Vetted Machine Learning Professionals

Robbie Harol

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Principal Product Leader specializing in AI-native, civic, and climate tech

Los Angeles, CA18y exp

“Product leader with unusually broad experience spanning adtech startups, consumer rewards, political-tech nonprofits, and consulting for operational automation. Stands out for pairing strong UX and monetization instincts with practical AI product work, including building a RAG-based chatbot and consistently using user research to drive measurable outcomes like 400% conversion growth, higher satisfaction, and faster onboarding.”

Vik Krane

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Director-level Product Leader specializing in AI-powered SaaS and FinTech

12y exp

“Product leader and startup co-founder who has been shipping AI-powered products since 2020 across creative tools, expert knowledge products, and financial compliance workflows. Particularly notable for building Shotcraft from zero to scale, using AI to turn scripts into executable shot lists, and for a nuanced human-centered AI philosophy that emphasizes user control over critical outputs.”

“AI/full-stack engineer who has built a production-style LLM knowledge assistant from scratch, combining FastAPI, LangChain, FAISS, semantic retrieval, and a user-facing chat interface. Stands out for owning both the technical architecture and the product usability layer, including latency optimization, prompt refinement, and source-backed responses to improve trust for non-technical users.”

“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.”

Katha Naik

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Intern software engineer specializing in AI, cloud, and full-stack systems

Fremont, CA2y exp

“Engineer with experience at Fox Corporation and Qualcomm, focused on production automation and AI-powered systems. At Fox, they built a serverless Bedrock Operations CoPilot for broadcast/media operations that centralized fragmented operational data and cut incident investigation time by 50-60% across distributed teams and stations. They also bring applied LLM experience from Qualcomm, where they worked on a safer RAG-based learning assistant for children with autism spectrum disorder.”

“Product leader from Convosocial/Verint with hands-on experience integrating AI into customer service workflows, including a RAG-powered assistant that improved agent efficiency by 33%. Combines enterprise product strategy, UX instincts, and people development, with a strong human-in-the-loop perspective on AI and a track record of mentoring team members into product and data-focused roles.”

“Built and operated a real-time multiplayer card game end to end, with hands-on ownership of frontend, backend, persistence, and production stability. Demonstrates strong systems thinking around concurrency, idempotency, and extensible architecture, including refactoring a tightly coupled PvP game into a modular engine that could also support bot players.”

“Built a production AI-powered customer support Q&A system using an internal knowledge base to reduce repetitive ticket work and improve customer satisfaction, with an emphasis on source-backed answers and expert oversight. Also has experience defining deployment services in a microservices architecture and integrating large-scale APIs (including work connected to US HHS/COVID-19).”

“Backend/platform engineer who has built and scaled production Java/Spring Boot + Kafka services on AWS/Kubernetes (1M+ msgs/day) and led reliability/performance fixes that restored SLAs (25–30% latency improvement; 99.9% uptime). Also shipped an AI customer-support chatbot end-to-end using retrieval + guardrails and rigorous evaluation/observability, improving resolution time 40% and satisfaction 25%, with a strong plan/execute/verify approach to agentic workflow reliability.”

“Master’s CS candidate with backend internship experience modernizing live operational workflows at NatWest/NetWess, focusing on reliability improvements, safer CI/CD deployments, and incremental refactors using feature flags and rollback paths. Built FastAPI-based APIs with strong security patterns (JWT + 2FA/TOTP, centralized authorization, RLS) and demonstrated attention to edge cases like idempotency and data consistency in a Netflix-clone project.”

“Verizon engineer who productionized an LLM-based personalization capability for a customer-facing digital platform, owning the path from success metrics through scalable APIs, A/B validation, and post-launch monitoring (latency/accuracy/drift). Experienced in diagnosing and fixing real-time LLM/RAG workflow issues under peak load, and in enabling adoption via tailored technical demos/workshops and sales support materials.”

“Insurtech R&D leader turned CTO with 25+ years across telecom, DoD, automotive, and commercial insurance. Built patented AI-driven insurance document ingestion (>95% accuracy with 1–3 samples) and led Azure-based backend/service development while managing up to 15 engineers at a commercial P&C MGA that reached a ~$60M book of business (~30 loss ratio) before run-off due to paper issues. Known for hands-on discovery (including field inspections) and rapid MVP delivery, including a risk-inspection iPad app that auto-generated draft reports.”

“Backend engineer with experience at Razorpay and Groww, focused on hardening high-throughput financial systems for reliability and low tail latency through incremental improvements (SQL/index tuning, Redis caching, timeouts, idempotency). Also built/refactored a commodity risk tracker using Supabase Auth + Postgres RLS for strict per-user isolation, with a strong emphasis on API contracts, observability, and safe migrations.”

“Software engineer with a CS/Computer Engineering background who has worked on ML/NLP (Hugging Face, clinical NLP, text generation and structured extraction) and has a school robotics project integrating a trained ML model with microprocessor-controlled hardware to drive motor movement and writing. Currently focused on building and deploying applications and ML models to AWS/Azure using Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD; targeting ~$150K compensation.”

“LLM/RAG engineer with production deployments in highly regulated domains (Frost Bank and GE Healthcare). Built secure, explainable document-grounded Q&A systems using LoRA fine-tuning, strict RAG with confidence thresholds, and citation-based responses; also established evaluation/monitoring (golden QA sets, hallucination tracking, drift) and achieved ~40% latency reduction through retrieval/prompt tuning.”

“Open-source JavaScript contributor focused on data visualization, extending Chart.js/React with custom plugins for real-time streaming dashboards. Designed an end-to-end telemetry pipeline using Apache Kafka and Azure Cosmos DB, optimizing partitioning, batching, caching, and client throttling to keep latency low and support thousands of concurrent users. Demonstrates strong ownership in fast-changing environments, including building full-stack AI applications and ingestion/ETL pipelines at Robotics Technologies LLC.”

“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.”

“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 GPT-based RAG enterprise search system for healthcare clinicians, emphasizing low-latency performance and reduced hallucinations while maintaining end-to-end HIPAA compliance. Demonstrates deep applied experience with PHI-safe data governance (detection/redaction/de-identification), secure Azure ML deployment patterns, and orchestration of production LLM workflows using LangChain and Airflow.”

“Backend engineer who has delivered large, measurable performance wins (10x throughput, 67% latency reduction) by combining Flask microservices, Redis caching, and AWS autoscaling/observability. Has hands-on depth in SQLAlchemy/Postgres optimization and production scaling pitfalls (cache consistency, connection exhaustion), plus experience deploying real-time ML inference (XGBoost) on AWS Lambda and building secure multi-tenant Kubernetes isolation.”

“Software engineer with production experience building a serverless monolith and multi-layer video pipeline at easyML, plus hands-on integration of multiple LLM providers (Grok/Claude/OpenAI) into a full-stack app. Interested in robotics via computer vision (OpenCV/OpenMMLab), with a strong real-time systems mindset around SLOs, latency, determinism, and reliability; also has low-level OS experience writing a keyboard device driver.”

“Accenture data/ML practitioner who deployed a retail churn prediction and BERT-based sentiment analysis system to production, integrating behavioral + feedback data and operationalizing it with ETL automation, orchestration, and CI/CD. Experienced managing 2TB+ multi-source data, monitoring drift in Databricks, and translating results into Power BI dashboards for marketing teams (including K-means customer segmentation).”