Vetted Machine Learning Professionals

paul mack

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Senior Product Leader specializing in Enterprise SaaS, AI, and digital transformation

Detroit, MI18y exp

“Product leader with an unusual blend of AI product building, social work training, and hands-on education experience. Built an AI-powered relationship coaching app from scratch, led IAM product strategy in fleet SaaS, and previously taught biology/AP Biology through Teach For America and helped found a high-performing Detroit charter school.”

“Full-stack engineer with Cognizant experience on Verizon's POS platform, where they shipped a trade-in flow under tight timelines and drove measurable engagement gains. Also builds personal LLM/agentic systems, including a multi-agent vacation planner using LangChain, structured outputs, and tool-integrated orchestration, showing a blend of enterprise product delivery and modern AI experimentation.”

“Serial founder/engineer who has raised capital for two prior startups and is now building a mental awareness venture. Drove rapid early traction for Fashom after an organic YouTube unboxing sparked demand, then scaled using influencer-led growth with no paid ads for ~2 years, achieving ~150% YoY growth and staying profitable through COVID.”

“Robotics software/vision engineer with hands-on experience building motion-tracking systems that fuse camera-based 3D tracking with IMU orientation to reproduce tool motion for automated spray painting. Has implemented ROS nodes/packages for Orbbec camera streaming and SAM3-based segmentation, plus CAN bus coordination between robots and Dockerized deployment for a pick-and-place robotic cell.”

“Robotics software engineer (2 years) at a startup building a universal fleet management system, owning core integrations and real-time data pipelines for heterogeneous AMR/AGV fleets. Implemented Kalman-filter-based collision prediction integrating RTLS for human-driven forklifts, built MQTT microservices aligned with VDA5050, and is now architecting a PostGIS-backed path-planning service for dynamic, traffic-aware routing with future ML optimization.”

“AI Backend Engineer in MetLife’s claims technology group who built and deployed a production LLM-based decision support system that helps claim adjusters quickly find relevant policy rules from long PDFs and historical notes. Designed it as multiple production-grade services with retrieval-first guardrails, continuous validation, and Airflow-orchestrated pipelines for ingestion, embeddings, and vector index updates to keep the system reliable as policies and data evolve.”

“Built and deployed an LLM/applied-ML system enabling efficient extraction of useful information from large unstructured multimodal datasets, owning the full pipeline from ingestion to inference and APIs with a strong emphasis on production reliability, latency, and monitoring. Also delivered a voice-based AI workflow for Hindi policy document access for the Election Commission of India by translating non-technical usability needs into iterative demos and a successful implementation.”

“Robotics software engineer with multi-robot perception and ROS integration experience, including work on CoLoc-Net improving global visual descriptors (DINOv2-SALAD style) and training a metric head for scale-aware 3D pose/odometry with a UKF backend. Built a ROS node/GUI to synchronize monocular vision and radar outputs at ITRI, and independently created a custom camera driver to enable reliable image sharing across AgileX Limo robots under real hardware constraints.”

“Backend/platform engineer with production experience building a Python SDK over a microservices ecosystem, emphasizing reliability (JWT auth, retries/timeouts, custom exceptions) and integration testing. Has delivered AWS EKS microservices with Jenkins+Helm CI/CD, strong secrets/config separation using AWS Secrets Manager, and set up Datadog APM/deployment/change monitoring. Also modernized legacy VB applications to C#/.NET WPF via incremental migration with parity testing and stakeholder sign-off.”

“Built a production RAG-based healthcare chatbot to retrieve patient medical documents spread across multiple platforms, reducing manual and error-prone searching. Implemented semantic search with custom embeddings (Hugging Face) and Pinecone, deployed via FastAPI/Docker on AWS SageMaker with MLflow tracking, and optimized fine-tuning cost using LoRA while orchestrating retraining pipelines in Airflow.”

“Built and owned end-to-end TypeScript/React dashboards with a Node.js backend, including post-launch additions like role-based access and new reporting views enabled by modular architecture and clean API boundaries. Also created an internal real-time operations/engineering dashboard that replaced spreadsheets and reduced manual tracking, iterating quickly based on direct team feedback.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based AI assistant for sales reps to unify access to product info, pricing, and internal documents across multiple systems. Implemented ETL pipelines for normalization/chunking/embeddings, integrated the assistant into internal React/TypeScript UIs with user-specific context, and enforced security with private vector storage and permission-filtered retrieval.”

“ML/LLM engineer with production experience building a compliant RAG-based virtual assistant at Intuit, optimizing embeddings and FAISS retrieval (including PCA) for low-latency, privacy-controlled search and deploying via AWS SageMaker containers. Also built scalable Airflow+MLflow pipelines using Docker and KubernetesExecutor, cutting training cycles by 37%, and partnered with civil engineers/project managers at Aegis Infra to deliver predictive maintenance for construction equipment.”

