Vetted Reinforcement Learning Professionals

Akshay Bharadwaj Kunigal Harish

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP, computer vision, and LLM systems

Boston, MA5y exp

“Built a production multi-agent cybersecurity defense simulator orchestrated with CrewAI, combining Red/Blue team LLM agents, a RAG runbook retriever, and an RL remediation agent trained via state-space simplification and reward shaping for rapid incident response. Also partnered with quant analysts and fund managers to deliver an automated trading and portfolio management system using statistical methods plus CNN/LSTM models, reporting up to 15% weekly ROI.”

Ankush Desai

Screened

Junior Robotics Engineer specializing in ROS, perception, and robotic manipulation

2y exp

“Robotics software engineer focused on ROS2 autonomy stacks, with hands-on work spanning semantic 3D SLAM, sensor fusion, and controller customization. Built an indoor GPS-denied semantic SLAM system (>95% accuracy) and extended Nav2’s MPPI controller with a custom C++ critic to keep an agricultural rover centered in crop rows, boosting CO2 laser weeding effectiveness by 40%. Strong in simulation-to-real workflows (Isaac Sim, Gazebo Ignition) and deployment automation (Docker on Jetson Orin NX, GitHub Actions CI/CD).”

Vaishnavi M

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in MLOps and Generative AI

5y exp

“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

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning & AI Engineer specializing in Generative AI, NLP, and MLOps

Boston, MA6y exp

“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.”

Kunal Sanghvi

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in AI, NLP, and LLM systems

USA3y exp

“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.”

Raunak Bandyopadhyay

Screened

Intern-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI and web systems

Amherst, MA0y exp

“Backend-focused intern in telehealth who combined engineering, QA leadership, and emergency infrastructure ownership. Built a text chat feature and an OpenAI-powered therapy chatbot, then stepped up to rebuild AWS infrastructure after it was accidentally deleted, while also improving chat responsiveness and reporting a 30% engagement lift.”

keerthana bhukya

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and cybersecurity

Stockton, CA2y exp

“Salesforce-focused engineer with hands-on depth across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Apex, LWC, and Aura. Stands out for owning end-to-end automation features, making thoughtful async architecture decisions to balance performance and reliability, and designing responsive Lightning interfaces that hold up under large data volumes.”

“Robotics simulation/localization engineer who built a lunar crater navigation stack in ROS/ROS2 and Gazebo, including custom localization/perception/planning packages. Demonstrated strong debugging skills by using tf2 frame analysis to fix camera-to-base_link alignment, cutting heading error from 75° to 0.48°, and handled large NASA lunar imagery (~4GB) by converting/downsampling data for Gazebo.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across Python/Flask microservices and AWS serverless/data platforms (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Glue/PySpark). Demonstrated strong reliability and operations mindset (JWT/RBAC, retries/timeouts/circuit breakers, CloudWatch/SNS alerting) and measurable performance wins (SQL report runtime cut from 10 minutes to 30 seconds). Seeking ~$150k base and cannot travel for onsite meetings for the next 5–6 months due to family medical constraints.”

“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.”

“Unreal Engine gameplay programmer with shipped experience on Five Nights at Freddy’s (including Ruin), spanning end-to-end systems like save/load + checkpoints, math-heavy spline-based AI movement, and player movement tuning. Also implemented a networked PvP dash using Unreal’s prediction pipeline (FSavedMove_Character) with server-authoritative validation, and has demonstrated strong debugging under stress-test conditions.”

Sujay Surendranath Pookkattuparambil

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in computer vision and reinforcement learning

Chicago, IL3y exp

“Early-stage engineer with hands-on embedded prototyping experience (Arduino/Raspberry Pi) who helped build an award-winning smart glasses project enabling phone notifications via Bluetooth. Strong computer vision performance optimization background, including accelerating 120 FPS inference by moving from TensorFlow to PyTorch and deploying through ONNX + TensorRT quantization, plus Docker-based GPU deployment and CI/ML practices.”

Ronit Shetty

Screened

Entry-level Robotics Engineer specializing in SLAM, sensor fusion, and embedded avionics

Boston, MA1y exp

“Robotics software engineer focused on perception/SLAM and systems integration, recently built a quasi-dynamic mapping pipeline to track and reconstruct articulated objects (e.g., drawers) from RGB video using SAM2, COLMAP SfM, and 3D Gaussian Splatting. Also has strong ROS2 sensor-pipeline experience (custom messages, MCAP rosbag deserialization, tf2) and demonstrated real-time performance tuning by accelerating an ICP-based LiDAR SLAM component ~30x (from ~3s to <100ms per frame).”

