Vetted LSTM Professionals

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.”

“Backend engineer who built an NL-to-SQL system at Target, using a multi-step LLM pipeline with vector-store schema retrieval and SQL validation to safely answer business questions. Strong in production FastAPI systems (async, Pydantic, Docker/Uvicorn, load balancing) and security (OAuth2/JWT, scopes, and database row-level security), with experience migrating Flask apps to FastAPI + PostgreSQL using strangler/feature-flagged canary rollouts.”

“Built and shipped LLM/RAG systems in finance and startup settings, including a Goldman Sachs document intelligence platform that indexed ~8TB of regulatory filings and delivered cited, conversational answers with <2s latency—cutting compliance research by ~4.5 hours per batch. Also developed LangChain-based agent workflows at Finta to automate CRM enrichment and investor lookup with strong testing, tracing (LangSmith), privacy guardrails, and auditability.”

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.”

Mukundan Sridharan

Screened

Executive Technology Leader (CTO) specializing in IoT sensing, AI/ML, and RF/embedded systems

Rockville, MD22y exp

“Currently a startup CTO who thrives on building new technology stacks and rapidly turning technical ideas into products. Interested in partnering with a CEO/business team to commercialize embedded/edge concepts such as multi-sensor drone localization (video/audio/RF with SDR), low-cost solar+battery power nodes networked via LoRa, and an Amazon Sidewalk/LoRa connectivity device with cloud management.”

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.”

“Hands-on implementation-focused candidate with experience owning cloud deployments and putting LLM/RAG workflows into production. They stand out for combining customer-facing deployment ownership with practical AI systems work, including retrieval tuning, hallucination mitigation, production incident response, and document-processing pipelines for messy real-world inputs.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based internal knowledge assistant that let analysts query company documents in natural language, using LangChain/LangGraph with Pinecone and a FastAPI service for integration. Emphasizes reliability in production through hallucination mitigation (retrieval tuning + prompt guardrails) and measurable evaluation/monitoring (accuracy, latency, task completion, hallucination rate), iterating based on user feedback.”

“Built an enterprise RAG-based document intelligence system at Freddie Mac for regulatory and financial documents, helping analysts cut search time from hours to minutes while improving retrieval accuracy by ~30%. Stands out for combining LLM product delivery with compliance-grade auditability, production monitoring, and scalable Python/FastAPI service design.”

Sai Sri Kolanu

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and production ML systems

Dearborn, MI4y exp

“Built and shipped an AI-powered RAG diagnostic assistant at Ford for EV technicians, integrating GPT-based models with LangChain, FAISS, and SageMaker into real technician workflows. Stands out for combining strong production LLM architecture with practical safety guardrails, monitoring, and measurable impact: 45% better diagnostic accuracy and roughly 30 minutes saved per case.”

“Open-source JavaScript contributor focused on performance and maintainability in data visualization libraries—refactored legacy ES5 into modular ES6, added tests/docs, and delivered ~30% faster load times with positive community adoption. Also optimized a React dashboard (~40% load-time reduction) and took ownership in an ambiguous AI product initiative by setting milestones, standing up an initial ML pipeline, and shipping a prototype in ~6 weeks that became the basis for production.”

“ML/LLM practitioner who has shipped production RAG systems (summarization + Q&A) and end-to-end Airflow-orchestrated demand forecasting pipelines at NEON IT. Strong focus on reliability—uses evaluation scripts, retrieval/chunking tuning, validation/retries/alerts, and stakeholder-driven iteration to make AI workflows consistent and usable.”

“Worked in a startup building an automated carbon accounting/climate reporting product, partnering with client IT and internal cross-functional teams to ship features and train end users. Also has software engineering internship experience debugging complex multi-workflow systems, including uncovering a significant (~20%) data annotation error by instrumenting and testing each workflow step.”

“GenAI/LLM ML engineer (currently at Webprobo) building an enterprise GenAI platform with document intelligence and automation on AWS and blockchain. Has hands-on experience with RAG, LLM evaluation tooling, and orchestrating production LLM workflows with Apache Airflow, plus deep exposure to reliability challenges in globally distributed/edge deployments. Also partnered with business/marketing stakeholders at a banking client to deliver an AI-driven customer retention insights solution.”

