Vetted Pinecone Professionals

“Built and owned Alight's AI-powered Search Summary feature end-to-end, using a RAG pipeline with OpenSearch and Bedrock, and drove a 20% increase in user feedback scores. Stands out for bringing rigorous production evaluation to LLM systems via live LLM-as-a-judge monitoring, and for experience with advanced agentic architectures, hybrid search, and reranking at scale.”

Darshi Jain

Screened

Mid-level Customer Success Manager specializing in ads, product strategy, and analytics

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Revenue-focused seller with experience at Amazon and Vedanta, combining data-driven prospecting, account expansion, and GTM process building. Stands out for turning performance insights into repeatable growth motions—driving $3.1M annual revenue uplift and 40% format adoption at Amazon, while also building new-market playbooks from scratch in high-ambiguity industrial segments.”

Amit Dharam

Screened

Junior AI/ML Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and cloud deployment

Tempe, AZ3y exp

“Built multiple end-to-end automation and data systems, including an Accio RAG pipeline combining PDF parsing, FastAPI, Neo4j, and vector search, plus Selenium-based scraping for a virtual try-on product. Stands out for reliability-minded engineering: automated testing, structured logging, validation layers, and a data-driven approach to debugging flaky automation that improved CI pass rates to over 98%.”

“AI/backend engineer who has owned production applied-ML systems end to end, including a Jitsi meeting intelligence platform with custom RoBERTa boundary detection, LLM summarization, and automated retraining from user feedback. Also has healthcare AI experience building a diabetes medication titration system with strict validation, drift monitoring, and safety guardrails—showing both product speed and high-stakes engineering rigor.”

“AI/LLM engineer with strong healthcare domain depth who has shipped production-grade agents for care coordination and clinical workflow automation. Stands out for combining Knowledge Graph RAG, LangGraph orchestration, and rigorous eval/guardrail systems to improve reliability in high-stakes environments, with measurable gains in review time, hallucination reduction, latency, and clinician adoption.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer who has built AI-heavy systems spanning Next.js/TypeScript frontends, Python/FastAPI backends, queues, databases, and workflow infrastructure. Stands out for combining strong technical depth with UX instincts—improving trust in AI assistants, shipping ambiguous client features quickly, and creating reusable primitives for AI generation and analysis products.”

“Full-stack engineer with fintech/trading domain experience (Fidelity) and startup SaaS CRM/billing platform work (Zoho), building real-time portfolio analytics and trade-processing systems. Strong in microservices, event-driven architectures (Kafka/WebSockets), and AWS/Kubernetes operations with measurable performance gains (~34–35% latency reduction) and maintainability improvements (~40% faster deployments). Targeting a founding full-stack engineer role in NYC with meaningful equity.”

“Software engineer with strong end-to-end ownership across frontend, backend, data, and infrastructure, including real-time systems (Kafka/Postgres) and observability (Datadog). Built and productionized an AI-native RAG support assistant (OpenAI embeddings + Pinecone) with prompt/guardrail design, achieving 48% agent adoption and 30% faster responses. Experienced in legacy modernization and reliability work using feature flags, event/transaction replay, and rapid embedded delivery.”

“Built and shipped production LLM/RAG systems at Mayo Clinic, including a conversational AI assistant for patient pre-consultation and a clinical-trial matching tool for doctors. Implemented HIPAA-compliant de-identification and guardrails, plus real-time feedback logging and fine-tuning that improved response accuracy by 15% and reduced admin workload by 25%.”

Pavan Kumar Malasani

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in financial risk, fraud detection, and GenAI

Remote, USA4y exp

“GenAI/ML engineer in Citigroup’s finance environment who has deployed production RAG systems for investment banking under strict privacy and model-risk constraints. Built an internal-VPC Llama2 + Pinecone + LangChain solution with NER redaction and citation-based verification to prevent hallucinations, delivering major time savings, and also partnered with global finance executives to ship an AI early-warning indicator for treasury/liquidity risk.”

