Vetted Recommender Systems Professionals

“AI Engineer at DXC Technology who has shipped production LLM/NLP systems on AWS (SageMaker, FastAPI) and optimized them for real-time latency and unpredictable traffic using quantization, batching, and autoscaling. Strong MLOps and monitoring discipline (MLflow, CloudWatch, SageMaker Model Monitor) and proven business impact—delivered models with 92% predictive accuracy and cut enterprise decision-making time by 30% through close collaboration with product managers.”

Anjana Priya Swathi Samudrala

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Junior Full-Stack AI Developer specializing in LLMs and RAG applications

Orlando, US2y exp

“Product-minded software engineer who owned a Shopify POS app end-to-end at Swym, shipping an MVP and then scaling iteration speed with E2E automation and CI/CD—resulting in a Shopify Badge, Top-5 App Store ranking, and +40% new user acquisition. Also built an ESG insights tool using React/TypeScript + FastAPI with Snowflake and a RAG pipeline, plus microservices patterns (async jobs, queues, DLQs, autoscaling) and internal Metabase/SQL analytics dashboards.”

“Hands-on backend engineer with practical experience improving latency in Django-based API systems by fixing missing indexes and eliminating N+1 queries. Also built an AI scheduling system using FastAPI, a relational database, AI/ML workflows, and an operational reporting dashboard, with a clear bias toward correctness and maintainable architecture.”

“Senior AI/ML engineer with hands-on experience building production LLM systems in healthcare, including RAG-based clinical question answering and end-to-end MLOps on Vertex AI and Kubernetes. They combine strong platform engineering with applied GenAI work, citing a 35% improvement in factual accuracy and a 30% boost in internal team productivity through modular Python services and CI/CD.”

prashanth Jamalapurapu

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in data engineering, LLM/RAG pipelines, and recommender systems

5y exp

“Research assistant at St. Louis University who built and deployed a production document-intelligence RAG system (Python/TensorFlow, vector DB, FastAPI) on AWS, focusing on grounding to reduce hallucinations and latency optimization via caching/async/batching. Also developed a personalized recommendation system for the Frenzy social platform and partnered closely with product/UX to define metrics and iterate on hybrid recommenders and cold-start handling.”

Jaykumar Kotiya

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Mid-level Machine Learning & AI Engineer specializing in Generative AI, NLP, and MLOps

Boston, MA6y exp

“Built and deployed production LLM systems for summarizing sensitive legal and financial documents, emphasizing GDPR-aligned privacy controls and scalable hybrid cloud architecture. Experienced with Kubernetes/Airflow orchestration and rigorous testing/monitoring practices, and has delivered measurable business impact (18% conversion lift) by translating AI outputs for non-technical marketing stakeholders.”

Vaishnavi M

Screened

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

5y exp

“At Liberty Mutual, built a production underwriting decision assistant combining LLM reasoning with quantitative models and strong auditability. Implemented a claims-based response verification pipeline that cut hallucinations from 18% to 3% and materially improved user trust/validation scores. Experienced orchestrating ML/LLM workflows end-to-end with Airflow, Kubeflow Pipelines, and Jenkins, including SLA-focused pipeline hardening.”

Kunal Sanghvi

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Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in AI, NLP, and LLM systems

USA3y exp

“Built and deployed a production AI customer support chatbot at Unique Design Inc. using FastAPI, AWS, Docker, and retrieval-based grounding on internal documents. Stands out for hands-on ownership across discovery, deployment, incident debugging, and post-launch iteration, with a strong focus on making LLM systems reliable and safe in real business workflows.”

“AI/LLM engineer with production experience building an LLM-powered investment recommendation system using RAG and chatbots, deployed via Docker/CI/CD and scaled on Kubernetes. Demonstrated measurable performance wins (sub-200ms latency) through QLoRA fine-tuning and TensorRT INT8/INT4 quantization, plus strong MLOps/orchestration background (Airflow ETL + scoring, MLflow monitoring) and stakeholder-facing delivery using demos and Tableau dashboards.”

