Vetted Recommender Systems Professionals

shivapriya pillalamarri

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in financial analytics and production ML systems

Boston, MA4y exp

“Analytics candidate with experience in financial transaction and fraud detection projects, combining SQL data preparation, Python-based automation, and dashboarding. They have owned projects from stakeholder alignment and metric definition through rollout, with emphasis on reducing false positives, improving operational efficiency, and making analytics outputs easy for business teams to adopt.”

“ML/AI engineer at PNC who has shipped enterprise-grade RAG and document intelligence systems for compliance and policy workflows. Stands out for combining LLM product thinking with production rigor—owning FastAPI/Kubernetes deployments, monitoring, evaluation, and human-feedback loops that drove measurable gains like 40% faster policy search and 30% faster compliance review.”

“Engineer with a process-driven approach to AI-assisted software development, focused on orchestrating where AI adds value while maintaining human review and verification. Has applied this in backend work such as an S3-based invoice pipeline and used multi-agent workflows to speed up large API refactors across many endpoints.”

“Backend/platform engineer who has owned a Python/FastAPI results API and deployed it on Kubernetes with Helm and GitHub Actions-driven CI/CD. Demonstrates strong production operations mindset across performance tuning, monitoring, safe rollouts/rollbacks, and phased migrations, plus hands-on Kafka streaming experience focused on ordering and idempotency.”

“AI automations intern at a lean US-based marketing agency who works directly with founders and builds practical GTM systems end-to-end. He combines ML/LLM tooling with outbound execution, including a clustering-based recommender that improved client lead generation by 30% in two weeks and a personal cold outreach engine that achieved a 12%+ reply rate.”

“Built internal product features at Sysco's Collab Cafe across React/TypeScript frontend and Spring Boot/PostgreSQL backend, including a full project invite flow and an early AI-style project matching capability. Stands out for owning features end-to-end, improving React dashboard performance with profiling and component refactoring, and making pragmatic 0→1 tradeoffs to ship quickly.”

“Verizon engineer who productionized an LLM-based personalization capability for a customer-facing digital platform, owning the path from success metrics through scalable APIs, A/B validation, and post-launch monitoring (latency/accuracy/drift). Experienced in diagnosing and fixing real-time LLM/RAG workflow issues under peak load, and in enabling adoption via tailored technical demos/workshops and sales support materials.”

“Backend engineer with experience evolving a real-time transaction and rewards processing platform from a tightly coupled architecture into domain-based microservices. Uses REST plus Kafka for synchronous vs. asynchronous workflows, and builds Python/FastAPI APIs with Pydantic contracts, Docker/Kubernetes deployments, and JWT/OAuth-based security; has also supported analytics/dashboard use cases (Power BI).”

“LLM/RAG engineer with production deployments in highly regulated domains (Frost Bank and GE Healthcare). Built secure, explainable document-grounded Q&A systems using LoRA fine-tuning, strict RAG with confidence thresholds, and citation-based responses; also established evaluation/monitoring (golden QA sets, hallucination tracking, drift) and achieved ~40% latency reduction through retrieval/prompt tuning.”

“Backend engineer who built an e-commerce order processing service in Python/Flask with PostgreSQL, focusing on correctness and reliability (idempotency, Redis locks, async payment processing with circuit breakers). Also integrated an ML recommendation system as a separate FastAPI inference service with caching and async embedding updates, reporting ~25% CTR lift, and has experience with multi-tenant isolation using PostgreSQL row-level security.”

“Built and deployed a GPT-based RAG enterprise search system for healthcare clinicians, emphasizing low-latency performance and reduced hallucinations while maintaining end-to-end HIPAA compliance. Demonstrates deep applied experience with PHI-safe data governance (detection/redaction/de-identification), secure Azure ML deployment patterns, and orchestration of production LLM workflows using LangChain and Airflow.”

“Accenture data/ML practitioner who deployed a retail churn prediction and BERT-based sentiment analysis system to production, integrating behavioral + feedback data and operationalizing it with ETL automation, orchestration, and CI/CD. Experienced managing 2TB+ multi-source data, monitoring drift in Databricks, and translating results into Power BI dashboards for marketing teams (including K-means customer segmentation).”

“Built and deployed a production compliance automation RAG system (at Citi) that generates citation-backed, schema-validated risk summaries for regulatory document review. Emphasizes regulated-environment reliability with retrieval-only grounding, abstention, confidence thresholds, and immutable audit logging, plus orchestration using LangChain/LangGraph and Airflow. Reported ~60% reduction in compliance review effort while maintaining high precision and traceability.”

