Vetted Model Evaluation Professionals

“ML/MLOps practitioner from Discover Financial who built and deployed a real-time AI fraud detection platform (LSTM + VAE) on AWS SageMaker with Docker/FastAPI and Jenkins-driven CI/CD. Demonstrated measurable impact (30% accuracy lift, 25% fewer false alerts) and deep expertise in class-imbalance mitigation, drift monitoring, and orchestration (Airflow/Kubeflow), plus strong stakeholder adoption via Power BI dashboards for fraud/compliance teams.”

“Software engineer with robotics and ML background (BS Software Engineering w/ Robotics minor; MS CS w/ ML minor) who built autonomy-focused student robotics projects combining RFID + camera sensing, path planning (Dijkstra), and fuzzy logic, and experimented with neural-network approaches. Also brings production-grade software practices from a Dell software analyst role, emphasizing maintainability, documentation, and testing for real-time systems.”

“Built an Arduino-based obstacle-avoiding robot using sonar/laser sensors and improved performance from 0.60 to 0.87 accuracy through sensor-fusion thresholding and iterative tuning. In an internship, optimized a legal-document NLP pipeline by switching to a distilled/quantized transformer and offloading inference to a GPU-backed Flask service, cutting inference time by 40%+ without added infrastructure spend.”

Andrew Clayman

Screened

Senior Data Scientist specializing in ML, NLP, and production AI systems

Remote8y exp

“Machine learning/NLP engineer with deep Azure stack experience (Data Factory, Databricks/Spark, Delta Lake, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search) who built end-to-end production systems for semantic clustering, entity resolution, and hybrid search. Demonstrated measurable gains from embedding fine-tuning (~15% retrieval precision, ~10–12% nDCG@10) and designed scalable, quality-checked pipelines with MLOps best practices.”

Patrick Seeman

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist and Game Tech Leader specializing in ML, healthcare analytics, and Unity

Manila, Philippines5y exp

“Data scientist at Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute who led a production automation to convert unstructured (and sometimes image-based) pathology reports into structured data for government reporting. Built an on-prem LangGraph + Ollama pipeline with OCR (Tesseract), spell-checking, confidence scoring, and human-audited guardrails to mitigate hallucinations and improve reliability under PHI constraints.”

Varun Kothapalli

Screened

Mid-level AI/Machine Learning Engineer specializing in Generative AI, NLP, and MLOps

Saint Louis, MO6y exp

“Built a production LLM/RAG document analysis system for large financial documents (credit reports/PDFs) to help business analysts extract insights faster. Implemented end-to-end pipeline orchestration with LangChain, vector search (e.g., FAISS), and hallucination controls (context grounding, similarity thresholds, and no-answer fallback), delivered as a Dockerized Python API.”

Sravya Chunduri

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM, NLP, and MLOps

Virginia, USA4y exp

“AI/ML Engineer with 3+ years of experience spanning RAG pipelines, MLOps, large-scale data workflow automation, and resilient Playwright-based UI automation. At Black Hawk Network and Wipro, they describe shipping production systems with strong observability and compliance controls, including reducing flaky automation failures from 30% to under 2% and automating 3+ TB/day reconciliation workflows.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on ownership of a production POS platform, including architecture, CI/CD, Kubernetes deployment, and live incident handling. Also built a RAG-based document Q&A system using OpenAI/Anthropic with hybrid retrieval, evaluation metrics, and fallback logic, showing both traditional backend depth and practical applied AI experience.”

“Full-stack/AI product engineer who has shipped both a production-style React finance app and multiple LLM-powered systems end-to-end. Particularly strong in turning early-stage AI concepts into production workflows, including a Bedrock-based multi-turn chatbot with durable session memory and a medical credentialing document parser that cut pipeline failures by 50%+ on large, messy real-world files.”

“Senior product leader who helped transform Submittable from a single-program grant tool into a multi-program impact platform, driving ARR from $20M to $70M+ while improving retention and margins. Particularly strong in enterprise platform strategy and human-centered AI, with a clear philosophy of using AI to augment expert judgment rather than replace it.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered agent for supply chain operations that integrates ERP data and automates multi-step decision-making with tool calling, state management, and structured JSON outputs. Emphasizes production reliability (guardrails, fallbacks, monitoring, idempotency) and reports strong business impact: 40% faster decisions, 30% higher throughput, and 25% efficiency gains.”

“AI/full-stack builder with a track record of shipping practical LLM products in both hackathon and professional settings. Built ScoutR, an agentic football scouting platform that won Best Use of Gemini at HackCU 2026, and at Merkle shipped a GPT-4-based review-tagging tool that cut analyst tagging time by 90%.”

