Vetted R Professionals

Dhairya Desai

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in healthcare NLP and predictive analytics

Chicago, IL13y exp

“ML/NLP engineer with healthcare and industrial IoT experience: built an Optum pipeline that converted 2M+ physician notes into structured entities and linked them with claims/pharmacy data to create an actionable patient timeline. Deep hands-on expertise in production NER, entity resolution, and hybrid search (Elasticsearch + embeddings/FAISS), plus robust data engineering practices (Airflow, Spark, data contracts, auditability) and experimentation-to-production rollout via shadow mode and feature flags.”

Akhil Bharadwaj Mateti

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in Data Science and Machine Learning

Arlington, Virginia4y exp

“Robotics/AV perception engineer who built a semantic-segmentation road detection system and integrated it into a ROS-based real-time pipeline (ROS bag camera feed to live monitor) achieving ~12 FPS. Strong in practical deployment work: solved multi-library versioning issues (ROS/OpenCV/TensorFlow), containerized the stack with Docker, and optimized inference by shifting runtime to C++ for large latency gains on NVIDIA hardware.”

“Full-stack/AI product engineer who has shipped both a production-style React finance app and multiple LLM-powered systems end-to-end. Particularly strong in turning early-stage AI concepts into production workflows, including a Bedrock-based multi-turn chatbot with durable session memory and a medical credentialing document parser that cut pipeline failures by 50%+ on large, messy real-world files.”

“AI/full-stack builder with a track record of shipping practical LLM products in both hackathon and professional settings. Built ScoutR, an agentic football scouting platform that won Best Use of Gemini at HackCU 2026, and at Merkle shipped a GPT-4-based review-tagging tool that cut analyst tagging time by 90%.”

“AI/ML engineer with experience at Northern Trust and Persistent Systems building production LLM + RAG systems for regulated financial use cases, including liquidity forecasting, anomaly detection, and credit scoring. Emphasizes compliance-first design with explainability (SHAP), traceability (MLflow), and hallucination controls (FAISS + citation-grounded prompting), and has delivered drift-triggered retraining pipelines using Airflow and Kubernetes while translating model outputs into business-ready marketing segments.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG clinical document understanding and summarization system for healthcare, focused on reducing manual review time while meeting strict accuracy, latency, and compliance needs. Demonstrates strong MLOps/orchestration depth (Airflow, Kubernetes, Azure ML Pipelines) and a rigorous approach to hallucination mitigation through layered, source-grounded safeguards and stakeholder-driven requirements with physicians/compliance teams.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who has built and operated event-driven microservices platforms (FastAPI/React/TypeScript, Kafka, Kubernetes) and internal DevOps tooling. Delivered measurable impact through user-feedback-driven iteration (WebSockets update mechanism cutting redundant API calls ~30%) and operational improvements (deployment monitoring dashboard reducing rollback time ~40%), with strong focus on reliability, observability, and data consistency at scale.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered email assistant (“wood flow”) for a local pet resort to automate after-hours inbound email handling, including email categorization and context-aware auto-responses. Uses n8n for orchestration and applies CRISP-DM, load/edge-case testing, and RAG-based context retrieval, and has experience presenting AI solutions with budgeting and ROI to a non-technical founder.”

“AI/ML engineer (Merkle) with hands-on experience deploying RAG-based LLM applications and real-time recommendation engines into production. Strong in cloud/on-prem architectures, GPU autoscaling, caching, and network optimization—delivered measurable latency reductions (40–70%) and improved retrieval relevance by systematically benchmarking chunking/embedding configurations and validating pipelines via CI/CD.”

“Healthcare data/NLP practitioner with experience at UnitedHealthcare building production ML systems that connect unstructured call center transcripts and medical notes to structured claims data. Has delivered measurable impact (25% classification accuracy lift; ~30% relevance improvement) using classical NLP, embeddings (Sentence-BERT + FAISS), and AWS SageMaker deployments with robust validation and drift monitoring.”

“Engineering leader with a strong automation-first philosophy ("special treatment doesn't scale"), experienced in building self-service tooling and communicating clearly with executives via BLUF-style updates. Has delivered end-to-end business-driven solutions—from sourcing alternative vendor data to installing infrastructure and writing drivers/analytics—and led pragmatic architecture changes in R/Rserve that significantly improved performance while driving cloud costs toward near-zero.”

