Vetted Model Fine-tuning Professionals

Peeyush Dyavarashetty

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Intern AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI, LLMs, and agentic RAG systems

Miami, FL2y exp

“AI/LLM practitioner who built a GPT-2-like language model from scratch at the University of Maryland using PyTorch and multi-GPU distributed training, with experiment tracking in Weights & Biases. As an AI Operations intern at ScaleUp360, delivered multiple production-style AI agent automations (Gmail classification and Fireflies-to-Claude workflows that extract and assign CEO tasks) and set up measurable evaluation using test cases and classification metrics.”

Pavan Devulapalle

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud platforms and AI-integrated full-stack development

Seattle, WA3y exp

“Backend engineer who built Flask-based internal APIs supporting GenAI-driven provisioning/diagnostics (Outpost/AWS Outposts-like environment), with deep hands-on optimization across Postgres/SQLAlchemy (2s to <200ms endpoint improvement). Experienced integrating ML/LLM workflows via AWS SageMaker and Bedrock, and designing multi-tenant isolation plus high-throughput Redis-backed background task pipelines (minutes to seconds).”

Vignesh Shanmugasundaram

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack development and applied ML

New York, NY2y exp

“Full-stack engineer with experience at Zoho and Amazon who has owned production systems end-to-end, including a monolith-to-microservices migration using Kafka and Cassandra that improved search latency ~25% and increased throughput without data loss. Also built a hackathon project (Buildwise) into a sold product for a construction company (AI-driven document compliance checks) and shipped an IoT-based parking availability MVP in 3 weeks.”

“Second most active contributor at Daice Labs, owning a production AI-powered software development collaboration platform’s end-to-end execution infrastructure (TypeScript/Next.js backend, Node.js CLI, shared libs). Built the full multi-agent pipeline (planning/codegen/summary), Supabase-backed context assembly and realtime state, Git/GitHub automation, and a provider-agnostic LLM abstraction with strict Zod validation and retries, backed by extensive tests and design specs.”

“ML/GenAI engineer with strong end-to-end production ownership across predictive ML, RAG systems, and LLM routing. They pair solid platform engineering skills with measurable business impact, including 15% churn reduction, 35% support ticket deflection, 45% GenAI cost savings, and a shared inference library that cut deployment time from weeks to days.”

Sarthak Gupta

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, NLP, and real-time AI systems

New York, NY4y exp

“Backend engineer who built a real-time pipeline for recording, transcribing, and analyzing audio from 400+ news radio stations, scaling Whisper on an HPC cluster with 7 H100 GPUs. Has strong performance optimization experience (30% latency reduction via SQL/query design; 50% DB call reduction via Redis caching) and has implemented region-based data isolation and PII protections in a regulated environment (JP Morgan Chase).”

Pranav Puranik

Screened

Senior AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and multimodal NLP

Austin, TX5y exp

“Built a production LLM/RAG assistant for insurance/health claims agents that ingests 100–200 page patient PDFs via OCR (migrated from local Tesseract to Azure Document Intelligence) and delivers grounded claim detail retrieval plus summaries with PII/PHI guardrails. Experienced orchestrating large workflows with Celery worker pipelines and AWS Step Functions (S3-triggered, Fargate-based batch inference/accuracy aggregation), and collaborates closely with non-technical SMEs (claims agents/nurses) through shadowing, iterative demos, and SME-defined evaluation.”

“ML/GenAI engineer with hands-on experience shipping LLM-powered support systems at Uber, including real-time feedback analysis, ticket summarization, and retrieval-grounded knowledge systems. Stands out for combining fine-tuning, RAG, safety evaluation, and production optimization to drive measurable support outcomes like faster handling times, better resolution rates, and lower latency/cost.”

Christopher Kirby

Screened

Executive engineering leader specializing in platform engineering, AI systems, and SaaS

Detroit, MI24y exp

“Senior engineering executive who has repeatedly rebuilt and scaled product engineering organizations in high-growth environments, including restarting Rocket Auto’s stack from scratch and hiring 100+ engineers during StockX’s hypergrowth phase. Particularly differentiated by being unusually hands-on for an executive leader, with active open source work and a strong focus on AI-native engineering workflows, developer automation, and modern architecture transformation.”