Mihir Pednekar

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and communication infrastructure

Mumbai, India2y exp

“Master’s-level software engineer with hands-on full-stack experience building a React-based task management product and research-driven automation projects in freight logistics. Particularly interesting for roles blending product engineering, data workflows, and early AI/automation systems, with evidence of turning complex analytical outputs into usable visual reports for non-technical audiences.”

“Built and deployed an enterprise RAG application at Centene to help clinical teams retrieve insights from large internal policy document sets, cutting manual research by 30–40%. Implemented custom domain-adapted embeddings (SageMaker + BERT transfer learning) and hybrid retrieval (BM25 + Pinecone) to drive a 22% relevance lift, and ran the system in production on AWS EKS with CI/CD, MLflow, and Prometheus monitoring (99% uptime, ~40% latency reduction).”

“Backend engineer with airline operations domain experience who modernized flight-ops systems from batch updates to real-time streaming on AWS (Kafka + Spring Boot microservices), improving latency and stability through metric-driven tuning and idempotency. Also shipped a production LLM decision-support component using RAG over operational logs and internal procedures, with strong guardrails and an evaluation/regression loop to reduce hallucinations and enforce grounding.”

PRAHARSHA JANDHYALA

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist/Data Analyst specializing in ML, BI dashboards, and ETL pipelines

Dallas, TX4y exp

“Data/ML practitioner with experience at Humana and Hexaware, focused on turning messy, semi-structured datasets into production-ready pipelines. Built an age-prediction model from book ratings using heavy feature engineering and multiple regression models, and has hands-on entity resolution (deterministic + fuzzy matching) plus embeddings/vector DB approaches for linking and search relevance.”

Prashanth Kedri

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in MLOps, NLP, and predictive maintenance

AL, USA4y exp

“ML engineer with General Motors experience deploying production AI systems, including a BERT-based sentiment classifier for over a million customer support call transcripts (reported ~91% precision) and sub-200ms latency via FastAPI/Docker optimization. Also built predictive maintenance models and automated retraining/monitoring workflows using Airflow and MLflow, collaborating closely with non-technical customer support stakeholders.”

xavier mendez

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in React, PHP, and AWS

Dallas, TX2y exp

“Software engineer working on a benefits/deductions product, owning a fast-turnaround feature spanning multiple client/internal UI flows. Built a centralized service layer and a PHP validation pipeline supporting a React/TypeScript frontend, coordinated two other developers to deliver in parallel, and emphasized quality via test cases, documentation, and QC collaboration.”

Sabita Kumari

Screened

Senior Full-Stack AI Engineer specializing in LLM/RAG agentic systems

Boston, MA11y exp

“Built and deployed JobMatcher AI, an LLM-driven workflow automation product for job seekers that extracts requirements from job descriptions, matches to user skills, and generates tailored outreach. Demonstrated strong production engineering by cutting per-run cost ~70%, improving reliability with retries/backoff/fallbacks, and reducing hallucinations via schema validation and templating; also orchestrated the system with LangGraph plus Docker Compose across API, vector DB, and workers.”

Kavya Myakala

Screened

Mid-level Frontend Developer specializing in security analytics dashboards

NJ, USA4y exp

“Built and shipped production LLM agents including an end-to-end customer support resolution system (99.9% uptime target) that improved customer satisfaction by ~18% and reduced the need to scale support headcount. Demonstrates strong agent engineering fundamentals—tool-based orchestration, schema-first structured outputs with deterministic validation, and robust eval/monitoring loops—plus experience integrating agents with messy ERP data using canonical normalization and safe fallbacks.”

“Built practical automation systems spanning an NLP-based news classification pipeline and a WhatsApp interaction agent. Shows strong instincts around production reliability—using structured outputs, schema validation, idempotency, retries, and clarification flows to prevent bad actions in real-world messaging workflows.”

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped production RAG copilots and multi-agent workflows, including a real-time Llama3 (Ollama) copilot backend handling 12k+ concurrent queries at 99.9% uptime. Deep on orchestration (Langflow/Airflow/Kubernetes), reliability evaluation (hallucination detection, p95 latency, token cost), and monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana), with demonstrated stakeholder-facing analytics delivery via Tableau.”

“Entry-level candidate who built NYC Lens, a real-time Gemini-based multi-agent system that processes live camera input, identifies landmarks, and returns structured contextual insights. Despite being a fresher, they show hands-on experience with deployment on Cloud Run, modular orchestration, noisy-data handling, and reliability patterns like retries, fallbacks, and explicit state management.”