Vetted Model Fine-tuning Professionals

Abhinav Gupta

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs and applied data science

2y exp

“Built and shipped multiple production AI systems, including Auto DocGen (LLM-generated OpenAPI docs kept in sync via AST diffs, schema-constrained generation, and CI/CD on Render) and a multimodal sign-language recognition pipeline at USC orchestrated with FastAPI, MediaPipe, and PyTorch. Also partnered with Esri’s non-technical community team to fine-tune an LLaMA-based spam classifier with a review UI, cutting moderation time by 70%.”

Nikhil Soni

Screened

Junior AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM systems and retrieval-augmented generation

New York, NY2y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered market intelligence and decision-support platform for noisy, real-time financial data, using a high-throughput embedding + vector DB RAG architecture to reduce hallucinations while keeping latency and cost low. Operated it at scale with GPU-backed inference (continuous batching/quantization), FastAPI on Kubernetes, and Airflow-orchestrated ingestion/embedding/retraining workflows, with strong schema-based reliability and monitoring.”

Manasa Mangipudi

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP and computer vision

3y exp

“AI/ML engineer with production experience building an LLM-powered resume-to-job matching and feedback product using RAG, with a strong focus on latency, hallucination control, and scalable deployment. Experienced orchestrating ML inference and backend services on Kubernetes and applying rigorous evaluation/guardrail practices; also partnered with business/product stakeholders at Walmart to improve an NLP-based supplier support system.”

Aditya Jhaveri

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI, big data, and distributed systems

Jersey City, NJ3y exp

“Software Developer at NYU (GEMSS) focused on scaling and optimizing a data-heavy asset management web app, including migrating/optimizing data access via Google Sheets API and Firestore. Previously an SDE at Sainapse working on Spring Boot microservices POCs (Kafka, Hadoop at 2B+ record scale). Built an end-to-end Apple Wallet coupon generation/redemption system using PassKit + Google Apps Script with measurable ops impact (40% efficiency gain).”

“Engineering leader with hands-on AI/ML systems experience spanning production inference infrastructure and consumer-facing LLM products. At Jio, they led a 17-person AI features team and delivered measurable execution gains, including 40% faster deployments and 35% lower prediction latency, while also building an end-to-end RAG-based meal recommendation product using OpenAI and Gemini.”

“Autonomous robotics student who built an end-to-end ROS2 semantic goal navigation system as a solo course project, integrating CLIP-based vision-language understanding with SLAM Toolbox and Nav2 to execute natural-language commands in Gazebo/RViz. Also implemented and tuned an RRT planner from scratch in Python and uses Docker plus GitHub workflows for reproducible, tested robotics codebases.”

“AI/LLM engineer with production experience at Charles Schwab building a RAG-based assistant to help 5,000+ reps answer complex financial policy questions. Implemented a multi-layer anti-hallucination approach (GNN-driven ontology/graph retrieval + citation-only answers) and compliance-focused guardrails (Azure AI Content Safety) in partnership with audit/compliance stakeholders.”

“GenAI Engineer at Infosys who built and deployed a production multi-agent RAG system for a top-tier bank, scaling to ~50,000 queries/day with 99.9% uptime. Drove measurable gains (45% accuracy improvement, 30% API cost reduction) through open-source LLM fine-tuning, Pinecone indexing/retrieval optimization, and AWS-based MLOps/monitoring, and has experience enabling adoption via developer workshops and customer-facing collaboration.”

Junhui Huang

Screened

Intern Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs, MLOps, and NLP

Providence, RI1y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-driven Dungeons & Dragons game where the model acts as a dungeon master, adding a structured combat system and a macro-state tree to ensure campaigns converge to a clear ending. Fine-tuned Gemini 2.5 Flash on Vertex AI and deployed on GCP with Kubernetes, using RAG over DnD rules/spells plus multi-agent orchestration (intent-based routing between narrative and combat agents) to reduce hallucinations and improve reliability.”

