Vetted Recommender Systems Professionals

Sridhar Duggireddy

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Executive Technology Leader specializing in Cloud Platforms, DevOps, and AI/ML

Tampa, FL21y exp

“Early-stage startup CTO helping build an AI-powered parenting assistant app with features spanning advice, shopping, task management, and inventory management. The team is currently testing an MVP with their network while the candidate simultaneously learns the seed/Series fundraising process through Connectd and early investor conversations.”

sai anuragh Sangoju

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

Dallas, Texas4y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered university support chatbot on Azure using a RAG pipeline, focusing on reducing hallucinations, improving latency, and handling ambiguous queries via confidence checks and clarification prompts. Also has hands-on orchestration experience (Airflow/Azure Data Factory), including hardening a demand-forecasting ingestion workflow with sensors, retries, and automated alerts, and uses a metrics-driven testing/monitoring approach for reliable AI agents.”

Mark Wlodawski

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Senior Unity Developer specializing in AI/LLM systems and multiplayer VR

Orlando, FL11y exp

“Backend/data engineer focused on AWS-native Python systems: built a FastAPI microservice on ECS/Fargate serving real-time analytics at millions of daily requests with strong reliability (OAuth2/JWT, retries/timeouts, correlation IDs) and autoscaling. Also delivered Glue/PySpark ETL pipelines to curated S3 Parquet/Athena with schema evolution + data quality controls, owned Airflow pipeline incidents, and has a track record of measurable performance and cost optimizations (e.g., ~80%+ query latency reduction; reduced logging/NAT/Fargate spend).”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered RAG knowledge system to unify operational/policy information across PDFs, wikis, and databases, emphasizing auditability and low-latency/cost performance. Improved answer relevance at scale by moving from pure vector search to hybrid retrieval with metadata filtering and reranking, and partnered closely with healthcare operations/compliance to define acceptance criteria and human-in-the-loop guardrails.”

“Built and deployed a production NLP sentiment analysis system at Piper Sandler to turn noisy, finance-specific customer feedback into scalable insights. Demonstrates strong end-to-end MLOps: fine-tuning BERT, improving label quality, monitoring for language drift, and automating retraining/deployment with Airflow and Docker (plus Kubeflow exposure).”

“ML/NLP engineer focused on large-scale data linking for e-commerce-style catalogs and customer records, combining transformer embeddings (BERT/Sentence-BERT), NER, and FAISS-based vector search. Has delivered measurable lifts (e.g., +30% matching accuracy, Precision@10 62%→84%) and built production-grade, scalable pipelines in Airflow/PySpark with strong data quality and schema-drift handling.”

Sachin Kulkarni

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Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, NLP, and AWS MLOps

New York, US3y exp

“Recent master’s graduate in robotics with applied experience across reinforcement learning and ROS 2 autonomy stacks. Built an RL-based drone vertiport traffic controller (PPO) focused on reward design and simulation integration, and has hands-on navigation work in ROS 2 including LiDAR preprocessing, SLAM/path planning, and stabilizing TurtleBot3 wall-following. Also brings deployment experience containerizing robotics nodes and scaling them with Kubernetes on AWS.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered demand and churn forecasting system for an e-commerce client, combining open-source LLMs (LLaMA/Mistral) and Sentence-BERT embeddings to generate business-friendly explanations of forecast drivers. Strong focus on data quality and model trust (validation, baselines, segmented monitoring) and production reliability via Airflow-orchestrated pipelines with readiness checks, retries, and ongoing drift/A-B testing.”