Rishitha reddy katamareddy

Screened

Mid-level Generative AI & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in agentic LLM systems

USA4y exp

“Built and deployed a production agentic LLM knowledge assistant that answers complex questions over internal documents, APIs, and databases using a RAG architecture (FAISS/Pinecone) and LangChain/LangGraph orchestration. Emphasizes production-grade reliability and hallucination control through grounding, confidence thresholds, validation, retries/fallbacks, and full observability (logging/metrics/traces) with continuous evaluation and feedback loops.”

Fangjian Xiong

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP and biomedical entity extraction

Boston, MA2y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered biomedical knowledge extraction pipeline that processed millions of papers to identify tools/techniques and produce a unified knowledge graph via active learning NER (Prodigy + spaCy transformers) and entity linking (Bio-tools/Wikidata). Addressed hard NLP engineering challenges like WordPiece span-offset alignment and scaled inference over ~1.5M documents using batching/caching, containerized services, async workers, and orchestration with Prefect/Airflow.”

Sreelekha Vuppala

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in Generative AI, MLOps, and cloud data platforms

USA4y exp

“GenAI/ML engineer (CitiusTech) who has deployed production RAG systems for compliance/operations document Q&A, using Pinecone + FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes with strong monitoring and guardrails. Also built a GenAI-powered incident triage/routing solution in collaboration with non-technical stakeholders, achieving 35% faster response times and 40% fewer misclassified tickets, and has hands-on orchestration experience with Airflow and AutoSys.”

Supreet Purthpli

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native MLOps and FinTech

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Software engineer with JPMorgan Chase experience delivering end-to-end fintech features (Next.js/React/Node/Postgres on AWS) and measurable performance gains. Built and productionized an AI-native credit decisioning workflow combining LLMs, vector retrieval, and a rules engine with strong governance (bias checks, auditability, human-in-loop), improving precision and cutting underwriting turnaround time by 40%.”

“Entry-level software engineer with strong full-stack experience building React/TypeScript and Node.js analytics products, especially around performance optimization for large datasets. Stands out for combining hands-on engineering with user discovery, and for delivering measurable wins like 40% fewer API calls, page load improvements from 3.2s to 1.1s, and 70% faster PostgreSQL queries during an internship at Tapastry.”

“Built and deployed a compliance-sensitive LLM pipeline that extracts rebate logic from hospital–supplier medical contracts, using multi-layer redaction (regex/NER/dictionary), schema-validated structured outputs, and secure placeholder reinsertion. Hosted models on Amazon Bedrock to avoid retraining on sensitive data and improved both accuracy and cost by splitting the workflow into a lightweight section classifier plus a fine-tuned extraction model, orchestrated with LangChain and evaluated via layered, test-driven agent assessments.”

“AI engineer who has shipped production LLM systems across customer service and marketing use cases—building a RAG app on Azure OpenAI and speeding retrieval with Redis caching tied to Okta sessions. Also implemented a LangGraph multi-agent workflow that pulls image context from Figma to generate structured HTML marketing emails, adding a verification agent to improve image-selection accuracy while optimizing solution cost for business stakeholders.”

“Designed and deployed an enterprise LLM-powered clinical/pharmacy policy knowledge assistant at CVS Health, replacing manual searches across PDFs/Word/SharePoint with a HIPAA-compliant RAG system. Built end-to-end ingestion and orchestration (Airflow + Azure ML/Data Lake + vector index) with PHI masking, versioned re-embedding, and production monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana), and partnered closely with clinicians/compliance to ensure policy-grounded, auditable answers.”

“AI/LLM engineer with recent production experience at UnitedHealth Group building an end-to-end RAG system over structured EMR data and unstructured clinical notes, including evidence retrieval, GPT/LLaMA-based reasoning, and a validation layer for reliability. Strong in orchestration (Kubeflow/Airflow/MLflow), prompt engineering for noisy healthcare text, and rigorous evaluation/monitoring with gold-standard benchmarking, plus close collaboration with clinical operations stakeholders.”

“AI/LLM engineer with production experience building secure, scalable compliance-focused generative AI systems (GPT-3/4, BERT) including RAG over internal regulatory document bases. Has delivered end-to-end pipelines on AWS with PySpark/Airflow/Kubernetes/FastAPI, emphasizing privacy controls, monitoring, and iterative evaluation (A/B testing). Also partnered closely with bank compliance officers using prototypes to refine NLP summarization/classification and reduce document review time.”