Vetted Python Professionals

Aakash Khepar

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Mid-level Full-Stack AI Engineer specializing in agentic AI systems

Tempe, AZ4y exp

“AI/full-stack builder with hands-on experience shipping healthcare, career-tech, nonprofit, and fintech products, spanning speech AI, browser extensions, agentic RAG systems, and enterprise ML monitoring. Stands out for combining strong technical depth with measurable outcomes, including reducing clinical call WER from 26% to 3%, building safe tool-using agents with rollback/RBAC, and delivering zero-to-one multi-tenant platform features in ambiguous environments.”

“AI product and growth leader with experience spanning Resonate, P&G, and Appian. Stands out for rapidly reshaping roadmaps based on customer insight, prototyping AI capabilities in hours, and using compliance-first execution to deliver products at record speed—including a P&G launch reportedly completed in the fastest timeframe in company history.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer with experience at Walmart Global Tech who built and deployed an end-to-end consumer quiz product independently, covering frontend flow, Spring Boot APIs, PostgreSQL, AWS infrastructure, and CI/CD. Not a native iOS or React mobile specialist, but stands out for taking products from idea to production and emphasizing maintainability, reliability, and extensibility.”

Suman Madipeddi

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Junior AI/ML Engineer specializing in agentic AI, RAG, and voice systems

San Jose, CA2y exp

“Full-stack AI product engineer who has owned production-grade document intelligence and agent systems at meaningful scale, including a copilot used by 10,000+ users and 1M+ queries. Particularly strong in combining React/TypeScript product work with Python/FastAPI, RAG, knowledge graphs, observability, and performance tuning—cutting latency from ~7 seconds to 0.5 milliseconds while improving trust through citations and human review.”

“Engineering executive and former CTO with a rare blend of enterprise healthcare AI leadership and consumer AI product building for neurodiverse users. Led Adoreal’s U.S. expansion, scaled a multidisciplinary org by about 60%, modernized platform architecture with Kubernetes and CI/CD, and consistently ties engineering and AI decisions to trust, onboarding efficiency, and revenue outcomes.”

“Software engineer with Intuit experience shipping an end-to-end real-time financial insights product on AWS, using event-driven architecture with Kafka and Spark Streaming to process millions of records with low latency. Also delivers customer-facing React + TypeScript dashboards and has hands-on production operations experience, including resolving a database scaling incident via read replicas, query tuning, and connection pooling.”

“Automotive software and OTA/infotainment platform leader who has repeatedly built new lines of business as an intrapreneur—most recently taking an infotainment app marketplace from concept to production in <7 months with $3M seed funding and delivering ~$200M ROI while scaling the team from 0 to 90. Deep hands-on experience solving OTA fragmentation across ECUs/telematics and multiple OS/backends, with 18 patent processes submitted; exploring an AI-driven platform to automate OTA software qualification and cut release cycles from 9–18 months to ~2 weeks.”

“Backend/ML engineer who built production LLM-enabled systems at PRGX, including an interpretable contract opportunity scoring engine (Bradley-Terry pairwise ranking) that reached 0.82 weighted Spearman agreement with SME auditors and was integrated into workflow. Also built a Duke student advisor chatbot and hardened it for real-world reliability/security with schema-driven tool calling, normalization, and off-domain defenses; led staged production rollouts with shadow testing and achieved 0.90 F1 on a new extraction field before shipping.”

“Backend engineer with Citigroup experience who built and evolved a self-service user provisioning/identity backend, cutting onboarding from 45 minutes to under 2 minutes. Demonstrates strong production-grade integration and reliability practices (isolated integrations, retries, rollback logic, heavy logging) plus secure API development in Python/FastAPI with OAuth scope-based authorization and incremental, low-risk rollout strategies.”

“Worked on Sophia the humanoid robot, building production animation pipelines and enhancing human-robot interaction via perception and behavior orchestration. Experienced in stabilizing noisy perception-driven state transitions and designing smooth, user-centered behavioral flows, collaborating closely with artists, animators, and experience designers to translate creative intent into measurable system behavior.”

“Built and owned Prism, a real-time collaborative coding platform, making key architectural choices around deterministic event ordering and a backend source-of-truth to improve trust under concurrent edits. Also created a Python-based bug analysis and test automation suite that became part of standard engineering workflow, cutting debugging time by ~95% while improving fault detection coverage.”

“Growth creative/performance marketer currently at Walmart who led Walmart+ checkout announcement/enhancement campaigns end-to-end, combining user behavior analysis, customer feedback, and multi-variant A/B testing. Reported measurable funnel and revenue-adjacent lifts (faster checkout, nearly doubled first-time completion, +18% repeat visits, +$1.2 basket size) and uses Power BI plus platform analytics (Meta/TikTok/YouTube) to drive rapid, modular creative iteration with creators and editors.”

