Vetted NLTK Professionals

“Built and deployed an agentic RAG platform at Centene Health to support healthcare claims and complaints workflows (Q&A for claims agents, executive complaint summarization, and compliance triage/classification). Experienced in LangChain/LangGraph orchestration, production deployment on AWS with FastAPI/Docker/Kubernetes, and implementing HIPAA-compliant guardrails to reduce hallucinations and ensure explainable outputs.”

“Built a production "Mini RAG Assistant" for internal document Q&A, focusing on grounded answers (anti-hallucination), retrieval quality, and latency/cost optimization. Uses LangChain/LangGraph for orchestration and applies a metrics-driven evaluation loop (including reranking and semantic chunking improvements) while collaborating closely with product stakeholders.”

“Senior Data Scientist in consulting who has built production RAG systems for insurance/annuity document search at large scale (100K+ PDF pages), emphasizing grounded answers, guardrails, and low-latency retrieval. Experienced in end-to-end MLOps for LLM apps—monitoring, evaluation sets, drift handling, and safe rollouts—and in orchestrating complex pipelines with Prefect/Airflow and deploying services on Kubernetes.”

“Backend/AI engineer who has shipped production LLM systems end-to-end, including an AI request-routing service (FastAPI + BART MNLI + OpenAI/Gemini) that improved accuracy ~25% after launch via eval-driven prompt/category iteration. Also built an enterprise document intelligence/RAG platform on Azure (Blob/SharePoint/Teams ingestion, OCR/NLP chunking, embeddings in Azure Cognitive Search) with PII guardrails (Presidio), confidence gating, and scalable event-driven pipelines handling millions of documents.”

Akshay Bharadwaj Kunigal Harish

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP, computer vision, and LLM systems

Boston, MA5y exp

“Built a production multi-agent cybersecurity defense simulator orchestrated with CrewAI, combining Red/Blue team LLM agents, a RAG runbook retriever, and an RL remediation agent trained via state-space simplification and reward shaping for rapid incident response. Also partnered with quant analysts and fund managers to deliver an automated trading and portfolio management system using statistical methods plus CNN/LSTM models, reporting up to 15% weekly ROI.”

Jaykumar Kotiya

Screened

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

Boston, MA6y exp

“Built and deployed production LLM systems for summarizing sensitive legal and financial documents, emphasizing GDPR-aligned privacy controls and scalable hybrid cloud architecture. Experienced with Kubernetes/Airflow orchestration and rigorous testing/monitoring practices, and has delivered measurable business impact (18% conversion lift) by translating AI outputs for non-technical marketing stakeholders.”

Kunal Sanghvi

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in AI, NLP, and LLM systems

USA3y exp

“Built and deployed a production AI customer support chatbot at Unique Design Inc. using FastAPI, AWS, Docker, and retrieval-based grounding on internal documents. Stands out for hands-on ownership across discovery, deployment, incident debugging, and post-launch iteration, with a strong focus on making LLM systems reliable and safe in real business workflows.”

“ML engineer with hands-on experience building banking AI systems end-to-end, including a customer-targeting model that improved campaign response rates by about 10%. Also shipped a RAG-based banking FAQ/support feature with safety guardrails and production optimizations around retrieval quality, latency, and cost, plus reusable Python services that reduced duplicate work for other engineers.”

“Backend/AI engineer with internship experience building an AI-powered financial insights platform (FastAPI, Redis, BigQuery) and prior HCL experience leading a monolith-to-microservices refactor (Flask, Kafka) using blue-green deployments. Demonstrates strong performance/security focus (OAuth/JWT/RBAC, encryption) and measurable impact on latency, downtime, and ML model reliability; MVP was submitted to Google’s accelerator program.”

“AI/LLM engineer with production experience building an LLM-powered investment recommendation system using RAG and chatbots, deployed via Docker/CI/CD and scaled on Kubernetes. Demonstrated measurable performance wins (sub-200ms latency) through QLoRA fine-tuning and TensorRT INT8/INT4 quantization, plus strong MLOps/orchestration background (Airflow ETL + scoring, MLflow monitoring) and stakeholder-facing delivery using demos and Tableau dashboards.”

“Python backend engineer (BetterWorld Technology) who owns microservice systems end-to-end on Azure, including Kubernetes deployments, CI/CD, and production monitoring/alerting. Has hands-on experience integrating SQL/NoSQL (including Cosmos DB with vector search/graph workflow) and has built a Kafka + Spark Streaming pipeline to Snowflake with a reported 40% latency reduction.”

“Built a production-style LLM document summarization/generation workflow that mitigates token limits and reduces hallucinations using semantic chunking, FAISS-based embedding retrieval (top-k via cosine similarity), and section-wise generation. Orchestrated the end-to-end pipeline with AWS Step Functions and aligned outputs with sales stakeholders through demos, visuals, and documentation.”

