Vetted MLOps Professionals

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based enterprise document intelligence platform for financial/compliance/operational documents on AWS (Spark/Glue ingestion, embeddings + vector DB, LangChain orchestration, REST APIs on Docker/Kubernetes). Deep hands-on experience orchestrating multi-step and multi-agent LLM workflows (LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI) with strong focus on grounding, evaluation, observability, and cost/latency optimization, and has partnered closely with non-technical finance/compliance teams to drive adoption.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG system at CVS to automate clinical documents, addressing PHI compliance, retrieval accuracy, and latency; achieved a 35–40% reduction in review effort through chunking and FP16/INT8 optimization. Also has experience translating AI outputs into actionable insights for non-technical stakeholders (sports analysts).”

“Clinical data scientist who has built an agentic LLM-powered literature review assistant (with RAG-style storage/retrieval) to identify predictors for downstream predictive modeling. Also delivered a patient-focused progression analysis model using Databricks + Airflow orchestration, partnering closely with clinicians to define targets and validate that model insights aligned with clinical expectations.”

“ML/AI engineer with production experience in high-scale banking fraud detection at Truist, building an end-to-end pipeline (Airflow/AWS Glue/Snowflake, PyTorch/sklearn) with automated retraining and Kubernetes-based deployment; delivered measurable gains (22% fewer false positives, 15% higher recall) and reduced manual ops ~40%. Also partnered with clinicians at Kellton to deploy an LLM system for summarizing/classifying clinical notes, improving review time and decision speed.”

“ML/NLP engineer (Beyond Identity) who built production semantic search and entity-resolution systems over internal security documentation, using LDA + BERT embeddings with FAISS/Pinecone to cut search time by 30%. Also scaled a real-time anomaly detection pipeline to millions of events/day with Spark and AWS Lambda, with strong emphasis on measurable validation (Precision@k, MRR, F1, ARI).”

“Built and deployed a production Llama 3-based RAG document Q&A system using FAISS, addressing context-window limits through chunking and keeping retrieval accurate by regularly refreshing embeddings. Has hands-on orchestration experience with LangChain and LlamaIndex for multi-step LLM workflows (including memory management) and collaborates with non-technical teams (e.g., marketing) to deliver AI solutions like recommendation systems.”

“Senior technologist (25 years experience) who served as chief architect/CTO for a patented software startup that was acquired. Strong at building scalable, robust, technology-agnostic systems and translating technical value into investor-ready narratives (forecasts, roadmaps, documentation). Currently prefers joining an existing founding team as a key technical leader/mentor rather than leading entrepreneurship solo.”

Ramya Konda

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in healthcare ML and generative AI

Remote, USA5y exp

“AI/LLM engineer at Humana who built and deployed a HIPAA-aware RAG system for clinical record retrieval, cutting search time dramatically and improving retrieval efficiency by 30%. Experienced with Spark-scale data preprocessing, QLoRA fine-tuning, LangChain orchestration, and MLflow+SageMaker integration, with a strong testing/evaluation discipline (A/B tests, human eval) to hit 95%+ accuracy and production latency targets.”

Monisha Nettem

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and MLOps

USA5y exp

“AI/ML engineer with banking domain experience (M&T Bank) who built a production credit-risk prediction and reporting platform combining ML models (XGBoost/TensorFlow) with a RAG pipeline (LangChain + GPT-4) over compliance documents. Delivered measurable impact (≈20% better risk detection/precision, 50% less manual reporting) and productionized workflows on Vertex AI/Kubeflow with CI/CD and monitoring; also implemented embedding-based semantic search using FAISS/Pinecone.”

Bhavya Sri Gunnapaneni

Screened

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

United States4y exp

“Built production AI/RAG-style systems for message Q&A and insurance claims workflows, combining data ingestion, indexing/retrieval, and LLM integration with fallback modes. Has hands-on orchestration experience (Airflow, Prefect, LangChain) and cites large operational gains (claims processing reduced to ~45 seconds; manual review -50%; false alerts -30%) through automated, monitored pipelines and close collaboration with non-technical stakeholders.”

Atharva Deshmukh

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI and cloud MLOps

Rochester, New York4y exp

“Applied LLMs to high-stakes domains (wildfire risk for emergency teams and loan approval via a fine-tuned IBM Granite model), with a strong focus on reliability—using RAG-based cross-validation to reduce hallucinations and continuous ingestion pipelines (MODIS satellite imagery via AWS Lambda) to keep data current. Experienced in production orchestration and MLOps-style workflows using Airflow, AWS Step Functions, and SageMaker Pipelines, and collaborates closely with analysts on KPI-driven evaluation.”

PremKumar Gandla

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in MLOps, NLP, and scalable model deployment

Texas, USA4y exp

“Built and deployed a production autonomous AI data analyst agent (LangChain + GPT + Streamlit on AWS) that turns natural-language questions into validated SQL, visualizations, and insights, cutting manual analysis time by ~50%. Emphasizes reliability and MLOps: schema-aware validation/guardrails to prevent hallucinations, scalable large-data processing, and Azure DevOps CI/CD + MLflow for automated deployment and experiment tracking.”

