Vetted Predictive Modeling Professionals

Mounika Nadendla

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Data Engineer specializing in cloud data platforms and real-time streaming

5y exp

“Data engineer focused on building reliable, production-grade data systems end-to-end: batch and real-time pipelines (Airflow/Kafka/Spark) with strong data quality, monitoring/alerting, and incident response. Has experience integrating external API/web data with retries, throttling, and schema-change handling, and serving curated datasets to analytics (Power BI) and backend consumers with performance optimizations like Redis caching.”

Rachel Downey

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-Level Game Designer specializing in systems and economy design

Livermore, California4y exp

“Game economy/progression designer with hands-on ownership of end-to-end systems and live-ops tuning on major mobile titles (Star Trek Fleet Command, Marvel Contest of Champions). Builds spreadsheet-based simulations and telemetry-driven tuning loops to prevent inflation and reduce progression friction, including a multi-iteration optimization that lifted D7 retention ~7% while maintaining monetization targets.”

“Repeat early-stage startup CTO/first engineer who helped take Vettery from 0 to a $100M+ exit. Led product-oriented engineering with heavy investment in data science/ML, including a recommendations system and candidate evaluation model (90%+ predictive effectiveness), and scaled the modeling stack using parallel processing and Apache Airflow.”

“ML/AI practitioner in healthcare (Syneos Health) who has deployed production clinical NLP and risk models. Built a BERT-based physician-note information extraction system on Docker + AWS SageMaker (reported ~42% retrieval improvement) and automated retraining/deployment with Airflow and drift detection, while partnering closely with clinicians to drive adoption (reported ~18% readmission reduction).”

“Built and deployed a GPT-4-powered medical assistant for clinical staff to reduce time spent searching guidelines and EHR information, with a strong emphasis on safety and compliance. Uses strict RAG, confidence thresholds, and fallback behaviors to prevent hallucinations, and runs production-grade workflows orchestrated with LangChain/LangGraph plus Docker/Kubernetes/MLflow and monitoring for reliability and cost.”

“Built a production RAG-based “unified assistant” that consolidates siloed company documents into a single chatbot while enforcing fine-grained access control via RBAC/metadata filtering with OAuth2/JWT. Experienced orchestrating LLM workflows with LangChain/LangGraph + FastAPI (async + caching) and measuring performance via retrieval accuracy and response-time SLAs. Also delivered a churn analytics solution with dashboards and automated retention campaigns using n8n.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based document Q&A system on Azure OpenAI to help business teams search thousands of PDFs/Word files, using Qdrant vector search, MongoDB, and a Flask API. Demonstrates strong production engineering (streaming large-file ingestion, parallel preprocessing, monitoring/retries) plus systematic prompt/embedding/chunking experimentation to improve accuracy and reduce hallucinations, and has hands-on orchestration experience with ADF/Airflow/Databricks/Synapse.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM system that scraped Google Maps menu photos, extracted structured prices via OpenAI, and cross-validated them against website-scraped data to automate data-quality verification at scale (replacing costly manual contractor checks). Demonstrates strong reliability instincts—precision-first prompting, output gating with image-quality metadata, and fuzzy matching/RAG techniques—plus solid orchestration (Dagster/Airflow) and observability (Sentry, Prometheus/Grafana).”

“Customer-facing implementation/security-focused professional with experience at Freshworks and IMImobile (Cisco), advising enterprise customers on app security for CRM/ITSM and sensitive/PII workflows. Has led threat-model-driven remediation for API/RBAC/token risks and troubleshot complex cloud integration incidents (token expiry + load balancer misrouting) using logs/metrics/tracing, escalating with clear technical reports to accelerate engineering fixes.”

Cary Burdick

Screened

Senior Data Scientist specializing in data engineering and analytics

Chicago, IL6y exp

“Data/NLP practitioner with experience in both financial services (Truist) and government (USDA), including an NLP-driven analysis of EU regulations to anticipate US regulatory focus and a major redesign/cleaning of complex pathogen lab-test public datasets. Built production data-quality pipelines with Dagster, Pandera, and Azure Synapse, and is comfortable validating hypotheses with historical backtesting and SME-driven quality controls.”

Hsi-Chun Wang

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in LLM development and scalable ML pipelines

Remote4y exp

“Built and deployed production LLM pipelines for evidence-based scoring in two domains: biomedical literature mining (scoring ~2700 drug compounds vs gene targets/mechanisms) and long-horizon news analytics (35 years of Chinese articles). Emphasizes reliability at scale (retries/checkpointing/validation), rigorous empirical model benchmarking (GPT-4o/mini/5), and translating results into stakeholder-friendly visual narratives.”

Sundarajan Swaminathan

Screened

Senior Product Marketing Leader specializing in GTM strategy and RevOps analytics

Dallas, TX7y exp

“Growth creative/performance marketer from BYJU'S (India) who runs disciplined creative experimentation across Meta, TikTok, and YouTube. Notably shifted messaging from feature-led to outcome/testimonial-led creative, delivering CPA down 27%, ROAS up 35%, and +11% trial-to-paid conversion, and has experience leading a small creative pod (editors + writer) with a rapid-iteration production system.”

Akshay Danthi

Screened

Senior AI Engineer specializing in production GenAI systems

San Francisco, CA8y exp

“AI engineer who has shipped production LLM systems end-to-end, including a natural-language-to-SQL analytics copilot for career advisors that achieved ~95% query success through schema grounding, access controls, and automated regression testing with golden queries. Also builds LangGraph-orchestrated multi-step agents (resume analysis, recommendations) and RAG pipelines (PDF ingestion + FAISS) and partners closely with non-technical users to drive adoption and trust.”

Ishwari Kulkarni

Screened

Intern IT & Data Analytics professional specializing in automation, cloud operations, and dashboards

Dallas, TX2y exp

“AppSec-focused engineer with experience spanning Accenture and a digital operations support internship, emphasizing secure SDLC and CI/CD security automation (SAST/DAST/SCA). Has hands-on troubleshooting experience using logs/metrics/APM traces (e.g., resolving DAST timeouts caused by rate limiting) and designs AWS/Kubernetes scanning integrations with least-privilege IAM, private networking, secrets management, and observability.”

Mahima Baddur

Screened

Mid-level Business Analyst specializing in data analytics and enterprise operations

5y exp

“Business/data analyst with Johnson & Johnson supply chain experience, focused on turning messy SAP, legacy, and Excel data into validated reporting datasets and Power BI dashboards. Stands out for combining SQL and Python automation with strong KPI design around inventory planning, inventory turnover, and demand analysis in a complex enterprise environment.”

“Analytics professional at TIAA with hands-on experience combining SQL, Python, and statistical modeling to unify complex marketing, product, finance, and customer datasets. Has worked on advisor-tool adoption analysis, 10-year wealth diagnostics, forecasting, cohort analysis, and escalation-risk modeling, with findings used by marketing and contact-center stakeholders.”