Vetted Natural Language Processing Professionals

“Built and deployed an Azure-based, fine-tuned CLIP visual retrieval system at Staples for a ~300k-item product catalog, improving edge-case recall by 12% by engineering a custom delta-similarity/dynamic-margin loss. Also has robotics experience using ROS2 for sensor/compute orchestration, including GPS-time-synchronized sensor triggering for robot swarms and latency-bounded optical-flow benchmarking for edge deployment.”

“Robotics/AI Master's thesis researcher building an LLM-driven workflow to generate and evaluate robot policies before running them in an environment. Also built a local LLM-based real-time target-tracking robot using a pan-tilt camera with LangChain + Ollama, and has hands-on ROS 2/Gazebo experience including URDF-based simulation and a TurtleBot multi-agent chase project.”

“AI/ML Engineer (TCS) who built and deployed a production LLM-powered audit transaction validation service to reduce manual review of unstructured transaction records and comments. Implemented a LangChain/Python pipeline for extraction/normalization and discrepancy detection, with strong production reliability practices (decision logging, dashboards, labeled eval sets) and a human-in-the-loop auditor feedback loop to improve precision/recall under strict data-sensitivity and near-real-time constraints.”

“Built a production LLM-powered fraud detection platform at Wells Fargo, combining OpenAI/Hugging Face models with RAG-based explanations to make flagged transactions interpretable for risk and compliance teams. Delivered low-latency, real-time inference at high scale on AWS (SageMaker + EKS), with strong observability and security controls, reducing manual reviews and false positives in a regulated environment.”

“AI engineer who built a production e-commerce system that analyzes product images alongside sales and demographic data to generate actionable creative recommendations, now used by 20+ clients. Also built orchestrated document/agent pipelines (Airflow, LangGraph) including a compliance drift detector auditing 401 compliance documents, with an emphasis on traceability, logging, and production integration.”

“Backend/ML engineer who has shipped high-scale real-time systems across e-commerce and healthcare: built a PharmEasy real-time recommendation engine for ~2M monthly users (cut feature latency 5 min→30 sec; +15% cross-sell) and architected a HIPAA-compliant multimodal clinical diagnostic workflow (DICOM+EHR) with XAI, MLOps (MLflow/Airflow/K8s), and drift/monitoring guardrails supporting 10k+ daily predictions.”

“Product-focused full-stack engineer at startup (Zippy) who shipped a production multi-agent AI system for restaurant operations plus payments workflows. Built end-to-end: RAG grounded on a Notion knowledge base, structured function-calling task routing, FastAPI/JWT multi-tenant backend, and a polished React+TypeScript owner dashboard. Has real production incident experience (duplicate Stripe webhooks) and reports ~94% task-routing accuracy under load.”

“AI engineer who has shipped production LLM systems end-to-end, including a natural-language-to-SQL analytics copilot for career advisors that achieved ~95% query success through schema grounding, access controls, and automated regression testing with golden queries. Also builds LangGraph-orchestrated multi-step agents (resume analysis, recommendations) and RAG pipelines (PDF ingestion + FAISS) and partners closely with non-technical users to drive adoption and trust.”

“Built and productionized an AI agent-based in-app assistant at ISAFE to guide users through document workflows, piloting with a partner school district and then rolling out across districts. Combines hands-on LLM/agent debugging (logs, fallback rates, state/context tracking) with strong technical demos and sales enablement through live workflows and pilot programs (e.g., Osceola School District).”

“ML/AI practitioner in healthcare (Syneos Health) who has deployed production clinical NLP and risk models. Built a BERT-based physician-note information extraction system on Docker + AWS SageMaker (reported ~42% retrieval improvement) and automated retraining/deployment with Airflow and drift detection, while partnering closely with clinicians to drive adoption (reported ~18% readmission reduction).”

“Master’s student and Deep Learning teaching assistant who teaches LLM/VLM fine-tuning (including LoRA) and built a Hugging Face LLM fine-tuned for unit conversion, improving reliability by analyzing synthetic data and filling missing number-system conversion examples. Also implemented the Raft consensus protocol using gRPC in a distributed systems course with correctness validated by unit tests.”

“Built and deployed a GPT-4-powered medical assistant for clinical staff to reduce time spent searching guidelines and EHR information, with a strong emphasis on safety and compliance. Uses strict RAG, confidence thresholds, and fallback behaviors to prevent hallucinations, and runs production-grade workflows orchestrated with LangChain/LangGraph plus Docker/Kubernetes/MLflow and monitoring for reliability and cost.”