Atharva Bhide

Screened

Entry Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and multimodal systems

Los Angeles, CA1y exp

“Built and shipped a production healthcare AI platform for a clinic in Brea, LA that combined LLM-based clinical report generation, voice agents for appointment workflows, and camera-based patient monitoring. Stands out for pairing multimodal AI architecture with production-grade reliability and compliance practices, while delivering concrete business results including 90% workflow automation, 200 hours saved per month, and a 60% improvement in customer retention.”

“Early-career analytics candidate with hands-on experience in SQL/Python data pipelines, Tableau reporting, and marketing engagement analytics across internship and startup settings. Stands out for combining rigorous data quality practices with practical AI system design, including an end-to-end GPT-4 grading capstone that emphasized explainability and human oversight.”

“AI/backend engineer who has owned production applied-ML systems end to end, including a Jitsi meeting intelligence platform with custom RoBERTa boundary detection, LLM summarization, and automated retraining from user feedback. Also has healthcare AI experience building a diabetes medication titration system with strict validation, drift monitoring, and safety guardrails—showing both product speed and high-stakes engineering rigor.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer with experience shipping engagement features and core communication systems at DribbleUp and Expys. Stands out for combining rapid MVP execution with rigorous iteration: delivered a leaderboard feature that lifted engagement by 8% initially and 20% overall, built a chat MVP in 3 days, and has hands-on experience deploying LangChain-based concierge agents with evals and human review.”

“Software engineer with strong end-to-end ownership across frontend, backend, data, and infrastructure, including real-time systems (Kafka/Postgres) and observability (Datadog). Built and productionized an AI-native RAG support assistant (OpenAI embeddings + Pinecone) with prompt/guardrail design, achieving 48% agent adoption and 30% faster responses. Experienced in legacy modernization and reliability work using feature flags, event/transaction replay, and rapid embedded delivery.”

Qice Sun

Screened

Junior GenAI Software Engineer specializing in multimodal RAG and agentic workflows

Sunnyvale, CA2y exp

“AI/LLM engineer with production experience building a multimodal RAG agent for Walmart driver support, combining hybrid retrieval (dense+BM25) and fine-tuned Llama 3 served via vLLM on Azure AKS to reach sub-second latency. Drove measurable impact (25% fewer escalations, 60% lower token costs, 33% lower storage costs) and also built Kafka-based microservices that cut batch runtime from 2 hours to 15 minutes and reduced DB load by 80%.”

Zhiwen Zhao

Screened

Junior Data Engineer specializing in cloud ETL and big data platforms

New York, NY3y exp

“Data engineer focused on transit/transportation datasets, building Spark-based pipelines that ingest from Oracle/APIs, apply PySpark data-quality fixes, and publish star-schema fact tables to Azure Data Lake. Experienced troubleshooting complex Spark failures (using checkpointing to manage long lineage) and operating Airflow-driven backfills and GitLab CI deployments for production DAGs.”

“Built internal production LLM tools for engineering and support, including a customer-health assistant and a RAG-based incident explainer grounded in logs, metrics, and deploy data. Stands out for combining strong GenAI safety/evaluation practices with pragmatic backend engineering, delivering measurable impact like a 40% drop in data-help requests and answers in seconds instead of minutes or hours.”

“Currently at Berryble AI, this candidate is building an LLM-based real-time interview analysis engine using FastAPI, WebSockets, fine-tuned models, and GCP/Cloud Run. They stand out for using AI and agent workflows pragmatically to accelerate development while keeping human ownership over architecture, security, reliability, and maintainability, and they are also pursuing a master's in applied machine learning.”

“Senior product leader with a track record of rebuilding complex enterprise products in legal tech, martech, and financial data. Notably transformed Recommind's eDiscovery UX ahead of its $163MM acquisition and now builds high-scale LLM-powered SEC filing analysis at FeeLogic, combining strong AI product judgment with a human-centered philosophy for high-stakes workflows.”