Vetted Natural Language Processing Professionals

Harini Vinu

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in cloud, big data, and test automation

New York, United States1y exp

“Internship experience at Qualitest building and deploying an LLM-powered test automation system that reduced manual test creation and improved efficiency (~40%). Demonstrates strong production engineering for LLM systems (timeouts/retries/monitoring/caching, prompt optimization, batching) and has scaled workflows to 100+ concurrent jobs; also has orchestration experience with AWS Step Functions and Kubernetes.”

Prashant Salunke

Screened

Mid-Level Software Development Engineer specializing in full-stack and cloud-native systems

Chicago, IL4y exp

“Backend engineer who has shipped production LLM-powered features, including an AI-assisted developer tool on AWS (Spring Boot) and a blog platform capability using embeddings + Elasticsearch for semantic retrieval and LLM-generated summaries/recommendations. Demonstrates practical tradeoff management (quality/latency/cost), guardrails to reduce hallucinations, and evaluation-driven iteration using real user queries and observability via ELK.”

Wilson Harron

Screened

Director-level AI/ML & Computer Vision Engineer specializing in robotics and multimodal AI

Los Angeles, CA15y exp

“Candidate is not currently pursuing entrepreneurship (no business plan and no capital raised) and is not familiar with the VC/accelerator landscape. They show pragmatic, problem-first thinking about evaluating startup ideas—prioritizing real customer pain points and the quality of the founding team—and are open to working for others rather than founding "at all costs."”

Aravind Mohan

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI agents and backend systems

Seattle, WA5y exp

“Backend/AI workflow engineer who built a production event-personalization service (FastAPI + AWS Lambda) and solved real-world reliability/latency issues with deterministic routing, caching, and query/index optimization. Also built an end-to-end Gmail-based job application tracking agent using a lightweight RAG pipeline with Gemini, strong guardrails (Pydantic schemas, confidence thresholds), and offline regression tests to prevent drift and hallucination-driven data corruption.”

Supreet Purthpli

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native MLOps and FinTech

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Software engineer with JPMorgan Chase experience delivering end-to-end fintech features (Next.js/React/Node/Postgres on AWS) and measurable performance gains. Built and productionized an AI-native credit decisioning workflow combining LLMs, vector retrieval, and a rules engine with strong governance (bias checks, auditability, human-in-loop), improving precision and cutting underwriting turnaround time by 40%.”

Dikshith Pulakanti

Screened

Intern AI Engineer specializing in agentic LLM systems

Singapore, Singapore0y exp

“Built multiple AI-heavy backend systems from scratch, including FORESIGHT, a personal financial intelligence platform running daily on live bank accounts with zero manual intervention, and JobPilot, an autonomous job application agent spanning Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, and custom forms. Stands out for combining strong systems design with applied ML pragmatism, reproducibility, and unusually candid reflection on security, scalability, and observability tradeoffs.”

“Backend/AI engineer who has owned production agentic systems end-to-end, including a CRM-integrated multi-agent financial workflow at Wow Payments that cut latency by 83% and achieved 98% uptime. Also built an AI real estate product ('Site IQ') by turning vague stakeholder goals into a geospatial autonomous agent using RAG, rapid prototyping, and tight validation layers around GPT-4 outputs.”

John Patton

Screened

Executive Atlassian and Agile transformation leader specializing in AI-enabled enterprise collaboration

Aberdeen, NJ6y exp

“Product leader with hands-on experience modernizing enterprise internal tooling and shipping AI-enabled support workflows. At Peloton, they led the end-to-end migration of Jira, Confluence, and JSM from on-prem Data Center to cloud; at Atlas Vega, they implemented a RAG-based Slack/JSM support assistant with strong governance, data hygiene, and measurable support outcomes.”

Sanket Mungikar

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in distributed backend and AI analytics platforms

California, USA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer at BigCommerce who combines customer-facing deployment ownership with hands-on AI/LLM systems work. Built and launched merchant analytics and predictive inventory workflows using React, TypeScript, FastAPI, Kafka, AWS, and RAG-style architectures, and has real production experience debugging non-deterministic AI issues caused by data pipeline freshness and event-ordering problems.”

“AI/full-stack engineer with experience spanning startup product building at Twinly, enterprise analytics at Zoho, and high-stakes life sciences ML at Wave Life Sciences. Stands out for combining React/TypeScript + FastAPI product execution with rigorous AI evaluation, retrieval optimization, and human-in-the-loop design, delivering measurable outcomes like 75% fewer analytics requests, 20% fewer failed experiments, and MVP delivery 3 weeks early.”

“Entry-level software engineer with strong full-stack experience building React/TypeScript and Node.js analytics products, especially around performance optimization for large datasets. Stands out for combining hands-on engineering with user discovery, and for delivering measurable wins like 40% fewer API calls, page load improvements from 3.2s to 1.1s, and 70% faster PostgreSQL queries during an internship at Tapastry.”

