Vetted OpenAI API Professionals

“Engineer with hands-on experience designing and leading multi-agent AI development workflows, including a LangGraph-based system that automated parts of a RAG pipeline and significantly reduced development time. Stands out for treating AI agents like an engineering team, with clear architecture, handoff schemas, validation, and supervisor-driven conflict resolution.”

“Backend engineer who built an AI-powered grant matchmaking platform for researchers and professors, combining semantic matching, embeddings, and Semantic Scholar enrichment with rule-based eligibility filters. Stands out for pragmatic AI engineering: they focused on reliability through confidence scoring, logging, manual validation, and production-minded backend design.”

“Backend engineer who architected and owned a mission-critical outage management/decision-support platform, replacing a legacy system that failed under load. Emphasizes auditability, deterministic validation, and server-side concurrency controls (section locking, scoped autosaves), plus redundancy/load balancing and monitoring to keep the system stable for 24/7 operations handling 1,500+ weekly outage events.”

“Accenture engineer who owned an insurance e-application end-to-end and drove incremental releases that reduced recurring production issues. Also built a TypeScript/React (Next.js) + NestJS microservices platform using PostgreSQL, Redis, Stripe, and Kafka, with strong focus on decoupling, eventual consistency, and scaling consumers under load. Created a hackathon chat-based internal assistant that used live form context and documentation-grounded answers to help agents resolve customer queries during form filling.”

“Built and shipped a production RAG-based enterprise knowledge assistant to replace slow/inaccurate search across millions of documents, using LangChain orchestration with GPT-4/LLaMA and vector databases. Strong focus on production constraints—latency, hallucination control, and cost—using hybrid retrieval, guardrails, LLM-as-judge validation, and model routing, and has experience translating non-technical stakeholder pain points into measurable outcomes.”

“Built and productionized an internal LLM-powered search tool that helps engineers find the right SolidWorks macros using plain-English queries, using OpenAI embeddings and ChromaDB with strong logging/fallback safeguards. Experienced in diagnosing RAG/agentic workflow issues in real time and in hands-on API support, including fixing customer macros after SolidWorks version updates and driving adoption through reusable solutions and best practices.”

“Full-stack engineer with recent Mutual of Omaha experience building a cloud-native microservices application in Java/Spring Boot with a React/Angular frontend, integrating multiple AWS services (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, SQS). Has hands-on experience operationalizing AI features via OpenAI/AWS Bedrock and improving reliability/performance through caching, async processing, and CI/CD pipeline optimization.”

“AI/LLM engineer with production experience in legal tech: built a GPT-4 + LangChain RAG summarization system at Govpanel that reduced legal case-file review time by 50%+. Previously at LexisNexis, orchestrated end-to-end Airflow data/AI pipelines processing 5M+ legal documents daily, improving ETL runtime by 35% with robust validation, monitoring, and SLAs.”

“AI/ML-focused backend engineer who shipped two production systems: PersonaPal (agentic LLM chatbot with RAG, FAISS-based retrieval, and Redis semantic caching) and CervixScan (clinical diagnostics platform with PostgreSQL data modeling and human-in-the-loop safety for low-confidence predictions). Demonstrates strong performance/reliability work (indexed vector search, caching, query optimization to ~200ms) and end-to-end ownership from orchestration design through deployment.”

Hiya Kothari

Screened

Intern Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and cloud

San Francisco, CA3y exp

“Built a Python-based geospatial machine learning backend for PFAS contamination risk mapping, including reproducible feature pipelines, ensemble modeling, and a FastAPI layer for visualization/analysis. Emphasizes data integrity and robustness (CRS/coverage checks, fail-fast validation) and has led safe backend refactors using feature flags, idempotent backfills, and Postgres RLS for secure, queryable results delivery.”

Suraj Thangellapally

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in machine learning and data science

San Jose, CA2y exp

“Python backend engineer who built a personal LLM-powered AI code review tool that parses code into context-preserving diff chunks and uses the OpenAI API to analyze and summarize changes. Has hands-on Kubernetes deployment experience (replicas, rolling updates, ConfigMaps/Secrets, health probes) and follows GitOps-style, declarative CI/CD workflows; also has experience designing streaming/event-style processing with attention to reliability and observability.”

Yash De

Screened

Intern Full-Stack Developer specializing in AI/LLM applications

San Jose, CA3y exp

“Backend-focused intern who built and refactored the backend for an LLM-driven gifting mobile app using FastAPI, tackling high-latency LLM + product-API workflows. Implemented async worker-pool/queue processing with Redis caching plus retries/fallbacks, cutting end-to-end suggestion latency from ~4–5 seconds to ~1 second while improving reliability and rollout safety via staged migrations and testing.”

maheen Adeeb

Screened

Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs, speech AI, and RAG systems

Chicago, IL3y exp

“AI engineer with production experience building multilingual speech-to-speech translation pipelines (ASR + LLM) for enterprise/media, focused on reliability at scale. Has hands-on orchestration experience (including IBM Watson contexts) and emphasizes production evaluation/monitoring using a mix of traditional metrics and LLM-based evaluators to catch quality regressions while balancing latency and cost.”

