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Vetted PyTorch Professionals
Pre-screened and vetted.
Nishitha Thummala
Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and scalable inference
“Backend/retrieval-focused engineer with production experience at Perplexity building a large-scale real-time Q&A system using retrieval-augmented generation, emphasizing low-latency, high-quality answers through ranking, context optimization, and caching. Also has orchestration experience from both product-facing LLM pipelines and large-scale infrastructure workflows at Meta, and has partnered with non-technical stakeholders to align AI trade-offs with business goals.”
Kowshika M
Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM fine-tuning, inference optimization, and AI safety
“AI/LLM engineer with production experience at NVIDIA, where they fine-tuned and deployed a financial-services chatbot and cut latency ~50% using TensorRT + NVIDIA Triton, scaling via Docker/Kubernetes. Also has consulting experience at Accenture delivering a predictive maintenance solution for a logistics network, bridging non-technical stakeholders with actionable dashboards.”
Sahil Sinha
Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack development, cloud, and data infrastructure
“Software engineer at Fannie Mae (~3 years) working on high-volume loan data pipelines using AWS (SQS/S3), Java listeners, Postgres, and Python/SQL-based data quality validation. Also built a chess data collection system (leveraging experience as an International Master) with robust retry/monitoring, schema-change handling, and idempotent backfills to prevent bad data from reaching downstream systems.”
Prahlad Vivek
Intern Robotics Engineer specializing in robot learning, SLAM, and control
“Robotics architect intern/new-grad focused on warehouse AMRs, building ROS2 sensor-fusion and SLAM stacks (FastSLAM-style particle filter) and validating in Gazebo with ground-truth metrics. Also interned at ASML debugging real-time in-vacuum robot behavior via Python state-machine telemetry scripts, identifying a firmware driver issue impacting throughput.”
Elena Georgieva
Mid-level Audio Research Scientist specializing in perceptual audio and ML
“Research-oriented candidate with internship experience at Apple and multiple audio/ML projects spanning speech processing evaluation, listener studies, CLAP-based audio workflows, and music prediction. They stand out for combining experimental design, statistical analysis, and applied machine learning in ambiguous research settings, including building a new onset-detection dataset and presenting VoiceFX work at workshops.”
Ziwen Shen
Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in computer vision, reinforcement learning, and PINNs
“ML/Simulation engineer who productionized a Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning system for 30+ firms at Belt and Road Big Data Company, integrating research code into an enterprise backend via Dockerized deployment and scalable data pipelines on GCP/Vertex AI. Demonstrated strong production debugging by tracing apparent network timeouts to hardware memory exhaustion caused by software state-history garbage collection issues, and built custom reward functions to model complex market dynamics (entry/exit, pricing).”
“Backend/full-stack engineer (Amazon experience) who built an AWS-based integration testing platform using Flask, ECS, Docker, and CloudWatch—cutting 1000+ test cases from ~5 hours to ~30 minutes while improving log visibility for non-engineering users. Also led a zero-downtime EU region migration with rigorous ORR testing, and built a Kinesis/Firehose/S3 + Glue/Spark replay mechanism for resilient data recovery. Side project: reproducible, cost-efficient LLM hosting platform on EKS using CDK and Karpenter for scale-to-zero.”
Nikhil Reddy
Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GPU inference and LLM platforms
“Built and deployed an LLM-powered platform that turns models into scalable REST/gRPC APIs, focusing on keeping GPU-backed inference fast and stable during traffic spikes. Experienced with AWS orchestration (EKS/ECS/Step Functions), safe model rollouts, and production-grade monitoring/testing for reliable AI agents and workflows.”
Het Maheshkumar Sekhalia
Entry-level Robotics Researcher specializing in autonomy, motion planning, and control
“Robotics software engineer focused on simulation-first autonomy and learning: implemented TD3 and CLIP-guided pretraining for physics-based humanoid skill learning in Isaac Gym/DeepMimic. Also built a ROS2 + dual-Docker closed-loop stack for an autonomous wheel loader in Isaac Sim, combining global planning, B-spline smoothing, and real-time NMPC control.”
Krishna Reddy
Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in fraud detection and clinical LLM assistants
“Built and deployed a production clinical support LLM assistant at Mayo Clinic using a LangChain-orchestrated RAG architecture (Llama 2/PaLM) over de-identified clinical records, integrating BigQuery with Pinecone for semantic retrieval. Focused on healthcare-critical reliability by reducing hallucinations through grounding, implementing HIPAA-aligned privacy controls (Cloud DLP, VPC Service Controls), and running structured evaluations with clinician feedback.”
Alfred Dwan
Intern Software Engineer specializing in AI, cloud-native systems, and MLOps
“Backend/full-stack engineer who has owned a production recruiting platform end-to-end (TypeScript/Node microservices for scraping/cleaning/serving job data, RabbitMQ for spike handling, MongoDB + Elasticsearch, AWS containers) with pragmatic CI, logging/alerts, and Docker Compose E2E tests. Also operated high-traffic event pipelines during a Binance internship using Kafka + Redis idempotency, with strong observability and failure-mode/rollback/degradation practices, and has experience designing developer-friendly REST APIs and resilient browser automation for E2E flows.”
Shaji Nair
Principal Cloud & Digital Transformation Architect specializing in Financial Services and Data Platforms
“Technology-first venture builder with strong familiarity in the VC/accelerator landscape, specializing in greenfield innovation, M&A, and large-scale transformation/modernization. Described building a venture-funded retail banking greenfield startup to integrate lending-as-a-service for SME lending while meeting federal and local financial services compliance requirements.”
