Vetted Recommender Systems Professionals

Susan Sorensen

Screened

Executive product leader specializing in EdTech, learning platforms, and AI-enabled outcomes

13y exp

“Education-focused product leader with 12+ years across Bridge LMS, Canvas, Kuali, and healthcare.gov, known for turning ambiguity into clear product strategy and shipping human-centered AI. They pair strong UX judgment with cross-functional leadership, including a Bridge AI course-creation launch that hit 76.8% admin adoption and a healthcare.gov enrollment redesign that cut session time to under 10 minutes.”

Anshika Bajpai

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and MLOps

Bloomington, IN4y exp

“Engineer with impactful experience at Palo Alto Networks and Optum, focused on production automation and AI-powered internal tools. Built and owned an end-to-end RAG knowledge system adopted by 1000+ internal users with roughly 75% faster response times, and also transformed a legacy Optum coverage-feed workflow from 500+ minutes to under 3 minutes through data standardization and microservices refactoring.”

“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).”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-based real-time stance detection system for social media, fine-tuning LLaMA 3.1 on A100s with DeepSpeed ZeRO/FSDP and iteratively refining data to handle sarcasm and context-dependent meaning. Also has Kubernetes operations experience (Kafka/Logstash/Elasticsearch observability pipeline) and delivered an OCR automation project during a Worley India internship that saved 20+ hours/week for on-site energy safety stakeholders.”

“Software engineer working on an e-commerce platform, currently building a RAG-based recommendation system with a team new to the technology. Has delivered an end-to-end React/TypeScript website for a local car dealer and built an internal "encryption as a service" tool to secure sensitive data across repositories and through release/UAT, with experience debugging microservices integration issues.”

“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.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG knowledge assistant integrating internal docs, wikis, and ticket histories to reduce tribal-knowledge dependency and repetitive questions. Emphasizes reliability via grounding + a validation layer, and achieved major latency gains (>50%) through vector index optimization, caching, quantization, and selective re-validation. Comfortable orchestrating end-to-end LLM/data workflows with Airflow, Prefect, and Dagster, including monitoring and alerting.”

Sanjana Duvva

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI, LLMOps, and MLOps

5y exp

“Built and deployed an AWS-based LLM/RAG ticket triage and knowledge retrieval system (Pinecone/FAISS + Step Functions + MLflow) that cut support resolution time by 20%. Demonstrates strong production focus on hallucination reduction, PII security, and low-latency orchestration, with measurable evaluation improvements (e.g., ~25% grounding accuracy gain via re-ranking) and proven collaboration with support operations stakeholders.”

“Analytics candidate with hands-on experience at AT&T building SQL/Python pipelines for churn, usage, billing, and network-performance data at multi-million-row scale. Stands out for combining strong data quality and reconciliation practices with measurable operational impact, including a 30% query runtime improvement and ~8 hours/week of reporting automation savings.”

Thomas Le

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in web, mobile, and health tech

Remote2y exp

“Developer who uses AI as a productivity accelerator while maintaining strong ownership of code quality, security, and readability. Built an AI-powered planning tool during the PolyPrompt hackathon that transformed messy project requirements into structured tasks, timelines, and assignments, and has also led human teams through Veggie Rescue with a focus on user-aligned execution.”

“Engineering leader with hands-on AI/ML systems experience spanning production inference infrastructure and consumer-facing LLM products. At Jio, they led a 17-person AI features team and delivered measurable execution gains, including 40% faster deployments and 35% lower prediction latency, while also building an end-to-end RAG-based meal recommendation product using OpenAI and Gemini.”

Wei-Hsien Wang

Screened

Entry-level AI Engineer specializing in full-stack generative AI systems

San Jose, CA1y exp

“AI/full-stack product engineer who has shipped both user-facing and internal LLM products, from a photo-to-music recommendation app to an experimentation agent at Azazie. Stands out for combining modern app development with production-grade agent and GraphRAG systems, including a 500k+ email analysis platform and measurable impact like 3x experiment velocity, 75% setup-time reduction, and 65% faster task discovery.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with PayPal experience building payment orchestration, settlement, and merchant risk systems at production scale. Stands out for combining cloud-native AWS delivery, database/query performance tuning, and reliability work in event-driven microservices, including a monolith-to-microservices migration that doubled deployment frequency and cut incident response time by 40%.”

Manoj Shinde

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud-native AI and FinTech systems

San Francisco, CA9y exp

“Full-stack engineer who has owned customer-facing reporting products end to end and also helped ship MemberGPT, an AI assistant for financial users. Brings a practical mix of React/TypeScript and Java/Spring Boot experience, plus hands-on LLM integration, retrieval grounding, evaluation, and production monitoring in a higher-trust financial context.”

