Vetted Machine Learning Professionals

Jeannine Brooks

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Executive product and delivery leader specializing in enterprise software and FinTech

Shelton, CT26y exp

“Product leader in accounting software who drove a legacy desktop application’s transition into a cloud SaaS platform, including security redesign, browser-based UX modernization, and ML-assisted accounting workflows. Stands out for combining deep domain knowledge in finance operations with practical change management, stakeholder alignment, and team leadership that improved quality while cutting backlog nearly in half.”

“Data engineer in financial services (Northern Trust) who has worked across ingestion, transformation, data quality, orchestration, and serving on AWS (S3/Glue/EMR) with Airflow. Highlights include processing ~15M transactions with validation/anomaly detection for regulatory reporting and improving Snowflake query performance by 27% for risk/compliance reporting. Also built a personal real-time streaming service (FastAPI, Kafka, Redis, Cassandra) and uses production reliability patterns like blue-green/atomic swaps and robust retry strategies.”

Sivamalai Chandrasekar

Screened

Mid-level Forward Deploy Engineer specializing in cloud platforms and customer deployments

Aspen, CO4y exp

“Built and deployed VotingConnect end-to-end, owning everything from stakeholder discovery to architecture, full-stack implementation, and post-launch stabilization, with reported outcomes including 99.9% uptime and a 40% increase in voter participation. Currently works at SIXT on Cobra, an AWS-powered fleet management platform, where they focus on real-time data integrity, anomaly resolution, and reporting workflows that directly support operational and revenue decisions.”

“AI-focused engineer with Infosys experience building Azure/.NET chatbot applications and recent hands-on work with FastAPI/LangChain. Built a hackathon multi-agent legal counsel system showcasing agent orchestration, and emphasizes production readiness via Docker, GitHub Actions CI/CD, pytest automation, and adversarial simulations for auditable AI behavior. No direct robotics/ROS experience to date.”

sai anuragh Sangoju

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in fraud detection, credit risk, and NLP

Dallas, Texas4y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered university support chatbot on Azure using a RAG pipeline, focusing on reducing hallucinations, improving latency, and handling ambiguous queries via confidence checks and clarification prompts. Also has hands-on orchestration experience (Airflow/Azure Data Factory), including hardening a demand-forecasting ingestion workflow with sensors, retries, and automated alerts, and uses a metrics-driven testing/monitoring approach for reliable AI agents.”

“Built a production RAG chatbot for Worcester Polytechnic Institute that indexes 500+ webpages using FAISS + Llama 3, with strong grounding/hallucination controls (confidence thresholds and citations). Also has internship experience orchestrating multi-step ETL pipelines with AWS Step Functions and delivered a 30x faster fraud/claims triage workflow at Munich Re using association rules and stakeholder-friendly dashboards.”

“Analytics-focused candidate with hands-on experience in both supply chain data and AI product analytics. They have built SQL and Python pipelines for messy ERP/inventory data as well as high-volume user event data, and have driven experimentation, retention measurement, and dashboarding for AI avatar and voice/image cloning features.”

Susheel Thimlapur

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in web applications and cloud systems

Bloomington, IN4y exp

“Software developer at Indiana University who built a phishing training platform using TypeScript/React, Node, GraphQL, and DynamoDB, including an admin tool to monitor student completion and send automated reminder emails. Also created TechRent, an IU-only electronics rental marketplace concept focused on improving security by restricting access to university students.”

“Lifecycle/CRM marketer from Churchome who led a mobile app onboarding and re-engagement program using behavior-based segmentation, in-app/push messaging, and AI-assisted chat. Drove ~20% lift in early-stage engagement, improved 30-day retention, and reduced support load through automated chat flows and rapid A/B-driven iteration.”

“Customer success leader (Director of Customer Engagement at PlutoShift; also experience at Truework) focused on enterprise lifecycle ownership, stakeholder mapping, and VoC-driven product influence. Led cross-functional efforts to ship a reporting capability requested by customers, improving adoption and loyalty, and uses tools like Looker/Tableau plus deep customer discovery to diagnose issues like ineffective onboarding even when usage metrics look strong.”

