Vetted R Professionals

Daniel Wahab

Screened

Junior Embedded/Robotics Software Engineer specializing in autonomous drones

Ithaca, NY2y exp

“Robotics software engineer focused on simulation-heavy development, recently building a 6-robot swarm in Gazebo with custom terrain and per-robot A* path planning while researching PSO-based swarm algorithms. Experienced with ROS 2 multi-node communication patterns and autonomous drone simulation using ArduPilot (ap_dds), with a track record of debugging real-time behavior issues through disciplined isolation and incremental testing.”

Utkarsh Mittal

Screened

Intern Data Scientist specializing in computer vision and LLM agents

Sunnyvale, CA0y exp

“Software engineering candidate with hands-on experience building and shipping LLM agents: created a production AI enrichment/coding agent at Covalent Metrology using Apollo.io + OpenAI, and built a Mistral hackathon router that dynamically selects among models to reduce token cost while maintaining quality. Also developed a real-time financial margin analysis agent that emails actionable insights and iterated on reliability issues (e.g., fixing misrouted emails, improving news relevance filtering).”

Junhui Huang

Screened

Intern Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs, MLOps, and NLP

Providence, RI1y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-driven Dungeons & Dragons game where the model acts as a dungeon master, adding a structured combat system and a macro-state tree to ensure campaigns converge to a clear ending. Fine-tuned Gemini 2.5 Flash on Vertex AI and deployed on GCP with Kubernetes, using RAG over DnD rules/spells plus multi-agent orchestration (intent-based routing between narrative and combat agents) to reduce hallucinations and improve reliability.”

“Analytics candidate with hands-on experience in both fraud and churn use cases, including SQL-based preparation of 6.5M transaction records and reproducible Python modeling workflows. Stands out for combining technical rigor in data quality, feature engineering, and imbalance handling with strong stakeholder alignment, metric definition, and dashboard adoption.”

“Analytics-focused candidate with hands-on experience using SQL and Python to clean messy business data, automate reporting, and build practical customer analytics solutions. Notable examples include a 70% reduction in reporting time through Python-based Excel automation at Shell and stakeholder-friendly retention/RFM segmentation work for small business clients in freight and winery contexts.”

“Analytics-focused candidate with strong SQL, Excel, Python, and Tableau skills who supports payroll-, compensation-, and finance-adjacent processes through rigorous data validation and reconciliation. Stands out for uncovering a duplicate-record mapping issue that exposed roughly $250K in revenue leakage and for building repeatable controls, dashboards, and automated checks to improve reporting accuracy.”

“Data-engineering-oriented candidate with hands-on experience building an agentic AI product and operational automation workflows. They described automating inventory-to-ERP discrepancy reconciliation with anomaly detection and daily reporting, and also have practical scraping/automation experience dealing with Cloudflare-protected sites using Selenium and Puppeteer.”

“ML/AI practitioner with hands-on experience shipping production time-series forecasting and RAG-based customer insights platforms in an enterprise setting. At BASF, he improved seed sales forecasting beyond naive baselines using model selection tailored by brand size, and he also led a RAG solution over Salesforce reports, complaints, and surveys that reached 2,000+ users with strong daily engagement.”

“Candidate is pursuing a CTO role and has helped multiple startups turn early technology concepts into concrete, real-world technical requirements. They cite a systems science and mathematics background, along with experience at JPMorgan Chase, and appear strongest in technical strategy, concept fleshing, and identifying strong people to help teams succeed.”

“AI/backend engineer who has owned production applied-ML systems end to end, including a Jitsi meeting intelligence platform with custom RoBERTa boundary detection, LLM summarization, and automated retraining from user feedback. Also has healthcare AI experience building a diabetes medication titration system with strict validation, drift monitoring, and safety guardrails—showing both product speed and high-stakes engineering rigor.”

“AI/LLM engineer with strong healthcare domain depth who has shipped production-grade agents for care coordination and clinical workflow automation. Stands out for combining Knowledge Graph RAG, LangGraph orchestration, and rigorous eval/guardrail systems to improve reliability in high-stakes environments, with measurable gains in review time, hallucination reduction, latency, and clinician adoption.”

“Data engineer with a Master's in Data Science who has owned 30+ customer-facing K-12 SIS migrations end-to-end, building ETL, validation, and SOP-driven deployment processes in a PII-sensitive environment. Also brings recent hands-on agentic AI experience from a biotech capstone, where they led a production-oriented NLP-to-SQL + RAG support system that handled about 30% of support queries in testing.”

“AI/ML engineer who has built a production text-to-image generation system in PyTorch with an AWS-backed inference setup, focusing on GPU-efficient training and embedding-space architectural choices inspired by recent research (e.g., Meta VL-JEPA). Uses both metric-based evaluation (FID) and human testing to validate real-world visual quality, and can translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.”

“Firmware architect/lead engineer for automotive LiDAR sensors, designing RTOS-based, layered firmware and solving high-throughput real-time constraints using DMA and lock-free buffering. Built ROS nodes to bridge embedded sensor output to higher-level perception (point clouds, diagnostics, configuration) while isolating real-time logic in firmware. Established an end-to-end CI/CD pipeline with GTest unit tests plus SIL/HIL automation and Dockerized build/test environments.”

