Vetted Pinecone Professionals

“Founding engineer at a civic-tech startup (Barrow) who built and operated a Next.js/TypeScript product with map-based public reporting, including clustering and dynamic geospatial loading to improve UX and performance. Also implemented a location-aware RAG chatbot using Pinecone, web scraping/transcription, caching, and fallback web search, and owned post-launch observability plus scaling decisions (load balancing/horizontal scaling) based on API usage patterns.”

Anvith Reddy Dodda

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in GenAI, NLP, and MLOps

Remote, USA3y exp

“LLM/agentic-systems engineer with PayPal experience hardening an LLM-powered fraud support assistant from prototype to production, focusing on low-latency distributed architecture, rigorous evaluation/testing, and security/compliance. Comfortable in customer-facing and GTM contexts—runs technical demos/workshops, builds tailored pilots, and aligns sales/CS with engineering to close deals and drive adoption.”

Niteesh Ganipisetty

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI, NLP, and Computer Vision

Grand Rapids, MI4y exp

“Built an LLM-powered learning assistant (EduQuizPro/EduCrest Pro) that uses RAG over URLs and PDFs to generate quizzes, notes, and explanations for students/professors. Emphasizes production robustness—implemented dependency fallbacks (FAISS/Sentence Transformers/Gradio), CLI-safe mode, and NumPy-based indexing—along with a custom orchestration layer to keep multi-step AI workflows reliable.”

Aarushi Mahajan

Screened

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

New York, USA4y exp

“Internship experience shipping production AI systems: built an end-to-end RAG platform (Python/FastAPI + LangChain/LangGraph + vector search) to answer support questions from unstructured internal docs, with a strong focus on hallucination prevention through confidence gating and rigorous offline/online evaluation. Also delivered an AI-driven personalization/analytics feature using an unsupervised clustering pipeline, iterating with PMs to align statistically strong clusters with actionable business segmentation.”

“Player-coach engineering leader currently running a Solution Architecture/FDE team responsible for both presales and postsales delivery. Stands out for combining enterprise systems thinking with hands-on AI product work: they built configurable tooling that sped delivery by ~30%, drove a Kafka-to-Pulsar architecture shift for scale, and spent the last two years building LLM-based document extraction and RAG inference pipelines shaped directly by user feedback.”

“AI/ML engineer in financial services who has built both LLM-powered compliance tools and production fraud/credit risk systems at Ally Financial. Particularly strong in regulated, high-stakes environments: combines RAG/LLM architecture, rigorous evaluation, and human-in-the-loop governance, and also helped stand up a unified ML platform from scratch.”

“Frontend engineer with JP Morgan Chase experience building data-heavy React/TypeScript products, including an AI-powered enterprise search application and workforce analytics dashboards. Stands out for combining reusable component architecture, Redux-driven state flow, responsive CSS, and production performance tuning for large-scale internal enterprise tools.”

“At JP Morgan Chase, built and deployed a production LLM-powered RAG knowledge assistant to help fraud investigators and risk analysts quickly navigate regulatory updates and internal policies, reducing investigation delays and compliance risk. Strong focus on secure retrieval (RBAC filtering), reliability (layered testing + observability), and production constraints (latency/SLOs), with Airflow-orchestrated, auditable ML pipelines.”

“Built and deployed a production GenAI internal support agent at Bank of America (“Ask GPS/AskGPT”) using RAG on Azure, focused on reducing escalations and improving response quality for repetitive knowledge-based queries. Demonstrates strong production LLM engineering: custom LangChain orchestration, retrieval tuning to reduce hallucinations, rigorous offline/online evaluation, and model benchmarking with dynamic routing (e.g., GPT-4 vs Claude).”

“LLM/RAG engineer who has built and deployed corporate-scale systems at Novartis and Johnson & Johnson, including a healthcare AI agent that generates day-to-day treatment schedules. Recently handled a high-stakes safety incident (LLM suggesting overdose) by tightening model instructions and validating with ~200 test prompts, and has strong end-to-end data/embedding/vector DB pipeline experience (PySpark, FAISS, Pinecone) plus SME-in-the-loop evaluation (RLHF).”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered personalized client engagement assistant in the financial domain, balancing real-time recommendations with strict privacy/compliance requirements. Demonstrates strong MLOps/LLMOps depth (Airflow + MLflow, containerized microservices, drift monitoring) and a privacy-by-design approach validated in collaboration with risk and compliance teams.”

“Early-career (fresher) candidate who built and deployed a production AI medical document chatbot using a RAG architecture (LangChain + Hugging Face LLM + Pinecone) with a Flask backend on AWS EC2 via Docker. Has experience troubleshooting real deployment constraints (model dependencies, disk space, container stability) and setting up continuous-style evaluation with fixed query test sets tracking relevance, latency, and error rate.”