Hari Billa

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in machine learning, NLP, and healthcare AI

USA3y exp

“Senior data scientist with hands-on ownership of production ML and GenAI systems across enterprise churn, clinical Q&A, and real-time fraud detection. Stands out for combining strong MLOps discipline with measurable business impact, including $2M+ retained revenue, 10K TPS low-latency fraud infrastructure, and a clinician-reviewed RAG system that improved retrieval accuracy by ~38%.”

“LLM/MLOps engineer who has shipped a production RAG-based technical documentation assistant (FastAPI) cutting manual review by 45%, with deep hands-on retrieval optimization in Pinecone/LangChain (HNSW, hybrid + multi-query search, caching). Also brings healthcare domain experience—building Airflow-orchestrated EHR pipelines and delivering FDA-auditability-friendly predictive maintenance solutions using SHAP/LIME explainability surfaced in Power BI.”

“ML/LLM engineer with production experience building a compliant RAG-based virtual assistant at Intuit, optimizing embeddings and FAISS retrieval (including PCA) for low-latency, privacy-controlled search and deploying via AWS SageMaker containers. Also built scalable Airflow+MLflow pipelines using Docker and KubernetesExecutor, cutting training cycles by 37%, and partnered with civil engineers/project managers at Aegis Infra to deliver predictive maintenance for construction equipment.”

“LLM/GenAI engineer who built a production AI-powered credit risk policy summarization and compliance alerting platform at HCL Tech, focused on factual accuracy and auditability for a financial client. Implemented a multi-retriever LangChain RAG architecture with citations-only prompting, fallback agents, and human-in-the-loop legal review—cutting manual review time by 35% and scaling to 12 teams.”

“AI/NLP-focused practitioner who built a zero-/few-shot LLM event extraction system on the long-tail Maven dataset, combining prompt-structured outputs with LoRA/QLoRA fine-tuning and rigorous F1 evaluation. Also implemented entity resolution/data cleaning pipelines and embedding-based semantic search using Sentence-BERT + FAISS, and has healthcare experience delivering a multilingual speech/translation mobile prototype using HIPAA-compliant Azure Cognitive Services.”

“IBM Power/AIX infrastructure engineer who has owned a sizable production estate (50 Power servers / ~200 LPARs) spanning VIOS/HMC, SAN/NFS, and PowerHA clusters. Demonstrates strong incident leadership (LPAR outage + split-brain recovery) and a process-improvement mindset with measurable reductions in recurrence/MTTR, while also bringing modern DevOps/IaC experience (Jenkins, ArgoCD, Terraform, security scanning, canary/blue-green).”

Butchi Venkatesh Adari

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLM platforms and robotic perception

NewYork, NY4y exp

“Built and shipped a production multi-agent personal financial assistant at AlphevaAI on AWS ECS, combining FastAPI microservices, Redis/SQS orchestration, and Pinecone-based hybrid RAG (semantic + BM25) to ground financial guidance. Improved routing accuracy with an embedding-based SetFit + logistic regression intent classifier feeding an LLM router, and optimized UX with live streaming plus cost controls via model tiering and caching.”

“Built and shipped a widely adopted, production-grade RAG internal search assistant that unified scattered engineering knowledge, deployed as a FastAPI service on Kubernetes with FAISS + LangChain. Demonstrates deep practical expertise in retrieval tuning (chunking, hybrid search, re-ranking) and in making LLM workflows reliable in production via guardrails, monitoring, and evaluation, plus strong cross-functional delivery with non-technical operations teams.”

David Alvarado

Screened

Junior Business Analyst specializing in data analytics and BI

Orlando, FL3y exp

“Analytics candidate with insurance domain experience at Chubb, combining strong SQL/Python data engineering for claims reporting with business-facing metric design in Power BI. Also built an MLB game outcome predictor that beat Vegas implied probabilities using public data, showing strong product thinking and applied modeling ability beyond standard BI work.”

“Built and deployed an end-to-end fintech product, FinSight, for bank statement analysis and financial Q&A using a production-style RAG architecture. Stands out for combining FastAPI, OpenAI embeddings, FAISS, hybrid SQL/vector retrieval, and practical reliability work like chunking optimization, validation, and low-latency performance tuning.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-powered financial intelligence and forecasting platform at Northern Trust using a RAG architecture (LangChain + Hugging Face + FAISS) with end-to-end MLOps (Docker/Kubernetes, Airflow, MLflow). Emphasized regulatory-grade explainability (SHAP/Power BI) and hallucination control (retrieval-only grounding), achieving ~30% forecasting accuracy improvement and ~65% reduction in analyst research time, with sub-second inference and 95% uptime on EKS/AKS.”

“LLM/RAG practitioner building clinician-facing AI search and Q&A inside EHR workflows, focused on trust, latency, and safety (grounded answers with citations, PHI controls, encryption/audit logs). Demonstrated real-time incident response for production LLM systems (e.g., fixing a metadata-filter deployment regression to prevent irrelevant results/cross-patient leakage) and strong demo/enablement skills for mixed technical and clinical stakeholders; also shipped a multi-model RAG tool at OrbeX Labs with upload/search/audit features for day-to-day adoption.”