Vetted Reinforcement Learning Professionals

“Built an Arduino-based obstacle-avoiding robot using sonar/laser sensors and improved performance from 0.60 to 0.87 accuracy through sensor-fusion thresholding and iterative tuning. In an internship, optimized a legal-document NLP pipeline by switching to a distilled/quantized transformer and offloading inference to a GPU-backed Flask service, cutting inference time by 40%+ without added infrastructure spend.”

“Full-stack engineer in healthcare and enterprise analytics who has shipped event-driven, near-real-time systems (Spring Boot microservices + Kafka + AWS) and large-scale patient/provider portals (50k+ users). Strong in production reliability and performance—measurably reduced claims latency (27%), cut support tickets (25%), and handled real AWS scaling incidents end-to-end. Also built a Python REST control plane for SDN routing integrated with external reinforcement learning agents.”

Koushik Alapati

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Mid-level Robotics Software Engineer specializing in perception, localization, and autonomous navigation

New York, USA4y exp

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on ROS2 experience building perception-driven navigation for AMRs, integrating YOLO11 + Depth Anything V2 and multi-sensor fusion (LiDAR/RGB-D/IMU) to boost pose accuracy by 30%. Strong in real-time debugging and edge deployment on NVIDIA Jetson (ONNX/CUDA), plus cloud-enabled telemetry (Azure) and simulation-driven testing (Isaac Sim) that cut physical test cycles by 25%.”

Ponugoti Sushma

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Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in IoT, edge AI, and enterprise ML

Texas, USA5y exp

“Built and productionized an LLM/RAG question-answering service over technical documentation, focusing on retrieval quality (reranking + IR metrics), latency, and scaling. Experienced orchestrating end-to-end ETL/ML workflows with Airflow/Prefect/AWS Step Functions and improving reliability via parallelism, retries, and shadow testing. Also delivered an explainable healthcare risk-flagging classifier with a stakeholder-friendly dashboard for a non-technical program manager.”

Sreedivya Nagalli

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Junior AI/ML Engineer specializing in deep learning and full-stack ML applications

2y exp

“Built and operated a production-used RAG-based AI study planner (GPT-4 + FAISS) that handled 250+ concurrent users, with real-world reliability engineering (caching, fallbacks, schema validation, Redis state, monitoring). Also has healthcare data integration experience at Medinet Analytics, standardizing messy EHR/practice-management data with canonical schemas, idempotency hashing, and compliance-grade audit trails.”

Lakshmi Priya Ramisetty

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Mid-level ML & Data Engineer specializing in GenAI, graph modeling, and fraud/risk analytics

Redwood City, CA5y exp

“Built a production AI fraud/risk scoring platform at BlueArc that ingests web business/product/site data, generates text+image embeddings, and connects entities in a graph to detect reuse patterns and links to known bad actors. Optimized for scale with incremental graph re-scoring and delivered investigator-friendly explainability by surfacing the exact signals/relationships behind each score; orchestrated workflows with Airflow and GCP event-driven components (Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Cloud Run) and has recent LLM workflow orchestration experience (retrieval, prompting, scoring).”

Sravya Chunduri

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

Virginia, USA4y exp

“AI/ML Engineer with 3+ years of experience spanning RAG pipelines, MLOps, large-scale data workflow automation, and resilient Playwright-based UI automation. At Black Hawk Network and Wipro, they describe shipping production systems with strong observability and compliance controls, including reducing flaky automation failures from 30% to under 2% and automating 3+ TB/day reconciliation workflows.”

“Senior product leader who helped transform Submittable from a single-program grant tool into a multi-program impact platform, driving ARR from $20M to $70M+ while improving retention and margins. Particularly strong in enterprise platform strategy and human-centered AI, with a clear philosophy of using AI to augment expert judgment rather than replace it.”

“Robotics software engineer with a Master’s thesis building an end-to-end monocular-vision pick-and-place controller for construction use cases on TurtleBot3 + OpenManipulator, spanning synthetic data creation, transfer learning, simulation in Gazebo, and real-robot deployment. Leveraged ROS distributed architecture to run two heavy AI models across networked GPUs to achieve usable real-time performance, and has production CI/CD experience as a Senior Software Engineer in AI/analytics.”

“Robotics/perception engineer who led and owned ARC, a cooperative perception system for autonomous vehicles that aligns and fuses multi-vehicle LiDAR point clouds in real time. Built a ROS-based multi-node pipeline with grid-based spatial reasoning and motion-compensated data sharing, achieving <20 ms compute latency and sub-7 cm alignment error; accepted to ACM SenSys 2026.”

