Vetted Pinecone Professionals

Kumar Manik

Screened

Intern AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, MLOps, and RAG systems

0y exp

“Built and shipped a production-grade RAG-powered news summarization and Q&A product, tackling real-world issues like retrieval drift, hallucinations, latency, and autoscaling deployment (Docker + FastAPI + Streamlit Cloud). Experienced in end-to-end ML/LLM workflow automation using Airflow, Kubeflow Pipelines, and MLflow, and has demonstrated business impact (40% inference precision improvement) through close collaboration with non-technical stakeholders at Evoastra Ventures.”

Rutvi Rathod

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI and web applications

San Jose, CA1y exp

“LLM/AI backend engineer with hands-on experience taking customer LLM prototypes into production using FastAPI, containerization, CI/CD, and OpenTelemetry-based observability. Demonstrated measurable impact by cutting LLM costs ~40% and reducing workflow errors ~50% through schema-enforced outputs, better tool definitions, retries, and prompt/model optimization; also supports pre-sales via technical discovery and rapid integration demos.”