Vetted Recommender Systems Professionals

“Engineer focused on real-time collaborative canvas products and AI-assisted design workflows, with hands-on ownership of both multiplayer infrastructure and LLM-powered generation systems. They combine strong TypeScript/full-stack architecture with production-grade AI evals and observability, and cite meaningful outcomes including zero sync-conflict bugs, rollout to 50,000+ DAUs, and major gains in onboarding speed and engagement.”

“Built and deployed a production-grade, multi-agent Text-to-SQL assistant that lets non-technical stakeholders query large enterprise databases in natural language. Uses Pinecone-based schema retrieval + LLM reasoning (Gemini/Claude/GPT) with a dedicated validation agent (schema/syntax checks and safe dry runs) to reduce hallucinations and improve reliability, while optimizing latency and cost via async execution and embedding caching.”

“Independent builder of production-grade systems: shipped an end-to-end URL shortener with JWT auth, Redis rate limiting/caching, Postgres, Docker, and real-time analytics, and separately architected a Redis-backed distributed task queue handling 1000+ tasks/min. Demonstrates strong distributed-systems instincts (atomicity, retries/DLQ, idempotency, heartbeats) plus a focus on maintainable code and self-documenting APIs (FastAPI/OpenAPI, versioned routes).”

“Backend/AI engineer who built production-grade intelligence systems in high-stakes domains including tax/legal document analysis and brain tumor MRI workflows. Stands out for combining LLM/RAG product delivery with strong engineering rigor around retrieval evaluation, grounding, validation, observability, and safe fallbacks—turning impressive demos into systems users could actually trust.”

“Built a production ad-spend optimization system that combined deterministic audit logic with LLM-generated explanations, surfacing severe inefficiencies including 70-90% wasted spend in some Google Ads accounts. Stands out for pairing measurable business impact with pragmatic AI safety and usability decisions, including approval-gated execution and structured, human-readable recommendations.”

Victor Iagnov

Screened

Executive engineering leader specializing in SaaS platforms and AI-enabled architecture

Windermere, FL9y exp

“Engineering executive and former CTO of 3DWORLD who helped scale the business through roughly 22x revenue growth and 15x customer growth over four years while building a 20+ remote cross-functional org. Unusually for a senior leader, they remain hands-on in architecture and production debugging, with recent depth in AI-powered support systems, retrieval-based knowledge workflows, and scalable full-stack platform design.”

“Built a full-stack dependency impact analysis product ('Blast Radius') that mapped runtime service relationships and reportedly reduced deployment incidents by 40%. Also developed AI evaluation and security benchmarking systems, including WebSEC Arena and a lyric-generation tool fine-tuned on 300,000 song lyrics, with academic interest strong enough to spur a research paper effort.”

“Data science professional who has built a production RAG-based LLM question-answering system ("Flash Query") to deliver fast, accurate answers over large document collections, focusing on retrieval quality and grounded responses. Also collaborates with non-technical retail/jewelry stakeholders to turn business questions into predictive models and dashboards for decision-making.”

“Built and deployed real-world systems end-to-end across security and healthcare contexts: led a 3-person team delivering a university vehicle tracking system with 30% cost savings and 1-year post-launch monitoring. Also implemented a healthcare RAG chatbot with adaptive query routing that cut LLM costs by 40% while maintaining answer accuracy, and has experience debugging non-deterministic LLM behavior in DevOps pipeline automation.”

“Data analytics and BI professional with experience turning messy institutional and customer data into decision-ready reporting and predictive systems. They combine strong SQL/Python execution with end-to-end ownership of churn analytics, stakeholder alignment, and operational rollout into dashboards and CRM workflows.”

“Full-stack engineer who has shipped and operated generative-AI chat/QA features end-to-end, including a RAG-based pipeline with guardrails and cost/latency monitoring in production. Experienced with React/TypeScript + Node/Postgres architectures, Dockerized deployments to AWS (EC2) via GitHub Actions CI/CD, and building reliable ingestion/ETL systems with idempotency, backfills, and reconciliation.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based multilingual analytics assistant for healthcare operations, enabling non-technical teams to query claims/EHR and risk metrics with grounded explanations. Demonstrates strong end-to-end LLM system engineering (retrieval tuning, re-ranking, hallucination controls, verification layers) plus workflow orchestration (Airflow/Composer/Step Functions) and stakeholder-driven iteration via prototypes and dashboards.”

