Vetted Machine Learning Professionals

Apoorv Bankey

Screened

Mid-level Backend Engineer specializing in distributed systems and FinTech

New York City, NY6y exp

“Engineer who uses AI and multi-agent workflows as a force multiplier while keeping architecture, security, scalability, and production quality under human control. Shared a concrete example of accelerating a backend-heavy SaaS email ingestion platform with authentication, role-based APIs, database models, and deployment setup using agent-style development and review.”

Harika M

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in FinTech and enterprise platforms

Plano, TX6y exp

“Engineer with a pragmatic, production-focused approach to AI-assisted development, using tools like Copilot and ChatGPT to accelerate coding while maintaining strict validation for correctness, security, and performance. Particularly notable for building a multi-agent incident-resolution workflow for a financial platform, with specialized agents for log analysis, root cause identification, fix suggestions, and test generation.”

“ML engineer at CGI who built demand forecasting models end-to-end, from feature engineering and training through AWS deployment. Stands out for a production-first mindset and strong skepticism of AI-generated code, including catching a Copilot-generated SQL query that would have caused a costly full table scan in production.”

Aswin Jojo

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack development and machine learning

Houston, TX3y exp

“Full-stack engineer with experience owning products end-to-end in both insurtech/financial workflows and AI-enabled IT operations. Built scalable React/Node and FastAPI systems, improved reliability under peak transaction load with SQS/Redis, and shipped an AI ticket-classification platform that cut response times from 3 days to 1 day.”

Bhagyashree Patil

Screened

Intern Applied AI Engineer specializing in LLM systems and data engineering

Los Angeles, CA1y exp

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on production experience across both traditional SaaS and LLM-powered support tooling. They owned a real-time ecommerce order tracking dashboard that improved support response times by 40%, and helped ship an AI support assistant using the OpenAI GPT API that cut ticket handling time by 30% through strong prompt design, retrieval grounding, validation, and human-in-the-loop safeguards.”

Andrew Bartlett

Screened

Executive product leader specializing in SaaS, AI/ML, and digital transformation

Denver, CO25y exp

“Senior product leader with broad cross-industry experience spanning publishing, travel tech, recruitment tech, eCommerce, and industrial/facilities software. Has led major platform rebuilds, AI-enabled IoT products, and portfolio-level platform strategy across roughly 10 enterprise SaaS applications, while also managing large product/design organizations with a strong servant-leadership approach.”

Raj Kalantri

Screened

Intern-level Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and full-stack development

Kolkata, India1y exp

“Built a sophisticated AI career counselor as a full-stack web app for early-career students, integrating React, Flask, Pinecone, and LLM inference into a stateful conversational product. Stands out for combining hands-on debugging of retrieval/embedding pipelines with strong browser-performance instincts and pragmatic UX iteration based on real user testing.”

“Full-stack engineer who shipped a production "Financial Insight" assistant dashboard in Next.js App Router/TypeScript, integrating a RAG pipeline (embeddings + ChromaDB + LLM) via route handlers and owning post-launch performance (latency, token cost, retrieval relevance). Also built/optimized Postgres-backed workflows for an outbound dialer and callback routing engine handling ~10,000 daily contacts, validating query performance with EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS).”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience building real-time analytics and logistics platforms across modern JavaScript and Java stacks. They combine strong production ownership and database optimization skills with architectural leadership, including redesigning bottlenecks with SQS/Lambda and driving a monolith-to-microservices migration on Kubernetes that cut deployment time by 50%.”

Larry Scanniello

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI and real-time audio applications

Freehold, NJ6y exp

“Built WaveReel, a personal browser-based video chat app with a collaborative real-time digital audio workstation, pushing the browser beyond typical limits with OPFS, SharedArrayBuffers, and Audio Worklets. Demonstrates unusually deep front-end systems knowledge at the intersection of UI, real-time collaboration, and audio engineering.”

“Founder building an enterprise AI SaaS platform for complex, asset-intensive industries, targeting fragmented-data and manual planning workflows with an AI-native, explainable scenario-analysis product. Bootstrapped to date with production platform in active enterprise trials/pilots and preparing for an institutional seed raise; emphasizes workflow integration, ROI proof points, and founder-led GTM.”

“Robotics software/ML engineer who built perception and navigation-related ML systems for autonomous supermarket carts, including object detection, shelf recognition, and obstacle avoidance. Strong ROS/ROS2 practitioner who optimized real-time performance (reported 50% latency reduction) and deployed containerized ROS/ML pipelines at scale using Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience modernizing high-volume transactional systems by decomposing monoliths into Spring Boot microservices on AWS, using Kafka for async workflows and Redis/SQL tuning for latency. Has built Python/FastAPI services with strong API contracts and production-grade security (OAuth2/JWT, RBAC, row-level security), and proactively hardened payment flows against race conditions and double-charging via idempotency.”

