Vetted Model Fine-tuning Professionals

Akshay Katageri

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in multi-agent systems and RAG

Jersey City, NJ4y exp

“Built and shipped a production LangGraph-based multi-agent LLM analytics/decision copilot that answers questions across SQL/BI systems and unstructured docs, emphasizing grounded, tool-verified outputs with citations and confidence gating. Deep hands-on experience with orchestration (LangGraph, CrewAI, OpenAI Assistants, MCP) plus real-world latency/cost optimization (vLLM batching/KV caching, speculative decoding, quantization) and rigorous eval/observability. Partnered closely with business/ops stakeholders to deliver explainable reporting automation, cutting manual reporting time by 50%+.”

Farida Poor

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP and multimodal transformers

Bay Area, CA3y exp

“Built and deployed LLM-powered agentic chatbot and text-to-SQL systems using LangGraph/LangChain (and Bedrock), structuring workflows as DAGs with planning/replanning and validation to improve tool-calling reliability and reduce hallucinations. Operates production feedback loops with online/offline metrics, drift detection, and LangSmith-based evaluation pipelines, and regularly partners with business stakeholders and clinicians using slide decks and visual charts.”

Pravalika Kuppireddy

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and intelligent automation

4y exp

“LLM engineer who built and productionized a system to classify GitHub commits (performance vs non-performance) using zero-/few-shot approaches over commit messages and diffs, working at ~5M-record scale on multi-node NVIDIA GPUs. Experienced orchestrating end-to-end LLM pipelines with Airflow and GitHub Actions, and emphasizes reliability via testing, guardrails, and observability while collaborating closely with non-technical product stakeholders.”

“Founding/early engineer experience across Asante and a Series A startup (Adgency), shifting from data science/ML into owning production full-stack systems end-to-end. Built core product flows (registration, business profiles, map service), AWS-deployed gRPC microservices with CI/CD, and operated low-latency agent/video ad generation workflows with retries/fallbacks and PostHog-based observability.”

“Built and deployed an end-to-end fintech product, FinSight, for bank statement analysis and financial Q&A using a production-style RAG architecture. Stands out for combining FastAPI, OpenAI embeddings, FAISS, hybrid SQL/vector retrieval, and practical reliability work like chunking optimization, validation, and low-latency performance tuning.”

“Built and shipped a production agentic LLM analytics platform that lets non-SQL business users query relational databases in plain English via a RAG + LangChain/LangGraph workflow and FastAPI service. Emphasizes safety and reliability with guardrails (validation/access control), testing/evaluation frameworks, and performance optimization (caching, monitoring, Dockerized scalable deployment), reducing dependency on data teams and speeding analytics turnaround.”

“ML/AI engineer who deployed a real-time, edge-based computer-vision pipeline for produce recognition in retail self-checkout to reduce shrink. Demonstrates strong end-to-end production chops: multi-camera data calibration/sync, ranking-based modeling for fine-grained classes, latency-focused optimization, and continuous A/B testing/monitoring with guardrails. Experienced with ML orchestration (Kubeflow Pipelines, Airflow) and CI/CD via GitHub Actions, and collaborates closely with store operations to make interventions usable in the checkout flow.”

Sai somapalli

Screened

Senior LLM Engineer specializing in Generative AI, RAG, and multimodal assistants

USA6y exp

“GenAI/NLP engineer with experience building classification and summarization pipelines in PyTorch and deploying multimodal GPT-4-style workflows. Has integrated LLM applications across OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, and Amazon Bedrock, and uses LangChain/LlamaIndex/Semantic Kernel to orchestrate RAG and agent workflows with production-focused evaluation metrics like task success rate and groundedness.”

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.”

Dhairya Desai

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in healthcare NLP and predictive analytics

Chicago, IL13y exp

“ML/NLP engineer with healthcare and industrial IoT experience: built an Optum pipeline that converted 2M+ physician notes into structured entities and linked them with claims/pharmacy data to create an actionable patient timeline. Deep hands-on expertise in production NER, entity resolution, and hybrid search (Elasticsearch + embeddings/FAISS), plus robust data engineering practices (Airflow, Spark, data contracts, auditability) and experimentation-to-production rollout via shadow mode and feature flags.”

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.”

“Built Hexagon’s production Text-to-CAD Copilot that converts text and rough sketches into editable CAD code, combining GraphRAG (Neo4j/LangChain) with a Gemini-powered vision module and multi-agent geometric validation—cutting manual modeling from a day to ~45 seconds and driving retrieval latency below 50ms. Also has large-scale GCP data/ML orchestration experience (Airflow/Cloud Composer, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Snowflake) processing 50M+ daily records with drift monitoring and automated reliability controls.”

“Built and owned production GenAI systems for both infrastructure automation and customer support. Most notably, they created a self-healing multi-cloud incident response system that automated 65% of tier-1 alerts and reduced application crashes by 75%, and also shipped a hybrid RAG support triage agent that automated 60% of tier-1 inquiries with human escalation guardrails.”

Almas Fathimah

Screened

Senior AI Engineer specializing in Generative AI and ML platforms

USA7y exp

“Built and owned a production RAG-based conversational AI system at Entera for real estate analysis, taking it from experimentation through AWS deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement. Demonstrates strong practical judgment in retrieval design, LLM safety, and scalable Python service architecture, with measurable impact including 30-40% reduction in manual analysis time and roughly 30% better response accuracy.”