Vetted Recommender Systems Professionals

“ML/NLP engineer who has built production systems end-to-end: a real-time recommendation platform (100k+ profiles) using BERTopic-style clustering and a RAG-based news summarization/recommendation stack with ChromaDB. Strong focus on scaling and reliability (GPU batching, Redis caching, Kafka ingestion, Docker/Kubernetes, Prometheus/Grafana) and on maintaining model quality over time via drift monitoring and retraining triggers.”

Puspa Oli

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP, Computer Vision, and FinTech AI

Kathmandu, Nepal2y exp

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped production RAG and agentic systems end-to-end (LangChain/FAISS, OpenAI+Gemini, FastAPI, Docker, Streamlit), focusing on retrieval quality and low-latency performance. Also partnered with a non-technical PM at deepNow to deliver a forecasting + summarization pipeline for daily market insights with iterative prototyping and a simple UI.”

“Research Analyst at Syracuse who deployed an LLM-powered lab automation system allowing researchers to run QCoDeS instrument workflows via natural language, with strong safety guardrails for real instruments and multi-instrument support. Also collaborated with non-technical stakeholders at iConsult on an audio classification/recommendation pipeline, translating business goals into metrics and Tableau dashboards with model comparisons and A/B test results.”

Ekta Mulkalwar

Screened

Junior Machine Learning & Full-Stack Engineer specializing in applied AI systems

Los Angeles, CA2y exp

“Master’s thesis focused on building and deploying a gait-based biometric authentication system using mobile accelerometer time-series data as an alternative to passwords/2FA. Emphasized real-world robustness by addressing sensor noise and variability (phone placement, walking speed, footwear) and improving safety using biometric metrics like FAR/FRR and EER, while collaborating closely with a non-ML thesis advisor.”

“Built and deployed a production bilingual (Bengali/English) AI virtual assistant that replaced IVR for telecom customer service at massive scale (~15M users), integrating ASR/TTS, Rasa dialogue management, and custom NLP. Overcame low-resource Bengali data and noisy call-center audio with synthetic data augmentation and transformer fine-tuning, achieving significant production gains including ~50% reduction in support calls.”

“Full-stack engineer and Scrum Master who led a major monolith-to-microservices migration, including a micro-frontend Angular architecture using Native Federation and staged integration into the legacy app. Also built a React + TypeScript “Business Risk” product featuring a metadata-driven dynamic dashboard/forms layer backed by Spring Boot + GraphQL, with strong QA practices (unit/integration/E2E via Cypress), CI/CD, and feature toggles.”

“Built and deployed an LLM-powered automation pipeline that ingests voice and documents, transcribes/extracts key information into structured data, and routes it through backend workflows using Python/FastAPI. Uses n8n to orchestrate multi-step AI processes with validation, retries, and monitoring, and iterates with stakeholders via rapid demos to refine changing requirements.”

Muhammad Midhat

Screened

Senior Full-Stack/Backend Engineer specializing in APIs, distributed systems, and AI integrations

9y exp

“AI/backend engineer who has built and scaled production LLM-powered SaaS features (document assistant + compliance review agent) on a Node.js/TypeScript + Postgres/Redis stack deployed to GCP Kubernetes. Demonstrates strong production reliability chops—async queueing, autoscaling, observability, and database tuning—with quantified wins (p95 latency -60%, query 4s to <200ms) and robust AI guardrails (strict RAG, schema validation, citations, HITL).”

“AI/ML practitioner with production experience building a RAG-powered contextual customer support agent, optimizing for low latency using vector databases and smaller LLMs. Also deployed a fraud detection model on Kubernetes with auto-scaling for heavy transactional loads, and improved chatbot accuracy by 15% through metric-driven testing and evaluation. Partners with Marketing on personalization/recommendation initiatives with measurable outcomes tied to customer feedback.”

“AI engineer with hands-on experience shipping production systems across semantic search, RAG/LLM applications, and computer vision. Built a personalized e-commerce search platform with measurable relevance and latency gains, and deployed grounded GenAI chat systems that significantly reduced hallucinations while lowering support burden. Also brings edge-deployment experience in monocular depth estimation and 3D reconstruction, suggesting strong breadth across modern applied AI.”