“Early-stage founder exploring an AI-driven enzyme design startup, with prior hands-on experience building an agentic platform for antibody optimization. Combines deep technical biotech/AI knowledge with a disciplined go-to-market mindset focused on bootstrapping, pilots, and validating willingness to pay before raising capital.”

“Robotics software engineer with ~4 years of ROS experience who implemented a real-time diffusion-policy control loop entirely in Gazebo, focusing on inference-latency reduction (warm-start + truncated denoising) for stable closed-loop execution. Has hands-on experience building custom ROS control nodes, optimizing AMR navigation (SLAM + RRT) with sensor-fusion for dynamic obstacles, and designing deterministic multi-robot coordination; also uses Dockerized ROS environments and automated simulation/benchmark pipelines.”

“At ReferU.AI, designed and deployed an agentic RAG pipeline that automates multi-jurisdiction legal document drafting, emphasizing hallucination reduction through hybrid retrieval, validation agents, guardrails, and iterative regeneration. Experienced with orchestration frameworks (especially CrewAI) and rigorous testing/evaluation practices including human-in-the-loop review, adversarial testing, and production metrics/logging.”

“Co-founder at Skoolive who built a multi-agent LLM application to help users understand complex research papers (including PDF interaction and flowchart-style representations), moving from prototype to production using Gemini SDK and deployment to Runway. Also developed and demoed a web-agent benchmarking framework, running hands-on sessions with customer-facing teams to improve agent reliability and drive adoption.”

“Developed and productionized VL-Mate, a vision-language, LLM-powered assistant aimed at helping visually impaired users understand their surroundings and query internal knowledge. Emphasizes reliability and safety via confidence thresholds, uncertainty-aware fallbacks, hallucination grounding checks, and rigorous offline + user-in-the-loop evaluation, with experience orchestrating multi-step LLM pipelines (LangChain-style and custom Python async) and deploying on containerized infrastructure.”

“Robotics/ML engineer who benchmarks and adapts open-source robot action models, building synthetic datasets in Isaac Sim and modifying vendor code to scale training across multiple GPUs. Also built a production-style computer vision pipeline at Zortag—training a tiny YOLO-based classifier for fake-vs-real label detection and deploying it in a real-time iOS app with additional display/spoof detection.”

“Healthcare-focused ML/LLM engineer who built a production hybrid RAG workflow to automate prior authorization by retrieving from medical guidelines/historical cases (FAISS) and generating grounded rationales for clinicians. Strong in operationalizing ML with Airflow/Kubeflow/MLflow on SageMaker, optimizing latency (ONNX/quantization/async), and reducing hallucinations via evidence-only prompting; also partnered closely with clinical ops to deploy a readmission prediction tool used in daily rounds.”

“Built a production lead-generation system using AI agents that researches the internet for relevant leads and integrates RAG-based contact enrichment/shortlisting aligned to existing CRM data, enabling sales reps to focus more on selling. Also has hands-on AWS data orchestration experience (Glue, Step Functions) moving raw data into Redshift and evaluates agent performance with human-in-the-loop plus BLEU/perplexity metrics.”

Satish Kumar Reddy

Screened

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

Remote, NJ5y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG intelligent document understanding platform for healthcare clinical documents (notes, discharge summaries, diagnostic reports), integrating spaCy entity extraction, Pinecone vector search, and a Spring Boot API on AWS with monitoring and guardrails. Demonstrates strong MLOps/orchestration (LangChain, Airflow, Kubeflow/Kubernetes) and a metrics-driven evaluation approach, and partnered with a healthcare operations manager to cut manual review time by 80%.”

“Candidate is targeting a CTO Venture Studio role and positions themself as a technical partner to founders rather than a founder personally. They demonstrate strong fluency in early-stage startup evaluation, especially around validating whether a product truly tests the business hypothesis and whether the underlying technology can scale significantly.”

“Robotics software engineer working on GNSS-denied UAV localization using 5G PRS (OpenAirInterface + USRP B210) and multi-sensor fusion, with a published AIAA SciTech 2026 result achieving 1.5m RMSE on low-cost hardware. Also integrating a Vision-Language-Action model (SmolVLA) onto the Stretch 2 platform for language-assisted manipulation, leveraging ROS 2, imitation learning data collection with RGB-D, and simulation in Gazebo/MuJoCo for sim-to-real deployment.”