Vetted MLOps Professionals

“Engineering Manager/player-coach leading Data Infrastructure, ML/DS, and AI Engineering pods who recently shipped multiple production agentic GenAI features. Built privacy-preserving LLM workflows (PII redaction via Microsoft Presidio) and drove an AI expense-approval agent from ambiguous ask to GA, cutting approval time from ~2.5 days to <4 hours with >85% accuracy. Also owned a major LLM cost overrun incident and implemented cost observability plus circuit breakers to prevent runaway agent loops.”

Rishitha reddy katamareddy

Screened

Mid-level Generative AI & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in agentic LLM systems

USA4y exp

“Built and deployed a production agentic LLM knowledge assistant that answers complex questions over internal documents, APIs, and databases using a RAG architecture (FAISS/Pinecone) and LangChain/LangGraph orchestration. Emphasizes production-grade reliability and hallucination control through grounding, confidence thresholds, validation, retries/fallbacks, and full observability (logging/metrics/traces) with continuous evaluation and feedback loops.”

Daniel Jin

Screened

Intern Site Reliability Engineer specializing in Kubernetes, AWS, and observability

New York, NY1y exp

“Backend/data engineering candidate specializing in Python/Flask services and ML-enabled systems, deploying containerized workloads on AWS ECS/EKS with strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana) and PostgreSQL performance tuning. Built multi-tenant architectures with row- and schema-level isolation and optimized a Kubernetes-based Airflow + Spark nightly ETL pipeline for an e-commerce client, improving performance by 250%+ and reliably beating morning reporting deadlines; also contributed to Apache Airflow (SQLAlchemy/PostgreSQL area).”

Sreelekha Vuppala

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in Generative AI, MLOps, and cloud data platforms

USA4y exp

“GenAI/ML engineer (CitiusTech) who has deployed production RAG systems for compliance/operations document Q&A, using Pinecone + FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes with strong monitoring and guardrails. Also built a GenAI-powered incident triage/routing solution in collaboration with non-technical stakeholders, achieving 35% faster response times and 40% fewer misclassified tickets, and has hands-on orchestration experience with Airflow and AutoSys.”

Wilson Harron

Screened

Director-level AI/ML & Computer Vision Engineer specializing in robotics and multimodal AI

Los Angeles, CA15y exp

“Candidate is not currently pursuing entrepreneurship (no business plan and no capital raised) and is not familiar with the VC/accelerator landscape. They show pragmatic, problem-first thinking about evaluating startup ideas—prioritizing real customer pain points and the quality of the founding team—and are open to working for others rather than founding "at all costs."”

Supreet Purthpli

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native MLOps and FinTech

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Software engineer with JPMorgan Chase experience delivering end-to-end fintech features (Next.js/React/Node/Postgres on AWS) and measurable performance gains. Built and productionized an AI-native credit decisioning workflow combining LLMs, vector retrieval, and a rules engine with strong governance (bias checks, auditability, human-in-loop), improving precision and cutting underwriting turnaround time by 40%.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered calorie-counting chatbot that turns plain-English meal descriptions into normalized food entities, quantities, and calorie estimates using a hybrid transformer + rule-engine pipeline. Emphasizes reliability with schema/constraint guardrails, confidence-based routing (including embedding similarity search fallbacks), and strong observability/metrics (hallucination rate, calibration, latency, cost). Partnered closely with nutritionists to encode domain standards into mappings and validation logic.”

“Robotics/ROS2-focused early-career engineer who built a stereo visual-odometry SLAM system for autonomous navigation and optimized it to run reliably in real time on Raspberry Pi. Strong in sensor fusion (camera+IMU), ROS2 debugging/profiling, and distributed robotics/IoT pipelines (ROS2 + MQTT + cloud), with added experience extracting WiFi CSI for sensing/localization and shipping via Docker + GitHub Actions CI/CD.”

“Backend/platform engineer who owned a real-time customer analytics microservice stack in Python/FastAPI with Kafka streaming into PostgreSQL, including schema enforcement (Avro) and high-throughput optimizations. Strong Kubernetes + GitOps practitioner (EKS/GKE, Helm, Argo CD) who has handled CI/CD reliability issues with automated pre-deploy checks and rollbacks, and supported major migrations (on-prem to AWS; VM to EKS) with blue-green cutover planning.”

“React performance-focused engineer who contributed performance patches back to an open-source context+reducer state helper after profiling and fixing excessive re-renders in an enterprise project management platform at Easley Dunn Productions. Also built an end-to-end LLM-driven pipeline at Prime Healthcare to normalize millions of supply-chain records, reducing defects by 80% and saving 160+ hours/month.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered clinical note summarization system used by care managers to speed review of 5–20 page unstructured medical records. Implemented safety-focused validation (prompt constraints, rule-based and section-level checks, human-in-the-loop) to reduce hallucinations while maintaining low latency and meeting privacy/regulatory constraints, integrating via APIs into existing clinical tools.”

“Designed and deployed an enterprise LLM-powered clinical/pharmacy policy knowledge assistant at CVS Health, replacing manual searches across PDFs/Word/SharePoint with a HIPAA-compliant RAG system. Built end-to-end ingestion and orchestration (Airflow + Azure ML/Data Lake + vector index) with PHI masking, versioned re-embedding, and production monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana), and partnered closely with clinicians/compliance to ensure policy-grounded, auditable answers.”

