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Sampada shelke - Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP, LLMs, and applied research in La Jolla, CA

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP, LLMs, and applied research

La Jolla, CA3y exp
Statistical Visual Computing LabUC San Diego

New grad SDE (AI/ML) who built and deployed an LLM-based chatbot framework used across technology, military, and banking contexts, focusing on model selection tradeoffs (latency vs accuracy) through prototyping and benchmarking. Also built a multi-agent "eaterybot" using PyAutoGen/AutoGen with a manager agent orchestrating specialized agents, and emphasizes rigorous testing with adversarial/edge-case datasets and hallucination checks.

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Rishitha reddy katamareddy - Mid-level Generative AI & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in agentic LLM systems in USA

Mid-level Generative AI & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in agentic LLM systems

USA4y exp
OptumUniversity at Buffalo

Built and deployed a production agentic LLM knowledge assistant that answers complex questions over internal documents, APIs, and databases using a RAG architecture (FAISS/Pinecone) and LangChain/LangGraph orchestration. Emphasizes production-grade reliability and hallucination control through grounding, confidence thresholds, validation, retries/fallbacks, and full observability (logging/metrics/traces) with continuous evaluation and feedback loops.

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Hamidreza Lotfalizadeh - Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM agents, RAG, and ML systems in Bay Area, CA

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM agents, RAG, and ML systems

Bay Area, CA6y exp
Inertia SystemsPurdue University

At Inertia Systems, built a production LLM-powered ingestion pipeline that converts heterogeneous sources (PDF/JSON/IFC/SQL and financial tables) into standardized text and uses GraphRAG to construct a knowledge graph with verified dependency relationships. Also has hands-on HPC orchestration experience with SLURM, including creating a custom wrapper process manager to improve resource utilization under restrictive scheduling policies.

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Qichen Zhao - Intern Software Engineer specializing in Applied AI and LLM systems in Los Angeles, CA

Qichen Zhao

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Intern Software Engineer specializing in Applied AI and LLM systems

Los Angeles, CA0y exp
Search-AIUSC

Built and deployed a production RAG-based conversational "Yelp for AI tools" at Search-AI Inc., focused on personalized, explainable AI tool recommendations from thousands of options. Emphasizes production-grade reliability and performance (hybrid retrieval, async two-stage pipelines) and is also building a multi-agent orchestration layer (MAgIc) with typed memory and controlled coordination policies.

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Sumit Kothari - Junior AI/Full-Stack Engineer specializing in LLM apps and RAG systems in Los Angeles, CA

Sumit Kothari

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Junior AI/Full-Stack Engineer specializing in LLM apps and RAG systems

Los Angeles, CA1y exp
Sumeru IncUSC

AI engineer who built and shipped a production AI document-understanding/search system at Sumeru Inc, including a full RAG + LLMOps evaluation stack (MLflow, DeepEval, RAGAS) deployed on GCP. Also developed LangChain/LangGraph multi-agent workflows for UAV flight-log analysis and has experience presenting AI solutions to non-technical stakeholders and prospect clients to drive POCs.

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Kunal Kulkarni - Intern AI/ML Researcher specializing in computer vision and data engineering in Palo Alto, CA

Intern AI/ML Researcher specializing in computer vision and data engineering

Palo Alto, CA1y exp
TieSetUCLA

Built a production-oriented multimodal RAG "Fix Assistant" with FastAPI, Tavily search, BM25 + cross-encoder reranking, and a local Phi-3.5 model, emphasizing strict grounding and fallback/verification modes to prevent hallucinations. Also has hands-on federated learning experience using STADLE to orchestrate edge-node training and aggregation for EV telemetry data, plus experience communicating AI results to non-technical stakeholders (traffic RL/congestion outcomes).

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Fangjian Xiong - Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP and biomedical entity extraction in Boston, MA

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP and biomedical entity extraction

Boston, MA2y exp
Northeastern UniversityNortheastern University

Built and deployed a production LLM-powered biomedical knowledge extraction pipeline that processed millions of papers to identify tools/techniques and produce a unified knowledge graph via active learning NER (Prodigy + spaCy transformers) and entity linking (Bio-tools/Wikidata). Addressed hard NLP engineering challenges like WordPiece span-offset alignment and scaled inference over ~1.5M documents using batching/caching, containerized services, async workers, and orchestration with Prefect/Airflow.

