Vetted pytest Professionals

“Data Scientist (2–3 years) at ZS Associates who has built and productionized agentic LLM systems, including a LangGraph-based multi-LLM prompt-optimization pipeline for entity extraction deployed as a Spring Boot microservice via Jenkins. Also built an Insightmate.ai chatbot and improved its RAG accuracy by diagnosing vector retrieval issues and implementing HyDE query expansion, while partnering with sales and pharma stakeholders to drive adoption (e.g., Zimmer Biomet platform migration into a multi-year partnership).”

“LLM/agent engineer who built a production LangGraph multi-agent orchestrator connecting GitHub and APM/observability signals with a chain-of-verification loop for root-cause analysis. Emphasizes pragmatic architecture (start simple with state summaries), performance tuning (async LLM calls, Docker), and rigorous evaluation (LLM-as-judge, adversarial testing, hallucination/instruction adherence metrics, tool-call tracing) while iterating with non-technical stakeholders via A/B testing.”

“Built a web-based online Sudoku game in JavaScript (multiplayer format supporting up to 6 teams with up to 5 players each) and demonstrates strong product/analytics orientation. Uses a KPI-driven approach (DAU/WAU, ARPU, session duration, LTV) and structured prioritization methods (MoSCoW, story mapping, cost of delay, DFV) to iterate toward targets; seeking a remote role around $70k/year.”

“Backend/platform engineer who owned a real-time customer analytics microservice stack in Python/FastAPI with Kafka streaming into PostgreSQL, including schema enforcement (Avro) and high-throughput optimizations. Strong Kubernetes + GitOps practitioner (EKS/GKE, Helm, Argo CD) who has handled CI/CD reliability issues with automated pre-deploy checks and rollbacks, and supported major migrations (on-prem to AWS; VM to EKS) with blue-green cutover planning.”

“Built a production, agentic multi-agent pharmaceutical intelligence system for US oncology (breast cancer) conference/news intelligence, automating MSL-style information gathering and summarization for pharma and healthcare stakeholders. Uses CrewAI + LangChain orchestration, custom scraping across ~15 pharma newsrooms, and a grounding-score evaluation approach (sentence transformers/cosine similarity) to mitigate hallucinations.”

“Backend/ML integration engineer with experience at Accenture and Walmart building Flask-based analytics and prediction APIs on PostgreSQL/MySQL. Strong focus on performance and scalability—uses precomputed aggregates, Redis caching, query tuning (indexes/partitioning/EXPLAIN), and async/background processing; also designs secure multi-tenant isolation with JWT and schema/db-per-tenant strategies.”

“Software engineer who built a reusable React component package (UI modules, auth helpers, API client wrappers) for an AI SaaS background-removal project, emphasizing performance (tree shaking/dynamic imports) and reliability (Jest + Storybook). Also delivered a unified REST API for Samsung Big Data Portal, resolving cross-team issues by standardizing schemas, improving validation/logging, and operating effectively amid shifting requirements.”

“Backend engineer with Citi Bank experience building and operating a Python/Flask Personal Finance Manager platform at 1M+ transactions/month. Strong in secure API design, database performance tuning (PostgreSQL/Azure SQL), and production reliability (92%+ test coverage, load testing, monitoring). Also integrated an NLP expense-tagging microservice with caching, background workers, autoscaling, and multi-tenant isolation via RLS and tenant-aware JWT.”

“AI/LLM engineer with production experience building secure, scalable compliance-focused generative AI systems (GPT-3/4, BERT) including RAG over internal regulatory document bases. Has delivered end-to-end pipelines on AWS with PySpark/Airflow/Kubernetes/FastAPI, emphasizing privacy controls, monitoring, and iterative evaluation (A/B testing). Also partnered closely with bank compliance officers using prototypes to refine NLP summarization/classification and reduce document review time.”

“Python backend engineer focused on real-time e-commerce analytics systems, building FastAPI + Kafka microservices with strong idempotent processing patterns (Postgres upserts, manual offsets, Redis caching). Has hands-on Kubernetes (EKS) and GitOps delivery with Argo CD/GitHub Actions, plus experience migrating containerized services from on-prem VMs to AWS using Terraform and blue-green cutovers.”

“Robotics software engineer who built a lightweight, ROS-free distributed control and telemetry stack for a Caltrans long-range culvert inspection robot. Strong in integrating heterogeneous hardware (UART motor controllers, Ethernet sensors, MJPEG cameras) and delivering real-time operator data via FastAPI/WebSockets, including reverse-engineering undocumented protocols and debugging network-induced latency with control-loop redesign.”

“Built an AI-driven insurance policy summarization platform at Marsh, taking it end-to-end from messy PDF ingestion/OCR and custom extraction through LLM fine-tuning and AWS SageMaker deployment. Delivered measurable impact (25% reduction in manual review time, 99% uptime) and demonstrated strong production MLOps/LLMOps practices with Airflow/Step Functions orchestration, rigorous evaluation (ROUGE + human review), and continuous monitoring for drift, latency, and hallucinations.”

“Backend engineer with experience at HSBC and Machinations who has delivered major production performance wins (cutting large trade-file upload times from ~13–15s to ~2s) using chunked parallel processing with strong reliability controls. Also built and shipped an applied AI RAG workflow using Langflow + Cohere embeddings + FAISS with hosted/local LLM fallbacks (Hugging Face, Ollama) and production-grade guardrails, observability, and evaluation.”

“AI engineer who shipped a production chat assistant for a storage company by building the underlying RAG-style knowledge base (document ingestion, chunking/embeddings, FAISS vector store) and an admin update interface to keep content current. Also has full-stack delivery experience (Python REST APIs + React/TypeScript UI) and AWS operations using Terraform/Jenkins, including handling a real production performance incident by optimizing DB queries and adding auto-scaling.”

“Software engineer with experience at Goldman Sachs and Arizona State University’s Learning Engineering Institute, shipping production backend systems including a vendor equities invoice-generation service designed for extensibility across multiple vendors. Built Django REST + PostgreSQL backends with JWT auth and Pytest coverage, and delivered data-heavy, responsive Angular dashboards; also has exposure to AWS EC2 deployments and GitLab CI/CD automation.”

“Backend/API engineer with ~4 years experience building production services in .NET Core/PostgreSQL/Redis/Docker and optimizing real-world latency issues (claims ~60% response-time improvement). Also built and owned an end-to-end RAG-based AI assistant using Python/FastAPI, OpenAI APIs, and Pinecone, plus agentic workflows with reliability guardrails (retries, confidence thresholds, monitoring). Currently pursuing a master’s degree and targeting a $150k base salary.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building FastAPI APIs secured with JWT and delivering AWS-based data processing solutions using Lambda and ECS Fargate. Has worked with Snowflake/third-party API sources and targets including DynamoDB, S3, RDS, Redshift, and Glue, and uses CloudWatch/X-Ray for monitoring and troubleshooting. Seeking ~$65/hr and is open to onsite work in Bethesda, MD.”