“AI/LLM engineer with recent production experience at UnitedHealth Group building an end-to-end RAG system over structured EMR data and unstructured clinical notes, including evidence retrieval, GPT/LLaMA-based reasoning, and a validation layer for reliability. Strong in orchestration (Kubeflow/Airflow/MLflow), prompt engineering for noisy healthcare text, and rigorous evaluation/monitoring with gold-standard benchmarking, plus close collaboration with clinical operations stakeholders.”

“AI/ML engineer with production experience building a RAG-based internal analytics assistant (Databricks + ADF ingestion, Pinecone vector store, LangChain orchestration) deployed via Docker on AWS SageMaker with CI/CD and MLflow. Strong focus on real-world constraints—latency/cost optimization (LoRA ~60% compute reduction), hallucination control with citation grounding, and enterprise security/governance. Previously at Intuit, delivered an interpretable churn prediction system (PySpark/Databricks, Airflow/Azure ML) that improved retention targeting ~12%.”

“ML/LLM engineer at Charles Schwab who built a production loan-advisor chatbot integrated with internal knowledge and loan-calculator APIs, adding strict numeric validation to prevent rate hallucinations and optimizing context to control costs. Also runs ~40 Airflow DAGs orchestrating retraining/ETL/drift monitoring with an automated Snowflake→SageMaker→auto-deploy pipeline, and uses rigorous testing plus canary rollouts tied to business metrics and compliance constraints.”

“Backend/Founding-Engineer-style builder who architected AESOP, a multi-agent distributed platform for biomedical literature evidence synthesis. Implemented an async FastAPI stack on AWS with LangGraph orchestration, Redis/Postgres+pgvector, and Celery-based background processing, plus defense-in-depth security (JWT refresh/rotation and DB-level isolation). Notable for hardening LLM workflows with multi-layer validation and convergence safeguards to prevent hallucinations and infinite agent loops.”

“AI/ML engineer who built a production RAG-based internal document intelligence assistant (LangChain + Pinecone) to let employees query enterprise reports in natural language. Demonstrated hands-on pipeline orchestration with Apache Airflow and tackled real production issues like retrieval grounding and latency using tuning, caching, and token optimization, while partnering closely with non-technical business stakeholders through iterative demos.”

“Human-AI Design Lab practitioner who productionized a wearable-health anomaly detection system by evolving a standalone autoencoder into a hybrid autoencoder + GPT-based approach, backed by PySpark ETL and MLOps on AWS SageMaker/MLflow. Also has applied LLM troubleshooting experience (fine-tuned FLAN-T5 summarization) and partnered with BI teams to run A/B tests and improve retention via feature stores and experimentation.”

SUMIT MAMTANI

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in ML, MLOps, and customer analytics

Tempe, AZ4y exp

“ML/NLP practitioner focused on insurance/claims analytics for a large financial firm, working with millions of fragmented structured and unstructured records. Built production-grade pipelines for entity extraction, entity resolution, and semantic search using Sentence-BERT + vector DB, including fine-tuning with contrastive learning (reported ~15% recall lift) and scalable ETL/containerized deployment on Kubernetes.”

“Data/ML platform engineer with healthcare (Cigna) experience owning an end-to-end pipeline spanning Airflow + Debezium CDC ingestion, PySpark/SQL transformations, rigorous data quality gates, and feature-store/API serving for ML training and inference. Worked at 10+ TB scale and cites a ~30% latency reduction plus stronger reliability via idempotent design, monitoring, and backfill-safe reprocessing; also built pragmatic early-stage data pipelines at Frankenbuild Ventures.”

Keerthi Kalluri

Screened

Senior Full-Stack & GenAI Engineer specializing in healthcare and financial services

6y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered customer support assistant using a RAG backend in Python, focused on deflecting repetitive Tier-1 tickets and reducing resolution time. Demonstrates strong production engineering instincts around reliability (confidence scoring + human fallback), scalability/cost optimization (multi-stage pipelines), and workflow orchestration/observability (LangChain, custom DAGs, structured logging, step metrics).”

Nikitha Margadi

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in cloud lakehouse, streaming, and MLOps

Texas, USA5y exp

“Data engineer at AT&T focused on large-scale telecom (5G/IoT) data platforms, owning end-to-end pipelines from Kafka/Azure ingestion through Databricks/Delta Lake transformations to serving analytics and ML. Has operated at very high volumes (~50+ TB/day) and delivered measurable performance gains (25–30% faster processing) plus improved reliability via Airflow monitoring, robust data quality checks, and resilient external data collection patterns (rate limiting, retries, dynamic schemas).”

Vishal Kodakanchi

Screened

Director of AI Platforms & Architecture specializing in enterprise GenAI and AI Centers of Excellence

Mountain View, CA20y exp

“Software industry veteran (20 years) pursuing entrepreneurship; currently building an MVP software product aimed at solving specific finance and accounting problems for nano, micro, and small enterprises. Plans to run a metrics-driven pilot to validate demand before refining the product and raising capital; leveraging Google for Startups and exploring AWS for Startups.”

“Built and deployed an agentic RAG assistant in production to automate enterprise knowledge search and multi-step workflows with tool calling, tackling real-world issues like hallucinations, retrieval accuracy, and latency. Demonstrates strong LLMOps and orchestration depth (MLflow, Airflow, LangGraph/LangChain/LlamaIndex) plus a metrics-driven approach to agent testing/evaluation and cross-functional delivery with business stakeholders.”