Vetted Machine Learning Professionals

“Has worked at a startup within an incubator program and is a certified mentor with a startup mentorship non-profit focused on early-stage/pre-funded companies. Not currently seeking to found a company or take equity-only roles, but open to working at very early-stage companies (pre-launch/pre-revenue/pre-funded).”

“Sales candidate with 35 years of experience who expressed interest in AI and shared a resume link and LinkedIn profile, but did not provide any concrete deal examples or details about outbound prospecting or recent closes during the screen.”

“Built and shipped a production RAG assistant using GPT-4, LangChain, and Pinecone/FAISS to search 50K+ institutional documents, with a strong focus on groundedness and hallucination reduction through retrieval optimization and re-ranking. Pairs this with a metrics-driven evaluation/monitoring approach (BLEU/ROUGE, manual sampling, logging) and workflow automation via Airflow, and has experience translating stakeholder needs into iterative AI prototypes.”

“Serial startup product/technology leader who previously exited a company to Green Street and has accelerator experience via Notre Dame’s IDEA Center. Now pursuing a commercial real estate analytics concept focused on deep demand analysis for better capital allocation, with a provisional patent filed and experience supporting VC funds as an operating partner on product vision and strategy.”

“Founding engineer who built a multi-tenant AWS backend from scratch focused on ultra-fast, configuration-driven client onboarding and low operational cost. Automated tenant provisioning/deployments with Terraform + GitHub Actions (new client infra in ~13 minutes) and scaled to 62 production clients handling ~75k requests/day without a major rewrite. Hands-on with migrations (DynamoDB->MongoDB), reliability/observability, and performance tuning (indexes, Redis, queueing, connection management).”

“Robotics engineer who built a smart campus tour robot on a Kobuki Turtlebot using ROS 1, implementing a full navigation stack (semantic world model, A* planner, tour executor, path follower) and integrating SLAM (gmapping) plus a hybrid reactive safety controller. Experienced taking systems from Gazebo simulation to real hardware, including extensive real-world debugging and Docker-based development to handle ROS/Ubuntu version constraints; planning a move to ROS 2 on Turtlebot 4.”

“Robotics/perception engineer who led and owned ARC, a cooperative perception system for autonomous vehicles that aligns and fuses multi-vehicle LiDAR point clouds in real time. Built a ROS-based multi-node pipeline with grid-based spatial reasoning and motion-compensated data sharing, achieving <20 ms compute latency and sub-7 cm alignment error; accepted to ACM SenSys 2026.”

“Backend engineer who built an AI-driven "Smart Feedback Analyzer" API (Flask → FastAPI) that processes user feedback with NLP (Hugging Face + OpenAI) and returns structured insights. Demonstrates strong production-minded architecture: stateless services, Cloud Run + Docker deployment, Redis/Celery background processing, and Postgres/SQLAlchemy performance tuning (EXPLAIN ANALYZE, indexing, N+1 fixes), plus multi-tenant data isolation via JWT/API-key derived tenant IDs.”

“LLM/agentic systems builder who shipped production workflows at Angel Flight West and Eureka AI, combining LangGraph + RAG (Postgres/pgvector) with strong observability (LangSmith/Langfuse). Delivered large operational gains (address lookup cut from 10 minutes to 60 seconds; accuracy to 92%) and has a track record of quickly stabilizing customer-critical pipelines (Pydantic-enforced JSON for ETL) while partnering with sales/ops to drive adoption.”

“Built and deployed a domain-specific LLM chatbot for research/support, cutting manual effort by ~50%. Demonstrates strong applied LLM engineering: RAG, prompt grounding with citations and fallbacks, embedding/top-k tuning, and production monitoring (confidence, latency, feedback loops). Experienced orchestrating agent workflows with LangChain-style pipelines and continuous evaluation to maintain reliability.”

“AI/ML engineer with experience at Northern Trust and Persistent Systems building production LLM + RAG systems for regulated financial use cases, including liquidity forecasting, anomaly detection, and credit scoring. Emphasizes compliance-first design with explainability (SHAP), traceability (MLflow), and hallucination controls (FAISS + citation-grounded prompting), and has delivered drift-triggered retraining pipelines using Airflow and Kubernetes while translating model outputs into business-ready marketing segments.”

