire risk for emergency teams and loan approval via a fine-tuned IBM Granite model), with a strong focus on reliability—using RAG-based cross-validation to reduce hallucinations and continuous ingestion pipelines (MODIS satellite imagery via AWS Lambda) to keep data current. Experienced in production orchestration and MLOps-style workflows using Airflow, AWS Step Functions, and SageMaker Pipelines, and collaborates closely with analysts on KPI-driven evaluation.”

Hari Billa

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in machine learning, NLP, and healthcare AI

USA3y exp

“Senior data scientist with hands-on ownership of production ML and GenAI systems across enterprise churn, clinical Q&A, and real-time fraud detection. Stands out for combining strong MLOps discipline with measurable business impact, including $2M+ retained revenue, 10K TPS low-latency fraud infrastructure, and a clinician-reviewed RAG system that improved retrieval accuracy by ~38%.”

“Hands-on AI/LLM practitioner who built a RAG-based customer support chatbot and tackled production issues like data chunking complexity and response-time lag. Uses techniques such as overlapping chunks, semantic search, context engineering, and query routing, and has experience presenting technical demos/workshops to developer audiences.”

“Built and deployed an LLM/applied-ML system enabling efficient extraction of useful information from large unstructured multimodal datasets, owning the full pipeline from ingestion to inference and APIs with a strong emphasis on production reliability, latency, and monitoring. Also delivered a voice-based AI workflow for Hindi policy document access for the Election Commission of India by translating non-technical usability needs into iterative demos and a successful implementation.”

“Built a production RAG-based healthcare chatbot to retrieve patient medical documents spread across multiple platforms, reducing manual and error-prone searching. Implemented semantic search with custom embeddings (Hugging Face) and Pinecone, deployed via FastAPI/Docker on AWS SageMaker with MLflow tracking, and optimized fine-tuning cost using LoRA while orchestrating retraining pipelines in Airflow.”

“GenAI/LLM engineer who built and deployed a production RAG system for enterprise document search and decision support, cutting manual lookup time by 40%+. Experienced with LangChain/LangGraph agent orchestration plus Airflow/Prefect for ingestion and incremental reindexing, with a strong focus on reliability (testing, observability) and stakeholder-driven metrics.”

“LLM/MLOps engineer who has shipped a production RAG-based technical documentation assistant (FastAPI) cutting manual review by 45%, with deep hands-on retrieval optimization in Pinecone/LangChain (HNSW, hybrid + multi-query search, caching). Also brings healthcare domain experience—building Airflow-orchestrated EHR pipelines and delivering FDA-auditability-friendly predictive maintenance solutions using SHAP/LIME explainability surfaced in Power BI.”

“LLM/GenAI engineer who built a production AI-powered credit risk policy summarization and compliance alerting platform at HCL Tech, focused on factual accuracy and auditability for a financial client. Implemented a multi-retriever LangChain RAG architecture with citations-only prompting, fallback agents, and human-in-the-loop legal review—cutting manual review time by 35% and scaling to 12 teams.”

“AI engineer with production experience building a LangGraph-based, stateful multi-agent system at MetLife to automate complex insurance claims adjudication, integrating document discovery, Azure Document Intelligence OCR/extraction, and health data analysis. Strong in agent orchestration and production deployment (Docker + FastAPI REST APIs), with a structured approach to reliability, evaluation, and stakeholder-driven requirements.”

“Built and launched “Language AI,” a Next.js/TypeScript app that clones a user’s voice (via ElevenLabs) to deliver language lessons in their own voice, using Supabase for auth/Postgres/storage and hosting backend on Render. Post-launch, identified ElevenLabs voice-clone limits after initial users and reworked the pipeline to store audio assets and delete clones to support more concurrent users; also added Google auth to improve adoption. Previously worked in a high-growth startup environment (Study Park) taking concepts from ideation to production.”

Vidit Naik

Screened

Junior AI/ML & Full-Stack Engineer specializing in LLMs and RAG systems

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Forward-deployed engineer who built a production AI drone-control chatbot that lets users fly a drone via natural language while viewing a real-time feed. Implemented RAG over drone SDK documentation (vector DB + top-k retrieval) and LoRA fine-tuning, with a focus on latency, token efficiency, and cost reduction, and regularly works with non-technical clients to integrate and explain AI system architecture.”