“Built and productionized an autonomous research agent (AutoGPT) in a Docker/Kubernetes environment with Pinecone-based long-term memory and custom Python tools for analysis, visualization, and report drafting. Implemented layered guardrails (prompt templates, automated validation, self-critique loops, and monitoring) and achieved ~25% reduction in manual report generation time while scaling the workflow to support multiple concurrent users.”

“AI/ML engineer with HP experience building and productionizing an LLM-powered document intelligence platform (LangChain + Pinecone) to deliver semantic search and contextual Q&A across millions of enterprise support documents. Demonstrates strong MLOps and scaling expertise (Airflow, Kubernetes autoscaling, Triton GPU inference, monitoring with Prometheus/W&B) plus a structured approach to evaluation (A/B tests, shadow deployments, failover) and effective collaboration with non-technical stakeholders.”

“GenAI/data engineering practitioner with production experience across Equinix, Optum, and Citibank—built an Azure OpenAI (GPT-4) + LangChain document intelligence platform processing 1.5M+ docs/month and a HIPAA-compliant Airflow healthcare pipeline handling 5M+ claims/day. Also delivered a real-time fraud detection + explainability system using LightGBM and a fine-tuned T5 NLG component, improving fraud accuracy by 15%+ while partnering closely with compliance stakeholders.”

“Built and deployed a secure, production LLM-based document summarization and risk-highlighting tool for financial auditors, running inside a private Azure environment to protect confidential data. Focused on reliability (hallucination mitigation via retrieval-based prompts and source citations) and validated performance through comparisons to auditor summaries plus a user pilot, cutting review time by about half.”

Pooja Dokuri

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI, RAG pipelines, and cloud MLOps

Remote, USA4y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM + vector search clinical decision support system at UnitedHealth Group, retrieving medical evidence and patient context in real time for prior authorization and risk scoring. Strong in end-to-end RAG architecture (Hugging Face embeddings, Pinecone/FAISS, SageMaker, Redis) plus orchestration (Airflow/Kubeflow) and rigorous evaluation/monitoring, with demonstrated ability to align solutions with clinical operations stakeholders.”

Ganesh Bandi

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and MLOps

USA6y exp

“LLM engineer who has deployed production RAG systems for regulated document QA (PDFs/knowledge bases), emphasizing grounded answers with citations, RBAC, monitoring, and continuous feedback. Demonstrates deep practical expertise in retrieval quality (semantic chunking, hybrid BM25+embeddings, re-ranking), reliability (guardrails, deterministic workflows), and measurable evaluation (golden sets, log replay, A/B tests) while partnering closely with compliance/operations stakeholders.”

Sragvi Vadali

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and real-time systems

2y exp

“Backend/AI engineer who built a real-time vector database system for high-frequency financial data using Kafka/Flink on Kubernetes, achieving sub-100ms similarity search at 10k+ concurrent load and resolving tricky duplication issues with idempotency/versioning. Also shipped an end-to-end LLM-based travel itinerary feature (profiling + prompt workflows + APIs) with a focus on quality consistency and low latency.”

“Built and shipped a production-grade agentic RAG system at CVS Health for patient adherence and medication recommendations, processing 20k+ patient records/day. Strong focus on real-world reliability: hybrid retrieval tuned with re-ranking (<400ms latency), strict JSON/schema validation and tool guardrails, and monitoring/drift detection that reduced MTTD from 6 days to 18 hours while improving recommendation accuracy (+8%) and cutting escalations (~23%).”

“ML/LLM systems engineer who has owned AI support automation products end-to-end, including ServiceNow-integrated incident routing, RAG-based resolution suggestion systems, and production stabilization. Stands out for combining hands-on platform work across PySpark, AWS Glue, FastAPI, Kubernetes, and Pinecone with measurable operational impact, including 30-35% MTTR reduction and 25-30% improvement in first-touch resolution.”

Chaitanya Prasad Reddy Narala

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in FinTech risk and fraud systems

USA4y exp

“Senior AI/ML engineer focused on production LLM systems, combining RAG, fine-tuning, distributed training, and AI safety to ship scalable real-time moderation and conversational AI platforms. Stands out for pairing deep AWS/Kubernetes MLOps expertise with measurable impact: 40% lower latency/cost, 30-50% fewer hallucinations, and major reliability gains through observability and automation.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on experience shipping regulated financial AI systems at JPMC and Capgemini, spanning credit risk, fraud detection, and generative AI assistants. Stands out for combining modern LLM/RAG architectures with strong MLOps, real-time infrastructure, and explainability/compliance practices, while delivering measurable business impact in latency, accuracy, cost, and risk reduction.”