Brian Mar

Screened

Senior Data Engineer specializing in data infrastructure and marketing/CRM analytics

San Mateo, CA8y exp

“Salesforce-focused implementation/solutions engineer from Full Circle Insights who owned end-to-end campaign attribution and reporting deployments for multiple customers at once (3–5 concurrently), including sandbox testing, KPI monitoring, and rollback-safe migrations from legacy reporting. Also builds personal multi-agent workflows and uses Claude Code to rapidly scaffold data/analytics scripts like an advertising optimization parser over CSV/XLSX inputs.”

“Software engineer currently building AI-powered backend systems for interview analysis, with end-to-end ownership of an LLM-based monitoring platform. Stands out for combining practical product delivery in an ambiguous early-stage environment with measurable impact: over 40% reduction in manual review effort and roughly 20% lower inference cost.”

“Junior developer with over a year of experience who is already applying AI-assisted engineering practices in production, including GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, SonarQube, and OpenAI-based workflows. On a Citibank public portal built with .NET 8 and Angular, they used AI tooling plus CI/CD quality gates to speed delivery and reportedly reduce post-deployment bugs by 30-40% while maintaining strict security and compliance standards.”

“Built end-to-end product features spanning full-stack web development and LLM-powered systems in an early-stage startup environment. Notably shipped an AI financial assistant chatbot with agent routing, validation, fallback handling, and production monitoring, and also owned a scheduling system integrating Next.js, backend APIs, database design, and Google Calendar OAuth.”

“Full-stack engineer with 8 years of experience spanning regulated healthcare IoT and enterprise security SaaS. Has worked on a high-growth healthcare equipment platform and DigiCert's certificate lifecycle management product, combining hands-on React/Node.js development with compliance, auditability, and reliability requirements. Currently seeking a more code-heavy role after moving into a more advisory position.”

Omkar Tulsidas Parab

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack web and AI applications

United States5y exp

“Software engineer who owned an Order Management System end-to-end at Reliance Jio, improving large-table performance via UI virtualization shipped behind feature flags and refined through direct ops-user observation. Also built an OCR automation tool at Piramal Realty using Python/Tesseract with validation and manual correction fallbacks, driving adoption by operations teams. Experienced integrating with Kafka-based microservices and improving observability using structured logging and correlation IDs.”

“Yogesh is an AI/full-stack engineer from LangChain who says he was the sole developer and core maintainer of OpenSWE/OpenSpeed, an asynchronous coding agent in LangSmith Cloud that turns requests from Slack, Linear, and GitHub into reviewable PRs. He emphasizes production-grade agent infrastructure: event-driven workflow design, typed run states, observability, retries, and latency improvements via pre-warmed sandboxes.”

“LLM/agentic systems practitioner who repeatedly takes customer-facing LLM prototypes into production by operationalizing prompts, hardening RAG pipelines, and adding monitoring/guardrails. Has hands-on experience debugging intermittent production failures under high traffic (vector store timeouts/empty retrieval) and implementing fail-safe behavior plus alerting. Also partners closely with sales in pilots/POCs, customizing demos with customer data and running side-by-side comparisons to drive adoption.”

“AI/LLM engineer who built a production intelligent support system using RAG over a vectorized documentation library, addressing real-world issues like lost-in-the-middle context failures and doc freshness via automated GitHub-driven re-embedding pipelines. Emphasizes rigorous agent evaluation (component/E2E/ops) and prefers lightweight, decoupled workflow automation using message brokers (Redis/RabbitMQ) over heavyweight orchestration frameworks.”

“Full-stack engineer with enterprise experience at Metasystems Inc. (and Qualcomm) building high-traffic, security-sensitive systems—owned a secure transaction processing module end-to-end using Java/Spring Boot, Python/Django, and React. Strong AWS production operations (EKS/ECS/Lambda/RDS/DynamoDB) with IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), observability, and reliability patterns; also delivered resilient ETL/integration pipelines with idempotency/retries/backfills and achieved a 50% deployment-time reduction through CI/CD and modular refactoring.”

“At CVS Health, the candidate productionized a RAG-based LLM solution in a regulated healthcare setting, emphasizing reliable data pipelines, LoRA fine-tuning, monitoring, safety guardrails, and A/B testing. They have hands-on experience troubleshooting real-time RAG failures (e.g., chunking/embedding issues) and regularly lead developer-focused demos/workshops while translating technical architecture into business value for stakeholders.”