“Built a production multi-cloud LLM-driven IT ticket automation system using LangGraph, Azure + Pinecone RAG, and an Ollama-hosted LLM on AWS, with Terraform-managed infra and PostgreSQL audit/state tracking for reliability. Also partnered with UW School of Medicine & Public Health students to deliver a glioma survival risk-ranking model, translating clinical feedback into practical pipeline improvements (imputation, site harmonization) and stakeholder-friendly visualizations.”

“AI/ML infrastructure-focused engineer who has built production RAG systems from scratch (Supabase/pgvector + OpenAI embeddings) and iterated using formal eval metrics to improve retrieval quality. Also debugged real-time audio issues in a LiveKit-based pipeline by correlating packet loss with VAD behavior, and has deep experience building brittle, customer-specific financial platform integrations in Python/Playwright (2FA, redirects, token refresh, rate limits).”

“LLM/ML engineer who has shipped an enterprise RAG-based Q&A system (LangChain/LlamaIndex, FAISS + Azure Cognitive Search, GPT-3.5/4 via OpenAI/Azure OpenAI) to production on Docker + Kubernetes/OpenShift, tackling hallucinations, retrieval quality, latency/cost, and RBAC/IAM security. Also partnered with operations leaders to turn manual reporting into an LLM-powered summarization and forecasting dashboard driven by real KPIs and iterative stakeholder feedback.”

“Built and productionized a GenAI prompt-engineering solution to retrieve prevailing wages based on job/location selections, emphasizing accuracy through stricter prompt templates and validation. Hands-on in real-time production debugging using Splunk (callback tracing, verbose logging, header inspection) and experienced running developer-facing demos/workshops that helped drive marketplace API adoption.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered document Q&A system enabling natural-language querying of large PDFs, focusing on retrieval quality (overlapped chunking) and low-latency performance (optimized embeddings + vector search). Experienced with scaling ML/LLM workflows using async/batch processing, caching, cloud storage, and orchestration via Apache Airflow with robust testing, monitoring, and failure handling.”

“Built a production real-time anomaly detection platform for high-frequency trading at HSBC, using a streaming stack (Pulsar + Spark Structured Streaming + AWS Lambda) and a transformer-based model combining time-series and numerical signals. Experienced in MLOps and safe deployment (Kubernetes, canary releases, MLflow/Grafana monitoring) and in aligning model performance with risk/compliance expectations through SLA-driven tuning and stakeholder-friendly dashboards.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered text extraction/classification system that converts messy unstructured reports into searchable insights, running on AWS SageMaker with automated retraining and monitoring. Strong in orchestration (Step Functions/Kubernetes/Airflow patterns) and reliability practices (gold datasets, prompt/tool unit tests, shadow/canary/A-B testing, guardrails/rollback), and has experience translating non-technical stakeholder needs into an NLP workflow plus dashboard.”

“Co-founded a healthcare AI startup building and deploying software directly with end users, emphasizing rapid shipping, deep user interviews, and workflow-first adoption. Has hands-on production deployment experience on AWS (including diagnosing a silent AWS App Runner failure caused by an ARM vs amd64 Docker build mismatch) and is motivated by customer-facing, travel-heavy roles to keep engineering tightly connected to real-world usage.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based document Q&A system on Azure OpenAI to help business teams search thousands of PDFs/Word files, using Qdrant vector search, MongoDB, and a Flask API. Demonstrates strong production engineering (streaming large-file ingestion, parallel preprocessing, monitoring/retries) plus systematic prompt/embedding/chunking experimentation to improve accuracy and reduce hallucinations, and has hands-on orchestration experience with ADF/Airflow/Databricks/Synapse.”

“ML/NLP engineer who built a RAG-based technical assistant for Caterpillar field engineers, transforming PDF keyword search into intent-based semantic retrieval across manuals, logs, sensor reports, and technician notes. Strong in productionizing data/ML systems (Airflow, PySpark) with rigorous preprocessing, entity resolution, and evaluation—delivering measurable gains in accuracy, relevance, and duplicate reduction.”

“ML/NLP practitioner at Morf Health focused on unifying fragmented healthcare data by linking structured patient/encounter records with unstructured clinical notes. Has hands-on experience with transformer embeddings, vector databases, and domain fine-tuning, plus rigorous evaluation (precision/recall) and human-in-the-loop validation with clinical SMEs to make pipelines production-grade.”