Vetted LSTM Professionals

“ML/AI practitioner in healthcare (Syneos Health) who has deployed production clinical NLP and risk models. Built a BERT-based physician-note information extraction system on Docker + AWS SageMaker (reported ~42% retrieval improvement) and automated retraining/deployment with Airflow and drift detection, while partnering closely with clinicians to drive adoption (reported ~18% readmission reduction).”

“Built and productionized a tool-first, multi-agent framework that augments an anomaly detection model with domain context to generate trustworthy, evidence-backed anomaly explanations (including false-positive likelihood). Architected the platform to be model/orchestration/vectorDB agnostic (e.g., GPT + CrewAI + ChromaDB vs Claude + LangGraph + other vector DB) with strong performance, reliability, and OpenTelemetry-based observability. Also built a personal LangGraph-based "mock interviewer" agent that asynchronously fuses voice + live code input using state reducers, stop conditions, and fallback routing.”

“Cloud-native integration engineer (Oracle/OCI) with strong production deployment and incident-response experience, including API gateway rollouts, observability (Prometheus/Grafana), and multi-layer debugging for payments systems. Built Python/FastAPI microservices and automation for customer-specific reporting and data sync, and has delivered major performance gains (45 min to <10) plus reliability improvements (MTTD reduced 40%+) through monitoring, playbooks, and resilient integration patterns (streaming/queuing, retries, secure tokens, VPC peering).”

“ML/NLP engineer who built a RAG-based technical assistant for Caterpillar field engineers, transforming PDF keyword search into intent-based semantic retrieval across manuals, logs, sensor reports, and technician notes. Strong in productionizing data/ML systems (Airflow, PySpark) with rigorous preprocessing, entity resolution, and evaluation—delivering measurable gains in accuracy, relevance, and duplicate reduction.”

“AI/ML engineer at Cigna Healthcare building a production, HIPAA-compliant LLM-powered clinical insights platform that summarizes unstructured medical notes using a fine-tuned transformer + RAG on AWS. Demonstrates strong end-to-end MLOps and cloud optimization (distillation, Spot/Lambda/Auto Scaling) with quantified outcomes (~28% accuracy lift, ~40% less manual review, ~25% lower ops cost) and strong clinician-facing explainability via SHAP and dashboards.”

“Full-stack engineer with fintech trading-platform experience who shipped and operated a real-time portfolio P&L/performance feature end-to-end (React + Node/WebSockets + MongoDB) on AWS, including significant performance tuning under peak trading load. Also built a Spark-based trading analytics pipeline with idempotency and reconciliation for auditability, and has a personal React/TS + Node/Express project (Artsy) with JWT auth and schema-evolution practices.”

Nikitha Kommidi

Screened

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

6y exp

“Built a production real-time fraud detection and customer-support automation platform at Citibank, tackling extreme class imbalance (reported ~1:5000) and strict latency constraints. Combines hands-on MLOps (Airflow, Kubernetes, MLflow; Snowflake/Spark/S3 integrations; CI/CD model promotion) with cross-functional delivery to Risk & Compliance focused on interpretability and reducing false positives.”

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.”

“ML/AI engineer with production experience at S&P Global and Accenture, focused on regulated, enterprise-grade systems. Built end-to-end financial risk and credit default models with >90% precision and 12% fewer false positives, and is currently developing secure RAG pipelines on AWS SageMaker for enterprise insight extraction.”

premkumar narla

Screened

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.”

“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.”

“Doctoral researcher who built an end-to-end deep learning thesis project translating nutritional time-series logs into natural-language behavioral health summaries for users such as Type 2 diabetics. Particularly interesting for AI/ML roles that value research rigor, ambiguity tolerance, and thoughtful evaluation, even though their experience is primarily academic and side-project based rather than production industry systems.”

