Vetted Machine Learning Professionals

“Early-stage founder with a privacy-focused concept to simplify at-home self-hosting for services like email, photos, files, and local AI. They are approaching the idea in staged phases to test traction and minimize upfront capital, and have some familiarity with the startup accelerator ecosystem through a Techstars-affiliated company.”

“Senior product leader who helped transform Submittable from a single-program grant tool into a multi-program impact platform, driving ARR from $20M to $70M+ while improving retention and margins. Particularly strong in enterprise platform strategy and human-centered AI, with a clear philosophy of using AI to augment expert judgment rather than replace it.”

ERIC Beecroft

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in frontend-led FinTech products

8y exp

“Full-stack engineer with leadership experience across fintech and data products, spanning React/TypeScript frontends, Kotlin/Spring and .NET backends, and AWS infrastructure. Stands out for pairing strong product judgment with hands-on execution: they introduced safer progressive rollout patterns, led Google Auth implementation, and contributed to a lending flow that drove an additional $1M in funded loans in 30 days. Recently expanded into AI tooling by building an MCP app for Claude Desktop integrated with internal APIs.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-driven data harmonization/record-matching pipeline for pharmaceutical datasets, combining normalization, embeddings/vector search, and an LLM validation step. Emphasizes production reliability via guardrails, confidence thresholds, idempotent/retryable stages, and human-in-the-loop fallbacks, with monitoring focused on manual review and error rates to reduce false positives.”

Isha math

Screened

Intern-level AI Solutions Engineer specializing in cloud data pipelines and LLM workflows

Remote1y exp

“Front-end/full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of a React/Next.js interface for a digital archival platform, focused on making complex metadata and retrieval workflows usable for non-technical stakeholders. Stands out for combining UX clarity, accessibility, and browser-level performance optimization, with measurable impact including ~30% workflow efficiency gains and 20% fewer user errors.”

“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/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.”

“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.”

“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 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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Full-stack engineer who built and shipped an AI-powered internal knowledge search system for APL Services, including document ingestion into a vector database, a Python backend, and a React/TypeScript chat-style UI with source citations for trust. Improved production reliability by migrating from Streamlit Cloud to GCP with containerization and scaling controls to eliminate cold-start friction; also co-led a Mensa chapter website redesign as Digital Communications Committee co-chair.”

“Application/security-focused customer-facing implementer who has secured multi-customer data aggregation apps using per-tenant isolation, short-lived/scoped tokens, and vault-based secrets management. Troubleshoots production issues via API gateway logs and performance tuning, and runs repeatable onboarding playbooks with strong customer-specific and cross-project documentation. Emphasizes AWS least-privilege IAM and secure agent deployment patterns, plus container scanning practices that catch vulnerabilities pre-production and build developer trust.”

“Data professional with ~4 years of experience, most recently at AIG (insurance), building ML/NLP systems for fraud detection and policy automation using transformers, CNNs, and clustering/anomaly detection. Also developed a RAG-based knowledge retrieval system, iterating across embedding models and moving to production based on precision and latency SLAs, then containerizing and deploying with SageMaker and CI/CD.”

Ronak Jain

Screened

Mid-level Sensor Fusion Research Engineer specializing in autonomous vehicle perception

Auburn Hills, MI2y exp

“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.”

PRAHARSHA JANDHYALA

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist/Data Analyst specializing in ML, BI dashboards, and ETL pipelines

Dallas, TX4y exp

“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.”

Prashanth Kedri

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in MLOps, NLP, and predictive maintenance

AL, USA4y exp

“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.”

Erik Arriaga

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in cloud data pipelines and machine learning

Austin, TX4y exp

“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.”

xavier mendez

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in React, PHP, and AWS

Dallas, TX2y exp

“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.”

“Data engineer with banking FP&A experience who led an end-to-end migration of 10+ TB from Teradata to Azure (ADF + Data Lake + Databricks/PySpark + Synapse). Emphasizes reliability (multi-stage validation, monitoring/alerts) and performance (Spark tuning, incremental loads, autoscaling), reporting ~99.5% pipeline reliability while supporting downstream consumers with stable schemas and clear change management.”