Vetted Model Evaluation Professionals

kartikeya tiwari

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI systems and platform engineering

Bangalore, India6y exp

“Backend/AI engineer with experience owning production systems in fintech and product startups, including a predictive scaling platform that cut AWS spend by 40% and an ambiguous social-intelligence feature that doubled MRR from $50K to $100K. Also building AI search and document-processing workflows, with reported 99.7% extraction accuracy and hands-on use of both classical forecasting and modern LLM stacks.”

“Backend/cloud engineer who built an AWS serverless IoT system that computes Bluetooth beacon locations from telemetry using heavy scientific Python (NumPy/SciPy/pandas) packaged as Dockerized Lambda, integrated with Java microservices and scheduled batch orchestration. Has deep AWS delivery experience (CI/CD with Code* tools, CloudFormation, cost controls) and has led high-severity incident response including CloudTrail forensics and infrastructure recovery after a compromised-keys crypto-mining attack.”

“Healthcare-focused LLM engineer who deployed a production triage and clinical knowledge retrieval assistant using RAG and LangGraph-orchestrated multi-agent workflows. Emphasizes clinical safety and compliance with robust hallucination controls, HIPAA/PHI protections (tokenization, encryption, audit logging, zero-retention), and human-in-the-loop escalation; reports a 75% latency reduction in a healthcare agent system.”

“AI/LLM engineer who built a production intelligent support system using RAG over a vectorized documentation library, addressing real-world issues like lost-in-the-middle context failures and doc freshness via automated GitHub-driven re-embedding pipelines. Emphasizes rigorous agent evaluation (component/E2E/ops) and prefers lightweight, decoupled workflow automation using message brokers (Redis/RabbitMQ) over heavyweight orchestration frameworks.”

“ML practitioner with a QA background who has built end-to-end ML pipelines for a health risk prediction use case (lifestyle + demographics), emphasizing robustness through strict data validation, leakage prevention, and cross-validation. Collaborated with a dietician to sanity-check predictions and refine feature interpretation for real-world practicality; has not yet deployed LLM/AI systems to production and has no hands-on orchestration framework experience but is willing to learn.”

Alex D'Souza

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Researcher specializing in healthcare AI and security

Davis, CA2y exp

“Research-focused AI/ML candidate who built an fMRI-based classifier to predict schizophrenia treatment effectiveness under small-dataset constraints. Demonstrated pragmatic model selection by moving from a complex GNN to graph-summary feature engineering with logistic regression, significantly improving accuracy and AUC; primarily works in Google Colab with script-based workflows.”

Srikanth Reddy

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI and financial risk & compliance analytics

Plainsboro, NJ7y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered financial risk and compliance platform to reduce manual trade exception handling and speed up insights from regulatory documents. Implemented a LangChain multi-agent workflow with structured/unstructured data integration (Redshift + vector DB) and emphasized hallucination reduction for regulatory safety using Amazon Bedrock. Strong MLOps/orchestration background across Kubernetes, Airflow, Jenkins, and monitoring/testing with MLflow, Evidently AI, and PyTest.”

Michael Chaves

Screened

Senior Creative Technologist & Full-Stack UX Engineer specializing in Generative AI and XR

Los Altos, CA12y exp

“Design engineer/product designer who built an end-to-end creator + review/moderation system for a UGC platform, spanning automated checks, human QA, final review, and creator feedback. Comfortable working directly with HTML/CSS/TypeScript and component systems, using prototyping and field observation to reduce reviewer hesitation, improve consistency, and prevent creator errors upstream.”

Rayyan Alam

Screened

Junior Robotics & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in autonomy and RAG systems

Arlington, VA1y exp

“New-grad robotics software engineer with hands-on ROS 2 autonomy experience (Nav2, SLAM Toolbox, AMCL) and a strong track record debugging real-world instability (QoS, lifecycle timing, sensor dropouts). Built an HRI speech system on a Stretch 3 robot with deterministic, context-aware templates to manipulate trust/competence/emotion conditions, and integrated an LLM high-level planner that outputs PDDL for classical task planning and replanning.”

“Hands-on ML practitioner who built and deployed an end-to-end phishing email classifier (CLI + simple web app), achieving 98% accuracy and reducing manual security triage. Emphasizes production reliability through input validation, graceful failure modes, monitoring/logging, and iterative error analysis, with experience hardening pipelines against messy backend/database data using fallbacks and idempotent processing.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of production recommendation and RAG systems at Northern Trust. They combine transformer modeling, latency optimization, cloud deployment, and monitoring with measurable business impact, including 14% accuracy gains, 12% engagement improvement, and 19% better query relevance.”

“Built end-to-end ML and GenAI systems at Northern Trust, including a production RAG-based document intelligence platform for financial reports and contracts. Stands out for combining strong MLOps execution with practical product judgment—improving forecast accuracy by 22%, document review accuracy by 38%, and cutting deployment time by 45% while keeping latency and reliability production-ready.”