“Backend/cloud engineer from Resilient Tech with hands-on experience deploying REST APIs and database migrations into a live ERP used by real customers while maintaining 99% uptime. Has debugged intermittent AWS container timeouts down to security group/load balancer misconfigurations, and has extended Python in an ERPNext system to meet GST/e-invoicing compliance requirements with strong customer collaboration.”

Karan Baid

Screened

Intern Machine Learning Engineer specializing in Generative AI and RAG systems

Jaipur, India

“Early-career AI/LLM builder who created and deployed a multi-agent news analysis agent (Patrakarita) using CrewAI, coordinating researcher/analyst roles to turn noisy article URLs into structured, prioritized outputs (claims, tone, verification questions, opposing views). Strong focus on orchestration debugging and reliability evaluation, including measuring hallucination/redundancy and improving reasoning by refactoring pipeline sequencing.”

Srikar Tharala

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and RAG systems

Remote, USA4y exp

“Currently at ProShare and reports building an AI/LLM-powered system deployed to production, aimed at helping with status-related difficulties and reducing misunderstandings across transactions. Also cites prior collaboration at Porsche with marketing teams, focusing on translating marketing goals into technical requirements and communicating solutions clearly to non-technical stakeholders.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience shipping multiple AI-powered products, including donor recommendation systems, RAG-based document Q&A, and cybersecurity threat analysis tools. Stands out for combining TypeScript/React and backend API development with practical LLM evaluation, grounding, and production optimization—driving measurable outcomes like 30% higher donor engagement and 87% answer accuracy under 2-second latency.”

“Frontend engineer with hands-on experience building production React/TypeScript dashboards for operations teams, including real-time ETL and service monitoring. Stands out for combining maintainable component design with practical performance optimization and map-based visualization work in data-heavy applications.”

“Senior backend/data engineer who has built and maintained HIPAA-compliant, real-time clinical FastAPI services on AWS, orchestrating ML/LLM and vector DB calls with strong reliability patterns (auth, timeouts/retries, graceful degradation, idempotency). Also delivered AWS IaC/CI-CD (Terraform/Helm/GitHub Actions) across EKS/Lambda/SageMaker and built Glue/Spark ETL with schema evolution and data quality controls, plus demonstrated large SQL performance wins (15 min to <9 sec) and hands-on incident ownership.”

“Backend/AI engineer with deep healthcare experience building production Python microservices that turn raw clinical audio into structured notes and insights. They owned systems end-to-end across architecture, launch, monitoring, and incident response, with measurable impact including 40% lower operating costs, 22% better latency, and 99.9% uptime in a regulated environment.”

“Built and owned a production RAG-based internal knowledge assistant end-to-end, from experimentation through cloud deployment and monitoring. Demonstrated strong practical GenAI judgment by choosing prompt optimization and retrieval tuning over fine-tuning for dynamic data, driving a 40% to 50% reduction in time to answer while improving relevance, lowering hallucinations, and increasing productivity.”

“Full-stack engineer who architected a university-wide assessment reporting platform integrating rich-text inputs, Oracle data, SSO, and bulk PDF generation. Stands out for pragmatic decision-making in low-dependency environments, strong collaboration with non-technical stakeholders, and hands-on performance work that improved banking page load times by up to 80% at Dapi.”

SIVA RAMAKRISHNA PALADI

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Mid-level AI/Full-Stack Engineer specializing in agentic AI and RAG systems

Santa Clara, CA5y exp

“Solo builder who shipped two ambitious AI products from scratch: Zoly, a healthcare/pharmacy automation platform with voice agents, RAG, clinician dashboard, and patient app live in 4 months, and Breeth, a contextual memory system for AI agents deployed on AWS. Particularly compelling for teams needing a hands-on full-stack/AI engineer who can operate in ambiguity, design for safety and compliance, and turn complex agent workflows into production products.”

Tharun Chowdary Malepati

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI, NLP, and production MLOps

5y exp

“AI/LLM engineer who built and deployed a production healthcare RAG chatbot ("DoctorBot") with strict medical safety guardrails, an 85% confidence-gated verification layer, and latency optimizations that cut responses from ~8s to ~2–3s. Also worked on finflow.ai to generate finance/banking test cases from BRDs, collaborating closely with non-technical domain stakeholders, and has hands-on orchestration experience with LangChain/LangGraph and agentic evaluation/monitoring practices.”

“AI/ML engineer with 9+ years of experience building production recommendation and LLM systems end-to-end, from experimentation through deployment, monitoring, and retraining. Stands out for combining strong MLOps discipline with practical GenAI/RAG implementation, including measurable impact such as ~25% higher engagement on an e-commerce recommender and nearly 30% faster knowledge retrieval from internal documents.”