Vetted pandas Professionals

“Built and productionized an LLM-powered financial intelligence and forecasting platform at Northern Trust using a RAG architecture (LangChain + Hugging Face + FAISS) with end-to-end MLOps (Docker/Kubernetes, Airflow, MLflow). Emphasized regulatory-grade explainability (SHAP/Power BI) and hallucination control (retrieval-only grounding), achieving ~30% forecasting accuracy improvement and ~65% reduction in analyst research time, with sub-second inference and 95% uptime on EKS/AKS.”

“LLM/RAG practitioner building clinician-facing AI search and Q&A inside EHR workflows, focused on trust, latency, and safety (grounded answers with citations, PHI controls, encryption/audit logs). Demonstrated real-time incident response for production LLM systems (e.g., fixing a metadata-filter deployment regression to prevent irrelevant results/cross-patient leakage) and strong demo/enablement skills for mixed technical and clinical stakeholders; also shipped a multi-model RAG tool at OrbeX Labs with upload/search/audit features for day-to-day adoption.”

“CoreAI intern at The Home Depot who improved the Magic Apron Assistant by building a production video ingestion + RAG retrieval system for long videos (uploads and YouTube), including a graph-based retrieval module to speed up and improve relevance. Experienced with Kubernetes orchestration (HPA) and production reliability practices like caching, monitoring, regression testing, and stakeholder-driven requirements.”

“ML/AI engineer who built and productionized an NLP system at PurevisitX, orchestrating end-to-end ML workflows with Airflow (S3 ingestion through auto-retraining) and optimizing for drift and low-latency inference. Also partnered with Citibank risk teams on a fraud detection model, translating results via dashboards and iterating thresholds based on stakeholder feedback.”

“Systems Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services with hands-on ownership of enterprise logistics microservices (Spring Boot) using Kafka integrated with Azure Event Hubs, including partitioning strategies and operational handling of consumer lag/duplicate events. Also built a full-stack road-accident blackspot detection application using Python-based spatial clustering and model evaluation with a JavaScript/Mapbox frontend.”

“Built a production LLM-RAG system at McKesson to let internal healthcare operations teams query large volumes of unstructured operational documents via natural language with source-backed answers, designed with HIPAA/FHIR compliance in mind. Demonstrated strong production engineering across hallucination mitigation, retrieval quality tuning, and latency/scalability optimization, using LangChain/LangGraph and Airflow plus rigorous evaluation/monitoring practices.”

“Software engineer who built and open-sourced reusable React/Node.js modules (chat, auth, caching) from an AI education platform, emphasizing intuitive APIs and strong documentation. At TCS, improved a healthcare scheduling platform by diagnosing SQL/server bottlenecks and redesigning database + caching, cutting appointment load times by ~40% and reducing support complaints.”

“Healthcare AI/ML engineer with Epic experience who built and deployed a HIPAA-compliant GPT-4 RAG clinical assistant over large medical document sets, emphasizing privacy controls and low-latency performance. Also automated end-to-end retraining and deployment of patient risk models using orchestration/CI-CD (Jenkins, SageMaker, MLflow), cutting deployment time from hours to minutes while improving reliability.”

“ML/MLOps practitioner from Discover Financial who built and deployed a real-time AI fraud detection platform (LSTM + VAE) on AWS SageMaker with Docker/FastAPI and Jenkins-driven CI/CD. Demonstrated measurable impact (30% accuracy lift, 25% fewer false alerts) and deep expertise in class-imbalance mitigation, drift monitoring, and orchestration (Airflow/Kubeflow), plus strong stakeholder adoption via Power BI dashboards for fraud/compliance teams.”

“Software engineer with robotics and ML background (BS Software Engineering w/ Robotics minor; MS CS w/ ML minor) who built autonomy-focused student robotics projects combining RFID + camera sensing, path planning (Dijkstra), and fuzzy logic, and experimented with neural-network approaches. Also brings production-grade software practices from a Dell software analyst role, emphasizing maintainability, documentation, and testing for real-time systems.”

“Full-stack developer with strong cloud/on-prem focus (AWS, VPC networking) who has improved production reliability by bringing manually created IAM/security group resources under Terraform and standardizing environments. Demonstrated end-to-end troubleshooting across app + infrastructure + networking (traffic capture revealed proxy response truncation) and delivered Python-based monitoring/reporting enhancements that improved ops visibility and turnaround.”

“ML/AI engineer who deployed a real-time, edge-based computer-vision pipeline for produce recognition in retail self-checkout to reduce shrink. Demonstrates strong end-to-end production chops: multi-camera data calibration/sync, ranking-based modeling for fine-grained classes, latency-focused optimization, and continuous A/B testing/monitoring with guardrails. Experienced with ML orchestration (Kubeflow Pipelines, Airflow) and CI/CD via GitHub Actions, and collaborates closely with store operations to make interventions usable in the checkout flow.”

“Worked on large financial analytics datasets combining complaint text, transaction logs, and demographics; built end-to-end NLP/ML pipelines (TF-IDF + Random Forest) and data integration in BigQuery with Tableau reporting, citing ~95–98% accuracy. Also implemented entity resolution with fuzzy matching and semantic linking using BERT sentence-transformer embeddings stored in FAISS, including fine-tuning on labeled pairs to improve search/linking relevance.”

