Vetted Model Deployment Professionals

Kevin Allen

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in conversational and generative AI

Austin, TX12y exp

“Built and productionized an LLM-based support assistant end-to-end, including RAG, APIs, monitoring, guardrails, and agent feedback loops. Stands out for translating GenAI prototypes into reliable production systems with structured evaluation, safety controls, and reusable Python infrastructure that improved both support quality and engineering velocity.”

“Engineer with hands-on experience across backend, full-stack, cloud, and AI/ML systems, with particular depth in Python, FastAPI, AWS Bedrock, SageMaker, and RAG-based architectures. Stands out for treating AI and agents as accelerators within disciplined production engineering, emphasizing guardrails, observability, latency/cost monitoring, and scalable system design.”

“Backend/distributed-systems engineer with Uber experience building real-time telemetry and safety signal pipelines. Strong in Kafka-based event-driven architectures, low-latency processing under peak load, and production reliability via monitoring, retries, and fallback logic; has Docker/Kubernetes and CI/CD deployment experience.”

Yeshwanth Sai Pala

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud microservices and AI-driven FinTech

Remote, USA4y exp

“Stripe engineer who shipped an end-to-end merchant fraud insights dashboard, spanning Spring Boot/Kafka risk-scoring services and a React+TypeScript UI. Focused on low-latency, high-volume transaction processing and production operations on AWS (EKS/CloudWatch), including handling a real traffic-spike latency incident via query optimization, indexing, and rate limiting.”

“Built a production AI-powered workflow automation system at Netflix that integrated OpenAI and LangChain with FastAPI services on AWS, cutting roughly 320 hours of manual operational effort. Brings a mix of full-stack product development and practical AI systems experience, with strong attention to reliability, maintainability, and non-technical user adoption.”

Asrith Velireddy

Screened

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

Harrison, NJ4y exp

“ML/LLM engineer at Adobe who deployed a transformer-based personalization and campaign-targeting recommender system end-to-end, including PySpark/Airflow pipelines processing 12M+ events/day and containerized inference on AWS SageMaker (Docker/Kubernetes). Also has hands-on LLM workflow experience (RAG, semantic search, prompt optimization, hallucination mitigation) with a metrics-driven approach to reliability, drift monitoring, and reproducible retraining via MLflow.”

“Built a production internal knowledge assistant using a RAG pipeline over large spreadsheets, PDFs, and support documents, using transformer embeddings stored in FAISS. Focused on real-world production challenges—format normalization, retrieval quality, hallucination reduction (context-only + citations), and latency—using hybrid retrieval, quantization, and containerized deployment, and communicated the workflow to non-technical stakeholders using simple analogies.”

“Senior engineering leader in the Bay Area with experience spanning VMware, Hortonworks/Cloudera, Barracuda, and Palo Alto Networks, including leading open-source work (Apache Knox) and architecting large-scale security platforms. Has driven disaster recovery and cloud security products, designed Python microservices for Microsoft 365 security, and scaled teams (3x) while formalizing enterprise readiness practices with automated documentation using Notebook LLM.”

Akhilesh Patil

Screened

Junior AI/ML Engineer specializing in FinTech and generative AI

Remote, USA2y exp

“Built an end-to-end AI bug triage dashboard that combined React/TypeScript, FastAPI, Postgres, and classical ML to reduce manual engineering triage work by about 40%. Stands out for pragmatic, product-minded AI engineering: choosing interpretable models when they were sufficient, designing human-in-the-loop UX for trust, and separately building an agentic RAG project with vector search, Neo4j knowledge graphs, and reranking.”

“Built a production RAG-based "knowledge copilot" for support/ops using LangChain/LangGraph, implementing the full pipeline (ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector DB retrieval/rerank, guarded generation with citations) and operating it as monitored microservices with CI/CD. Also designed an event-driven, streaming backend for real-time inventory ordering predictions that reduced stockouts by 25%, and has hands-on incident response experience stabilizing LLM API latency/5xx spikes using Datadog/APM and resilience patterns.”