Vetted LoRA Professionals

“Data/ML engineer in financial services (Northern Trust) who built a production RAG-based LLM system to connect structured transaction/portfolio data with unstructured market and internal documents for risk teams. Strong in end-to-end pipelines (AWS Glue/Airflow/PySpark), entity resolution, and taking models from prototype to reliable daily production with performance tuning (LoRA + TensorRT) and monitoring.”

Urvish Shah

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Robotics Software & Systems Engineer specializing in ROS2 multi-robot autonomy

Buffalo, NY4y exp

“Robotics software engineer with ROS2 multi-robot experience spanning decentralized signal source localization (LoRa RSSI on TurtleBot3) and a master’s-thesis project on collaborative object transportation with 4 robots. Strong in sim-to-real debugging—implemented noise modeling (RBF) and practical hardware/coordination fixes (CoG tuning, clock sync/flags) to make algorithms work reliably on real robots.”

Rathi Anand

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Insurance, FinTech, and AI/ML applications

Dublin, CA17y exp

“AI/backend engineer who fine-tuned and deployed a production LLM chatbot using a LangChain + FAISS RAG pipeline, improving latency with PEFT/LoRA and driving strong business impact (40% customer adoption; 92% satisfaction). Also served as technical lead on a data aggregation system for underwriting/quoting, introducing GraphQL for more efficient, maintainable querying and applying CDC to keep cached ranking data fresh at scale.”

Sandeep Gandhi

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Executive technology leader specializing in FinTech, identity, and AI-native platforms

San Ramon, CA26y exp

“Current CTO of Idmission leading a 150+ person engineering organization, with deep experience scaling delivery, CI/CD, and architecture modernization. Combines executive leadership with hands-on technical depth across microservices, Kubernetes, and AI systems, including a RAG support platform that reduced resolution time by 50% and passive liveness technology that improved client acquisition by 20%.”

“AI/LLM engineer with healthcare domain experience who built a production clinical support “chart bot” for Molina, including PHI-safe ingestion of 200k+ PDF policies, vector retrieval, and a fine-tuned LLaMA served via vLLM on ECS Fargate. Demonstrated measurable performance wins (HNSW + namespace partitioning; 30% inference latency reduction) and a rigorous evaluation/monitoring approach, while partnering closely with nurses and operations teams to shape workflows and guardrails.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG system for financial/compliance teams using GPT-4, Claude, and local models to retrieve and summarize thousands of internal documents with strong security controls (role-based retrieval, PII masking). Drove significant operational gains (30+ hours/week saved, ~35% productivity lift, ~45% faster responses) and orchestrated end-to-end ingestion/embedding/index refresh pipelines with Airflow, S3, and SageMaker while partnering closely with compliance stakeholders on auditability and traceability.”

“ML/LLM engineer with production experience building a RAG-based LLM support assistant (FastAPI, Redis, Kafka) with multi-layer validation and human-in-the-loop feedback loops to improve accuracy over time. Has orchestration and MLOps depth using Airflow and Kubeflow on Kubernetes (autoscaling, alerting, monitoring) and delivered measurable ops impact (40% ticket efficiency improvement) by partnering closely with customer support teams.”

“Built and deployed an AI agent to help patients navigate complex housing information by scraping and normalizing unstructured data across all 50 U.S. states, then layering a LangChain RAG system with MMR re-ranking to reduce hallucinations. Experienced in orchestrating multi-agent workflows (LangGraph/CrewAI) and production reliability practices (Pydantic-validated outputs, LLM-as-judge evals, tracing). Also delivered stakeholder-facing explainability via SHAP dashboards for a loan-approval predictive model at Welspot.”

“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.”

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.”

Sai Bandaru

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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.”

“AI/backend engineer who has built multiple applied AI systems end-to-end, including an underwriting document intelligence copilot, ambient clinical documentation workflows, and a financial analysis agent. Stands out for combining practical LLM architecture choices with reliability mechanisms like human-in-the-loop review, eval frameworks, and grounded retrieval in production settings.”

“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.”

Atharva Deshmukh

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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.”