Vetted PyTorch Professionals

“AI/ML engineer with production experience building a RAG-based internal analytics assistant (Databricks + ADF ingestion, Pinecone vector store, LangChain orchestration) deployed via Docker on AWS SageMaker with CI/CD and MLflow. Strong focus on real-world constraints—latency/cost optimization (LoRA ~60% compute reduction), hallucination control with citation grounding, and enterprise security/governance. Previously at Intuit, delivered an interpretable churn prediction system (PySpark/Databricks, Airflow/Azure ML) that improved retention targeting ~12%.”

“ML/LLM engineer at Charles Schwab who built a production loan-advisor chatbot integrated with internal knowledge and loan-calculator APIs, adding strict numeric validation to prevent rate hallucinations and optimizing context to control costs. Also runs ~40 Airflow DAGs orchestrating retraining/ETL/drift monitoring with an automated Snowflake→SageMaker→auto-deploy pipeline, and uses rigorous testing plus canary rollouts tied to business metrics and compliance constraints.”

“Backend/Founding-Engineer-style builder who architected AESOP, a multi-agent distributed platform for biomedical literature evidence synthesis. Implemented an async FastAPI stack on AWS with LangGraph orchestration, Redis/Postgres+pgvector, and Celery-based background processing, plus defense-in-depth security (JWT refresh/rotation and DB-level isolation). Notable for hardening LLM workflows with multi-layer validation and convergence safeguards to prevent hallucinations and infinite agent loops.”

“Human-AI Design Lab practitioner who productionized a wearable-health anomaly detection system by evolving a standalone autoencoder into a hybrid autoencoder + GPT-based approach, backed by PySpark ETL and MLOps on AWS SageMaker/MLflow. Also has applied LLM troubleshooting experience (fine-tuned FLAN-T5 summarization) and partnered with BI teams to run A/B tests and improve retention via feature stores and experimentation.”

“AI/LLM engineer who built a production QA RAG for a University of Massachusetts faculty success initiative, cutting service tickets by 70%. Strong end-to-end RAG implementation skills (LangChain, Qdrant, hybrid/HyDE retrieval, FastAPI) with rigorous evaluation (RAGAS, LLM-as-judge) and practical handling of constraints like API rate limits and cost. Prior cross-functional delivery experience collaborating with SMEs and business owners at TCS and IBM.”

“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.”

Prateek Pravanjan

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLM evaluation and GenAI pipelines

Remote1y exp

“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.”

SUMIT MAMTANI

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in ML, MLOps, and customer analytics

Tempe, AZ4y exp

“ML/NLP practitioner focused on insurance/claims analytics for a large financial firm, working with millions of fragmented structured and unstructured records. Built production-grade pipelines for entity extraction, entity resolution, and semantic search using Sentence-BERT + vector DB, including fine-tuning with contrastive learning (reported ~15% recall lift) and scalable ETL/containerized deployment on Kubernetes.”

Jills Babu

Screened

Junior Mechatronics Engineer specializing in robotics, embedded systems, and safety-critical automation

Brooklyn, United States2y exp

“Robotics software engineer who worked on NYU’s Medi Assist robot, owning navigation sensor bring-up (LiDAR/radar/IMU) and SLAM stability, plus delivering a safety-critical braking system. Built a YOLOv8 perception pipeline on Jetson Nano and wrote STM32 firmware to actuate brakes, achieving ~50ms reaction time, and implemented diagnostics/health checks and reliable inter-board comms (ROS2 + UART with checksums/heartbeats).”

Kiran M

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and data platforms

Bentonville, AR5y exp

“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.”

Saniya Shinde

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in NLP, LLMs, and RAG systems

Washington, DC4y exp

“Built and deployed a production-style vision-language pipeline that generates structured medical reports from chest X-rays using BioViLT embeddings, an image-text alignment module, and BiGPT fine-tuned with LoRA, delivered via Streamlit and hosted on AWS EC2. Also collaborating experience presenting EDA findings, feature importance, and model performance to Ford managers while working with vehicle parts data at Bimcon.”

Saicharitha Yanamandala

Screened

Mid-Level Software Developer specializing in Java, Cloud, and Microservices

Chicago, IL6y exp

“Backend/Python engineer who owned an end-to-end FastAPI + AWS internal natural-language document Q&A system (Textract extraction, embeddings/vector DB, LLM integration) with strong focus on reliability and latency. Hands-on with Kubernetes + GitOps (Argo CD, Helm, rolling updates/auto-rollback) and built/optimized Kafka streaming pipelines using Prometheus/Grafana. Also supported a zero-downtime on-prem to cloud migration with parallel run and gradual traffic cutover.”

Sharan Raj Sivakumar

Screened

Senior Software Developer specializing in AI/ML automation and cloud-native systems

New York City, NY6y exp

“ML/MLOps practitioner who built production systems for telecom network analytics, including an automated labeling + multi-label Random Forest solution that cut labeling effort by 90% and sped up RCA. Led an Ericsson auto-deployment platform using Airflow, Azure IoT Hub, Docker, and Celery to orchestrate 120+ containerized ML/rule-based deployments, saving ~80 hours of setup per deployment.”