“Software engineer working on a benefits/deductions product, owning a fast-turnaround feature spanning multiple client/internal UI flows. Built a centralized service layer and a PHP validation pipeline supporting a React/TypeScript frontend, coordinated two other developers to deliver in parallel, and emphasized quality via test cases, documentation, and QC collaboration.”

“Software engineer and University of Chicago graduate teaching assistant who built a full-stack internal analytics dashboard (React/TypeScript + Node/Express) and worked in RabbitMQ-based microservices with Prometheus/Grafana observability. Also created an AI-powered ERD diagram generator (React + MermaidJS + OpenAI) adopted by students to save hours on database assignments, using validation loops to ensure valid Mermaid output.”

“Backend-focused Python engineer who builds modular Flask services on AWS and specializes in performance/scalability work across data-heavy APIs. Has concrete wins in query optimization (1.5s to <200ms) and high-throughput async processing (Celery+Redis, ~40% throughput gain), plus experience serving scikit-learn text classification models via containerized REST services and designing multi-tenant data isolation strategies.”

“JavaScript engineer with open-source experience on a database visualization library, focused on real-time rendering performance for large datasets (virtualized DOM rendering, requestAnimationFrame/debouncing, memoization) and on raising project quality via tests and CI performance benchmarks. Also built Kafka-based messaging documentation and sample producer/consumer apps to speed onboarding, and has experience diagnosing production issues including concurrency-related duplicate data problems.”

“Healthcare data/NLP practitioner with experience at UnitedHealthcare building production ML systems that connect unstructured call center transcripts and medical notes to structured claims data. Has delivered measurable impact (25% classification accuracy lift; ~30% relevance improvement) using classical NLP, embeddings (Sentence-BERT + FAISS), and AWS SageMaker deployments with robust validation and drift monitoring.”

“AI/ML engineer (Merkle) with hands-on experience deploying RAG-based LLM applications and real-time recommendation engines into production. Strong in cloud/on-prem architectures, GPU autoscaling, caching, and network optimization—delivered measurable latency reductions (40–70%) and improved retrieval relevance by systematically benchmarking chunking/embedding configurations and validating pipelines via CI/CD.”

“Experience spans college-built AWS-hosted Python/Flask web apps and enterprise data work at General Motors, including PostgreSQL query optimization on millions of records and multi-tenant-style data isolation using group-based, column-level permission grants. Also built an AWS-hosted meat price prediction dashboard using Dash/Plotly and ran large nightly data pipelines orchestrated with Apache Airflow.”

“Post-graduate, self-directed robotics/RL practitioner who independently built a modular reinforcement learning training framework in Python using Stable-Baselines3, Gymnasium, and PyTorch. Emphasizes reproducible experimentation (multi-seed validation), simulation (PyBullet/Box2D), and systematic comparison of algorithms/environments via a factory-pattern architecture.”

“Data/ML practitioner with experience at Humana and Hexaware, focused on turning messy, semi-structured datasets into production-ready pipelines. Built an age-prediction model from book ratings using heavy feature engineering and multiple regression models, and has hands-on entity resolution (deterministic + fuzzy matching) plus embeddings/vector DB approaches for linking and search relevance.”

“Built Hexagon’s production Text-to-CAD Copilot that converts text and rough sketches into editable CAD code, combining GraphRAG (Neo4j/LangChain) with a Gemini-powered vision module and multi-agent geometric validation—cutting manual modeling from a day to ~45 seconds and driving retrieval latency below 50ms. Also has large-scale GCP data/ML orchestration experience (Airflow/Cloud Composer, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Snowflake) processing 50M+ daily records with drift monitoring and automated reliability controls.”

“ML engineer with General Motors experience deploying production AI systems, including a BERT-based sentiment classifier for over a million customer support call transcripts (reported ~91% precision) and sub-200ms latency via FastAPI/Docker optimization. Also built predictive maintenance models and automated retraining/monitoring workflows using Airflow and MLflow, collaborating closely with non-technical customer support stakeholders.”

“Robotics/perception engineer with experience at Magna International building and scaling a ROS2-based autonomous vehicle sensor-fusion stack from radar+camera to include LiDAR, addressing hard problems like PTP nanosecond synchronization and probabilistic data association. Also developed and deployed a real-time 3D LiDAR object detection pipeline (PointPillars-style) optimized with ONNX/TensorRT and FP16, with strong production bringup/monitoring and rigorous simulation-to-road testing practices.”