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Vetted Recommender Systems Professionals
Pre-screened and vetted.
Sai Krishna Sriram
Mid-level Generative AI & ML Engineer specializing in production LLM and RAG systems
“AI/ML engineer who shipped a production blood-test report understanding and personalized supplement recommendation product, using a LangGraph multi-agent pipeline on AWS serverless with OCR via Bedrock and RAG over vetted clinical research. Also built end-to-end recommender system pipelines at ASANTe using Airflow (ingestion, embeddings/features, training, registry, batch scoring/monitoring) with KPI reporting to Tableau, with a strong focus on safety, evaluation, and measurable reliability.”
YESHA BHAVSAR
Intern Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and AI applications
“Built and deployed an "AI Closet" application as a personal product, owning full-stack and applied AI features end to end. Particularly interesting for recruiters because they combined Next.js/TypeScript product engineering with practical AI systems work, including OpenAI vision-based smart form fill, personalized recommendation learning, and a grounded RAG application with evaluation and regression testing.”
Nikhil Tatikonda
Intern AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM agents, RAG, and automation workflows
“AI automation builder who shipped an OpenAI-powered weekly "trending AI tools" WoW reporting system (65 categories) that reduced a 6–7 hour manual process to ~10 minutes at negligible API cost. Also building a RAG-based content creation prompt engine that turns PDFs into storyboards with fact-checking/traceback to source lines, plus experience with AWS deployment components (Lambda, ECR, App Runner, Bedrock, API Gateway) and GitHub Actions.”
Anjali Chandana
Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in NLP, computer vision, and MLOps
“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
Junior Full-Stack AI Developer specializing in LLMs and RAG applications
“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.”
Lincoln Chanakira
Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in cloud analytics and applied AI systems
“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.”
VENU ANUPATI
Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and LLM systems
“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.”
Emil Guirguis
Executive product leader specializing in AI, SaaS, and e-commerce
“Product leader who progressed from Director to VP while building a 0-to-1, award-winning B2B eCommerce platform on MACH architecture. Brings unusually hands-on AI product depth, including vectorized/document-based data foundations, RAG-powered commerce use cases, and a customizable GPT-based shopping assistant, while emphasizing human-supervised AI and customer-driven roadmap decisions.”
Sri Krishna Kolli
Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and full-stack development
“Early-career backend/data engineer with experience spanning university operations and banking systems. They’ve owned a Python-based automation that replaced manual alumni data maintenance at Georgia State University, cutting effort by 85% and centralizing 280+ profiles, and also worked on Java/Spring Boot services for legacy banking reconciliation and reusable multi-workflow APIs.”
“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.”
Jaykumar Kotiya
Mid-level Machine Learning & AI Engineer specializing in Generative AI, NLP, and MLOps
“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.”
prashanth Jamalapurapu
Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in data engineering, LLM/RAG pipelines, and recommender systems
“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.”
“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.”
Bhargavi Karuku
Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in ML, NLP, and Generative AI
“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.”
Bharat Potluri
Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and agentic AI systems
“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.”
VinaykumarReddy Junuthula
Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend APIs and ML-driven systems
“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
Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in causal inference and LLM research
“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%.”
Kenny Urena
Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in web platforms, APIs, and AI-enabled product systems
“Full-stack/AI engineer with very recent startup experience building creator and CRM AI platforms. They combine React/TypeScript frontend work with Python-based LangChain/LangGraph AI workflows and Go microservices, and have practical experience hardening third-party integrations through abstraction layers, versioning, monitoring, and alerts.”
Sharanya Rao
Mid-level Backend & Blockchain Engineer specializing in Cosmos SDK and EVM
“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
Mid-Level Software/AI Engineer specializing in backend systems, data pipelines, and RAG automation
“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.”
Atharva Jagtap
Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud and AI/ML applications
“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience across e-commerce personalization, enterprise RAG assistants, and cloud infrastructure automation. They’ve shipped AI features using Azure LLM APIs and vector search, improved recommendation engagement, and worked across frontend, backend, ML-informed analytics, and AWS infrastructure in early-stage environments.”
Robert Hodgen
Principal Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native distributed systems
“Former startup co-founder/CTO who built a student-opportunity platform from scratch and engineered a real-time, Google-like search experience despite database limitations. Also brings deep modernization experience, including migrating legacy enterprise systems to containerized microservices and delivering major search-performance gains on 20+ year-old databases using CDC and OpenSearch.”
Shreyas Gaikwad
Intern-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud and AI-powered applications
“Full-stack product-minded engineer with internship experience building operational web platforms from scratch, including a towing management system that replaced manual dispatch workflows and a property management platform for residents and administrators. Stands out for owning both UX design and implementation end-to-end, making pragmatic technical trade-offs, and translating messy real-world business processes into shipped software.”
Krishna K
Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in multimodal systems and LLMs
“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.”