“AAA sports game QA tester who supported full development through launch and live updates, owning gameplay stability/regression risk. Experienced in triage-driven prioritization and in diagnosing complex crash issues (including thread synchronization) using evidence-backed Jira reports, then hardening coverage with stress/concurrency/soak and CI-integrated regression suites.”

“Data professional with ~4 years of experience, most recently at AIG (insurance), building ML/NLP systems for fraud detection and policy automation using transformers, CNNs, and clustering/anomaly detection. Also developed a RAG-based knowledge retrieval system, iterating across embedding models and moving to production based on precision and latency SLAs, then containerizing and deploying with SageMaker and CI/CD.”

PRAHARSHA JANDHYALA

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist/Data Analyst specializing in ML, BI dashboards, and ETL pipelines

Dallas, TX4y exp

“Data/ML practitioner with experience at Humana and Hexaware, focused on turning messy, semi-structured datasets into production-ready pipelines. Built an age-prediction model from book ratings using heavy feature engineering and multiple regression models, and has hands-on entity resolution (deterministic + fuzzy matching) plus embeddings/vector DB approaches for linking and search relevance.”

Sachin Dulla

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in NLP, fraud detection, and MLOps

Kentwood, MI3y exp

“Built and deployed a domain-specific LLM chatbot for research/support, cutting manual effort by ~50%. Demonstrates strong applied LLM engineering: RAG, prompt grounding with citations and fallbacks, embedding/top-k tuning, and production monitoring (confidence, latency, feedback loops). Experienced orchestrating agent workflows with LangChain-style pipelines and continuous evaluation to maintain reliability.”

Bhavishyasai Chigurupati

Screened

Mid-Level Data/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and cloud data platforms

Overland Park, KS5y exp

“Built and productionized an LLM-based financial document analysis system using a RAG pipeline, including robust ingestion/chunking/embedding workflows, vector DB retrieval, and an AWS-deployed FastAPI service containerized with Docker. Demonstrates strong applied expertise in improving retrieval quality and latency at scale, plus hands-on experience debugging agentic/LLM workflows with monitoring and trace-based analysis while supporting demos and customer-facing adoption.”

“Entry-level candidate who built NYC Lens, a real-time Gemini-based multi-agent system that processes live camera input, identifies landmarks, and returns structured contextual insights. Despite being a fresher, they show hands-on experience with deployment on Cloud Run, modular orchestration, noisy-data handling, and reliability patterns like retries, fallbacks, and explicit state management.”

Aaron Rodrigues

Screened

Junior Business & Data Analyst specializing in FinTech and banking analytics

Jacksonville, FL5y exp

“Analytics professional with Travelex experience spanning SQL ETL, Python-based machine learning workflows, and Power BI dashboarding in risk, fraud, and AML contexts. Stands out for replacing a $150K+ third-party compliance tool with internal dashboards and for materially improving operational efficiency through alert tuning, cutting alert volume by 50% and false positives by 60%.”

Bryan Jones

Screened

Mid-level Data Analyst specializing in analytics, budgeting, and sports data systems

Maryland, USA5y exp

“Baseball advisor/recruiter with a player-development lens shaped by his own injury experience, combining TrackMan-driven analytics with deep coach and program relationships. He has helped athletes navigate high-stakes draft, rehab, and college decisions, including identifying under-scouted talent like John Klein and supporting his path to the Twins' 40-man roster.”

“Enterprise implementation/deployment specialist focused on HRMS and payroll systems across APAC customers, combining cloud/hybrid (AWS/Azure/GCP) integration work with strong client-facing delivery. Demonstrated ability to debug complex production issues across application, database, and network layers (e.g., isolating VPN/router congestion) and to tailor Python-based data cleaning/scoring/utilities to customer-specific workflows.”

“Project leader in regulated healthcare SaaS who grew from data pipeline and configuration work into owning end-to-end enterprise implementations. Has led high-volume telehealth launches, managed plans serving up to 2 million members, and combines hands-on technical troubleshooting with executive-level stakeholder management.”

Saketh Kota

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist / ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI, RAG, and MLOps

Irving, TX4y exp

“Built and productionized a RAG-based LLM research assistant for biomedical and regulatory document search using Mixtral 7B on SageMaker, LangChain, and Milvus, cutting research time by ~40%. Has hands-on multi-cloud MLOps experience across AWS/Azure/GCP with Kubeflow/Airflow/Composer plus Terraform + ArgoCD, and applies rigorous evaluation/monitoring (latency, accuracy, hallucinations). Also partnered with a non-technical PM to deliver an insurance policy Q&A chatbot that reduced customer response time by 30%+.”