Vetted MLOps Professionals

“Built and deployed a production NLP sentiment analysis system at Piper Sandler to turn noisy, finance-specific customer feedback into scalable insights. Demonstrates strong end-to-end MLOps: fine-tuning BERT, improving label quality, monitoring for language drift, and automating retraining/deployment with Airflow and Docker (plus Kubeflow exposure).”

“ML/NLP engineer with Industrial IoT experience who built an end-to-end anomaly detection and GenAI explanation system: AWS (S3, PySpark, EC2/Lambda) pipelines feeding dashboards, plus transformer-embedding vector search to connect anomalies to noisy maintenance notes and past events. Demonstrated measurable impact (15% lift in defect detection; ~35% reduction in manual review; 35% fewer preprocessing errors) and strong productionization practices (orchestration, monitoring, rollback, data-quality controls).”

“ML/NLP engineer focused on large-scale data linking for e-commerce-style catalogs and customer records, combining transformer embeddings (BERT/Sentence-BERT), NER, and FAISS-based vector search. Has delivered measurable lifts (e.g., +30% matching accuracy, Precision@10 62%→84%) and built production-grade, scalable pipelines in Airflow/PySpark with strong data quality and schema-drift handling.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on backend/integration for indoor autonomous mobile robots, with hands-on ROS 2 experience integrating Nav2/AMCL/TF2 and LiDAR/camera pipelines. Emphasizes production readiness—robust failure recovery, QoS-tuned distributed communication, and strong observability (logging/health checks)—validated through Gazebo simulation, sensor-data replay debugging, and Docker-based CI/CD deployment.”

“LLM/agentic systems builder who has deployed production solutions for a resource management firm, using an MCP-driven architecture with Neo4j + Elasticsearch and a ChatGPT frontend to generate candidate/company “SmartPacks” and answer entity Q&A. Also built a LangGraph/LangSmith-orchestrated multi-agent workflow that automates data-infra change requests end-to-end (impact analysis, SQL + tests, and PR creation), and delivered a ~60% latency reduction through TTL-based context caching while improving accuracy via a business data dictionary.”

Michael Asadoorian

Screened

Executive CTO specializing in cloud-native SaaS, multi-cloud infrastructure, and AI/ML

Los Angeles, CA28y exp

“Hands-on infrastructure and engineering leader (Director of Global Infrastructure / CTO) who has run double-digit multi-million dollar data center expansion and cloud migration programs and scaled teams rapidly (including offshore/nearshore). Strong AWS and microservices background (Lambda/SQS/SES), with experience balancing deep technical architecture work alongside investor/VC communications and fundraising-related responsibilities.”

“Founder of a consultancy for 14 years with extensive experience managing multiple clients and projects simultaneously. Interested in leveraging AI to solve operational challenges and is seeking exposure to the venture capital/studio/accelerator ecosystem despite no direct VC experience.”

Ashutosh Srivastava

Screened

Senior Engineering Manager specializing in AI platforms and cloud-native backend systems

Sunnyvale, CA11y exp

“Player-coach engineering leader who stayed hands-on (coding/reviews) while leading delivery, including designing an event-driven AI workflow engine with explicit state modeling and robust retries. Built near real-time enterprise analytics for campaign measurement and drove reliability/process improvements (observability, incident runbooks, release management). Introduced lightweight CI/CD and automated testing to cut release time by ~40% while maintaining quality.”