Vetted Natural Language Processing Professionals

Anand Madhusoodanan

Screened

Executive HR Tech & Salesforce Architect specializing in AI-driven recruiting automation

Bengaluru, India9y exp

“Co-founder of an HR tech startup who took an LLM-centered skill intelligence engine from prototype to production to deliver explainable, skill-based resume insights as an alternative to black-box ATS screening. Previously worked in consulting (Deloitte, Stand Up, Brilio), with experience in technical demos/workshops, pre-sales scoping, and supporting large deal cycles (including a ~$1M UK automotive client).”

Travoy Spelling

Screened

Senior Data Scientist / ML Engineer specializing in GenAI, LLMs, and NLP

Texarkana, TX10y exp

“ML/NLP engineer focused on production GenAI and data linking systems: built a large-scale RAG pipeline over millions of support docs using LangChain/Pinecone and added a LangGraph-based validation layer to cut hallucinations ~40%. Also built scalable PySpark entity resolution (95%+ accuracy) and fine-tuned Sentence-BERT embeddings with contrastive learning for ~30% relevance lift, with strong CI/CD and observability practices (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana).”

Rohith Sadanala

Screened

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

Missouri, USA3y exp

“LLM/agent engineer who has shipped production RAG chatbots in sustainability-focused domains, including a packaging recommendation assistant that standardized messy user inputs and used Pinecone-backed retrieval over product/regulatory data. Experienced orchestrating end-to-end ML workflows with Airflow and AWS Step Functions/Lambda, emphasizing reliability (property-based testing, circuit breakers, OpenTelemetry) and measurable performance (latency/cost). Partnered closely with non-technical leadership to ship 3 weeks early, driving adoption by 150+ businesses and ~20% reported waste reduction.”

Byron Pineda

Screened

Staff/Lead Data Scientist specializing in Generative AI, NLP/LLMs, and MLOps

Pascagoula, MS10y exp

“Lead Data Scientist (10+ years) with recent work in healthcare data: built production pipelines that unify EHR, genomics, and clinical notes using NLP (spaCy/BERT/BioBERT) and scalable Spark-based processing. Also led development of domain-specific LLM/NLP systems for chatbots and semantic search, deploying models via FastAPI/Flask and improving retrieval with FAISS-backed, fine-tuned clinical embeddings and RAG-style workflows.”

Akanksha Agrawal

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in event-driven data platforms

Bangalore, India5y exp

“Backend engineer with SAP experience modernizing a legacy Flask/PostgreSQL product master data platform into a modular, stateless, containerized service with Kafka-based background processing and improved observability. Also has hands-on academic/side-project experience operationalizing ML (NLP retrieval with TF-IDF/BERT via FastAPI and CV lane-edge detection inference APIs using PyTorch).”

Sarath Dunga

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud microservices and AI/ML integration

Remote, USA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer (~3 years) with eBay production experience building and operating high-scale, event-driven Python microservices for order processing and AI-powered recommendations (Kafka/Redis/FastAPI on AWS with Prometheus/Grafana). Also delivered polished React+TypeScript analytics dashboards and designed high-concurrency PostgreSQL schemas with significant latency reductions. Recently built AI-agent orchestration and an interactive node-based requirements dashboard for Siemens Polarion via MCP servers, improving user interaction by ~17.8%+.”

Vismay Patel

Screened

Senior AI & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP, GenAI, and MLOps

Berkeley, CA7y exp

“ML/GenAI practitioner with healthcare domain depth who built and deployed a production cervical-cancer EMR classification system using a hybrid rules + medical BERT approach, optimized for high recall under severe class imbalance and PHI constraints. Experienced running end-to-end production ML/LLM pipelines with Apache Airflow (validation, promotion/rollback, monitoring, retraining) and partnering closely with clinicians to calibrate thresholds and implement human-in-the-loop review.”

“Built an AI-powered job outreach application for his own job search and took it from idea to production use, owning architecture, FastAPI backend, retrieval/generation pipeline, frontend workflow, deployment, and iteration. Especially compelling for teams needing a pragmatic full-stack engineer who can turn LLM-based product ideas into usable, maintainable tools with measurable workflow impact.”

Chitra Uppalapati

Screened

Entry-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and machine learning applications

Sunnyvale, CA1y exp

“Built production Python data integrations and dashboard automation for incident analytics, with a strong focus on data quality, observability, and reliability for leadership-facing reporting. Also translated an ambiguous manual creator evaluation process at startup Spring into an automated predictive scoring feature, showing a blend of backend data engineering, test automation, and cross-functional product thinking.”

“Built end-to-end LLM/RAG systems for biological data and scientific literature analysis in a drug discovery setting, helping researchers explore disease insights and treatment hypotheses faster. Combines applied GenAI product work with strong production engineering, including monitoring, retrieval optimization, reusable Python services, and scalable deployment on AWS/Kubeflow.”

“Design-technologist with both UX and front-end development depth, spanning high-impact brand launches and regulated pharma sales tools. Led the experience direction and technical implementation support for DuPont's Kevlar product site—featuring Three.js, AEM, and advanced motion design—which generated strong lead capture and won an Effie, and also improved Eli Lilly IVA delivery by building a grunt.js workflow that reduced update cycles from a week to just a few days.”