HEMANTH KUMAR KOTTAPALLI

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in GPU-accelerated LLMs and MLOps

GA, USA4y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered decision-support system for supply-chain planners that explains demand forecast changes using grounded retrieval from sales, promotion, inventory, and supplier data. Implemented strict anti-hallucination guardrails and latency optimizations, deployed as a real-time AWS API with monitoring, and reported ~15% forecast accuracy improvement and ~12% supply-chain risk reduction. Experienced orchestrating data/ML/LLM workflows with Airflow, LangChain/LangGraph-style patterns, and AWS Step Functions while partnering closely with non-technical business users via demos and example-based requirements.”

Sachin Reddy Kunta

Screened

Mid-Level Backend Software Engineer specializing in payments, fraud systems, and AI agent infrastructure

San Francisco, CA3y exp

“Early-career engineer who owned an end-to-end objective assessment/coding contest platform at an edtech startup, using Postgres + S3 and Redis (queues + ZSET) to decouple and scale code submission processing with worker sandboxes. Also implemented idempotency controls and set up monitoring and CI/CD while the rest of the team focused on curriculum.”

Atyab Hakeem

Screened

Junior Data Scientist / ML Engineer specializing in GenAI and computer vision

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Software engineer who built and deployed OddPulse, a multi-agent LLM-powered continuous financial auditing system aimed at reducing compliance penalties by catching issues before audit cycles. Experienced with TrueAI-based agent orchestration, Airflow on GCP batch workflows, and rigorous evaluation/benchmarking (hit rate/MRR, latency/TTFT, cost) alongside security controls for sensitive financial data.”

Pandari G

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in Generative AI and RAG systems

San Francisco, USA5y exp

“GenAI/LLM engineer with production deployments in both fintech and retail: built an AI-powered mortgage document analysis/automated underwriting pipeline at Fannie Mae (OCR + custom LLM) cutting underwriting review from 3–4 hours to under an hour with privacy-by-design controls. Also helped build Sephora’s GenAI product advisory bot using LangChain-orchestrated RAG (Azure GPT-4, Azure AI Search, MySQL HeatWave vector search), focusing on grounding, evaluation, and compliance-aware architecture choices.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on experience building production healthcare AI systems across predictive modeling and GenAI. They built an end-to-end patient risk prediction platform and a RAG-based clinical summarization feature, combining strong NLP/LLM skills with AWS deployment, monitoring, drift detection, and reusable Python service design to deliver measurable clinical and operational impact.”

“Backend/ML engineer who built and operated a production WhatsApp assistant end-to-end using a modern RAG stack, delivering >90% automation with sub-2-second latency. Shows strong depth in retrieval quality, observability, evaluation, and incident handling, and has also applied similar AI workflow patterns to a clinical diagnostic assistant processing medical PDFs.”

“AI/ML engineer with production experience across both classical ML and Generative AI, including a real-time banking fraud detection platform at Deloitte and a RAG-based cybersecurity threat analysis feature at Accenture. Stands out for owning systems end-to-end—from feature pipelines and model tuning through deployment, monitoring, retraining, and API/platform reliability—with measurable impact on fraud accuracy, false positives, and SOC analyst efficiency.”

“AI engineer and current tech lead building a RAG-based multi-agent QA platform for financial document analysis at significant scale (40,000-50,000 documents). They combine Python, CrewAI, FastAPI, Hugging Face embeddings, Pinecone, and AWS SageMaker to deliver retrieval, calculation, summarization, forecasting, and visualization workflows, while leading a small cross-functional team.”

“Software engineer with a recent pivot toward AI engineering, combining traditional full-stack web development with multi-agent AI application work using React, Flask, LangChain, and LangGraph. Has experience improving internal platform integrations, scaling production systems, and building revenue-impacting features such as an order tracking module credited with a 20% revenue increase.”

Harshal Sawant

Screened

Senior AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and MLOps on multi-cloud

8y exp

“Built and productionized a secure internal RAG-based AI assistant (LangChain/FastAPI/FAISS on GCP), tackling real-world issues like latency, retrieval speed, and hallucinations—delivering 25% faster retrieval and 99.9% uptime. Also implemented scalable, reliable ML retraining orchestration with AWS Step Functions/SageMaker/Lambda and partners closely with compliance analysts to iteratively refine prompts and outputs to meet governance standards.”