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Sai Nekkanti - Mid-level Data Scientist / ML Engineer specializing in secure GenAI and financial compliance in Mount Laurel, NJ

Sai Nekkanti

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Mid-level Data Scientist / ML Engineer specializing in secure GenAI and financial compliance

Mount Laurel, NJ4y exp
MetLifeRowan University

Built a production "sentinel insight engine" to tame information overload from millions of product reviews and support transcripts, combining Azure OpenAI (GPT-3.5) zero-shot classification with a fine-tuned T5 summarizer to generate weekly actionable product insights. Demonstrated strong MLOps/production engineering by adding drift monitoring with embedding-based detection, integrating REST with legacy SOAP/queue-based CRM via FastAPI middleware, and scaling reliably on Kubernetes with HPA.

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Revanth Goli - Senior Data & Backend Engineer specializing in cloud data pipelines and LLM/RAG systems in Morrisville, NC

Revanth Goli

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Senior Data & Backend Engineer specializing in cloud data pipelines and LLM/RAG systems

Morrisville, NC6y exp
Syneos HealthUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham

Data engineer with end-to-end ownership of large-scale retail and clinical data ingestion/processing on AWS, including real-time streaming and batch pipelines. Delivered measurable outcomes: 20M daily transactions processed, latency cut from 4 hours to 5 minutes, ~70% fewer failures, and 120+ pipelines running at 99.8% reliability with full audit compliance.

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Nishad Kane - Mid-level Data Scientist & AI Engineer specializing in RAG, agentic AI, and production ML

Nishad Kane

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Mid-level Data Scientist & AI Engineer specializing in RAG, agentic AI, and production ML

5y exp
Xtrium AIArizona State University

AI/data engineer who built a production LLM-powered schema drift detection system (LangChain/LangGraph) to catch semantic data changes before they break downstream analytics/ML. Deployed on AWS with Docker/S3 and implemented an LLM-as-a-judge evaluation framework to improve trust, reduce hallucinations, and control false positives/alert fatigue. Collaborated with non-technical risk/business analytics stakeholders at EY by delivering human-readable drift explanations that improved confidence in financial analytics dashboards.

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Hadi Jaffery - Junior Data Engineer specializing in Snowflake and investment data platforms in Boston, MA

Hadi Jaffery

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Junior Data Engineer specializing in Snowflake and investment data platforms

Boston, MA3y exp
Liberty MutualUniversity of Maryland, College Park

Private markets/private credit data engineer owning core Snowflake/AWS data infrastructure (S3 → ActiveBatch → Snowflake) with automated iceDQ quality checks and curated datasets for internal Power BI/React reporting. Drove major reliability and delivery improvements, including cutting DB CI/CD deploy time 50% and reducing downstream table errors by 90%+, and also built an internal React/FastAPI app to visualize the team’s data infrastructure in an ambiguous early-stage environment.

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Anirudh Raghavan - Entry-level Computer Vision/Autonomy Engineer specializing in perception and object detection in West Lafayette, IN

Entry-level Computer Vision/Autonomy Engineer specializing in perception and object detection

West Lafayette, IN0y exp
Purdue UniversityPurdue University

Robotics software engineer with hands-on ROS2 + Autoware perception experience, focused on building benchmarking infrastructure for object detection models inside a real-time autonomous driving stack. Strong in evaluation rigor (synchronization, deterministic playback, format standardization) and practical ROS2 debugging/validation workflows using RViz and Gazebo.

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Sreelekha Vuppala - Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in Generative AI, MLOps, and cloud data platforms in USA

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in Generative AI, MLOps, and cloud data platforms

USA4y exp
CitiusTechArizona State University

GenAI/ML engineer (CitiusTech) who has deployed production RAG systems for compliance/operations document Q&A, using Pinecone + FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes with strong monitoring and guardrails. Also built a GenAI-powered incident triage/routing solution in collaboration with non-technical stakeholders, achieving 35% faster response times and 40% fewer misclassified tickets, and has hands-on orchestration experience with Airflow and AutoSys.

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Harini Vinu - Intern Software Engineer specializing in cloud, big data, and test automation in New York, United States

Harini Vinu

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Intern Software Engineer specializing in cloud, big data, and test automation

New York, United States1y exp
QualitestNYU

Internship experience at Qualitest building and deploying an LLM-powered test automation system that reduced manual test creation and improved efficiency (~40%). Demonstrates strong production engineering for LLM systems (timeouts/retries/monitoring/caching, prompt optimization, batching) and has scaled workflows to 100+ concurrent jobs; also has orchestration experience with AWS Step Functions and Kubernetes.

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Wilson Harron - Director-level AI/ML & Computer Vision Engineer specializing in robotics and multimodal AI in Los Angeles, CA

Wilson Harron

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Director-level AI/ML & Computer Vision Engineer specializing in robotics and multimodal AI

Los Angeles, CA15y exp
silvr.aiUniversity of Guelph

Candidate is not currently pursuing entrepreneurship (no business plan and no capital raised) and is not familiar with the VC/accelerator landscape. They show pragmatic, problem-first thinking about evaluating startup ideas—prioritizing real customer pain points and the quality of the founding team—and are open to working for others rather than founding "at all costs."