“LLM/RAG practitioner who has taken a support-ticket triage automation system from prototype to production, building the full pipeline (fine-tuned models, FastAPI inference services, vector storage, monitoring) and delivering measurable impact (~40% reduction in triage time). Demonstrates strong operational troubleshooting of LLM/agentic workflows (observability-driven debugging, fixing agent routing/looping) and supports adoption through tailored demos and sales-aligned technical communication.”

“Internship experience at Paycom owning an end-to-end personalized course recommendation feature for an LMS, spanning SQL-based data pipelines, ML integration, and FastAPI REST services for real-time recommendations. Focused on production tradeoffs (latency vs. accuracy), scaling/SQL optimization, and post-launch iteration driven by engagement metrics.”

Sonam Chhatani

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Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in causal inference and LLM research

New York, USA8y exp

“LLM engineer who has deployed a production system combining LLMs with causal inference (DoWhy) to enable counterfactual “what-if” analysis for experimental research, including a robust variable-mapping/validation layer to reduce hallucinations. Also partnered with non-technical operations leadership at Irriion Technologies to deliver an AI-assisted onboarding workflow that cut onboarding time by 50% and reduced manual errors by ~40%.”

Sharanya Rao

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Mid-level Backend & Blockchain Engineer specializing in Cosmos SDK and EVM

Remote, USA4y exp

“Built and productionized an LLM+RAG lending assistant on AWS to help loan officers quickly answer questions from credit policies and prior decisions, tackling hallucinations with retrieval-only responses and a no-context fallback. Also automated end-to-end ETL and model retraining/deployment using Apache Airflow, and has experience translating clinical stakeholder needs (doctors/care managers) into ML features, metrics, and dashboards.”

Mrudula Devaguptapu

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Mid-Level Software/AI Engineer specializing in backend systems, data pipelines, and RAG automation

United States3y exp

“Backend engineer with experience modernizing high-traffic subscription and payment systems (TCS) by moving to event-driven Spring Boot microservices with Kafka, adding idempotency/state management to eliminate duplicate processing. Built and scaled FastAPI services for AI automation workflows (360DMMC) with versioned contracts, JWT security, and strong observability, and has led live refactors using feature flags, parallel runs, and data reconciliation.”

Krishna K

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Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in multimodal systems and LLMs

Jersey City, NJ2y exp

“Built and productionized a domain-specific LLM-powered RAG knowledge assistant at JerseyStem for answering questions over large internal document corpora, owning the full stack from FAISS retrieval and LoRA/QLoRA fine-tuning to AWS autoscaling GPU deployment. Drove measurable gains (28% accuracy lift, 25% latency reduction) and improved reliability through hybrid retrieval, grounded decoding, preference-model reranking, and Airflow-orchestrated pipelines (35% faster runtime), while partnering closely with non-technical stakeholders to define success metrics and ensure adoption.”

Arpit Singh

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Director-level Head of Technology specializing in e-commerce platforms and digital transformation

Dubai, UAE13y exp

“B2B product builder with prior experience taking products from 0-1 and scaling to revenue; previously implemented e-commerce search and turned it into a monetized paid-results/bidding platform requiring architectural changes and GTM alignment. Now exploring a startup idea focused on retention and upsell for B2B companies, targeting the underserved long-tail partner segment and already validating the gap with industry leaders and POC conversations.”

“Junior web developer turned applied AI builder who has shipped both user-facing web UX improvements (Vue.js + Drupal/Twig) and production LLM systems. Built a Google Cloud-hosted Llama/Ollama RAG customer-service chatbot with citation-based guardrails and a metrics-driven eval loop, and also delivered a large-scale Python pipeline analyzing 14M Amazon consumer reviews for flavor-trend detection.”

RAUNAQ BEDI

Screened

Entry-level Software Engineer specializing in AI, data engineering, and cloud DevOps

San Francisco, CA1y exp

“Product-minded full-stack engineer with strong React/TypeScript, serverless AWS, and Postgres depth, highlighted by owning real-time personalization and onboarding experiences at mParticle. Stands out for combining deep performance debugging with measurable product impact—improving activation by 28%, reducing time-to-insights by 35%, and building reusable internal platform primitives adopted by 12 teams.”