Vetted NLTK Professionals

“LLM-focused customer-facing engineer who repeatedly takes document Q&A and agentic prototypes into secure, monitored production systems. Experienced in reducing hallucinations via RAG + guardrails, diagnosing retrieval/embedding issues in real time, and partnering with sales to run metrics-driven PoCs that overcome accuracy/security objections and drive adoption.”

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).”

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%+.”

Ranganayak Meravath

Screened

Mid-level Generative AI Engineer specializing in RAG, agentic copilots, and regulated AI

5y exp

“Senior engineer who built and productionized an Azure-based Enterprise AI Copilot for financial/compliance teams, focused on grounded, auditable answers with citations to reduce hallucinations in regulated workflows. Experienced designing multi-step agent orchestration and improving reliability through targeted iterations (e.g., fixing chunking/parsing to materially improve citation accuracy), plus building defensive pipelines for messy ERP/operational finance data.”

“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.”

“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.”

“ML/LLM practitioner with production experience building a healthcare review sentiment pipeline (RateMDs) using Hugging Face Transformers plus a LangChain+FAISS RAG layer for interactive querying. Also led orchestration-driven optimization of Nike’s Fusion ETL pipeline, improving runtime efficiency by 20%, and has experience translating ML outputs into Tableau dashboards for non-technical healthcare stakeholders (e.g., readmission risk).”

Shanmukha Koganti

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in recommender systems and edge computer vision

Bay Area, CA6y exp

“ML/AI engineer with production experience at Shopify and Intel, building a deep learning product ranking system that lifted add-to-cart ~14% and serving real-time similarity search via FAISS+Redis under <20ms latency at massive scale. Also deployed computer vision models to 100+ retail edge locations using Docker/Ansible/k3s with zero-downtime rollouts, and applies strong MLOps practices (A/B testing, canary/shadow, observability) plus performance optimization (OpenVINO, INT8).”

“Built and owned end-to-end production systems for a healthcare platform, including a predictive task recommendation feature (React + FastAPI + ML on AWS ECS) that cut backlog 20% and saved coordinators ~10 hours/week. Also productionized an AI-native RAG system (vector DB + LLM) delivering 40% faster query resolution, and led phased modernization of a monolithic FastAPI service into async microservices using feature flags and canary releases.”

“Built and deployed an on-prem, HIPAA-compliant LLM pipeline for oncology-focused clinical note generation and decision support, emphasizing grounded differential diagnosis and explainable reasoning via RAG to reduce hallucinations. Also created a LangGraph-based multi-agent academic paper search system integrating Tavily, arXiv, and Semantic Scholar with an orchestrator that routes tasks to specialized sub-agents.”

“AI engineer with production experience building a high-accuracy (98%) fraud detection system operating at real-time latency (1–2s) over millions of transactions, using a multi-model pipeline approach to meet performance constraints. Also implemented Airflow-orchestrated workflows (DAGs, retries, alerts) to replace brittle cron scripts and is currently pursuing a master’s project on real-time ASL-to-text conversion.”

“End-to-end deployment owner for Oracle document delivery/print services in a hospital-like production environment, focused on reliability/performance at scale (thousands of systems). Also describes implementing event-driven RAG/agentic LLM workflows with attention to embeddings/index consistency, latency, and measurable improvements in response relevance and operational efficiency.”

Sirisha Maddikunta

Screened

Mid-level Generative AI Engineer specializing in enterprise LLM and healthcare AI solutions

O Fallon, MO6y exp

“Built and owned an end-to-end LLM-powered fraud investigation assistant that automated case summaries and risk analysis, cutting analyst investigation/documentation time by 40%. Stands out for translating RAG concepts into a production-grade internal platform with strong evaluation, monitoring, and reusable Python service architecture that improved both analyst trust and engineering velocity.”

“ML engineer with production experience at PayPal and Flipkart, owning high-scale systems across fraud detection, recommendations, and LLM tooling. Stands out for combining strong modeling judgment with practical platform engineering, delivering measurable impact like 22% fewer fraud false positives, 18% CTR lift, 40% less LLM manual review, and 30% faster redeployments.”

“Built and shipped a production enterprise RAG knowledge assistant that returns grounded, cited answers and uses confidence-based fallbacks (clarifying questions/abstention) with monitoring and compliance controls for sensitive data. Implemented end-to-end agent orchestration (function calling, structured JSON, state, retries/rate limits) plus eval/feedback loops, and achieved a reported 30–40% improvement in knowledge-task completion time while reducing hallucinations via retrieval improvements.”

“GenAI/LLM engineer who architected and deployed a production RAG “research assistant” for JPMorgan Chase’s regulatory compliance team, focused on safety-critical behavior (mandatory citations, refusal when evidence is missing). Deep hands-on experience with LlamaIndex, Pinecone, Hugging Face embeddings, LangGraph agent workflows, and metric-driven evaluation (golden sets, TruLens), including a reported 28% relevancy lift via cross-encoder re-ranking.”

“Walmart engineer who built and shipped a production LLM+RAG system to automate triage and analysis of computer support chats/tickets, producing grounded, schema-constrained JSON outputs for summaries, urgency, and routing recommendations. Emphasizes reliability (hallucination control, confidence thresholds, human-in-the-loop) and runs end-to-end pipelines with Airflow and AWS-native orchestration, plus rigorous evaluation and monitoring tied to business KPIs.”

“LLM/MLOps engineer who has shipped production systems for complaint intelligence and contact-center NLU, including LoRA/RLHF-tuned LLaMA models deployed on GKE with vLLM and Vertex AI batch pipelines to BigQuery. Demonstrates strong practical focus on hallucination control, data imbalance mitigation, and production monitoring (Langfuse) with regression testing and canary rollouts, plus experience orchestrating complex workflows with AWS Step Functions.”

“Data/ML engineer with experience across pharma (Dr. Reddy Laboratories) and financial services (Cincinnati Financial, Capital One), building production NLP and entity-resolution systems that connect messy unstructured text with enterprise SQL data. Delivered semantic search with BERT + vector DB and domain fine-tuning (reported ~35% relevance lift), and builds robust pipelines using Airflow/dbt/Spark with strong validation, monitoring, and stakeholder-aligned rollout practices.”

Sakshi Dinesh Deore

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AWS, DevOps automation, and data platforms

Bellevue, USA3y exp

“Engineer with Securonix experience deploying and operating production microservices and real-time data-processing systems at high throughput. Led AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring, and customer-driven customization for a threat-report classification solution, including rule adjustments and model retraining based on live client feedback.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of both classical ML and GenAI systems in production. They built an end-to-end churn prediction service on AWS and also shipped RAG-based document search/summarization features, with clear experience in monitoring, hallucination reduction, cost/latency optimization, and creating shared Python/LLM infrastructure used across teams.”