Vetted Recommender Systems Professionals

Pravalika Kuppireddy

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and intelligent automation

4y exp

“LLM engineer who built and productionized a system to classify GitHub commits (performance vs non-performance) using zero-/few-shot approaches over commit messages and diffs, working at ~5M-record scale on multi-node NVIDIA GPUs. Experienced orchestrating end-to-end LLM pipelines with Airflow and GitHub Actions, and emphasizes reliability via testing, guardrails, and observability while collaborating closely with non-technical product stakeholders.”

“Founding/early engineer experience across Asante and a Series A startup (Adgency), shifting from data science/ML into owning production full-stack systems end-to-end. Built core product flows (registration, business profiles, map service), AWS-deployed gRPC microservices with CI/CD, and operated low-latency agent/video ad generation workflows with retries/fallbacks and PostHog-based observability.”

“Built and deployed an end-to-end fintech product, FinSight, for bank statement analysis and financial Q&A using a production-style RAG architecture. Stands out for combining FastAPI, OpenAI embeddings, FAISS, hybrid SQL/vector retrieval, and practical reliability work like chunking optimization, validation, and low-latency performance tuning.”

“ML/AI engineer who built and productionized an NLP system at PurevisitX, orchestrating end-to-end ML workflows with Airflow (S3 ingestion through auto-retraining) and optimizing for drift and low-latency inference. Also partnered with Citibank risk teams on a fraud detection model, translating results via dashboards and iterating thresholds based on stakeholder feedback.”

“Software/ML engineer who built a production automated job-finding and cold-email personalization system for Fortune 500 outreach, using JobSpy for dynamic scraping, LangChain orchestration, and LLM+vector DB semantic search with grounding/relevance metrics and guardrails. Also delivered a predictive investment analytics platform for financial advisors, communicating results via Tableau dashboards and portfolio KPIs like Sharpe ratio and drawdowns.”

“Built and shipped a production RAG assistant using GPT-4, LangChain, and Pinecone/FAISS to search 50K+ institutional documents, with a strong focus on groundedness and hallucination reduction through retrieval optimization and re-ranking. Pairs this with a metrics-driven evaluation/monitoring approach (BLEU/ROUGE, manual sampling, logging) and workflow automation via Airflow, and has experience translating stakeholder needs into iterative AI prototypes.”

Meghana Nandivada

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in production ML systems and MLOps

2y exp

“ML/AI engineer (TCS) who built and productionized a customer segmentation and personalized-offer recommendation pipeline end-to-end (data cleaning/feature engineering/clustering through Flask API deployment in Docker with monitoring). Emphasizes reliability and operational rigor via validation checks, periodic retraining, model/API versioning, and latency optimization, and has experience translating marketing KPIs into usable dashboards for non-technical teams.”

Andrew Clayman

Screened

Senior Data Scientist specializing in ML, NLP, and production AI systems

Remote8y exp

“Machine learning/NLP engineer with deep Azure stack experience (Data Factory, Databricks/Spark, Delta Lake, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search) who built end-to-end production systems for semantic clustering, entity resolution, and hybrid search. Demonstrated measurable gains from embedding fine-tuning (~15% retrieval precision, ~10–12% nDCG@10) and designed scalable, quality-checked pipelines with MLOps best practices.”

Manali Patil

Screened

Senior Software Engineer & Engineering Manager specializing in cloud backend and manufacturing MES

Santa Clara, CA9y exp

“Customer-facing engineer who led recurring midnight ERP data-feed/B2B integrations from prototype to production, building reusable APIs and using Hangfire for job scheduling. Known for tight weekly customer iteration, strong documentation and test coverage (80%+), and cross-functional problem-solving with Operations/Quality/NPI to resolve data-collection and manufacturing-process constraints; has 2 customers live on the integration.”

“Built and deployed an enterprise RAG application at Centene to help clinical teams retrieve insights from large internal policy document sets, cutting manual research by 30–40%. Implemented custom domain-adapted embeddings (SageMaker + BERT transfer learning) and hybrid retrieval (BM25 + Pinecone) to drive a 22% relevance lift, and ran the system in production on AWS EKS with CI/CD, MLflow, and Prometheus monitoring (99% uptime, ~40% latency reduction).”

“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.”

“Built and owned production GenAI systems for both infrastructure automation and customer support. Most notably, they created a self-healing multi-cloud incident response system that automated 65% of tier-1 alerts and reduced application crashes by 75%, and also shipped a hybrid RAG support triage agent that automated 60% of tier-1 inquiries with human escalation guardrails.”

“Entrepreneurial product builder who created chaintrigger.com in response to early Web3 demand for real-time on-chain event reactions, offering an alternative to The Graph Protocol and achieving adoption among games and other Web3 projects. Currently developing new tools, dogfooding internally, and building distribution via personal network and a niche Twitter/X following to gather feedback and iterate quickly.”