Vetted Machine Learning Professionals

Priyanka Kaswan

Screened

Senior AI Research Engineer specializing in LLM agents and large-scale ML

7y exp

“AT&T Labs builder who deployed a production multi-agent LLM system that lets engineers ask natural-language questions and automatically generates deterministic, schema-grounded Snowflake SQL (200–400 lines) to detect anomalies in massive wireless/network event data (~11B events/day). Experienced with LangChain and Palantir Foundry orchestration, RAG-based result interpretation, and rigorous evaluation/monitoring loops to continuously improve reliability.”

“Backend engineer who helped redesign and refactor Forma’s backend during an app rewrite, emphasizing modularity, maintainability, and A/B testing support while delivering feature parity on a quarter-long timeline. Led a careful database migration using parallel databases with schema differences, validating integrity via staging and SQL checks, and has experience debugging subtle computer-vision overflow edge cases.”

“LLM/multimodal systems builder who developed DuetGen, a practical multimodal interleaved text-image generation system using a decoupled MLLM planner and video-pretrained diffusion transformer for high-quality image generation with step-wise alignment. Built a 298K-sample interleaved dataset across 8 domains/151 subtasks and deployed a GPT-5-based automated evaluation framework; also has LangChain-based multimodal agent orchestration experience with custom state management and reliability testing.”

“Built and shipped an LLM-powered data quality assistant that generates maintainable validation checks from metadata while executing validations via Great Expectations, exposed through FastAPI and integrated into Airflow-managed pipelines. Emphasizes production reliability (structured outputs, guardrails, monitoring, versioning, human review) and works closely with compliance/operations teams to deliver clear, auditable, user-friendly AI outputs.”

“Intel veteran who applied multiple linear regression and time-series drift analysis to semiconductor lithography overlay/metrology data, feeding model outputs into automated process control. Comfortable working across Python, VBA, and JMP/JSL, with a pragmatic approach to validation (RMSE + trend visualization) and data quality via close coordination with measurement/metrology teams.”

“CTO-focused candidate with experience at foundations evaluating startups, including reviewing technical architectures and coaching teams to refine ideas for better platform fit and synergies. Prioritizes company culture and integrity when choosing leadership roles.”

Abhinav Bandaru

Screened

Junior Data Scientist specializing in Generative AI and agentic LLM systems

San Jose, CA1y exp

“LLM/agentic-systems builder who has shipped production tools for investment research and procurement insights, including a company screener that processes thousands of conference-listed companies using FireCrawl + Google Search + Gemini. Demonstrates strong orchestration expertise (LangGraph multi-agent graphs), performance optimization (async/batching to sub-30s), and pragmatic reliability/evaluation practices with stakeholder-friendly UX (real-time cost tracking and model/parameter toggles).”

Akshitha Singireddy

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in data engineering and computer vision

Bellevue, WA1y exp

“Former Amazon intern who owned an end-to-end computer vision system to detect package anomalies in fulfillment centers, from data collection/labeling to production deployment on AWS (EC2/S3) with a Streamlit live-monitoring dashboard. Also has ML-in-production experience deploying and updating a recommendation model on Kubernetes (Minikube) with CI/CD via GitHub Actions, plus prior SDE experience with Jenkins-based pipelines and on-prem to AWS migration work using Glue.”

Jingfei Xu

Screened

Intern/Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and cloud-based systems

Mountain View, CA0y exp

“Embedded/robotics software engineer with Hyundai Motors experience who owned an AI-driven perception validation pipeline using a Transformer-based approach to generate stable synthetic in-cabin audio for autonomy/ASR testing, cutting downstream testing time by 50%+. Has hands-on ROS integration (IMU sensor streaming, inference, control nodes), MQTT-based distributed messaging, and cloud/container deployment experience (Docker, Node/Express, AWS, CI/CD).”

“Robotics/ML engineer with internship experience at Valeo building a deep-learning prototype to replace parts of a legacy SLAM backend for autonomous parking, focused on making models run reliably in real time on embedded hardware (quantization/distillation + TensorRT). Also brings strong MLOps/deployment experience (Docker, Kubernetes on AWS EKS, CI via GitHub Actions) and has supported patent filing by explaining the technical approach to legal stakeholders.”

“Commercial/GTN leader with GCP experience managing multi-year, multi-megawatt AI/GPU infrastructure commitments, owning segment P&L and governance for take-or-pay/reserved capacity. Drove a major client partnership scaling ARR from $50M to $100M in 18 months by aligning Product/Engineering, GTM, and infra teams and building flexible, margin-protective commercial structures. Known for speeding hyperscaler procurement/security reviews (FedRAMP/SOC2, IAM, data residency) and operationalizing multi-region delivery with landing zones and IaC.”

“Meta engineer who improved a critical revenue estimation dataset pipeline that was arriving ~6 days late—diagnosed via raw logs/lineage, redesigned legacy scans to only process the needed window, and shipped validation plus freshness/lag dashboards. Delivered ~50% latency reduction (to ~3 days) and regained adoption by running old/new pipelines in parallel with gated cutover and evidence-based customer communication. Applies incident-response rigor to real-time LLM/agentic workflow debugging and regularly runs developer demos/workshops.”