“Completed an Amazon externship building a GPT-4 + RAG pipeline to summarize themes from hundreds of employee reviews for workforce analytics aimed at improving warehouse retention. Emphasizes production-readiness through labeled-data evaluation, source attribution for explainability, human-in-the-loop review, and rigorous data cleaning/observability to debug real-world LLM workflow issues.”

Pavan Kumar Malasani

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in financial risk, fraud detection, and GenAI

Remote, USA4y exp

“GenAI/ML engineer in Citigroup’s finance environment who has deployed production RAG systems for investment banking under strict privacy and model-risk constraints. Built an internal-VPC Llama2 + Pinecone + LangChain solution with NER redaction and citation-based verification to prevent hallucinations, delivering major time savings, and also partnered with global finance executives to ship an AI early-warning indicator for treasury/liquidity risk.”

Pandari G

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in Generative AI and RAG systems

San Francisco, USA5y exp

“GenAI/LLM engineer with production deployments in both fintech and retail: built an AI-powered mortgage document analysis/automated underwriting pipeline at Fannie Mae (OCR + custom LLM) cutting underwriting review from 3–4 hours to under an hour with privacy-by-design controls. Also helped build Sephora’s GenAI product advisory bot using LangChain-orchestrated RAG (Azure GPT-4, Azure AI Search, MySQL HeatWave vector search), focusing on grounding, evaluation, and compliance-aware architecture choices.”

Yukti Kamthan

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and data systems

Mumbai, India10y exp

“Built and shipped production LLM/AI agent systems including an NL-to-SQL query agent with semantic search and Redis-based caching, using schema-aware prompting and threshold validation to reduce hallucinations. Has orchestration experience running ML microservices on Kubernetes and automating event-driven insurance (P&C) workflows (claims/policy + fraud checks), reporting ~60% manual overhead reduction and ~99% uptime, with strong monitoring/drift-detection and business-facing Power BI reporting.”

HEMANTH KUMAR KOTTAPALLI

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in GPU-accelerated LLMs and MLOps

GA, USA4y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered decision-support system for supply-chain planners that explains demand forecast changes using grounded retrieval from sales, promotion, inventory, and supplier data. Implemented strict anti-hallucination guardrails and latency optimizations, deployed as a real-time AWS API with monitoring, and reported ~15% forecast accuracy improvement and ~12% supply-chain risk reduction. Experienced orchestrating data/ML/LLM workflows with Airflow, LangChain/LangGraph-style patterns, and AWS Step Functions while partnering closely with non-technical business users via demos and example-based requirements.”

Kunal Siddhawar

Screened

Mid-level Robotics & Embedded Systems Engineer specializing in perception and autonomy

Pune, India3y exp

“University of Michigan MDP / Atombots lab robotics engineer leading perception and sensor integration for multi-agent quadruped wheel-legged robots. Implemented and optimized RTAB-Map SLAM on Jetson Nano using Unitree L2 LiDAR + Intel RealSense D435i, including custom ROS 2 synchronization and TF2 calibration work; now building Apriltag-based tracking for multiple micro-robots to support decentralized swarm behavior research.”

“Data engineer at Capital One building AWS-based real-time and batch pipelines and backend data services for financial/fraud use cases. Has owned end-to-end pipelines processing millions of records/day, implemented dbt/Great Expectations quality gates, and tuned Redshift/Snowflake workloads (cutting query latency ~22–25% and reducing pipeline failures ~30–40%) while supporting 15+ downstream consumers.”

jiayu Zhao

Screened

Junior Quantitative Analyst and Full-Stack Engineer specializing in FinTech and web platforms

Chicago, IL6y exp

“Backend/distributed-systems engineer with AI infrastructure experience who built an AI-driven video generation platform, focusing on an asynchronous FastAPI-based orchestration layer between user APIs and heavy inference services. Strong in production instrumentation and latency/concurrency optimization; actively learning ROS 2 but has not yet worked on physical robotics or ROS-based deployments.”

Shram Kadia

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, cloud-native apps, and AI platforms

Santa Clara, CA4y exp

“Backend/full-stack engineer who has owned production systems end-to-end, including a Dockerized Node.js/TypeScript probabilistic fault-tree analysis service for nuclear safety research deployed on AWS. Also built and operated a FastAPI-based RAG pipeline over 200+ PDFs using FAISS, focusing on low-latency, idempotent workflows and strong observability; experienced with API design and Playwright E2E automation across React/Angular projects.”

Vincent Chou

Screened

Mid-Level Software Developer specializing in Android frameworks and performance

4y exp

“System-level Android/Java engineer (Motorola) who owned and shipped production reliability fixes in critical services, including resolving a race condition in Android UserManagerService that allowed concurrent duplicate clone-profile creation. Strong focus on correctness, invariants, concurrency safety, and observability; ramping toward product/full-stack work (Next.js/React/Postgres) with solid architectural grounding.”