Yuxin Xiong
Intern Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLM reasoning, agents, and deployment
“AWS AI Lab engineer who deployed a production Chain-of-Thought analytical agent for tabular reasoning, emphasizing grounded tool-constrained workflows with schema-validated intermediate outputs. Built robust evaluation/logging with step-level observability to catch regressions across model versions, and has experience scaling distributed LLM training via Slurm + DeepSpeed/FSDP with checkpointing and failure recovery.”
Shuvam Mitra
Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in anomaly detection and production ML
“Interned at Backblaze building production AI systems for incident response and security operations, including an internal LLM-powered incident triage assistant that used Snowflake + RAG over historical tickets/postmortems and delivered results via Slack and a web UI. Emphasizes reliability (PII filtering, grounding, schema validation, fallbacks) and rigorous evaluation/observability (offline replay, partial rollouts, time-to-first-action metrics, Prometheus/Grafana).”
Dexin Huang
Junior AI Engineer specializing in LLM systems, RAG, and full-stack automation
“Built and deployed an AI receptionist product for field-service businesses (HVAC/electrician), including real-time Jobber scheduling integrations and Twilio-based calling. Combines hands-on customer/operator shadowing with strong production engineering (queueing to handle API limits, rigorous testing/mocking, mirrored prod environment) and cross-layer troubleshooting, driving user adoption through review/override workflows.”
Pranav Hariharane
Mid-Level Backend Engineer specializing in REST APIs and AWS
“Backend engineer who built a new REST eligibility service at Barclays that unified siloed account logic (card/loan/deposit) and integrated with web/mobile, ultimately serving millions of users daily. Also built an end-to-end LLM-based pharmaceutical care-plan generation tool in a rapid Columbia startup competition, emphasizing configurable design, strict validation, persistence, and robust error handling.”
Gabrielle Burns
Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in computer vision, NLP, and enterprise ML systems
“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of production computer vision and GenAI systems, spanning real-time public safety video analytics and RAG-based knowledge assistants. Stands out for translating research-oriented approaches into scalable, monitored production systems with clear business impact, including 50% latency reductions, 25% faster response times, and 40% lower document search time.”
Qiang lu
Senior Robotics & Embodied AI Engineer specializing in closed-loop perception-to-action systems
“Robotics software engineer who built the behavior-tree orchestrator for the Vulcan Stow robotic system, migrating from a state machine to significantly improve testability. Experienced with ROS 1 and Baidu Apollo workflows (rosbag, LiDAR/image extraction) from self-driving simulation work at LG Silicon Valley Lab, and currently focused on stable Docker/docker-compose-based deployments with disciplined QA and hotfix processes.”
Rohan Punamiya
Junior Robotics Engineer specializing in robot learning, controls, and tactile sensing
“Robotics software engineer with Stanford coursework and Georgia Tech research experience, focused on end-to-end autonomy for mobile manipulation and real-time planning under uncertainty. Built a ROS 2 LoCoBot system combining Gemini speech-to-text, YOLO-based RGB-D perception, navigation, and grasping with robust synchronization/TF fixes, and developed an information-theoretic UGV planner for radiological source localization validated via Monte Carlo simulation.”
jiawei Li
Intern Applied Scientist specializing in LLM agents for software engineering
“Applied Scientist intern at Amazon who built a production-adopted LLM-judge to evaluate an agentic chatbot’s intermediate reasoning and tool calls using a knowledge-graph grounding approach. Also published award-winning work (ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper) using LangChain + GPT-4 tools to generate factually grounded commit messages, with rigorous human-centered evaluation metrics.”
Krishna Sahith Poruri
Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and MLOps
“ML/LLM engineer who built a production RAG system (GPT-4 + FAISS + FastAPI) to deliver fast, grounded answers from proprietary documents, optimizing for sub-200ms latency and high-concurrency scale. Strong MLOps/observability background: drift monitoring with Prometheus + Streamlit, automated retraining via Airflow, Kubernetes autoscaling, and MLflow-managed model lifecycle, plus inference cost reduction through quantization and structured pruning.”
MARCUS JOHNSON
Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI, NLP, and RAG systems
“ML/NLP engineer focused on production-grade data and search/recommendation systems: built an end-to-end pipeline that connects unstructured customer feedback with product data using TF-IDF/BERT, Spark, and AWS (SageMaker/S3), orchestrated with Airflow and monitored for drift. Also has hands-on experience with entity resolution at scale and improving search relevance via BERT embeddings, FAISS vector search, and domain fine-tuning validated with precision@k and A/B testing.”
kartik kanotra
Mid-level Software Developer specializing in cloud data engineering and MLOps
“Software engineer with strong AWS production experience, including an end-to-end historical backfill system exporting ~10PB of CloudWatch logs into a data lake using Step Functions/Kinesis/Lambda/Firehose/Glue. Emphasizes reliability and operability (DynamoDB checkpointing, monitoring dashboards, CI/CD with canary tests) and has also built customer-facing UI work for the Visa Developer Portal using Angular + Spring Boot, plus React/Redux frontend work.”
Jim Glassman
Executive Technology Leader specializing in Enterprise AI, Cloud Architecture, and Data Platforms
“Senior data/technology executive who stays hands-on: currently building a Go micro-kernel orchestration layer for medical AI agents to boost concurrency and enforce HIPAA/PHI controls, achieving 26x throughput on migrated workloads. Has led large-scale transformations across healthcare and financial services, including a 45-day data warehouse rebuild at Elara Caring and a data/ML roadmap at Acelity credited with $230M in annual revenue impact prior to 3M acquisition.”