“Backend/data engineer who builds Python (FastAPI) data-processing API services for internal analytics/reporting, emphasizing modular architecture, async performance tuning, and reliability patterns (health checks, retries, observability). Also migrated legacy on-prem ETL pipelines to Azure using ADF/Data Lake/Functions and implemented a near-real-time ingestion flow with Event Hubs plus watermarking to handle late events and deduplication.”

“Robotics software engineer who led the full perception/manipulation/planning stack for an autonomous watermelon-harvesting robot, including ripe-vs-unripe instance segmentation deployed on Jetson AGX Orin with TensorRT and quantization. Deep ROS 2 experience (custom ZEDx mask driver, LiDAR+stereo fusion, MoveIt 2/Nav2/ros2_control) and proven real-time optimization—cut latency ~40% and achieved consistent 7-second pick cycles in outdoor field conditions.”

“Backend engineer who has owned end-to-end delivery of Python/FastAPI microservices for real-time data processing and alerting, including performance tuning (Postgres optimization, caching, async processing). Strong DevOps/GitOps background: Docker + Kubernetes deployments with GitHub Actions CI/CD and ArgoCD-driven GitOps, plus experience supporting phased on-prem to AWS migrations and building Kafka-based streaming pipelines.”

“AI Engineer Co-Op at Northeastern University who built a production Patient Persona Chat Bot to help nursing students practice clinical interactions, fine-tuning Llama 3 and integrating a LangChain + Pinecone RAG pipeline deployed on Amazon Bedrock. Emphasizes clinical accuracy and reliability with guardrails, retrieval filtering, and continuous evaluation, and also brings strong data engineering/orchestration experience (Airflow, EMR/PySpark, ADF, dbt, Databricks, Snowflake).”

“LLM/GenAI engineer who built a production AI-powered credit risk policy summarization and compliance alerting platform at HCL Tech, focused on factual accuracy and auditability for a financial client. Implemented a multi-retriever LangChain RAG architecture with citations-only prompting, fallback agents, and human-in-the-loop legal review—cutting manual review time by 35% and scaling to 12 teams.”

“LLM/agentic AI builder who led end-to-end integration of an LLM system into a business intelligence product, creating a scalable, metadata-driven RAG/agent pipeline with an orchestrator that routes queries to specialized agents (including DB-backed quantitative querying). Also built an LLM-to-SQL chatbot and partnered with non-technical stakeholders to capture domain context and improve SQL generation, using automated LLM-based testing to evaluate reliability.”

“Production infrastructure engineer from Textron Systems who owned IBM Power/AIX 7.2 environments supporting manufacturing-critical automated RF test workloads. Deep hands-on experience with VIOS/HMC, DLPAR performance issues, SAN/vFC failures and failover recovery, plus modern DevOps practices (Azure DevOps CI/CD, Key Vault) and Terraform-based AWS infrastructure with remote state/locking and drift controls.”

“Cybersecurity leader with 13 years in IT/cyber and 8 years in management, currently managing ~200 people while innovating explainable AI (XAI) for military/high-stakes decision-making. Experienced with large budgets, resource allocation, and investor engagement, and is motivated to build a proactive, future-focused cyber company centered on Zero Trust and human-overseen XAI.”

“Built and launched “Language AI,” a Next.js/TypeScript app that clones a user’s voice (via ElevenLabs) to deliver language lessons in their own voice, using Supabase for auth/Postgres/storage and hosting backend on Render. Post-launch, identified ElevenLabs voice-clone limits after initial users and reworked the pipeline to store audio assets and delete clones to support more concurrent users; also added Google auth to improve adoption. Previously worked in a high-growth startup environment (Study Park) taking concepts from ideation to production.”

Vidit Naik

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Junior AI/ML & Full-Stack Engineer specializing in LLMs and RAG systems

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Forward-deployed engineer who built a production AI drone-control chatbot that lets users fly a drone via natural language while viewing a real-time feed. Implemented RAG over drone SDK documentation (vector DB + top-k retrieval) and LoRA fine-tuning, with a focus on latency, token efficiency, and cost reduction, and regularly works with non-technical clients to integrate and explain AI system architecture.”

Mohith Venkata

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Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud-native APIs and data workflows

Tukwila, WA4y exp

“Built and owned end-to-end ordering and inventory/order management systems for a wholesale distributor, delivering an MVP quickly and iterating based on direct observation of daily users. Experienced with TypeScript/React + Node.js layered architectures and microservices using RabbitMQ, including real-world scaling issues (duplicates, backpressure) and observability practices (correlation IDs, structured logging).”