Priyadarshini Vykuntapu

Screened

Mid-level Software Developer specializing in full-stack systems for FinTech and industrial platforms

USA3y exp

“Enterprise full-stack engineer with experience at Honeywell and Wells Fargo, spanning real-time telemetry dashboards and digital banking systems. Stands out for owning production systems end to end, improving performance in high-scale environments, and driving architectural modernization that reduced release times and improved reliability.”

“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/ML engineer with healthcare domain depth who led a HIPAA-compliant, production LLM system at McKesson to automate clinical document understanding—extracting entities, summarizing provider notes, and supporting authorization decisions. Hands-on across Spark/Python ETL, Hugging Face + LoRA/QLoRA fine-tuning, RAG, and cloud-native MLOps (Airflow/Kubernetes/Step Functions, MLflow, blue-green on EKS/GKE), with explicit work on PHI handling and hallucination reduction.”

“Built and deployed a production compliance automation RAG system (at Citi) that generates citation-backed, schema-validated risk summaries for regulatory document review. Emphasizes regulated-environment reliability with retrieval-only grounding, abstention, confidence thresholds, and immutable audit logging, plus orchestration using LangChain/LangGraph and Airflow. Reported ~60% reduction in compliance review effort while maintaining high precision and traceability.”

“GenAI/ML engineer who has shipped production agentic systems in highly regulated and high-throughput environments, including an AWS Bedrock-based fraud/compliance workflow at U.S. Bank with PII redaction and hallucination detection that cut investigation time by 50%+. Also built and evaluated RAG and recommendation systems at Target, using RAGAS-driven testing, hybrid retrieval with re-ranking, and SHAP explainability dashboards to align model behavior with merchandising business KPIs.”

“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.”

ESHWANTH D. G

Screened

Mid-level Robotics Software Engineer specializing in autonomous perception and sensor fusion

CA, USA4y exp

“Robotics engineer with Honeywell and Tata Motors experience deploying ROS/ROS2 autonomous mobile robot fleets into live factory environments, integrating sensors, safety PLCs, and on-prem services. Known for solving end-to-end latency and stability issues (including network spikes under load) using gRPC, Docker, and improved diagnostics—cutting diagnosis time from hours to minutes and achieving sub-150 ms control response.”

Sai Vamsi

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in backend microservices and cloud-native systems

TX, USA4y exp

“ServiceNow engineer who built an AI-powered ticket summarizer end-to-end (RAG with vector DB + GPT, Redis latency optimizations, fallback summarization, and a React UI widget for agent feedback). Also has hands-on ROS 2 experience building real-time sensor-fusion nodes (LiDAR/IMU), debugging SLAM/navigation issues via rosbag + EKF tuning, and bridging heterogeneous robots by translating ROS 2 topics to MQTT/JSON. Strong DevOps background with Docker, Jenkins CI/CD, and Kubernetes orchestration for scalable deployments.”

Divyansh Agarwal

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in computer vision and LLM applications

New York, NY3y exp

“Built and led an autonomous driving software effort for Formula Student, owning the full autonomy stack (perception, planning, control) orchestrated in ROS. Implemented stereo depth + YOLO object detection, RRT/RRT* planning, and a robust SLAM pipeline (Kalman filter, submapping) while leveraging Gazebo simulation and modern deployment tooling (Docker/Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions CI/CD).”

Akhila Kannegari

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in FinTech and retail ML systems

Alabama, USA4y exp

“ML-focused candidate with strong Wells Fargo experience building production fraud systems and internal GenAI tools for fraud analysts. Stands out for measurable impact in fraud detection—raising recall from 71% to 88%—while also demonstrating hands-on depth across streaming infrastructure, MLOps, LLM/RAG implementation, and Python service architecture.”

Mahima Mannava

Screened

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

San Jose, CA3y exp

“AI/full-stack engineer who built a computer-usage agent end to end, including a split local/cloud architecture that used a vision LLM to drive real Chrome workflows while avoiding bot detection. Stands out for combining product-minded systems design, rigorous evals, and prompt iteration to achieve sub-2-second latency and a 20% reduction in automation failures in an early-stage environment.”