“Built an Arduino-based obstacle-avoiding robot using sonar/laser sensors and improved performance from 0.60 to 0.87 accuracy through sensor-fusion thresholding and iterative tuning. In an internship, optimized a legal-document NLP pipeline by switching to a distilled/quantized transformer and offloading inference to a GPU-backed Flask service, cutting inference time by 40%+ without added infrastructure spend.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong ownership in fast-moving environments: designed and shipped a pre-order/campaign inventory system (NestJS + Strapi + Datadog) that freed 34% warehouse space and reduced stock risk to ~5.7%. Also built rapid, high-impact logistics features (Spot Sales) that drove last-mile cost to ~0 in ~40 days, and has hands-on AWS/Terraform/CI-CD experience including deploying a global RAG system with Pinecone, Datadog, and PagerDuty.”

Sai somapalli

Screened

Senior LLM Engineer specializing in Generative AI, RAG, and multimodal assistants

USA6y exp

“GenAI/NLP engineer with experience building classification and summarization pipelines in PyTorch and deploying multimodal GPT-4-style workflows. Has integrated LLM applications across OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, and Amazon Bedrock, and uses LangChain/LlamaIndex/Semantic Kernel to orchestrate RAG and agent workflows with production-focused evaluation metrics like task success rate and groundedness.”

Ponugoti Sushma

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in IoT, edge AI, and enterprise ML

Texas, USA5y exp

“Built and productionized an LLM/RAG question-answering service over technical documentation, focusing on retrieval quality (reranking + IR metrics), latency, and scaling. Experienced orchestrating end-to-end ETL/ML workflows with Airflow/Prefect/AWS Step Functions and improving reliability via parallelism, retries, and shadow testing. Also delivered an explainable healthcare risk-flagging classifier with a stakeholder-friendly dashboard for a non-technical program manager.”

Akhil Bharadwaj Mateti

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in Data Science and Machine Learning

Arlington, Virginia4y exp

“Robotics/AV perception engineer who built a semantic-segmentation road detection system and integrated it into a ROS-based real-time pipeline (ROS bag camera feed to live monitor) achieving ~12 FPS. Strong in practical deployment work: solved multi-library versioning issues (ROS/OpenCV/TensorFlow), containerized the stack with Docker, and optimized inference by shifting runtime to C++ for large latency gains on NVIDIA hardware.”

Dhairya Desai

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in healthcare NLP and predictive analytics

Chicago, IL13y exp

“ML/NLP engineer with healthcare and industrial IoT experience: built an Optum pipeline that converted 2M+ physician notes into structured entities and linked them with claims/pharmacy data to create an actionable patient timeline. Deep hands-on expertise in production NER, entity resolution, and hybrid search (Elasticsearch + embeddings/FAISS), plus robust data engineering practices (Airflow, Spark, data contracts, auditability) and experimentation-to-production rollout via shadow mode and feature flags.”

Manali Patil

Screened

Senior Software Engineer & Engineering Manager specializing in cloud backend and manufacturing MES

Santa Clara, CA9y exp

“Customer-facing engineer who led recurring midnight ERP data-feed/B2B integrations from prototype to production, building reusable APIs and using Hangfire for job scheduling. Known for tight weekly customer iteration, strong documentation and test coverage (80%+), and cross-functional problem-solving with Operations/Quality/NPI to resolve data-collection and manufacturing-process constraints; has 2 customers live on the integration.”

Piyush Rajendra

Screened

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

Athens, GA4y exp

“Built and deployed a GPT-4 + Pinecone RAG system that lets users query large internal document collections with grounded, cited answers. Demonstrates strong applied LLM engineering (chunking experiments, hallucination controls, metadata recency boosting) plus production-minded evaluation/monitoring and performance tuning (rate-limit mitigation via pooling/batching). Also effective at translating complex AI concepts to non-technical stakeholders through prototypes and live demos, helping secure client sponsorship.”

Varun Kothapalli

Screened

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

Saint Louis, MO6y exp

“Built a production LLM/RAG document analysis system for large financial documents (credit reports/PDFs) to help business analysts extract insights faster. Implemented end-to-end pipeline orchestration with LangChain, vector search (e.g., FAISS), and hallucination controls (context grounding, similarity thresholds, and no-answer fallback), delivered as a Dockerized Python API.”

Sreedivya Nagalli

Screened

Junior AI/ML Engineer specializing in deep learning and full-stack ML applications

2y exp

“Built and operated a production-used RAG-based AI study planner (GPT-4 + FAISS) that handled 250+ concurrent users, with real-world reliability engineering (caching, fallbacks, schema validation, Redis state, monitoring). Also has healthcare data integration experience at Medinet Analytics, standardizing messy EHR/practice-management data with canonical schemas, idempotency hashing, and compliance-grade audit trails.”

Sravya Chunduri

Screened

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

Virginia, USA4y exp

“AI/ML Engineer with 3+ years of experience spanning RAG pipelines, MLOps, large-scale data workflow automation, and resilient Playwright-based UI automation. At Black Hawk Network and Wipro, they describe shipping production systems with strong observability and compliance controls, including reducing flaky automation failures from 30% to under 2% and automating 3+ TB/day reconciliation workflows.”