Vetted pandas Professionals

Rubeena Riyas

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Senior AI Engineer specializing in LLM agents, RAG, and scalable data platforms

7y exp

“ML/data engineer who owned an end-to-end production sales analytics pipeline at 15,000+ user scale, delivering ~50% compute reduction, ~80% faster reporting, and ~$1.2M impact. Also shipped a production RAG-based AI assistant over internal BigQuery/docs with evaluation metrics and safety guardrails, and built shared Python libraries to standardize reliability and accelerate engineering teams.”

“At PwC, built and productionized an agentic RAG enterprise search assistant over 6M internal documents (8M embeddings), deployed across AWS and GCP. Drove major retrieval gains (72%→92% precision via BM25+dense hybrid with RRF and cross-encoder re-ranking), reduced hallucinations 30%, achieved <2s latency at 50–60K queries/month, and cut support tickets 30%—boosting adoption to 2,500 users by adding source-cited answers.”

JYOTHI N

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Data Scientist specializing in analytics, experimentation, and BI on AWS

Austin, TX7y exp

“Data/ML practitioner focused on healthcare data quality and record linkage: analyzed 10M+ records, built anomaly detection and NLP-driven entity resolution, and automated AWS ETL/validation pipelines (Glue/Redshift/Lambda), cutting data errors by 40% and generating $500k in annual savings. Has hands-on experience with embeddings (Sentence Transformers/spaCy), FAISS vector search, and fine-tuning for domain-specific matching.”

“Full-stack engineer who has owned customer-facing AI recommendation and analytics dashboards end-to-end (backend APIs/data processing through React UI, deployment, and monitoring). Demonstrates strong systems thinking around scaling microservices—using observability, caching, async workflows, and resilience patterns—and also built an internal ops dashboard that became the default tool for on-call incident reviews.”

Samuel Ehrenstein

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Mid-level Computer Vision & ML Researcher specializing in medical imaging and 3D vision

Chapel Hill, NC4y exp

“PhD (CS) candidate with hands-on autonomy and robotics experience: improved safety-critical behavior for Kodiak’s self-driving 18-wheeler trucks, increasing overtaking clearance by ~2 feet and reducing safety alerts. Also debugged a C++ SLAM system for 3D colon reconstruction and built a low-budget distributed simulation cluster using Linux, Docker, and Python, plus implemented multi-hop SSH-based comms for an underwater robotics competition minibot.”

“Zero Trust security product lead focused on UI/API delivery, stability, and customer adoption at enterprise scale, including deployments serving 1200 customers. Stands out for hands-on production debugging across the full stack, customer-facing incident ownership, and a pragmatic approach to turning failures into automated regression coverage.”

“Built and owned an end-to-end agentic RAG chatbot platform for Baptist Health that helped clinicians access policy and clinical documents faster, reducing manual lookup by 80% and delivering about $2M in annual savings. Brings strong healthcare GenAI production experience, including HIPAA-aligned governance, PHI redaction, observability, evaluation, and scalable Python/Kubernetes deployment practices.”

“Robotics ML/software engineer focused on Vision-Language-Action control for 7-DoF robots, replacing tokenized action decoding with continuous regression heads (including a logit-weighted expectation approach) to improve stability and real-time behavior. Strong in ROS1/ROS2 systems integration and debugging closed-loop manipulation issues via latency instrumentation, QoS-aware distributed messaging, and sim-to-real validation using Gazebo/Unity, Docker, and CI pipelines.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based LLM Q&A and summarization platform for internal documents, emphasizing grounded answers with structured prompting and citations to reduce hallucinations. Experienced orchestrating end-to-end LLM workflows with LangChain plus cloud pipelines (Azure ML Pipelines, AWS), and runs iterative evaluation using both metrics (accuracy/hallucination/latency/cost) and real user feedback to drive reliability.”

“AI engineer building and deploying deep-learning-based optimization/control systems for petrochemical plants, with a focus on maintaining operational stability under real-world constraints. Core contributor to model and inference design; introduced a stability-focused non-linear objective and sped up second-layer optimization via on-the-fly first-order approximations. Experienced using Kubernetes for end-to-end testing and effective in translating customer expectations into measurable evaluation plots for non-technical stakeholders.”

“Built a production AI agent for phishing fraud detection using n8n orchestration, Claude (Sonnet 4/MCP), VirusTotal, and JavaScript formatting to generate and deliver email-based reports via Gmail. Has experience evaluating detection accuracy against known examples, iterating via feedback, and presenting AI solutions to non-technical teams.”

“ML/LLM practitioner with experience at Truveta building an LLM-based evaluation framework; identified non-overlapping evaluator failure modes and proposed an ensemble approach that enabled scaling training data and drove ~5% performance gains across multiple internal projects. Strong focus on robustness to distribution shift (augmentation/domain adaptation/meta-learning) and production reliability via monitoring, drift detection, and safe fallbacks.”

Syed Daim Ali

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Intern Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and AI platforms

Sunnyvale, CA0y exp

“Systems-focused engineer who built an OS kernel with multithreading, priority scheduling, system calls, and synchronization primitives, and debugged race conditions end-to-end. While not yet hands-on with ROS/SLAM, they clearly connect low-level concurrency and scheduling decisions to deterministic, reliable robotics-style real-time workloads.”