Vetted Predictive Modeling Professionals

Kamilah Patterson

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Senior HR Business Partner specializing in talent strategy and workforce analytics

Brooklyn, New York11y exp

“HR Business Partner with GroupM experience supporting multiple mergers, building and transitioning Analytics/Programmatic/Account Management teams through hands-on job architecture, benchmarking, and performance management. Uses HR analytics (including an Excel-based retention model with visual reporting) and cross-functional partnership with IT to reduce disruption and improve retention during restructuring and major policy changes like return-to-office.”

“AI/ML engineer with CVS Health experience deploying production LLM systems in regulated healthcare settings, including a large-scale RAG solution (1M+ documents) built for compliance-grade, auditable policy/regulatory Q&A with strong anti-hallucination controls. Also delivered an NLP summarization system for physician notes/case narratives by partnering closely with non-technical care operations stakeholders and iterating via prototypes, dashboards, and feedback loops.”

“Early-career engineer with Charles Schwab internship experience building and testing production-bound internal APIs, emphasizing architectural fit, stakeholder alignment, and systematic debugging. Also has academic Python/ML experience analyzing Oura Ring biometric data and exposure to multi-agent robotics through coursework and RoboSub.”

“AI/ML Engineer who built a production RAG-based LLM system for insurance policy documents, turning thousands of messy PDFs into a searchable index using LangChain, Azure AI Search vectors, hybrid retrieval, and FastAPI. Strong focus on evaluation (MRR/precision@k/recall@k, REGAS) and performance optimization (vLLM), with prior clinical NLP experience using BERT-based NER validated on ground-truth datasets.”

“University hackathon finalist (2nd place) who built CareerSpark, a production-style multi-agent career guidance app in 24 hours using a hierarchical debate architecture with a moderator/judge agent. Has startup internship experience at LiveSpheres AI using LangChain for multi-LLM orchestration, and demonstrates a structured approach to testing/evaluation (golden sets, integration sims, latency/accuracy KPIs) plus strong non-technical stakeholder communication.”

“Recent J&J intern who built a conversational RAG agent and led a shift from a monolithic model to a modular RAG workflow, cutting response time from several days to under a second by tackling data fragmentation, context retention, and embedding/latency optimization. Also worked on a large (7B-parameter) multimodal VQA pipeline for healthcare research and stays current via NeurIPS/ICLR and open-source contributions.”

“Data/ML practitioner with experience at Airtel and Lincoln Financial delivering measurable business outcomes: improved retention 15% via NLP sentiment analysis and cut response time ~25% using sentence-BERT + FAISS semantic linking. Strong in data quality/identity resolution (SQL + fuzzy matching) and in building production-grade Python workflows orchestrated with Airflow/AWS Glue, including validation and dashboard integration in Power BI.”

“Serial entrepreneur since leaving corporate in 2009, working largely for equity on multiple startups. Building (1) academically rigorous, anti-overfitting quant/backtesting tools for retail investors (with potential applicability to smaller hedge funds lacking quant staff) and (2) a partner-led “social-as-a-service” platform for verticals like real estate/PropTech (including FSBO use cases) focused on first-party data capture vs. big tech.”

“Data engineer in a banking context who has owned end-to-end Azure lakehouse pipelines ingesting financial/vendor data from APIs, Azure SQL, and flat files into Databricks/Delta (bronze-silver-gold). Emphasizes production reliability via schema-drift validation, data quality controls, monitoring/alerting, retries/checkpointing, and Spark/Delta performance tuning, with outputs served to BI/reporting teams (e.g., Tableau).”

Chandan Chalumuri

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in ML, NLP, and Generative AI

Tempe, AZ4y exp

“Data engineering / ML practitioner with experience at MetLife building transformer-based sentiment analysis over large unstructured datasets and productionizing pipelines with Airflow/PySpark/Hadoop (reported 52% efficiency gain). Also implemented embedding-based semantic search using Pinecone/Weaviate to improve retrieval relevance and enable RAG for customer support and document matching use cases.”

Phani K

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI, NLP, and healthcare-financial ML

Terre Haute, IN4y exp

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on experience shipping healthcare AI systems, including an oncology risk prediction platform and RAG-based clinical decision support tools. Stands out for combining clinical domain context with strong production engineering across Spark, FastAPI, AWS SageMaker, monitoring, evaluation, and safety guardrails.”

Harika M

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in FinTech and enterprise platforms

Plano, TX6y exp

“Engineer with a pragmatic, production-focused approach to AI-assisted development, using tools like Copilot and ChatGPT to accelerate coding while maintaining strict validation for correctness, security, and performance. Particularly notable for building a multi-agent incident-resolution workflow for a financial platform, with specialized agents for log analysis, root cause identification, fix suggestions, and test generation.”