“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.”

Harsh Chauhan

Screened

Junior AI Engineer specializing in Generative AI, RAG, and NLP

Remote, US3y exp

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped a production RAG platform at Ticker Inc. on GCP (Qdrant + Postgres) delivering sub-second retrieval over 550k+ items, with measurable gains in latency and answer quality (HNSW optimization, MMR re-ranking). Also built an asynchronous LangChain/LangGraph multi-agent research system (10x faster cycles) and partnered with Indiana University doctors on synthetic patient records and ML error analysis using clinician-friendly F1/loss dashboards.”

Sonam Chhatani

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in causal inference and LLM research

New York, USA8y exp

“LLM engineer who has deployed a production system combining LLMs with causal inference (DoWhy) to enable counterfactual “what-if” analysis for experimental research, including a robust variable-mapping/validation layer to reduce hallucinations. Also partnered with non-technical operations leadership at Irriion Technologies to deliver an AI-assisted onboarding workflow that cut onboarding time by 50% and reduced manual errors by ~40%.”

Hari Krishna Kona

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and LLM-powered NLP

Boston, MA3y exp

“LLM/AI engineer who built a production automated document-understanding pipeline on Azure using a grounded RAG layer, designed to reduce manual review time for unstructured financial documents. Demonstrates strong real-world scaling and reliability practices (Service Bus queueing, Kubernetes autoscaling, observability, retries/circuit breakers) plus rigorous evaluation (shadow testing, replaying traffic, multilingual edge-case suites) and stakeholder-friendly, evidence-based explainability.”

Sujay Surendranath Pookkattuparambil

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in computer vision and reinforcement learning

Chicago, IL3y exp

“Early-stage engineer with hands-on embedded prototyping experience (Arduino/Raspberry Pi) who helped build an award-winning smart glasses project enabling phone notifications via Bluetooth. Strong computer vision performance optimization background, including accelerating 120 FPS inference by moving from TensorFlow to PyTorch and deploying through ONNX + TensorRT quantization, plus Docker-based GPU deployment and CI/ML practices.”

Jai Vilatkar

Screened

Junior AI/ML Developer specializing in GenAI, LLM agents, and RAG systems

Pune, India2y exp

“Built and shipped an agentic RAG chatbot module for NexaCLM to answer questions across large volumes of contracts while minimizing hallucinations and incorrect legal interpretations. Implemented routing between vector retrieval and ReAct-style agent retrieval plus an automated grading/validation layer (cosine-similarity thresholds, retries) and deployed via GitHub Actions to Azure Container Apps, partnering closely with legal stakeholders to define risk/clause-focused objectives.”

“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.”

Nagendra Reddy Palugulla

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and MLOps

Florida, United States4y exp

“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.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across Azure and AWS: built FastAPI + PostgreSQL services with Azure AD OAuth2/JWT auth and strong reliability patterns (timeouts, retries, correlation IDs). Delivered AWS Lambda/ECS solutions with Terraform/CI-CD and cost controls (SQS buffering, reserved concurrency), and built/operated AWS Glue ETL pipelines into Redshift while modernizing legacy SAS reporting into Python microservices with parity testing.”

“Backend Python engineer with end-to-end ownership of secure financial data systems integrating banking/credit/payment platforms, including automated ingestion and reconciliation of large financial statements. Built modular Dockerized Django REST services with pandas-driven validation/normalization and Postgres/Mongo persistence, and supported a phased migration from legacy VM services to AWS containers with stateless refactors and parallel-run integrity checks (run IDs/checksums). Works closely with platform teams on GitOps/CI readiness and deployment coordination (e.g., ArgoCD-managed sync policies).”

Lakshmi Meghana

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in production ML, MLOps, and NLP

Bristol, PA4y exp

“Built and deployed a transformer-based clinical document classification system that processes unstructured clinical notes in a HIPAA-compliant healthcare setting, served via FastAPI on AWS and integrated into an Airflow/S3 pipeline. Demonstrates strong end-to-end MLOps skills (data quality remediation, low-latency inference optimization, monitoring with MLflow/CloudWatch) and effective collaboration with clinicians to drive adoption.”

Mohammed Syed

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer & Researcher specializing in healthcare AI and multimodal LLM systems

Remote2y exp

“Backend/ML engineer focused on clinical AI transparency who built ShifaMind, an explainability-enforced clinical ML system using UMLS/MIMIC-IV/PubMed data with RAG, GraphSAGE, and cross-attention. Demonstrated strong production engineering via FastAPI API design and safe migrations (feature flags/shadow inference), plus HIPAA-aligned auth/RLS patterns; also delivered a real-time comet detection system reaching 97.7% accuracy.”