“AI/ML engineer with experience at Northern Trust and Persistent Systems building production LLM + RAG systems for regulated financial use cases, including liquidity forecasting, anomaly detection, and credit scoring. Emphasizes compliance-first design with explainability (SHAP), traceability (MLflow), and hallucination controls (FAISS + citation-grounded prompting), and has delivered drift-triggered retraining pipelines using Airflow and Kubernetes while translating model outputs into business-ready marketing segments.”

“Graduate researcher who builds production-grade AI systems spanning LLM security evaluation and on-device RAG. Created HoneyLearner, a self-learning attack framework using GPT-4-class models as structured black-box attackers against honeywords defenses, with rigorous metrics and reproducible orchestration (Airflow/Spark/Kafka/Docker). Also partnered with agriculture scientists at Texas A&M–Corpus Christi to deliver UAV + 3D point-cloud crop-stress maps that cut time-to-insight ~40% and enabled ~30% earlier interventions.”

“Post-graduate, self-directed robotics/RL practitioner who independently built a modular reinforcement learning training framework in Python using Stable-Baselines3, Gymnasium, and PyTorch. Emphasizes reproducible experimentation (multi-seed validation), simulation (PyBullet/Box2D), and systematic comparison of algorithms/environments via a factory-pattern architecture.”

“Robotics software engineer who built and deployed a full custom ROS navigation stack (global/local planners) for a TurtleBot3 reconnaissance robot, validated in Gazebo and on real hardware. Has hands-on experience customizing MoveBase for an autonomous warehouse mobile robot internship and optimizing multi-robot ROS communications by pruning and throttling high-volume sensor streams, plus CI/CD automation via Bitbucket Pipelines and Docker.”

“Data professional with ~4 years of experience, most recently at AIG (insurance), building ML/NLP systems for fraud detection and policy automation using transformers, CNNs, and clustering/anomaly detection. Also developed a RAG-based knowledge retrieval system, iterating across embedding models and moving to production based on precision and latency SLAs, then containerizing and deploying with SageMaker and CI/CD.”

PRAHARSHA JANDHYALA

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Mid-level Data Scientist/Data Analyst specializing in ML, BI dashboards, and ETL pipelines

Dallas, TX4y exp

“Data/ML practitioner with experience at Humana and Hexaware, focused on turning messy, semi-structured datasets into production-ready pipelines. Built an age-prediction model from book ratings using heavy feature engineering and multiple regression models, and has hands-on entity resolution (deterministic + fuzzy matching) plus embeddings/vector DB approaches for linking and search relevance.”

Sabita Kumari

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Senior Full-Stack AI Engineer specializing in LLM/RAG agentic systems

Boston, MA11y exp

“Built and deployed JobMatcher AI, an LLM-driven workflow automation product for job seekers that extracts requirements from job descriptions, matches to user skills, and generates tailored outreach. Demonstrated strong production engineering by cutting per-run cost ~70%, improving reliability with retries/backoff/fallbacks, and reducing hallucinations via schema validation and templating; also orchestrated the system with LangGraph plus Docker Compose across API, vector DB, and workers.”

Anay Dongre

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Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in GenAI and LLM fine-tuning

Pomona, California1y exp

“Robotics software engineer focused on hard real-time autonomy for legged robots, building a quadruped navigation stack that combines vision SLAM with MPC and maintains a deterministic 500Hz control loop. Deep performance optimization experience across CUDA (sub-2ms perception latency), ROS 2/DDS real-time tuning, and motion planning (cut 500ms spikes to sub-5ms). Also designed distributed ROS 2 + Zenoh communications between quadrupeds and aerial drones and validated robustness under lossy wireless conditions.”

Erik Arriaga

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Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in cloud data pipelines and machine learning

Austin, TX4y exp

“Experience spans college-built AWS-hosted Python/Flask web apps and enterprise data work at General Motors, including PostgreSQL query optimization on millions of records and multi-tenant-style data isolation using group-based, column-level permission grants. Also built an AWS-hosted meat price prediction dashboard using Dash/Plotly and ran large nightly data pipelines orchestrated with Apache Airflow.”

“Built and owned production GenAI systems for both infrastructure automation and customer support. Most notably, they created a self-healing multi-cloud incident response system that automated 65% of tier-1 alerts and reduced application crashes by 75%, and also shipped a hybrid RAG support triage agent that automated 60% of tier-1 inquiries with human escalation guardrails.”

“Frontend-focused candidate who built Project Connect, a browser-based platform helping RPI students discover projects and collaborators. They show strong practical judgment in React/TypeScript UI architecture, usability improvements, and browser performance optimization, including DevTools-based debugging and state-management refinements.”

“Entrepreneurial product builder who created chaintrigger.com in response to early Web3 demand for real-time on-chain event reactions, offering an alternative to The Graph Protocol and achieving adoption among games and other Web3 projects. Currently developing new tools, dogfooding internally, and building distribution via personal network and a niche Twitter/X following to gather feedback and iterate quickly.”