KUSHWANTH MUTHYALA

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in FinTech

Irvine, CA6y exp

“Engineer with hands-on experience building and deploying end-to-end ML inference pipelines using SageMaker, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, and Kafka-backed real-time data systems. Brings a strong distributed-systems mindset and has already operated in a tech lead capacity through architecture decisions, code reviews, and cross-functional coordination. Especially compelling for teams building production AI/ML platforms that need both practical execution and sound engineering judgment.”

“Robotics software/ML engineer who built perception and navigation-related ML systems for autonomous supermarket carts, including object detection, shelf recognition, and obstacle avoidance. Strong ROS/ROS2 practitioner who optimized real-time performance (reported 50% latency reduction) and deployed containerized ROS/ML pipelines at scale using Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD.”

“Data scientist with hands-on experience building an XGBoost-based customer segmentation/churn risk scoring model used by sales and marketing teams. Emphasizes production-grade practices—efficient SQL for large-scale data pulls, rigorous data validation/testing, and scalable, modular Python code designed to support multiple customer types.”

Yukta Chikate

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in safety-critical and uncertainty-aware ML systems

Brooklyn, NY5y exp

“Built and productionized an LLM-powered assistant for company documents and support questions, focused on reducing time spent searching PDFs/policies/tickets while preventing hallucinations by grounding answers in approved sources. Demonstrates strong production engineering (Kubernetes/orchestration, caching, monitoring, fallbacks) plus security-minded permissioning and close collaboration with operations/support stakeholders.”

Muaaz Syed

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in NLP and conversational AI

Richardson, TX4y exp

“ML/NLP engineer focused on real-time IT ops analytics, building a predictive maintenance/anomaly detection platform end-to-end (multi-source ETL, streaming, modeling, and production deployment on GCP/Vertex AI). Uses deep learning (LSTMs, autoencoders/VAEs) plus embeddings (SentenceBERT) and vector search to improve incident correlation and search, citing ~40% reduction in duplicate alert noise.”

Ojasmitha Pedirappagari

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and agentic platforms

Jersey City, NJ5y exp

“Built and shipped a production RAG-based assistant that lets parents ask natural-language questions about their child’s learning progress, using pgvector retrieval (child-id filtered) and Redis caching to hit ~180ms latency. Implemented real-world guardrails and compliance (Llama Guard, COPPA, retrieval thresholds, fallbacks) with 99.5% uptime, and ran human-in-the-loop eval loops that improved satisfaction from 3.8 to 4.2 while serving 60k+ monthly users and reducing costs significantly.”

Ryan Echols

Screened

Senior Workforce Analytics & WFM Leader specializing in contact center operations

Marietta, GA8y exp

“Operations-focused team lead currently managing 20 coordinators, with strong workforce management experience spanning forecasting, scheduling, KPI/staffing reporting, and executive-facing data presentations. Led a cross-functional Salesforce implementation and redesigned forecasting/workflow to support a newly created internal-promotion department, improving flexibility in coverage planning.”

“Worked on industrial pump analytics at SitePro, where they built an anomaly detector using messy sensor and pump data and used historical failure and maintenance cost analysis to make the business case to stakeholders. They combine SQL/Python data preparation with practical stakeholder communication around metrics like churn and operational impact.”

Vincent Osere

Screened

Senior Operations Analyst specializing in business intelligence and financial services

Massachusetts, USA15y exp

“Analytics-focused candidate with hands-on experience turning messy datasets into reporting-ready outputs using SQL, building reproducible Python workflows, and operationalizing metrics in R Shiny dashboards. They stand out for combining structured data analysis with NLP and segmentation in marketplace-style datasets such as Airbnb, real estate, and sports salary data to drive pricing, engagement, and demand insights.”

“Product leader with experience modernizing and merging complex B2B platforms in industrial, facilities, and logistics contexts. Notably led the integration of Smartbin and WasteForce into a single Contelligent platform with no customer attrition, and has shipped AI-informed IoT products that made building optimization more accessible to non-analytical users.”

“BNY Mellon engineer who has built and operated production AI systems end-to-end: a LangChain/Pinecone RAG platform scaled via FastAPI + Kubernetes to 1000 RPM with 99.9% uptime, supported by monitoring and data-drift detection. Also deep in data/infra orchestration (Airflow, Dagster, Terraform on AWS/EMR/EC2), processing 500GB+ daily and delivering measurable reliability and performance gains, plus strong compliance-facing model explainability using SHAP and Tableau.”