Vetted R Professionals

Edgar GranadosOsegueda

Screened

Mid-level Robotics Researcher specializing in kinodynamic motion planning

Rutgers, USA7y exp

“Robotics software engineer focused on real-time estimation/control and motion replanning, currently integrating a factor-graph-based estimation/control stack with sampling-based replanning in a ROS environment validated on both MuSHR hardware and MuJoCo simulation. Strong in distributed-system debugging (rosbags/logging, controlled test scenarios) and ROS performance patterns (nodelets, TF/TF2), with prior multi-robot experience from SSL RoboCup using custom UDP protocols.”

Divyam Agrawal

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs and NLP classification systems

Seattle, WA4y exp

“Internship experience building a production RAG+LLM pipeline to map messy card transaction descriptions to merchant brands, including a custom modified-ROUGE evaluation approach for weak/variant ground truth. Improved scalability and cost by moving from a managed LLM endpoint (e.g., Bedrock) to self-hosted vLLM, and orchestrated massive embedding backfills (5,000+ files, 10B+ rows) using an Airflow-triggered SQS + ECS worker architecture with robust retry/DLQ handling.”

“Analytics professional with experience spanning HSBC and the University of Buffalo, combining banking risk/portfolio analytics with reproducible Python and SQL reporting workflows. Stands out for cleaning complex multi-source data, standardizing business metrics across dashboards, and delivering measurable impact including an 80% reduction in manual reporting and an estimated GBP 1.2M profit contribution from scorecard redevelopment.”

Anirban Ghosh

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in data science and cloud systems

Seattle, WA4y exp

“ML engineer who independently pitched and built a recommendation engine at Danske Bank in a legacy fintech environment, creating compliant data pipelines and deployment infrastructure from scratch and delivering a 62% engagement lift with 70%+ advisor adoption. Also worked at AWS on classification and GenAI-powered reporting systems, with strengths spanning production ML, platform setup, monitoring, and research-to-production optimization.”

“ML/AI engineer focused on production NLP and voice AI systems in the restaurant tech space, with hands-on work spanning ASR, intent classification, LLM fine-tuning, and deployment monitoring at Presto AI. They highlight a 15% improvement in full-AI ordering rate and also built a restaurant sentiment analysis product at Wisely that they say became a standout feature in a $10M acquisition context.”

Chaitanya Prasad Reddy Narala

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in FinTech risk and fraud systems

USA4y exp

“Senior AI/ML engineer focused on production LLM systems, combining RAG, fine-tuning, distributed training, and AI safety to ship scalable real-time moderation and conversational AI platforms. Stands out for pairing deep AWS/Kubernetes MLOps expertise with measurable impact: 40% lower latency/cost, 30-50% fewer hallucinations, and major reliability gains through observability and automation.”

“Backend/ML-focused engineer with experience spanning fintech, sales enablement, and medtech, including a Capital One capstone and a Singapore medtech startup internship. Stands out for owning end-to-end AI/backend systems, from a GenAI sales pitch platform that cut prep time by 50% to an ultrasound-guidance MVP for non-expert operators in a highly ambiguous domain.”

“Backend/founding-engineer-style builder who designed and evolved a near-real-time customer churn prediction platform (FastAPI + AWS SageMaker/Lambda + Redis + MLflow) to enable real-time retention actions, reporting ~18% churn reduction. Demonstrates strong production engineering in secure API design, incremental migrations with data integrity safeguards, and robustness improvements in async pipelines (idempotency, DLQs, retry visibility).”

“Growth marketer from earthnutre who led a zero-to-one conversion and traffic-quality improvement project combining SEO, landing page/CRO, and paid-media measurement. Used SEMrush-driven high-intent keyword restructuring plus phased page optimizations with control comparisons, then tied results to paid performance—reporting ~15% lower CPA and ~30% MoM ROAS lift. Also runs a modular, data-driven creative iteration process across Meta/TikTok/YouTube and provides performance-based guidance to creators/editors.”

“GenAI/ML engineer from Lucid Motors who built and productionized an LLM-powered RAG diagnostic assistant for manufacturing and maintenance teams, deployed on AWS with Docker/Kubernetes and MLflow. Demonstrates end-to-end ownership from retrieval/prompt design to scalability, monitoring, and workflow integration via APIs, plus production ML pipeline orchestration with Kubeflow (Spark/Kafka + TensorFlow) for predictive maintenance use cases.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered RAG assistant for semiconductor manufacturing failure analysis, reducing engineer triage effort by grounding outputs in retrieved evidence and gating responses with SPC + ML signals (LSTM anomaly scores, XGBoost probabilities). Experienced with LangChain/LangGraph to ship reliable, observable multi-step agents with branching/fallback logic, and evaluates impact using both technical metrics and business KPIs like mean time to triage and downtime reduction.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG chatbot at Wells Fargo for securely querying regulated financial and compliance documents, emphasizing low hallucination rates, explainability, and strict governance. Experienced with LangChain multi-agent orchestration plus Airflow/Prefect pipelines for ingestion, embeddings, evaluation, and retraining, and partnered closely with compliance/operations to drive adoption through demos and feedback-driven retrieval rules.”