“QA automation engineer who owned an end-to-end, device-integrated mobile regression suite for Tandem’s insulin-pump-connected mobile app, covering pairing/connectivity/data sync and catching contract mismatches and firmware-related connectivity regressions. Strong in Cypress/JavaScript automation, CI gating in GitHub Actions, and diagnosing production-impacting sync issues using logs and API traces while influencing requirements early to improve testability and UX.”

“Candidate has hands-on experience at Cognizant building production-grade automation and integration solutions across Python ML services, Java microservices, Kafka, and Selenium-based UI testing. They stand out for a strong reliability mindset—covering failure modes, observability, flaky test hardening, and translating ambiguous payment-system business processes into resilient end-to-end automated workflows.”

“Healthcare-focused ML/AI engineer who has built production voice agents and clinical question-answering systems end-to-end, from experimentation through deployment, observability, and iteration. Particularly strong in making LLM systems reliable in real workflows via RAG, fine-tuning, guardrails, evaluation pipelines, and shared Python tooling; cites ~20% clinical QA accuracy gains and ~40% faster physician decision turnaround.”

“Full-stack engineer with payments/settlement domain experience who modernized a payment tracking workflow from REST to GraphQL and delivered a production payment status dashboard using Next.js App Router + TypeScript. Strong in performance and reliability work (Postgres indexing/Explain Analyze, Redis caching, Datadog observability) and in durable event-driven processing with Kafka (DLQs, idempotency, reconciliation, event replay).”

“Public sector IT and cybersecurity sales leader with a track record of transforming reactive sales motions into proactive growth engines. He scaled Washington State business to over $1M/month, turned around a King County security account to $1M+ annually, and later drove 27% domestic and 30% international growth as a Global VP of Sales ahead of a successful acquisition.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across Python/Flask microservices and AWS serverless/data platforms (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Glue/PySpark). Demonstrated strong reliability and operations mindset (JWT/RBAC, retries/timeouts/circuit breakers, CloudWatch/SNS alerting) and measurable performance wins (SQL report runtime cut from 10 minutes to 30 seconds). Seeking ~$150k base and cannot travel for onsite meetings for the next 5–6 months due to family medical constraints.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building a real-time notification API on Flask/Celery/Postgres and scaling it on AWS with Docker, Redis queuing, and SQLAlchemy query optimization. Also delivered AWS serverless deployments (Lambda) using Terraform + GitHub Actions and built AWS Glue ETL pipelines from S3 to Redshift with CloudWatch monitoring and DataBrew data quality checks.”

“AI/ML engineer who led Impacter AI’s production deployment of a specialized outreach LLM (CharmedLLM) fine-tuned on GPT-4.1, cutting API costs ~40% while boosting outreach effectiveness ~60%. Built the supporting MLOps and data infrastructure (MLflow, Kubernetes, PySpark, Kafka) and has agentic AI experience from University of Dayton, using LangChain + RAG and vector search (Pinecone) to improve reliability and reduce hallucinations.”

“GenAI/LLM engineer with production experience at Allstate building an end-to-end document intelligence workflow for insurance operations—automating document intake, classification, and risk signal extraction. Emphasizes high-reliability design for regulated/high-stakes outputs using schema enforcement, confidence thresholds, validation rules, and human-in-the-loop routing, with metric-driven offline evaluation and production monitoring.”

Mohammed Saalim Kartapillai

Screened

Senior Backend/Full-Stack Engineer specializing in data platforms and cloud microservices

Chicago, Illinois7y exp

“Backend engineer who built and shipped an end-to-end AI outreach product (LazyMails) combining a LinkedIn-scraping Chrome extension with a FastAPI/Postgres backend and Gemini-powered email generation, achieving major personal productivity gains. Also has enterprise experience at TCS on Humana’s 500k+ user wellness platform running Kubernetes microservices with Azure DevOps CI/CD, plus Kafka-based real-time eligibility event streaming and GitOps-driven operations.”