Vetted OpenCV Professionals

“ML/GenAI engineer with recent CVS Health experience building a production RAG system over unstructured financial/research documents using LangChain, FAISS, and Pinecone, plus LoRA/PEFT fine-tuning of GPT/LLaMA for domain-aware summarization. Demonstrates strong applied MLOps and data engineering skills (Airflow/Prefect, Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD, MLflow) and measurable impact (sub-second retrieval, ~40% better context retrieval, ~25% entity matching improvement).”

Rishitha reddy katamareddy

Screened

Mid-level Generative AI & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in agentic LLM systems

USA4y exp

“Built and deployed a production agentic LLM knowledge assistant that answers complex questions over internal documents, APIs, and databases using a RAG architecture (FAISS/Pinecone) and LangChain/LangGraph orchestration. Emphasizes production-grade reliability and hallucination control through grounding, confidence thresholds, validation, retries/fallbacks, and full observability (logging/metrics/traces) with continuous evaluation and feedback loops.”

Sampada shelke

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP, LLMs, and applied research

La Jolla, CA3y exp

“New grad SDE (AI/ML) who built and deployed an LLM-based chatbot framework used across technology, military, and banking contexts, focusing on model selection tradeoffs (latency vs accuracy) through prototyping and benchmarking. Also built a multi-agent "eaterybot" using PyAutoGen/AutoGen with a manager agent orchestrating specialized agents, and emphasizes rigorous testing with adversarial/edge-case datasets and hallucination checks.”

Vadivelan Murugesan

Screened

Junior Robotics Engineer specializing in ROS 2, perception, and motion planning

New York City, NY2y exp

“Robotics software engineer/researcher (master’s work) who built a human-aware motion planning stack for a UR16/UR16e arm: RGB-D 3D skeleton perception in ROS2, deep-learning-based human motion prediction, and MoveIt2-integrated real-time planning with a Gazebo digital twin. Demonstrated strong real-time optimization (profiling + GPU offload with CuPy/TensorRT) and practical systems skills spanning safety validation, visualization, and low-level comms (CAN/SocketCAN) on embedded deployments (Jetson, Docker, Autoware/Ouster).”

Sreelekha Vuppala

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in Generative AI, MLOps, and cloud data platforms

USA4y exp

“GenAI/ML engineer (CitiusTech) who has deployed production RAG systems for compliance/operations document Q&A, using Pinecone + FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes with strong monitoring and guardrails. Also built a GenAI-powered incident triage/routing solution in collaboration with non-technical stakeholders, achieving 35% faster response times and 40% fewer misclassified tickets, and has hands-on orchestration experience with Airflow and AutoSys.”

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.”

Anirudh Raghavan

Screened

Entry-level Computer Vision/Autonomy Engineer specializing in perception and object detection

West Lafayette, IN0y exp

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on ROS2 + Autoware perception experience, focused on building benchmarking infrastructure for object detection models inside a real-time autonomous driving stack. Strong in evaluation rigor (synchronization, deterministic playback, format standardization) and practical ROS2 debugging/validation workflows using RViz and Gazebo.”

Sumit Kothari

Screened

Junior AI/Full-Stack Engineer specializing in LLM apps and RAG systems

Los Angeles, CA1y exp

“AI engineer who built and shipped a production AI document-understanding/search system at Sumeru Inc, including a full RAG + LLMOps evaluation stack (MLflow, DeepEval, RAGAS) deployed on GCP. Also developed LangChain/LangGraph multi-agent workflows for UAV flight-log analysis and has experience presenting AI solutions to non-technical stakeholders and prospect clients to drive POCs.”

Kunal Kulkarni

Screened

Intern AI/ML Researcher specializing in computer vision and data engineering

Palo Alto, CA1y exp

“Built a production-oriented multimodal RAG "Fix Assistant" with FastAPI, Tavily search, BM25 + cross-encoder reranking, and a local Phi-3.5 model, emphasizing strict grounding and fallback/verification modes to prevent hallucinations. Also has hands-on federated learning experience using STADLE to orchestrate edge-node training and aggregation for EV telemetry data, plus experience communicating AI results to non-technical stakeholders (traffic RL/congestion outcomes).”

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."”

“Built and owns the full ProteinMenus AI pipeline end-to-end, spanning the iOS client, FastAPI backend, Gemini integration, Firestore, and Cloud Run deployment. Strongest signal is full-stack product ownership in an AI-driven consumer workflow, including monetization logic via an atomic credit system and architecture choices optimized for fast iteration after launch.”

