Vetted Machine Learning Professionals

“Cloud infrastructure/product engineer with end-to-end ownership of cloud-native storage/observability products, including taking an internal CMS to Google Cloud Marketplace and scaling to ~40,000 deployments. Strong in Kubernetes-based platforms (Operators, microservices, RabbitMQ) and performance/scalability work (e.g., 200% cluster capacity increase) plus internal tooling that materially improved SRE/QA debugging and release velocity.”

“Sourcing/procurement-focused candidate who owned vendor selection and risk planning for an IoT pressure/temperature gauge prototype, partnering with a procurement expert on negotiations. Demonstrates strong operations/process mindset by fixing a sales-to-production handover bottleneck with a simple checklist and managing milestones via master trackers and RACI.”

“AI engineer with production experience building a high-accuracy (98%) fraud detection system operating at real-time latency (1–2s) over millions of transactions, using a multi-model pipeline approach to meet performance constraints. Also implemented Airflow-orchestrated workflows (DAGs, retries, alerts) to replace brittle cron scripts and is currently pursuing a master’s project on real-time ASL-to-text conversion.”

“Data/analytics professional with experience across manufacturing and enterprise environments (Wisconsin School of Business project with CNH Industrial; roles/projects at Ascensia Technologies, S&C, and Adobe). Has hands-on work combining warranty/lifecycle tables with technician free-text notes using TF-IDF + tree models (XGBoost/Random Forest), and deep experience in entity resolution/reconciliation across mismatched financial systems using Python/SQL and fuzzy matching, with production-grade pipeline practices in Azure Data Factory/Databricks.”

“ML/NLP practitioner working across healthcare and business/finance use cases: currently fine-tuning a domain-specific Llama 3.1 model for safe reasoning over EHRs/clinical notes using RAG + RL/DPO and RAGAS-based evaluation. Has built UMLS-driven entity normalization pipelines with quantified quality gains and developed embedding/vector-DB systems (FAISS) for semantic matching and forecasting/recommendation applications at Aurora AI and Banxico.”

“Full-stack AI/LLM engineer who has deployed a production LLM backend (Mistral 14B) on GKE to auto-transform datasets and generate runnable ML training pipelines, addressing hallucinations, schema mismatch, latency, and burst scaling with caching/prompt compression and HPA. Also has internship experience (Splunk, BlackOffer) delivering data automation and 10+ Power BI dashboards for non-technical stakeholders with measurable efficiency gains.”

“Robotics engineer who built a 6-axis force-torque sensor system end-to-end at ROAM Lab, including electronics, low-level drivers, and ROS2 live inference with time-series deep learning (ultimately a 1D ResNet) to handle highly noisy, session-shifting signals. Also upgraded tactile manipulation models to time-series inputs by modifying long-standing ROS architectures, and has prior experience in defense (L3Harris) with production-grade testing and code review practices; published work: arxiv.org/abs/2410.03481.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on experience building a dual-arm (Kawasaki duAro) Cranfield assembly task-planning and motion-planning stack in ROS/MoveIt, using PDDL + behavior trees and OMPL for collision-free execution. Improved tight-tolerance insertions by integrating RGB-D visual servoing into the task planner loop, and also built an LLM-driven navigation pipeline with ORBSLAM3 for natural-language command parsing and real-time replanning.”

“Founder of an algorithmic trading startup who reports raising $25M+ over roughly the last three years. Has spent several years working closely with VC funds, focusing on fundraising and lead generation with VC/PE firms, and is strongly committed to entrepreneurship and scaling new technologies.”

“Candidate does not currently have a business plan or startup and has not raised capital. They have not worked directly in VC/studio/accelerator settings but report being familiar through friends/family and personal interest in joining that ecosystem; they are not committed to entrepreneurship at all costs.”

Alexander Taylor

Screened

Principal Automation & Robotics Engineer specializing in lab automation deployments

San Diego, CA4y exp

“Lab automation engineer building an automated weighing robot system for Lilly’s analytical chemistry group, integrating a 6-axis Mecademic robot, Mettler Toledo balance, and vision/barcode verification with safety protocols for live lab operation. Experienced in production Python for instrument control, data processing, and CV/ML, including authenticated Data Lake API integrations with fault handling. Also improved automated sample storage throughput 2–3x via pick-order optimization and partners closely with scientists to deliver MVP-to-production experimental automation workflows.”