“Built and productionized LLM-driven content intelligence/SEO agents for a high-traffic media platform, automating tagging/summarization/metadata with FastAPI + async orchestration and strict JSON-schema outputs. Demonstrated measurable impact (40% faster publishing, +20% organic traffic in 3 months) and strong reliability practices (offline evals, shadow mode, canaries, fallbacks, idempotency, and monitoring).”

“Data/ML platform engineer with healthcare (Cigna) experience owning an end-to-end pipeline spanning Airflow + Debezium CDC ingestion, PySpark/SQL transformations, rigorous data quality gates, and feature-store/API serving for ML training and inference. Worked at 10+ TB scale and cites a ~30% latency reduction plus stronger reliability via idempotent design, monitoring, and backfill-safe reprocessing; also built pragmatic early-stage data pipelines at Frankenbuild Ventures.”

Shivam Goel

Screened

Senior Robotics Researcher specializing in neurosymbolic robot learning and manipulation

Medford, MA9y exp

“Robotics software researcher who led a Boston Dynamics SPOT project on non-prehensile manipulation of heavy boxes, combining MuJoCo-based RL, ViT-based perception, and SPOT SDK control; the work is under review for ICRA 2026. Also built a ROS planning-and-learning stack on a LoCoBot using PDDL task planning, RTAB-Map SLAM, MoveIt motion planning, and RL to recover from execution failures.”

Connor White

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in GPU-accelerated computer vision

College Station, TX5y exp

“Robotics software lead from Texas A&M Aggie Robotics who built WoopLib, a SLAM-based vision/navigation library using PID pure pursuit. Has hands-on ROS/ROS2 and Jetson Nano experience integrating Intel RealSense (T265/D435i) with wheel odometry for accurate state estimation, including compiling deprecated sensor support from source and optimizing by moving to Python with C++ bindings and serial streaming to a microcontroller.”

Sujith Julakanti

Screened

Junior MLOps Engineer specializing in LLMs and cloud infrastructure

College Station, TX3y exp

“Built a production multimodal LLM system (Gemini on GCP) to automate behavioral coding of family-involved science experiment videos, including preprocessing for inconsistent lighting/audio and LangGraph-orchestrated parallel workflows. Also developed rubric-based AI grading workflows and partnered closely with non-technical education stakeholders through explainability-focused walkthroughs and manual-vs-AI evaluation alignment.”

Keerthi Kalluri

Screened

Senior Full-Stack & GenAI Engineer specializing in healthcare and financial services

6y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered customer support assistant using a RAG backend in Python, focused on deflecting repetitive Tier-1 tickets and reducing resolution time. Demonstrates strong production engineering instincts around reliability (confidence scoring + human fallback), scalability/cost optimization (multi-stage pipelines), and workflow orchestration/observability (LangChain, custom DAGs, structured logging, step metrics).”

Akhilesh Babu Tumati

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native and AI-integrated systems

3y exp

“Built and deployed a Virginia Tech CS department blog/archive application using a MERN/Next.js stack and a fully serverless AWS architecture (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront, Route 53), including CI/CD via the Serverless Framework. Implemented RBAC for student/faculty/admin users and added an article export feature backed by MongoDB.”

Niharika Bhasin

Screened

Intern Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AWS serverless and real-time web apps

New York City, NY0y exp

“New-grad/early-career engineer who led high-stakes modernization of a field-operations platform from Firebase to AWS using an incremental/dual-write strategy, achieving zero downtime and ~30–32% infra cost reduction while improving scalability. Also built and productionized an AI-native code assistant (LangChain + Pinecone RAG) with measurable online metrics and safety guardrails, and has experience working directly with CEO/CTO/CPO and embedded with customer teams to ship enterprise features quickly.”

Vishal Kodakanchi

Screened

Director of AI Platforms & Architecture specializing in enterprise GenAI and AI Centers of Excellence

Mountain View, CA20y exp

“Software industry veteran (20 years) pursuing entrepreneurship; currently building an MVP software product aimed at solving specific finance and accounting problems for nano, micro, and small enterprises. Plans to run a metrics-driven pilot to validate demand before refining the product and raising capital; leveraging Google for Startups and exploring AWS for Startups.”

Yuchen Wang

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in full-stack development and AI/ML

New York, NY1y exp

“Built and maintains an AI Finance Tracker end-to-end as a solo full-stack product owner, from Figma designs and React frontend to Flask APIs, Firestore, auth, deployment, and AI insights. Stands out for combining product instinct with pragmatic engineering decisions like pre-aggregating financial data to control LLM costs and adding OCR receipt scanning based on real user feedback.”

“ML/AI engineer focused on taking LLM products from experiment to production, with hands-on ownership of a RAG-based customer support system that improved response quality by 35% and cut latency by 30%. Stands out for combining product impact with production rigor across retrieval tuning, safety guardrails, monitoring, and reusable Python/FastAPI services that accelerated adoption across teams.”