“Interned at Zonda where he built an AI-driven semantic search solution over ~280M housing/builder records. Iterated from local LLMs via llama.cpp quantization to a vector-embedding retrieval system, then boosted semantic accuracy with a custom spaCy NER layer and re-ranking, optimizing for latency through precomputation. Collaborated with economics-focused stakeholders to reduce manual document/paperwork time by enabling natural-language search over internal data.”

“New grad who has shipped a production vision-language recommendation feature for a pet camera/mobile app, including building a tagged video dataset with human annotators and optimizing inference by FPS downsampling under device compute limits. Also built a multimodal MLLM benchmark using an LLM-as-judge (GPT-5-thinking) with a feedback loop, validated against human scoring, and measured post-feedback quality gains (12% average score improvement).”

“Researcher from the University of South Dakota who built a production medical RAG system to help interpret model predictions by retrieving relevant clinical notes and medical literature, overcoming retrieval accuracy and imaging-dataset challenges through semantic chunking and metadata-driven indexing. Also has hands-on orchestration experience with Airflow and Azure Data Factory, plus a pragmatic approach to LLM evaluation and stakeholder-driven iteration.”

“Data/ML practitioner with experience applying NLP and classical ML to large-scale customer data (2B+ records) for segmentation, prediction, and survey-text classification, delivering measurable business impact (~18% engagement efficiency). Has hands-on entity resolution across multi-source datasets and has built embedding-based semantic search using SentenceBERT + a vector database with domain fine-tuning (~20% relevance improvement), plus production workflow experience with Spark/Airflow and cloud tooling (AWS/Azure).”

“ML/AI engineer with production experience across retail and healthcare: built a real-time computer-vision shelf monitoring system at Walmart and optimized edge inference latency by ~30% using TensorRT/ONNX and pruning. Also partnered with CVS Health clinical/pharmacy teams to deliver a medication-adherence predictive model, using Streamlit explainability dashboards and achieving an 18% adherence improvement.”

“AI/ML engineer who has shipped production AI systems end-to-end, including an automated multi-channel (Gmail/WhatsApp/voice) candidate interviewing workflow and an enterprise RAG knowledge search platform. Demonstrates strong production rigor (monitoring, A/B tests, guardrails, schema validation, shadow testing) with quantified impact: ~60–70% reduction in interview evaluation time and ~20–30% relevance gains in RAG retrieval.”

Pranav Chand

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and LLM platforms

ServiceNow, CA5y exp

“Backend engineer focused on multi-tenant enterprise AI personalization and recommendation platforms, combining ML/LLM intent extraction with deterministic policy guardrails for compliance and auditability. Has hands-on AWS experience (ECS/Lambda/DynamoDB/S3) and led a careful DynamoDB single-table migration using dual write/read, canary + feature-flag rollouts, and strong observability/security (JWT/OAuth2, RBAC, Postgres RLS).”

Jackson Dike

Screened

Entry-Level Software Engineer specializing in Machine Learning and AI

Remote1y exp

“Master’s-level candidate with an academic project portfolio, including ownership of a Python-based video game recommendation system using unsupervised clustering. Has hands-on experience designing the system approach and validating recommendation quality with test cases, plus teaching assistant experience instructing Git/GitHub workflows; limited exposure to Kubernetes, GitOps, and large-scale infrastructure.”

Harshavardhan Reddy

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Data Scientist specializing in NLP, computer vision, and risk analytics

Albany, NY5y exp

“ML/AI engineer with Capital One experience building production-grade customer segmentation and fraud detection systems combining NLP (transformers) and anomaly detection. Strong MLOps and orchestration background (PySpark ETL, MLflow, Airflow, Docker/Kubernetes, Azure ML) with real-time monitoring/alerting and performance optimizations like quantization and caching, plus proven ability to deliver business-facing insights through Power BI/Tableau for marketing stakeholders.”

Akshit Modi

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in healthcare NLP and MLOps

Remote, USA5y exp

“Healthcare/clinical ML practitioner who built and productionized ClinicalBERT-based pipelines to extract and standardize oncology EHR data, improving downstream model F1 from 0.81 to 0.92 while controlling training cost via LoRA/QLoRA. Experienced orchestrating real-time AWS ETL/ML workflows (Glue, Lambda, SageMaker) and partnering with clinicians using SHAP-based interpretability, contributing to an 18% reduction in readmissions and full adoption.”