“ML/AI engineer with strong production ownership across predictive ML and Generative AI systems. They’ve delivered measurable business impact through real-time churn/drop-off prediction, RAG-based document QA, and scalable LLM optimization, with a consistent focus on reliability, safety, latency, and developer productivity.”

“Early-career/new-grad candidate who built TrendScout AI, an evidence-first market intelligence agent that ingests messy news, extracts entities/events, builds a Neo4j knowledge graph, and answers questions via RAG with citations. Achieved ~95% retrieval relevance by combining ChromaDB semantic search with graph-based retrieval and validating outputs through human evaluation and guardrails to prevent hallucinations.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered workflow assistant that automated internal marketing/production business tasks (document summarization, repeated Q&A, status updates). Demonstrates end-to-end applied LLM engineering: modular RAG architecture, hallucination/latency mitigation, automated evals to prevent prompt regressions, and Azure-based orchestration (Functions/Logic Apps) with monitoring and controlled rollouts.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered RAG assistant for healthcare teams (care managers/support) to answer questions from clinical and policy documentation, emphasizing trustworthiness via improved retrieval, reranking, and strict grounding prompts to reduce hallucinations. Also has hands-on orchestration experience with Apache Airflow for end-to-end ETL/ML workflows and applies rigorous testing/metrics (hallucination rate, tool-call accuracy, latency, cost) to ensure reliable AI agent behavior.”

“Early-career engineer from BNP Paribas who drove a large-scale observability modernization—selecting and implementing Prometheus/Grafana for a 2000+ server estate, then productionizing it on Kubernetes via Docker/Jenkins. Known for hands-on demos, strong documentation/templates, and pragmatic troubleshooting (including custom Python metrics) that improved visibility and cut debugging time by ~60%.”

“Built a production multi-agent LLM system at Live Nation on Databricks (LangGraph/LangChain) that let venue/event teams ask questions in Slack, auto-generated optimized route schedules, and produced inventory/stocking recommendations from historical SQL data and venue trends. Improved reliability by tightening prompts with strict JSON schemas, providing sample questions/SQL, and adding guardrails plus synthetic/edge-case testing, while iterating with event managers and senior VPs via prototypes and feedback loops.”

“Backend Python engineer who owned an AI-driven healthcare staffing matching service, rebuilding the model inference/data pipeline to eliminate blocking bottlenecks and cutting API latency by ~33%. Experienced running Python services on Kubernetes with GitOps/ArgoCD, and has executed a cloud-to-on-prem rollout under tight resource and tooling constraints while also building event-driven streaming updates via a message broker.”

“ML/NLP practitioner focused on financial-services document intelligence and compliance workflows—built an end-to-end pipeline to classify documents and extract financial entities from loan applications, emails, and statements stored in S3/internal databases. Strong in entity resolution/record linkage and in productionizing pipelines with GitHub Actions CI/CD, testing, data validation, and Docker, plus semantic search using OpenAI embeddings and a vector database.”

“ML/AI engineer with defense and commercial analytics experience: deployed a real-time aerial object detection system at Dynetics (YOLOv5 + TorchServe in Docker on AWS EC2) with drift-triggered retraining and 99.5% uptime, tackling ambiguous targets and weather degradation. Previously at Fractal Analytics, built and explained a churn prediction model for marketing stakeholders using SHAP and delivered it via a Flask API into dashboards, driving a reported 22% attrition reduction.”

“Data/ML practitioner with experience at UnitedHealth Group building a fraud claims detection solution combining structured claims data and unstructured notes, validated with compliance stakeholders to improve actionable accuracy. Also applied embeddings, vector databases, and fine-tuned language models in a Bank of America capstone to detect threats/anomalies in financial documents, with production-minded Python ETL workflows using Airflow.”

“Infrastructure/operations engineer with hands-on production IBM Power/AIX (AIX 7.x, VIOS, HMC) and PowerHA/HACMP clustering experience, including DLPAR changes, failover testing, and incident recovery. Also delivers modern cloud DevOps work—GitHub Actions CI/CD for Docker-to-Kubernetes on AWS and Terraform-based provisioning of core AWS infrastructure (VPC/EKS/RDS/IAM) with controlled rollouts and drift checks.”

Rupak Chand

Screened

Junior ML Data Associate specializing in AI training data and LLM prompt evaluation

Connecticut2y exp

“Applied ML/embodied AI practitioner who built an on-device gesture-control system for smart-home lights using Raspberry Pi + camera, focusing on privacy-preserving real-time inference and hardware-constrained optimization (async pipeline + TF Lite INT8). Also made a high-impact architecture decision for an ML content evaluation/QA pipeline processing millions of annotated text samples weekly, reducing batch runtime from ~6 hours to ~40 minutes while lowering compute cost.”