Vagmin Yadav

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, ML pipelines, and DevOps

Pune, India2y exp

“TypeScript backend engineer in the robotics domain with hands-on experience building low-latency (20–40ms) production systems using RabbitMQ, Redis, and HA PostgreSQL (Patroni). Has owned end-to-end services supporting 15 clients via config-driven architecture, with strong CI/CD, automated testing, and observability (OpenTelemetry) practices, plus API versioning/deprecation using Keycloak auth.”

Vedant Kharwal

Screened

Intern AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and applied machine learning

Mumbai, India1y exp

“New graduate with hands-on LLM work building a RAG pipeline (HNSW, lexical reranking/boosting, ReAct) and optimizing it through ablation to dramatically reduce latency. Also building a modular personal assistant with a custom wake word model, router-driven agent selection, and integrations like Spotify with secrets managed via .env.”

“Solutions Architect with hands-on experience driving AWS Partner Network engagements end-to-end (technical reviews, discovery, demos, incentives, marketplace/GTM) to enable revenue outcomes, even when not the direct closer. Known for navigating complex policy/compliance changes with high-revenue partners and for being a go-to Amazon Connect specialist in ambiguous customer environments; also collaborated with founders of a small health tech company on an AI agent concept tied to healthcare workflows and medical records.”

“Serial entrepreneur with 15+ years in the VC, studio, and accelerator ecosystem who has founded multiple startups, raised capital previously, and built a consulting business running since 2008. Currently building a pre-seed SaaS marketplace for long-term housing in Texas with plans to expand across the U.S. and into Portugal, bringing a notably strategic focus on long-term market trends and exit planning.”

Ishwari Mulay

Screened

Intern Data Scientist specializing in analytics and healthcare data

Philadelphia, PA1y exp

“Analytics candidate with AstraZeneca internship experience building scalable SQL and Python workflows on large healthcare datasets. Stands out for combining data engineering, reporting automation, and applied machine learning— including an end-to-end patient no-show prediction project that achieved 76.8% accuracy and reduced no-shows by 18%.”

“Built Baioniq, an enterprise LLM platform for automating extraction from massive unstructured documents like contracts and insurance claims. They demonstrate unusually strong production depth in agentic AI—scaling to 100k+ requests/day, processing 1M+ claim documents, and improving extraction accuracy through rigorous RAG architecture, evaluation, and fallback design.”

“Candidate combines fraud analytics experience at Citi with a clinical AI capstone involving reproducible ML pipelines for imaging and notes data. They stand out for turning messy, high-volume data into decision-ready reporting, automating evaluation workflows, and translating analytics into operational impact—from fraud rule changes to retention metric adoption.”

Sirisha Maddikunta

Screened

Mid-level Generative AI Engineer specializing in enterprise LLM and healthcare AI solutions

O Fallon, MO6y exp

“Built and owned an end-to-end LLM-powered fraud investigation assistant that automated case summaries and risk analysis, cutting analyst investigation/documentation time by 40%. Stands out for translating RAG concepts into a production-grade internal platform with strong evaluation, monitoring, and reusable Python service architecture that improved both analyst trust and engineering velocity.”

“Principal engineer with experience across multiple startups, including direct exposure to VC due diligence and early-stage company strategy. Stands out for making pragmatic product decisions—such as steering a startup away from capital-intensive custom hardware toward mobile applications to validate the business faster and focus on the most valuable software layer.”

“Built and owned a production conversational AI platform for a healthcare contact center, including RAG-based agent assist, hybrid retrieval, safety guardrails, and production monitoring. Stands out for combining LLM product delivery with strong operational rigor, driving a reported 25-30% improvement in handling time in a sensitive healthcare environment.”

“Healthcare-focused operator/investor with multiple emerging startup ideas, including a patented fish oil formulation backed by a published NEJM clinical trial and a fermentation-based functional ingredients company restart. Brings a patient-first mindset, experience leading companies in incubator settings, and a distinctly investor-driven lens on commercialization, fundraising, and cap table strategy.”