Vetted Natural Language Processing Professionals

“LLM/RAG engineer who has built and shipped production assistants, including a RAG-based teaching assistant (Marvel AI) using LangChain/LlamaIndex/ChromaDB with OpenAI embeddings and Redis vector search, achieving ~30% accuracy gains and ~35% latency reduction. Also deployed FastAPI services on Google Cloud Run with observability and prompt-level monitoring, and partnered with non-technical ops stakeholders to deliver an internal policy-document RAG assistant.”

“Cross-functional operator/chief-of-staff style leader who took a product from prototype to a live pilot in 3 months, spanning public-sector data normalization, an ML matching engine, a secure API, and KPI/investor demo instrumentation. Strong focus on executive alignment and productivity via Notion-based operating systems plus automated reporting (Python/Power BI), with experience supporting fundraising and go-to-market narratives.”

“Full-stack engineer with payments/settlement domain experience who modernized a payment tracking workflow from REST to GraphQL and delivered a production payment status dashboard using Next.js App Router + TypeScript. Strong in performance and reliability work (Postgres indexing/Explain Analyze, Redis caching, Datadog observability) and in durable event-driven processing with Kafka (DLQs, idempotency, reconciliation, event replay).”

“Forward Deployment Engineer focused on application security and production integrations, with hands-on experience hardening API-driven ticketing systems (JWT/RBAC/rate limiting/log redaction) and implementing CI/CD security controls (Bandit SAST, SCA, container hardening). Strong in diagnosing peak-load production issues using logs/metrics/infra signals and driving durable fixes like adaptive throttling and backoff, while aligning engineering, business, and leadership stakeholders on risk and SLA impact.”

“Backend engineer with experience modernizing high-traffic subscription and payment systems (TCS) by moving to event-driven Spring Boot microservices with Kafka, adding idempotency/state management to eliminate duplicate processing. Built and scaled FastAPI services for AI automation workflows (360DMMC) with versioned contracts, JWT security, and strong observability, and has led live refactors using feature flags, parallel runs, and data reconciliation.”

“Software engineer with limited robotics background but deep experience building end-to-end document ingestion and image understanding systems, including a CAD-specific pipeline using a custom model to extract components and bounding boxes for user-facing visualization and Q&A. Also brings strong infrastructure/DevOps skills (Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Terraform) with emphasis on reliability, cost optimization, and uptime.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on AWS-based, low-latency event processing for market data and social-signal sentiment systems. Has led a monolith-to-event-driven migration with feature-flagged incremental rollout, and emphasizes production-grade security (OAuth2/JWT, secrets management, Supabase RLS) and data integrity (deduplication/idempotency) under high-volume spike conditions.”

“Backend Python engineer who has built an LLM agentic tutoring/assignment helper with a custom pipeline for parsing visually complex textbooks (integrating AlibabaResearch VGT and implementing missing preprocessing from the paper), improving RAG grounding with ~90% cleaner extracted text. Also led major platform scaling work by refactoring monolithic image processing into Celery-based async microservices on AWS (GPU/CUDA + S3), and implemented Kafka streaming for payment webhooks with strict ordering, idempotency, and multi-zone fault tolerance.”

“Backend/data engineer with aerospace telemetry and reporting experience across RTX and other orgs, spanning Python/FastAPI microservices, AWS serverless/containers, and AWS Glue-to-Redshift analytics pipelines. Has led legacy modernization with parallel-run parity validation and incremental rollout, and demonstrates strong operational ownership (monitoring, incident response, and cost optimization).”

“Backend engineer who built a high-stakes, privacy-first platform at be Still Analytics for survivors of domestic violence, emphasizing anonymity, security, and reliability. Experienced with GenAI backends (LangChain + AWS Bedrock) including RAG to prevent hallucinations, plus cloud-native scaling (Docker/Kubernetes) and cost-saving migrations from legacy VMs to serverless (30% reduction).”

“Backend/full-stack engineer (Cognizant) who owned a customer-facing document validation platform for onboarding/compliance and emphasized fast, reliable delivery through CI/CD automation (Jenkins/AWS) and containerized releases (Docker/Kubernetes). Also built an internal support dashboard that replaced manual log checks with real-time error visibility, significantly reducing investigation time, and has hands-on experience scaling microservices with idempotency, retries/DLQs, and distributed logging.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered internal AI assistant using a RAG pipeline to help teams search internal PDFs/knowledge bases and generate grounded summaries/answers. Demonstrates strong end-to-end ownership (ingestion through APIs) plus production rigor (monitoring/logging/CI-CD, evaluation metrics) and practical optimizations for hallucination, latency, and answer quality (thresholding, fallbacks, caching, async, re-ranking, two-tier model routing).”