“ML/LLM engineer who has shipped production RAG systems (LangChain + HF Transformers + FAISS) with hybrid retrieval and cross-encoder re-ranking, deployed via FastAPI/Docker/Kubernetes and monitored with MLflow. Also partnered with wealth advisors at Edward Jones to deliver a client retention model with SHAP-driven explanations and a dashboard that improved trust, adoption, and reduced high-value client churn.”

“GenAI/ML engineer who has shipped production agentic systems in highly regulated and high-throughput environments, including an AWS Bedrock-based fraud/compliance workflow at U.S. Bank with PII redaction and hallucination detection that cut investigation time by 50%+. Also built and evaluated RAG and recommendation systems at Target, using RAGAS-driven testing, hybrid retrieval with re-ranking, and SHAP explainability dashboards to align model behavior with merchandising business KPIs.”

Uday kumar swamy

Screened

Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in MLOps and NLP/GenAI

Chicago, USA9y exp

“Built a production LLM-agent framework for a startup that performs daily financial/trading analysis by combining live market data with internal tools, including a centralized memory module to prevent context drift and reduce hallucinations. Also implemented an Airflow-orchestrated retail price forecasting pipeline deployed to AWS endpoints, scaling parallel workloads via Kubernetes Executor and validating systems with rigorous functional + LLM-specific metrics and cross-team collaboration.”

Young Joon Suh

Screened

Senior Research Scientist specializing in AI for autonomous driving and semiconductors

Seoul, Korea5y exp

“Robotics perception engineer focused on autonomous driving 3D detection, integrating PETR embeddings into BEVFormer and tackling hard orientation/temporal alignment issues in multi-camera BEV pipelines. Uses Gazebo with custom sensor plugins to validate calibration, timing, and transforms, and blends synthetic labels with real imagery for scalable 3D box generation.”

Aditya Agrawal

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and data engineering

1y exp

“Backend/AI engineer who has built and shipped two products: Know Founder (Python/SQL/AWS) scaling to 2,000+ users in the first month, and Unifr (unifr.online), an AI search visibility engine that queries multiple LLMs and turns responses into structured brand insights. Strong in production reliability/performance (Redis caching, indexing, precomputation) and in designing agentic workflows with guardrails, validation, retries, and human escalation.”

Akhila Kannegari

Screened

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

Alabama, USA4y exp

“ML-focused candidate with strong Wells Fargo experience building production fraud systems and internal GenAI tools for fraud analysts. Stands out for measurable impact in fraud detection—raising recall from 71% to 88%—while also demonstrating hands-on depth across streaming infrastructure, MLOps, LLM/RAG implementation, and Python service architecture.”

Naveena Musku

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in agentic AI and LLM systems

5y exp

“Backend engineer focused on productionizing LLM systems: built a FastAPI-based RAG and multi-agent automation platform deployed with Docker/Kubernetes, prioritizing safe execution and reduced hallucinations. Experienced in refactoring monolithic ML services with feature-flagged incremental rollouts, and implementing JWT/RBAC plus row-level security (e.g., Supabase) for secure, scalable APIs.”

“Early-career solutions engineer with experience spanning Dell Technologies and insurance operations, combining enterprise hybrid cloud pre-sales exposure with hands-on AI and API integration work. Completed a master's at Illinois Institute of Technology while building customer-facing experience in technical discovery, POCs, security/compliance discussions, and workflow automation.”

“Full-stack/backend-leaning engineer with experience spanning fintech platforms, internal AI/RAG assistants, real-time analytics systems, and a zero-to-one academic web platform. Stands out for combining hands-on backend and infrastructure work with product ownership, team guidance, and measurable impact like cutting troubleshooting lookup time from 30 minutes to under 8 minutes and creating reusable UI components adopted across multiple projects.”

“AI/LLM engineer who built a production autonomous GenAI content ecosystem that generates short-form scripts, extracts viral highlights from long-form video, and dubs content into 33+ languages. Focused on making LLM outputs production-safe via schema enforcement, token-to-time alignment, critic-agent verification, and scalable async orchestration—cutting manual workflows by ~90% and saving $200k+ annually.”

“ML practitioner with hands-on experience adapting diffusion models (DDPM + U-Net in PyTorch) to improve low-dose CT medical imaging quality via denoising and upsampling against high-dose ground truth. Also built a RAG workflow during a recent internship by cleaning client survey data, embedding with OpenAI text-embedding-3-large, and indexing in Pinecone with MD5 deduplication, alongside a strong emphasis on production-grade Python practices.”