“Robotics researcher/team lead from ASU’s Robotics and Intelligent Systems Lab who rebuilt a failing soft-robotics test bench into a modular 8-Arduino, ROS 2/Python-controlled data-collection system, doubling sampling performance and dramatically reducing downtime. Currently doing thesis work on physics-informed neural network (PIRNN/RNN) modeling of a pneumatically actuated soft robotic arm using experimentally collected trajectory/pressure data.”

“AI/ML practitioner with Northern Trust experience who has shipped production LLM systems (internal support assistant) using RAG, vector databases, orchestration (LangChain/custom pipelines), and rigorous monitoring/feedback loops. Also built AI-driven fraud detection/risk monitoring solutions in a regulated financial environment, emphasizing explainability (SHAP), audit readiness, and stakeholder trust through dashboards and clear communication.”

“Backend engineer who built a Logistics-as-a-Service platform in Go, proactively refactoring a monolithic REST service into gRPC microservices to improve performance and maintainability. Led a 3-person team with disciplined code reviews, Dockerized DB migrations, and a canary-style rollout (5% traffic) monitored for latency and failures; also implemented JWT/OAuth2 RBAC and production-minded edge-case handling in an ordering system.”

“At JP Morgan Chase, built and deployed a production LLM-powered RAG knowledge assistant to help fraud investigators and risk analysts quickly navigate regulatory updates and internal policies, reducing investigation delays and compliance risk. Strong focus on secure retrieval (RBAC filtering), reliability (layered testing + observability), and production constraints (latency/SLOs), with Airflow-orchestrated, auditable ML pipelines.”

“LLM/RAG engineer who has built and deployed corporate-scale systems at Novartis and Johnson & Johnson, including a healthcare AI agent that generates day-to-day treatment schedules. Recently handled a high-stakes safety incident (LLM suggesting overdose) by tightening model instructions and validating with ~200 test prompts, and has strong end-to-end data/embedding/vector DB pipeline experience (PySpark, FAISS, Pinecone) plus SME-in-the-loop evaluation (RLHF).”

“Built and deployed a production GenAI internal support agent at Bank of America (“Ask GPS/AskGPT”) using RAG on Azure, focused on reducing escalations and improving response quality for repetitive knowledge-based queries. Demonstrates strong production LLM engineering: custom LangChain orchestration, retrieval tuning to reduce hallucinations, rigorous offline/online evaluation, and model benchmarking with dynamic routing (e.g., GPT-4 vs Claude).”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG document automation system for business documents (contracts/claim forms) that extracts schema-validated JSON, generates grounded summaries/Q&A, and integrates into transaction systems via APIs. Emphasizes real-world reliability: hallucination controls, layout-aware parsing with OCR fallback, Step Functions-orchestrated workflows with retries/timeouts, and human-in-the-loop review designed in close partnership with operations and claims stakeholders.”

“At Evoke Tech, built a production LLM "Testbench" to quickly compare LLMs/embedding models and RAG strategies (semantic, hybrid BM25, re-ranking, HyDE, query expansion) to select optimal architectures for different client needs. Also developed a multi-agent, multimodal (voice/text) RAG system for live catalog retrieval and safe product recommendations using LangGraph/LangChain with LangSmith monitoring, and regularly translated PM/UX goals into concrete agent behaviors via demos and flowcharts.”

“AI Product Manager who also operates as a product marketer/CRM lifecycle lead, focused on behavior-driven onboarding and retention. Has delivered measurable growth through segmentation, multi-channel lifecycle programs, and experimentation (e.g., activation +23%, TTFV -30%, retention +14%), and led a cross-functional chatbot integration that improved course completion (+23%) while reducing refunds (-15%).”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered personalized client engagement assistant in the financial domain, balancing real-time recommendations with strict privacy/compliance requirements. Demonstrates strong MLOps/LLMOps depth (Airflow + MLflow, containerized microservices, drift monitoring) and a privacy-by-design approach validated in collaboration with risk and compliance teams.”

“Amazon engineer who built a production AI agent platform (Python/AWS Strands on Bedrock) that lets teams create tool-using, multi-agent workflows—e.g., agents that auto-triage and resolve customer support tickets by reading internal documentation and collaborating with a research agent. Previously worked in Deloitte on IAM using Ping Identity/Ping DaVinci orchestration, and applies orchestration thinking plus structured evaluation (LLM-as-judge, surveys, automated tests) to improve agent reliability.”

“Full-stack developer (Energywell) who led an internal admin dashboard end-to-end using React/Redux and a Go microservice, emphasizing performance (reduced calls, preload data) and maintainable architecture (modularity, refactoring, PR reviews). Also shipped a Redis-based caching whitelist feature in a fast-paced environment and helped implement a responsive, brand-configurable onboarding/signup frontend.”