Vetted OpenAI Professionals

“New grad focused on AI systems and agent-based development, with hands-on experience using LLMs as a coding partner and building RAG-based document processing workflows. Stands out for practical experimentation with semantic chunking, retrieval optimization, and multi-agent architectures, including redesigning a RAG workflow by adding a reasoning agent to improve response accuracy and reliability.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building a real-time notification API on Flask/Celery/Postgres and scaling it on AWS with Docker, Redis queuing, and SQLAlchemy query optimization. Also delivered AWS serverless deployments (Lambda) using Terraform + GitHub Actions and built AWS Glue ETL pipelines from S3 to Redshift with CloudWatch monitoring and DataBrew data quality checks.”

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.”

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.”

Ashay Panchal

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI-driven distributed systems

San Jose, CA4y exp

“Backend engineer who built a high-stakes, privacy-first platform at be Still Analytics for survivors of domestic violence, emphasizing anonymity, security, and reliability. Experienced with GenAI backends (LangChain + AWS Bedrock) including RAG to prevent hallucinations, plus cloud-native scaling (Docker/Kubernetes) and cost-saving migrations from legacy VMs to serverless (30% reduction).”

chandankumar ramamurthy

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in LLM-powered products

Washington, D.C.3y exp

“Built multiple systems from scratch at DSSD and Aglint, including an NGO sustainability reporting dashboard and a production LLM-powered phone screening agent using Twilio/Retell AI with RAG grounded in PostgreSQL candidate/job data. Strong focus on real-world reliability: guardrails, monitoring, and lightweight eval/regression loops that reduced recruiter score overrides by ~30%. Currently on OPT through May 2026 (plans STEM OPT extension) and committed to relocating to NYC for in-person work; seeking $90k–$120k base with meaningful equity for founding engineer roles.”

“Candidate is targeting a CTO Venture Studio role and positions themself as a technical partner to founders rather than a founder personally. They demonstrate strong fluency in early-stage startup evaluation, especially around validating whether a product truly tests the business hypothesis and whether the underlying technology can scale significantly.”

Keeravani Chekuri

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM systems and MLOps

Boston, MA3y exp

“Built and deployed an AI tutoring assistant end-to-end at Nexora School, spanning discovery with school districts, multi-agent LangGraph/RAG architecture, AWS Bedrock migration, and post-launch stabilization. Stands out for combining hands-on LLM systems engineering with strong educator-facing trust building, FERPA-driven architecture decisions, and disciplined production practices around evals, logging, and messy document ingestion.”

“Solo developer who built and operated an AI debate product end-to-end, from architecture and deployment through observability and post-launch stabilization. They show strong practical LLM production experience—using Vercel AI SDK, OpenAI, Langfuse, Mem0, and custom RAG—while improving latency to sub-4 seconds, driving failures near zero, and cutting LLM usage by 20%.”

“Built Meet.AI end-to-end and made concrete architecture/performance decisions (RPC with type-safe integration; SSR + query prefetching for instant data display). Also created a Python tool at Abbott to resynchronize Ansible inventories and eliminate manual intervention by scheduling it in a Jenkins pipeline; has hands-on Docker/microservices experience including serving a pretrained LLM.”

“Full-stack TypeScript/React/Next.js builder who created an end-to-end customer-facing product (AI Job Master) that generates personalized outreach from resumes and job descriptions. Demonstrates strong product + engineering ownership with rapid MVP iteration, instrumentation-driven prioritization, and pragmatic reliability patterns (microservices, queues, correlation IDs, retries) while tackling a key AI challenge: user trust and output consistency.”

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.”

Md Abul Kalam Azad

Screened

Director-level Software Development Leader specializing in FinTech, Blockchain, and AI

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia24y exp

“Bootstrapped founder with a technical background who has already built an MVP SaaS loyalty and referral platform plus a tablet/mobile POS companion product, leveraging Azure and Google Cloud support rather than outside capital. Focused on learning-by-building, resource-efficient execution, and forming highly motivated, equity-aligned teams.”

“Data engineer who has owned high-volume production pipelines end-to-end (200–300 GB/day) on AWS, implementing strong data quality/observability and achieving 99.9% reliability while cutting data issues ~33%. Also built a large-scale external data collection system ingesting millions of records/day with anti-bot/rate-limit handling and backfill tooling, and shipped a versioned REST service exposing curated Snowflake data to downstream teams.”

“Built and shipped a personal LLM-powered news aggregation platform (Clear Brief) that scrapes ~200 articles per cycle, clusters them into ~15–30 consolidated stories, and supports on-demand deep dives via a Next.js API route. Emphasizes production-minded reliability (token/cost controls, timeouts, graceful frontend degradation) and database-backed orchestration using SQLite with retry + exponential backoff for burst processing.”

Cristobal Troncoso

Screened

Senior Unity Developer specializing in VR, multiplayer, and AI-driven simulations

Santiago, Chile12y exp

“Unity/VR engineer who has owned systems from gameplay architecture through hardware integration, including a modular casino platform deployed to 100+ terminals in Chile that became the company’s primary revenue source for over three years. Also brings hands-on experience with AI-driven talking avatars, multiplayer VR training on Quest, and aggressive cross-platform optimization across WebGL, Android, and VR.”