“Built production LLM/RAG systems during a UPS internship, including a shipment knowledge agent used across 15+ hubs worldwide and a multi-agent PDF RAG workflow. Stands out for combining hands-on enterprise integration with rigorous evaluation, hallucination reduction, and efficient fine-tuning techniques like LoRA.”

“Built both traditional internal tooling and LLM-powered systems during an internship, including a React/Python/AWS calculator onboarding platform and a production-style ROS2 RAG assistant over 10K+ documents. Stands out for combining full-stack delivery, stakeholder coordination, and practical AI reliability work like retrieval tuning, source-grounded answers, and low-confidence fallbacks.”

“AI Engineer with hands-on ownership of a production multi-agent RAG platform in financial services, spanning experimentation, architecture, deployment, monitoring, and iterative optimization. Stands out for measurable impact: 35% retrieval relevance improvement and nearly 50% reduction in manual operational analysis effort, plus strong experience making enterprise LLM systems safer and more reliable in production.”

“Full stack Python developer who actively integrates AI coding assistants into day-to-day engineering work, including code generation, debugging, testing, and documentation. Has also coordinated multi-agent workflows across backend, frontend, testing, and code review, showing an applied, productivity-focused approach to AI-enabled software delivery.”

“Full-stack and AI engineer with Capital One experience spanning real-time customer dashboards and production fraud-analysis systems. They combine TypeScript/Next.js/Node.js product engineering with LangChain-based RAG architecture over a 400 GB credit-report corpus, delivering measurable impact including 35% lower frontend latency and 45% faster analyst workflows.”

“Technical director and Unity engineer with 7+ years shipping products, including Symphoni, a mixed reality rhythm game launched across Meta Quest and Pico headsets. Particularly compelling for teams needing someone who can architect complex gameplay-adjacent systems end-to-end—such as a robust UGC level editor shipped on a 3-4 week timeline—while also bringing VR optimization, multiplayer networking, and emerging AI-assisted development workflow expertise.”

“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.”

“Backend engineer who designed and evolved an AWS-based event-processing system in Python/PostgreSQL, achieving a 60% p95 latency reduction while improving reliability during traffic spikes. Led a zero-downtime migration from a monolithic Django app to FastAPI microservices using feature flags, strong testing, and cross-team coordination, with production-grade observability (Prometheus/Grafana/CloudWatch) and security (JWT/OAuth2, RBAC, Postgres RLS).”

“Robotics/AV engineer with strong ROS2 and autonomy stack integration experience, including bringing Autoware Universe up on a real Lexus autonomous vehicle platform. Also built a hierarchical reinforcement learning proof-of-concept for Boston Dynamics Spot (navigation + manipulation) and tackled sim-to-real challenges by implementing PD torque conversion for Jetson-based hardware; improved localization accuracy via GNSS+EKF fusion with a reported 28% drift reduction.”

“Designed and deployed an enterprise LLM-powered clinical/pharmacy policy knowledge assistant at CVS Health, replacing manual searches across PDFs/Word/SharePoint with a HIPAA-compliant RAG system. Built end-to-end ingestion and orchestration (Airflow + Azure ML/Data Lake + vector index) with PHI masking, versioned re-embedding, and production monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana), and partnered closely with clinicians/compliance to ensure policy-grounded, auditable answers.”

“AI/LLM engineer with recent production experience at UnitedHealth Group building an end-to-end RAG system over structured EMR data and unstructured clinical notes, including evidence retrieval, GPT/LLaMA-based reasoning, and a validation layer for reliability. Strong in orchestration (Kubeflow/Airflow/MLflow), prompt engineering for noisy healthcare text, and rigorous evaluation/monitoring with gold-standard benchmarking, plus close collaboration with clinical operations stakeholders.”

“AI/LLM engineer with production experience building secure, scalable compliance-focused generative AI systems (GPT-3/4, BERT) including RAG over internal regulatory document bases. Has delivered end-to-end pipelines on AWS with PySpark/Airflow/Kubernetes/FastAPI, emphasizing privacy controls, monitoring, and iterative evaluation (A/B testing). Also partnered closely with bank compliance officers using prototypes to refine NLP summarization/classification and reduce document review time.”