Aakash Khepar

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack AI Engineer specializing in agentic AI systems

Tempe, AZ4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong ownership across production SaaS and AI agent systems, including a multi-tenant enterprise analytics product at Fractal Analytics and an archive intelligence platform for a real nonprofit. Stands out for combining deep backend/system design, secure AI/RAG implementation, and rapid zero-to-one execution—plus multiple hackathon wins and leadership roles.”

“Full-stack engineer with 5+ years of experience who built real-time data visualization and analytics systems at Uber, spanning React/TypeScript frontends, Node/GraphQL services, Kafka pipelines, and PostgreSQL. Particularly compelling for teams needing a hands-on builder who can turn ambiguous customer needs into scalable products, and who has also applied RAG with LangChain/OpenAI over 1.8M support files to surface actionable insights.”

Melbourne Brown

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI-driven cloud-native platforms

Atlanta, GA12y exp

“Engineer with unusual breadth: from a tiny startup building racehorse medical-record systems on credit-card chips for live racetrack demos to modern AI-powered contract intelligence platforms in production. Brings hands-on full-stack and backend depth across React, Python, .NET, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and Azure, with a track record of making complex, reliability-sensitive systems work in real-world conditions.”

“Healthcare data platform builder with experience at Aetion delivering a rule-based EMR/EHR ingestion and validation framework that cut onboarding from 8–10 weeks to hours and unlocked $30M+ in revenue over ~3 years. Motivated to found an AI/agent-driven healthcare solution, with a specific interest in using PET scans, doctor notes, and treatment data with LLMs to help predict cancer progression and guide next-step treatments.”

“Robotics-focused engineer who built a non-holonomic self-driving car on Raspberry Pi 5 using ROS 2, implementing sensor fusion (robot_localization EKF), 2D SLAM (slam_toolbox), custom Hybrid A*/RRT* planners, and MPC trajectory tracking. Demonstrated strong real-time debugging and performance tuning (timestamp sync, CPU contention mitigation) and is extending the platform toward CV-based plant identification and autonomous plant watering.”

“Internship experience building a production LLM-powered podcast operations agent that automated lead intake (HubSpot), guest research, scheduling (Calendly), meeting-summary evaluation (Gemini), and human approval via Slack bot—while retaining rejected candidates for future outreach. Also contributed to ideation of a multi-agent orchestration framework with parsing and task routing, and emphasized reliability via structured prompts, HITL feedback, and prompt-based test sets.”

“LLM engineer who has deployed privacy-preserving, real-time workplace risk monitoring over massive enterprise chat/email streams, tackling latency, hallucinations, and extreme class imbalance with model benchmarking, RAG + fine-tuning, and a pre-filter alerting layer. Also built an agentic legal contract drafting system (Jurisagent) using LangGraph/LangChain with deterministic multi-agent control flow, structured outputs, and reliability-focused evaluation/telemetry.”

“AI/LLM engineer at Capital One who deployed a production RAG-powered fraud analysis and document intelligence platform using LangChain, OpenAI, Pinecone, Kafka, and AWS. Focused on reliability in real-time investigations via hybrid retrieval, schema-validated outputs, and LLM verification loops, reporting review-time reduction from hours to minutes and ~99% fraud detection precision.”

“Built a hackathon "Patient Summary Assistant" backend focused on healthcare workflows, combining RAG-based summarization with HIPAA-minded privacy controls (NER redaction + encryption). Demonstrated strong infra skills by deploying on Kubernetes with Helm/HPA and GitOps (ArgoCD), plus migrating from OpenAI to an on-prem Llama 3 stack (vLLM, quantization, shadow-mode testing) and adding real-time Kafka ingestion for patient vitals/anomaly alerts.”

“Built and productionized a RAG-based analytics Q&A assistant for a financial analytics team, enabling natural-language querying across 200+ datasets (SQL tables, PDFs, compliance docs, wikis) and cutting turnaround time by 60%. Deep experience delivering regulated, audit-ready LLM systems on Azure (Azure OpenAI + LangChain) with strict grounding/citations, hybrid retrieval, and AKS-based low-latency deployment, plus strong collaboration with compliance analysts and auditors via iterative Gradio demos.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based multi-agent chatbot during an internship to help consultants answer client questions and guide users through new IT systems with step-by-step instructions. Demonstrates hands-on experience with LangGraph/LangChain/Google ADK, unstructured document parsing and chunking for RAG, and a reliability-first approach to agent workflows (metrics, fallbacks, human-in-the-loop, guardrails).”

“Built an "AskMyVideo" system that turns YouTube videos into queryable knowledge graphs by transcribing audio (Whisper), chunking and embedding content, and enabling traceable answers back to exact timestamps. Strong in entity resolution (rules + fuzzy matching + TF-IDF/cosine with PR-curve thresholding) and modern retrieval stacks (FAISS, hybrid dense/sparse, domain fine-tuning with ~12% precision gain), with a production mindset using Airflow/Prefect, Docker/FastAPI, and LangSmith/Prometheus/Grafana observability.”

“Worked on payments and wallet transactions, with an emphasis on observability and root-cause analysis. Delivered end-to-end A/B testing optimization and implemented Jenkins-based CI/CD automation that reduced manual implementation to 35% and cut deployments to ~2 minutes, with attention to operational considerations like on-call/call rotations.”