“AI/ML engineer with production experience building LLM-powered document intelligence and customer support systems in healthcare/insurance, emphasizing high-accuracy RAG, long-document processing, and robust monitoring/fallback mechanisms. Also automates and scales ML lifecycle workflows using Apache Airflow and Kubeflow, and partners closely with non-technical operations stakeholders to drive adoption.”

“Backend engineer with strong AWS/CI/CD experience (multi-repo deployments, Lambda + core app, immutable ECR and image promotion) and a published master’s thesis building an ML framework for Solar PV energy prediction and CO2 reduction impact modeling using ensemble and meta-learning approaches benchmarked against SAM.”

“Built and deployed custom AI chatbots at LivePerson, translating customer service pain points (e.g., MTTR reduction and fragmented information) into production RAG-based solutions with stakeholder-facing metrics dashboards. Experienced in real-time troubleshooting using Elastic logs, leading POCs, and integrating customer APIs to automate workflows as part of sales-driven solutioning.”

“Sourcing/procurement professional with hands-on CAPEX equipment sourcing experience, building RFI/RFP packages, qualifying new vendors, and negotiating using market and internal spend data. Demonstrated process-improvement impact by redesigning proposal evaluations into a parallel workflow, cutting sourcing cycle time by ~20% while maintaining evaluation rigor.”

“ML/NLP practitioner with experience building a transformer-failure prediction system that combines sensor signals with unstructured maintenance comments using LLM-based extraction and similarity validation. Strong emphasis on production readiness—data leakage controls, SQL-driven data quality tiers, and rigorous bias/fairness validation (including contract/spec evaluation across diverse company profiles).”

“Red Hat ML/LLM engineer who designed and deployed a production LLM-powered customer support automation system using RAG, improving latency by 30% via PEFT and vector search optimization. Built security and governance into retrieval (access-level filtering, encrypted Pinecone/ChromaDB) and delivered SHAP-based explainability via a dashboard for non-technical stakeholders. Experienced orchestrating distributed ML/RAG pipelines across AWS SageMaker and OpenShift with Airflow/Prefect, plus multi-agent workflows using CrewAI and LangGraph.”

“Data/ML practitioner with hands-on experience building NLP systems from prototype to production: delivered a Twitter sentiment classifier with robust preprocessing, SVM modeling, and Power BI reporting, and built entity-resolution pipelines for messy multi-source customer data (reporting ~95% improvement in unique entity identification). Also implemented semantic linking/search using SBERT embeddings with FAISS vector retrieval and domain fine-tuning (reported ~15% precision lift), and applies production workflow best practices (Airflow/Prefect, Docker, Azure ML/Databricks, Great Expectations).”

“Data engineer with experience at Sony and Walmart building high-volume, near-real-time analytics and ingestion systems. Has owned end-to-end pipelines from Kafka/Spark streaming through S3/Parquet and Redshift/Looker, emphasizing data quality (Great Expectations), observability (CloudWatch/Azure Monitor), and reliability (Airflow SLAs, retries, checkpointing), including measurable performance and latency improvements.”

Ajay Madhusudhan Thumala

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in data engineering and LLM applications

Irvine, CA1y exp

“Computer science engineer and master’s graduate who independently built a mechatronics-heavy capstone prototype: a smartphone concept for deafblind users using micro-actuator arrays for braille reading. Also has platform engineering experience at Quantiphi, deploying webhooks to Kubernetes and implementing GitOps-based CI/CD using AWS CodeCommit/CodeBuild and ECR.”

Nishantkumar Asodariya

Screened

Mid-level Supply Chain Analyst specializing in global logistics automation and forecasting

USA4y exp

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered recruiting workflow that ranks resumes against job descriptions, generates evidence-based justifications, and finds "hidden fit" candidates using embeddings + RAG. Demonstrates strong production engineering around hallucination control, latency, and predictable LLM cost management (budget checks, top-K pruning, tenant caps), plus orchestration experience with Airflow/Prefect/Kubernetes and a structured evaluation/monitoring methodology for AI agents.”

Manasa Mangipudi

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP and computer vision

3y exp

“AI/ML engineer with production experience building an LLM-powered resume-to-job matching and feedback product using RAG, with a strong focus on latency, hallucination control, and scalable deployment. Experienced orchestrating ML inference and backend services on Kubernetes and applying rigorous evaluation/guardrail practices; also partnered with business/product stakeholders at Walmart to improve an NLP-based supplier support system.”