“GenAI engineer who has deployed production LLM/RAG chatbots for internal document search, focusing on reliability (hallucination reduction via prompt guardrails + retrieval filtering) and performance (latency improvements via caching). Experienced with LangChain/LangGraph orchestration for multi-step agent workflows and iterates using monitoring/logs and benchmark-driven evaluation while partnering closely with product and business teams.”

“AI/LLM practitioner at iFrog Marketing Solutions who drove a RAG chatbot from prototype to production in a legacy, AI-resistant environment by validating customer needs and building a business case. Implemented production-grade LLM practices (CI/CD eval gating, rollbacks, prompt/context engineering) and led internal workshops to bring non-AI-native developers up to speed while partnering with sales on tailored demos to drive adoption.”

“GenAI/ML engineer with production experience at Cognizant and Ally Financial, building end-to-end LLM/RAG systems and ML pipelines. Delivered a domain chatbot trained from 90k tickets and 45k docs, improving intent accuracy (65%→83%), scaling to 800+ concurrent users with 99.2% uptime and sub-150ms latency, and driving +14% customer satisfaction. Strong in Azure ML + DevOps CI/CD, Dockerized deployments, and explainable/PII-safe modeling using SHAP/LIME to satisfy stakeholder trust and GDPR needs.”

“Backend/web API engineer with hands-on experience deploying .NET Core APIs to Azure App Service and stabilizing production systems through disciplined log-driven troubleshooting, environment configuration management, and SQL performance tuning (execution plans, query rewrites, indexing). Has also debugged cross-layer incidents involving DB locks and network latency, and modifies Python/XML automation scripts to meet customer-specific requirements while improving logging and performance.”

“LLM/agent builder who has shipped production AI systems in the wellness space, including an LLM-powered food tracking product used by 5000+ users and a voice/call-routing onboarding workflow using LangGraph/LangChain with LiveKit and Twilio. Strong focus on practical reliability work: latency reduction, retrieval/embedding tuning, and CI-driven evaluation with simulations and metrics.”

“Software engineer with experience across data engineering and backend/platform work: owned a Databricks/PySpark real-time pipeline powering customer dashboards with a 15-minute SLA, and helped modernize an investor web app from JSP to React/TypeScript with API + SQL/materialized-view performance improvements. Also contributed to breaking a Java monolith into microservices (Redis + gRPC on AWS EKS) and built an EC2-deployed Play Store/App Store crawler that reduced third-party data costs.”

“Built a college AI chatbot during a master’s program, owning the full Python/Flask backend plus Google Gemini integration and a Postgres persistence layer (course info + conversation history), including caching/performance tuning. Also deployed and migrated ETL/ELT workloads from AWS Lambda into Kubernetes/EKS with GitHub Actions-based GitOps CI/CD, IRSA permissions, and Secrets Manager/S3/Postgres connectivity.”

“Embedded/software candidate who built an arcade-style game on a PSoC6 ARM microcontroller using FreeRTOS and custom peripheral/protocol drivers, ultimately completing the project as the sole developer. Also brings strong systems tooling exposure (Docker-heavy coursework, Kubernetes familiarity) plus internship experience at Accenture working with CI/CD-based validation and debugging in a client environment.”

“Product designer/hardware prototyper building Saccade (VR headset attachment for Apple Vision Pro) to enable earlier, lower-cost Alzheimer's detection via eye-tracking and on-device CV/ML; designed a custom biocompatible snap-on light-shield replacement with integrated cameras/PCB after Apple camera-data restrictions. Also has biomedical manufacturing experience (major fixture-driven throughput gains) and leads a 160-member Assistive Technology Club sponsored by Apple and Google.”

“Data scientist with hands-on experience building an XGBoost-based customer segmentation/churn risk scoring model used by sales and marketing teams. Emphasizes production-grade practices—efficient SQL for large-scale data pulls, rigorous data validation/testing, and scalable, modular Python code designed to support multiple customer types.”

“Engineering/technology leader (CTO-style) with experience scaling orgs and running distributed teams across four continents for over a decade. Led a high-stakes modernization of a securities trading platform at Wedbush—migrating from monolith to microservices on AWS with zero-downtime constraints—driving 45% execution performance improvement and enabling 25% market share growth. Emphasizes business-aligned roadmaps, build-vs-buy rigor, and scalable engineering practices/culture.”