“Built and deployed LLM-powered agentic systems including a multi-agent travel planning assistant using LangChain, RAG (FAISS), real-time APIs, and a supervisor agent to manage coordination and reduce hallucinations. Also developed a Text-to-SQL system with schema-aware validation guardrails, and collaborated with drilling domain experts at CNPC USA to build an ML model predicting rate of penetration (ROP).”

“Full-stack product engineer who has built both operational systems and enterprise AI copilots in production. They owned an AI-powered inventory platform end-to-end, driving a 45% drop in stock issues, and also shipped a Microsoft Teams-based HR/IT copilot using RAG and workflow automation that reduced repetitive support queries by roughly 30%.”

“Built and owned Citigroup's ASTRA AI-powered test case generation platform end to end, from full-stack product experience to multi-agent LLM orchestration and RAG infrastructure. Drove test coverage from 40% to 95%, cut generation time from hours to minutes, and scaled the feature to 300+ daily users across 32 enterprise projects with sponsorship from Citi's CIO and Head of Engineering Excellence.”

“Built across data, backend, analytics, and visualization-heavy applications, including a nonprofit financial forecasting app, large-scale insurance model analysis at Mercury Insurance, and a publicly deployed soccer analytics dashboard. Stands out for combining machine learning, large-dataset SQL work, and practical production improvements like cutting dashboard load times to under two seconds and refactoring codebases for smoother team handoff.”

“Product leader in talent assessment and interviewing technology who has shipped multilingual AI features at enterprise scale, including automated interview scoring designed to keep humans in the final decision loop. Brings a strong blend of AI product strategy, candidate experience redesign, and people leadership across both hands-on teams and senior product organizations.”

Murali Marupudi

Screened

Mid-level Backend Engineer specializing in Python microservices and scalable systems

Jersey City, NJ4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience shipping both secure platform features and production AI systems. They combine React/TypeScript, Flask/Node.js, and PostgreSQL fundamentals with practical LLM and NLP implementation, including retrieval, schema-validated outputs, monitoring, and human-in-the-loop safeguards. Notable impact includes cutting manual review by 40% and reducing post-update error rates by over 20%.”

“Built and deployed a compliance-sensitive LLM pipeline that extracts rebate logic from hospital–supplier medical contracts, using multi-layer redaction (regex/NER/dictionary), schema-validated structured outputs, and secure placeholder reinsertion. Hosted models on Amazon Bedrock to avoid retraining on sensitive data and improved both accuracy and cost by splitting the workflow into a lightweight section classifier plus a fine-tuned extraction model, orchestrated with LangChain and evaluated via layered, test-driven agent assessments.”

“AI engineer who has shipped production LLM systems across customer service and marketing use cases—building a RAG app on Azure OpenAI and speeding retrieval with Redis caching tied to Okta sessions. Also implemented a LangGraph multi-agent workflow that pulls image context from Figma to generate structured HTML marketing emails, adding a verification agent to improve image-selection accuracy while optimizing solution cost for business stakeholders.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered calorie-counting chatbot that turns plain-English meal descriptions into normalized food entities, quantities, and calorie estimates using a hybrid transformer + rule-engine pipeline. Emphasizes reliability with schema/constraint guardrails, confidence-based routing (including embedding similarity search fallbacks), and strong observability/metrics (hallucination rate, calibration, latency, cost). Partnered closely with nutritionists to encode domain standards into mappings and validation logic.”

“Built a web-based online Sudoku game in JavaScript (multiplayer format supporting up to 6 teams with up to 5 players each) and demonstrates strong product/analytics orientation. Uses a KPI-driven approach (DAU/WAU, ARPU, session duration, LTV) and structured prioritization methods (MoSCoW, story mapping, cost of delay, DFV) to iterate toward targets; seeking a remote role around $70k/year.”

“Master’s-in-Data-Science candidate (UHV) with 4+ years in AI engineering building production LLM and multimodal systems. Designed an LLM-powered workflow automation platform using RAG over vector stores with guardrails (schema/output validation, fallbacks) and a rigorous evaluation/monitoring framework including drift tracking and shadow deployments. Experienced orchestrating large-scale vision-language pipelines with Airflow and Kubernetes (OCR, distributed training) and partnering with non-technical ops stakeholders to cut cycle time and reduce errors.”

“Backend/platform engineer who owned a real-time customer analytics microservice stack in Python/FastAPI with Kafka streaming into PostgreSQL, including schema enforcement (Avro) and high-throughput optimizations. Strong Kubernetes + GitOps practitioner (EKS/GKE, Helm, Argo CD) who has handled CI/CD reliability issues with automated pre-deploy checks and rollbacks, and supported major migrations (on-prem to AWS; VM to EKS) with blue-green cutover planning.”

“Built a production, agentic multi-agent pharmaceutical intelligence system for US oncology (breast cancer) conference/news intelligence, automating MSL-style information gathering and summarization for pharma and healthcare stakeholders. Uses CrewAI + LangChain orchestration, custom scraping across ~15 pharma newsrooms, and a grounding-score evaluation approach (sentence transformers/cosine similarity) to mitigate hallucinations.”