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Jiaji Chen

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Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI-powered applications

Montebello, CA2y exp
Top Connect, Inc.University of Michigan

Built and owns the full ProteinMenus AI pipeline end-to-end, spanning the iOS client, FastAPI backend, Gemini integration, Firestore, and Cloud Run deployment. Strongest signal is full-stack product ownership in an AI-driven consumer workflow, including monetization logic via an atomic credit system and architecture choices optimized for fast iteration after launch.

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Aravind Mohan - Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI agents and backend systems in Seattle, WA

Aravind Mohan

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI agents and backend systems

Seattle, WA5y exp
Biostate AIUniversity at Buffalo

Backend/AI workflow engineer who built a production event-personalization service (FastAPI + AWS Lambda) and solved real-world reliability/latency issues with deterministic routing, caching, and query/index optimization. Also built an end-to-end Gmail-based job application tracking agent using a lightweight RAG pipeline with Gemini, strong guardrails (Pydantic schemas, confidence thresholds), and offline regression tests to prevent drift and hallucination-driven data corruption.

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NT

Intern-level Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML systems

Frankfort, KY2y exp
UPSPurdue University

Built production LLM/RAG systems during a UPS internship, including a shipment knowledge agent used across 15+ hubs worldwide and a multi-agent PDF RAG workflow. Stands out for combining hands-on enterprise integration with rigorous evaluation, hallucination reduction, and efficient fine-tuning techniques like LoRA.

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Dhruv Pandoh

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Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI, FinTech, and e-commerce

New York, USA2y exp
MIO PartnersNYU

Built both traditional internal tooling and LLM-powered systems during an internship, including a React/Python/AWS calculator onboarding platform and a production-style ROS2 RAG assistant over 10K+ documents. Stands out for combining full-stack delivery, stakeholder coordination, and practical AI reliability work like retrieval tuning, source-grounded answers, and low-confidence fallbacks.

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Polam Srija

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Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and FinTech

Texas, USA3y exp
Fidelity InvestmentsUniversity of North Carolina at Charlotte

AI Engineer with hands-on ownership of a production multi-agent RAG platform in financial services, spanning experimentation, architecture, deployment, monitoring, and iterative optimization. Stands out for measurable impact: 35% retrieval relevance improvement and nearly 50% reduction in manual operational analysis effort, plus strong experience making enterprise LLM systems safer and more reliable in production.

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SK

Mid-level Full-Stack Python Developer specializing in cloud, data engineering, and AI/ML

Washington, USA4y exp
Fannie MaeSt. Francis College

Full stack Python developer who actively integrates AI coding assistants into day-to-day engineering work, including code generation, debugging, testing, and documentation. Has also coordinated multi-agent workflows across backend, frontend, testing, and code review, showing an applied, productivity-focused approach to AI-enabled software delivery.

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Dikshith Pulakanti - Intern AI Engineer specializing in agentic LLM systems in Singapore, Singapore

Intern AI Engineer specializing in agentic LLM systems

Singapore, Singapore0y exp
National University of SingaporeNortheastern University

Built multiple AI-heavy backend systems from scratch, including FORESIGHT, a personal financial intelligence platform running daily on live bank accounts with zero manual intervention, and JobPilot, an autonomous job application agent spanning Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, and custom forms. Stands out for combining strong systems design with applied ML pragmatism, reproducibility, and unusually candid reflection on security, scalability, and observability tradeoffs.

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Intern Full-Stack AI Engineer specializing in data engineering and generative AI

New York, NY1y exp
WOW PaymentsNYU Tandon School of Engineering

Backend/AI engineer who has owned production agentic systems end-to-end, including a CRM-integrated multi-agent financial workflow at Wow Payments that cut latency by 83% and achieved 98% uptime. Also built an AI real estate product ('Site IQ') by turning vague stakeholder goals into a geospatial autonomous agent using RAG, rapid prototyping, and tight validation layers around GPT-4 outputs.

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Sanket Mungikar - Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in distributed backend and AI analytics platforms in California, USA

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in distributed backend and AI analytics platforms

California, USA4y exp
BigCommerceCalifornia State University, Fullerton

Full-stack engineer at BigCommerce who combines customer-facing deployment ownership with hands-on AI/LLM systems work. Built and launched merchant analytics and predictive inventory workflows using React, TypeScript, FastAPI, Kafka, AWS, and RAG-style architectures, and has real production experience debugging non-deterministic AI issues caused by data pipeline freshness and event-ordering problems.

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