“Built and shipped a production real-time content moderation platform for Zoom/WebEx-style meetings, combining Whisper speech-to-text with fast NLP classifiers and REST APIs to flag hate speech, bias, and HIPAA-related content under strict latency constraints. Demonstrates strong MLOps/infra depth (Airflow, Kubernetes, Terraform/Helm, observability) and a pragmatic approach to reducing false positives via threshold tuning, context validation, and hard-negative data—while partnering closely with compliance and product stakeholders.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-driven document understanding pipeline using LangChain/LangGraph, focusing on reliability via step-by-step prompting, validation checks, and monitoring. Also partnered with non-technical marketing stakeholders at Heartland Community Network to deliver an XGBoost targeting model surfaced in Power BI, improving campaign conversion by 12%.”

“Builder/creator who ships practical AI automations and content workflows: created a no-backend website that uses ChatGPT to generate AI agents/manual workflows, and built an inbound/outbound receptionist using n8n and Retell AI (later migrated to Retell workflows). Also produces an AI-written/produced podcast with 55+ hosts and uses tools like Descript and Sora with make.com for batch content creation and scheduling.”

“Developed and productionized VL-Mate, a vision-language, LLM-powered assistant aimed at helping visually impaired users understand their surroundings and query internal knowledge. Emphasizes reliability and safety via confidence thresholds, uncertainty-aware fallbacks, hallucination grounding checks, and rigorous offline + user-in-the-loop evaluation, with experience orchestrating multi-step LLM pipelines (LangChain-style and custom Python async) and deploying on containerized infrastructure.”

“Built an OCR backend that trains a custom Tesseract model for proprietary fonts and scales via multi-tenant isolation (tenant-scoped APIs, per-tenant storage, JWT+RBAC). Improved high-load image processing by shifting OCR to async worker queues and adding Redis caching, cutting processing time by ~66%, and also integrated Claude API to auto-generate test cases on code changes.”

“Built and deployed a production AI invention/patent review platform that compares invention submissions against patent rules to provide instant feedback, reportedly cutting legal team review time by ~80%. Learned Snowflake Cortex LLMs and production deployment (Docker + AWS) on the job, and validated system quality through human-in-the-loop testing with experienced legal stakeholders.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG intelligent document understanding platform for healthcare clinical documents (notes, discharge summaries, diagnostic reports), integrating spaCy entity extraction, Pinecone vector search, and a Spring Boot API on AWS with monitoring and guardrails. Demonstrates strong MLOps/orchestration (LangChain, Airflow, Kubeflow/Kubernetes) and a metrics-driven evaluation approach, and partnered with a healthcare operations manager to cut manual review time by 80%.”

“Built a production lead-generation system using AI agents that researches the internet for relevant leads and integrates RAG-based contact enrichment/shortlisting aligned to existing CRM data, enabling sales reps to focus more on selling. Also has hands-on AWS data orchestration experience (Glue, Step Functions) moving raw data into Redshift and evaluates agent performance with human-in-the-loop plus BLEU/perplexity metrics.”

“Data/ML engineer from HCLTech who modernized enterprise data by linking fragmented financial and supply-chain data across SAP/SQL Server/Snowflake using NLP entity linking and embeddings (FAISS). Delivered measurable impact including ~40% reduction in manual error-log triage and entity-linking accuracy improvements from ~86% to ~93%, with results surfaced in Power BI for real-time analytics.”

“Backend engineer who evolved Coca-Cola bottlers' Trade Promotion Optimization platform at Coke One North America, building domain-focused microservices in Node.js and Python (Flask/FastAPI) with PostgreSQL. Experienced in multi-tenant security (OAuth2/JWT, RBAC, row-level scoping by bottler/region), API contract/versioning discipline, and Azure DevOps-driven incremental rollouts with strong observability.”

“LLM engineer who built and deployed an emotionally intelligent AAC communication system using an emotion-aware RAG pipeline (Empathetic Dialogues + GoEmotions) and a PEFT-adapted model. Experienced with LangChain/LangGraph and custom Python orchestration, focusing on reliability (guards, schema validation, fallbacks), latency optimization, and rigorous evaluation (automatic metrics + human-in-the-loop), with a reported 18% user satisfaction improvement.”