Vetted PySpark Professionals

“Backend-focused engineer with experience spanning research and healthcare: owned a Python/SQL data pipeline that transformed vulnerability-fix code data from SQLite into model-ready JSON for LLM analysis. Also deployed Dockerized Spring Boot microservices to Kubernetes with Jenkins CI/CD and built Kafka-based real-time event streaming (appointment/report events) with idempotent consumers to avoid duplicate processing.”

“Backend/platform engineer who built an LLM-driven QA automation system (“mockmouse”) using a Flask orchestration microservice, Socket.IO real-time updates, Redis caching, and strict Pydantic schemas to turn prompts into reliable action graphs and automated browser tests. Has hands-on Kubernetes delivery experience (Docker/Helm/Jenkins) and has supported large migration programs, validating ETL cutovers with 1M+ synthetic records and rigorous output comparisons; also built event-driven monitoring/anomaly detection streaming into Grafana.”

Akash Mishra

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in ETL pipelines on GCP

Miami, Florida5y exp

“Full-stack engineer from Larix Technologies who led a Next.js migration feature: an internal real-time workflow status dashboard built with App Router/TypeScript using server components for initial render and client polling for live updates. Demonstrates strong post-launch ownership—monitoring latency/error rates, adding caching and payload reductions, and optimizing Postgres queries/indexes—plus experience building durable RabbitMQ-based message routing workflows with idempotency, retries, and dead-letter queues.”

Dhairya Shah

Screened

Entry-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in computer vision and systems

Buffalo, NY1y exp

“ML-focused builder who has shipped an end-to-end income-class prediction product: built the data pipeline, trained models, deployed via Streamlit with a live UI, and tracked success via accuracy (84%), adoption, and latency. Demonstrates strong practical MLOps instincts (Docker/Streamlit Cloud, logging/monitoring, caching) and data engineering reliability patterns (schema checks, idempotency, retries, backfills) while iterating quickly in ambiguous, solo-project environments.”

“Data engineer focused on building reliable, production-grade pipelines and data services end-to-end, including a 50+ GB/day pipeline ingesting from APIs/files into Snowflake with PySpark/SQL transformations. Emphasizes strong data quality controls, monitoring/retries, and performance optimization, and has also shipped a Python data API with caching and backward-compatible versioning.”

“ML/NLP engineer who has built production systems end-to-end: a real-time recommendation platform (100k+ profiles) using BERTopic-style clustering and a RAG-based news summarization/recommendation stack with ChromaDB. Strong focus on scaling and reliability (GPU batching, Redis caching, Kafka ingestion, Docker/Kubernetes, Prometheus/Grafana) and on maintaining model quality over time via drift monitoring and retraining triggers.”

SaiDheerajReddy Gadikota

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in agentic systems and enterprise LLM platforms

USA, USA4y exp

“Current AI engineer at a startup who has spent the last year architecting multi-agent systems for software development workflows. Stands out for combining LLM speed with engineering discipline—using tools like Pydantic, LangGraph, and LangChain to build reliable, production-ready agent workflows with validation, routing, and retry logic.”

“Built a university campus assistant chatbot (BabyJ/WWJ) using RAG and agentic routing with a FastAPI + React stack and JWT auth, focusing heavily on production concerns like latency and reliability. Uses techniques like speculative prefetching, smart intent routing, and rigorous eval/testing (golden sets, regression, edge cases) while collaborating closely with campus admin/advising teams to iterate based on real user feedback.”

“LLM/RAG engineer at Connex AI who built and deployed a production healthcare agent to extract clinical insights from medical data/notes. Strong focus on real-world reliability—hallucination mitigation (citations, schema validation, confidence thresholds, rejection logic), custom LangChain orchestration (query rewriting, fallback paths), and production evaluation/observability—while collaborating closely with clinical SMEs to ensure clinical fit and time savings.”

“Built and shipped production LLM-driven pipelines for clinical data processing, turning semi-structured inputs into validated structured outputs for downstream analytics. Emphasizes predictability and safety via strict JSON schemas, state-machine orchestration, backend-controlled tool calling, and robust fallbacks (rule-based checks/manual review) plus monitoring and offline/online evaluation loops; also has experience hardening workflows against messy ERP/finance data with idempotency and state tracking.”

Sai Vamsee Bandaru

Screened

Entry-level Data Analyst and AI Engineer specializing in machine learning and LLM systems

New York, NY1y exp

“Founding-engineer-oriented full-stack product engineer who built an AI tutor system end-to-end, spanning React UI, FastAPI backend, retrieval/LLM pipelines, and Postgres optimization. Stands out for combining product thinking with deep systems work: improving onboarding and activation, shipping quickly with beta users, and abstracting reusable retrieval infrastructure for multiple use cases.”

“Backend/ML engineering candidate focused on fintech automation who architected a zero-to-one agentic/LLM-enabled system to reconcile messy financial documents and bank transactions, reporting ~40% operational efficiency gains. Experienced migrating monoliths to event-driven microservices with incremental rollout via reverse proxy, and implementing production-grade security (OAuth2/JWT, RBAC, Supabase RLS) plus resilience patterns (timeouts/retries under concurrency).”