“LLM/Conversational AI engineer who built a production multi-turn dialogue system using LoRA fine-tuning on LLaMA, cutting training compute/memory by 90%+ while maintaining low-latency inference via quantization and streaming generation. Experienced in orchestrating end-to-end ML workflows with Prefect/Airflow/Kubeflow (including hyperparameter sweeps and W&B tracking) and improving agent reliability through benchmark-driven testing, shadow-mode rollouts, and stakeholder-informed guardrails.”

“ML/NLP practitioner and technical founder who built an AUP risk-scoring model at Bill.com using TF-IDF + SVD features with XGBoost, and previously created automated data-quality guardrails for a Global Equity Risk stacked ML model at Thomson Reuters. Recently built a RAG-based chatbot for PaymentJock’s Home Affordability Probability product using embeddings and a local vector database (FAISS/Chroma), improving answer quality through chunking rather than expensive fine-tuning.”

“Chief of Staff to the COO / Strategy & Business Development leader at Annapurna who unified four distinct entertainment verticals (film, TV, interactive, theatre) into the company’s first cross-functional five-year plan. Built standardized pipeline reporting, forecasting models grounded in real execution rates, and executive dashboards that improved decision-making speed and COO leverage while navigating creative/finance tension and sensitive information.”

Ravikanth Kasamsetty

Screened

Executive AI/ML Engineering Leader specializing in cloud-native SaaS and GenAI platforms

23y exp

“Engineering leader who modernized and unified a fragmented product suite at Milestone via a multi-year cloud-native roadmap, delivering an MVP in three quarters and boosting team velocity by 40% through cross-functional squads. At Prometheum, led a trust-building hybrid architecture (AWS control plane + customer-hosted data plane) using Kubernetes to ensure sensitive enterprise data never left customer networks while remaining cloud-agnostic across providers.”

Anand Vallamsetla

Screened

Executive Engineering Leader & Systems Architect specializing in AI, cloud platforms, and FinTech

Los Altos, CA26y exp

“Operator with 20+ years experience and a business degree who led the build and deployment of a Medicaid fraud investigation product for Texas HHSC OIG, cutting investigation time from ~2 years to 90 days. Has government go-to-market experience and has raised a friends-and-family round for an earlier startup concept; now pivoting toward a healthcare-focused venture after a cofounder with core tech could not continue.”

Timothy Mazenge

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in Ads frontend and high-scale web platforms

Kirkland, WA6y exp

“Backend engineer with ad-tech experience who improved advertiser dashboard accuracy by exempting 1% of traffic from ML-based dropping in a ~1B-requests/day pipeline, trading storage for higher customer satisfaction and reduced debugging load. Demonstrates strong migration discipline (phased rollouts, compatibility layers, rollback/change-history recovery) and production API/security practices in Python/FastAPI (async, caching, throttling, RBAC/RLS, monitoring).”

Ahmed Sadaqat

Screened

Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in production ML and predictive analytics

Los Angeles, CA7y exp

“ML/AI engineering leader who has owned end-to-end production systems from experimentation through deployment, monitoring, and iteration at meaningful scale. They describe running a 1M+ records/day prediction platform with 99.9% availability, shipping a RAG-based conversational AI feature for 50,000 active users, and consistently improving precision, latency, reliability, and cost with measurable business impact.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered medical scribe that generates structured clinical visit summaries using RAG, strict JSON schemas, and post-generation validation to reduce hallucinations. Experienced in making LLM workflows deterministic and observable (structured logging/metrics/tracing) and in evaluation-driven iteration with metrics like schema pass rate and edit rate; collaborated closely with clinicians and policy stakeholders at Scale AI to drive adoption.”

“Built and shipped a real-time AI phone agent for small businesses that handles bookings/FAQs/messages using streaming ASR, an LLM with tool-calling, and TTS; deployed to production for multiple paying customers. Demonstrates strong applied LLM reliability practices (tool-first grounding, retrieval, hard-negative testing, and production monitoring) and experience orchestrating multi-step AI workflows with Airflow, Prefect, and AWS Step Functions.”

“Robotics software candidate with hands-on experience building controllers for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, including dual-PID control in Python with state-space modeling and a planned path to LQR. Developed ROS nodes for odometry-based localization, waypoint planning, and control command publishing, validated through a custom Gazebo/ROS simulation workflow with control-metric-driven testing. Also worked on F1Tenth simulation and scan-matching localization (PL-ICP), with additional cloud deployment experience using Docker/Kubernetes and CI/CD.”

Sammy Datwani

Screened

Executive biotech leader specializing in microfluidics, diagnostics, and life science tools

Pleasanton, CA25y exp

“Biotech founder building a de-novo protein sequencing company, originally incubated by Versant Ventures and now focused on life science tools and clinical diagnostics. Has raised capital from institutional VCs, strategic investors, and a foundation, and brings unusual ecosystem depth through mentoring at IndieBio, Berkeley SkyDeck, and Biotools Innovator, plus board service with Life Science Angels and VC diligence advisory work.”

“Serial entrepreneur who has created several companies, brought them to market, raised as much as $15M, and achieved exits before moving on to new ideas. Combines an academic and institutional background spanning Harvard, MIT, Mass General Brigham, and the Department of War with two decades of consulting experience, and is especially motivated by building impactful technology.”