Vetted Reinforcement Learning Professionals

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered text-to-SQL/document intelligence chatbot on AWS that lets non-technical business users query complex enterprise databases in plain English. Demonstrates deep practical expertise in schema-aware prompting, embeddings-based schema retrieval, SQL safety/validation guardrails, and rigorous offline/online evaluation with human-in-the-loop approvals for risky queries.”

“Robotics software engineer with experience spanning safety-critical embedded medical hardware (low-cost neonatal baby warmer with PID temperature regulation) and advanced multi-robot planning research (belief-space planning with abstraction + MCTS to handle uncertainty). Strong ROS/ROS2 practitioner (Nav2/SLAM Toolbox/MoveIt) who builds custom packages (e.g., Insta360 panoramic imaging) and is hands-on debugging real robots from SLAM/frontier exploration to multi-robot collision avoidance and real-time performance.”

“Built a production-grade, semi-automated document recognition and classification system for large volumes of scanned PDFs, starting from little/no labeled data and handling highly variable scan quality. Deployed on AWS using SageMaker + Docker and orchestrated on EKS with a microservices design that scales CPU-heavy OCR separately from GPU inference, with strong reliability controls (validation, fallbacks, retries, readiness probes).”

“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.”

“Graduate student taking advanced coursework in NLP, generative image modeling, and computer vision; built a PPO reinforcement-learning agent for a Super Mario platformer with careful reward shaping and metric-driven evaluation. In a recent internship designing credit risk models, created a 10-method feature-selection voting framework and achieved ~10% out-of-sample performance improvement while reducing features to mitigate overfitting.”

“Built GynAI, an end-to-end maternal clinical decision support platform for OB/GYN practices and hospitals in North America, combining predictive ML with RAG-based LLM explainability. The candidate emphasizes real production ownership across experimentation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration, with reported impact including fewer delayed interventions in high-risk pregnancies and a 15-20% reduction in false positives.”

“Backend/AI engineer who built Matchable, an end-to-end AI-powered workforce matching platform using FastAPI, transformer-based NLP, PostgreSQL, and AWS, with a strong focus on practical system design tradeoffs. Also brings research-oriented experience from Los Alamos/ASU simulation work and has built multi-agent LLM workflows with schema validation and auditability, suggesting a thoughtful approach to reliability in AI systems.”

“Data scientist who has built production LLM agents (GPT-4o + LangChain + RAG) to automate analyst-style ad hoc CSV analysis with guardrails and GPT-as-a-judge evaluation. Also delivered an explainable healthcare NLP system for ICD code classification by collaborating closely with clinicians, using a hybrid rule-based decision tree + BERT model to reach 97% accuracy and cut manual review time.”

“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.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on SLAM, ROS2, and distributed multi-robot systems experience. Improved MAST3R-SLAM loop-closure place recognition by changing the ASMK/ASMKS retrieval similarity metric (L2→L1) and validated on 9 TUM sequences, keeping near real-time performance despite a 25–30% retrieval cost increase. Also tuned MoveIt motion planning for a 6-DOF arm (12% higher maze completion rate) and built MQTT mesh communications for ESP32-based AMRs, using Gazebo+Docker and CI-style automation for reproducible testing and deployment.”

Pranav Mishra

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLM agents, RAG, and MLOps

Charlotte, NC2y exp

“AI/ML engineer who has shipped production systems across computer vision and conversational agents: built a YOLOv8-based wheel fitment pipeline at a Techstars-backed automotive startup, focusing on sub-second latency, monitoring, and robust fallback mechanisms that drove 2–3x page view growth and +5–6k users. Also built a voice-based interview platform orchestrating Deepgram + GPT-4 Mini + OpenAI TTS with FSM-driven reliability, and has hands-on RAG experience (LangChain, hybrid retrieval, cross-encoder reranking, custom pseudo-query generation).”

Yashwant Gandham

Screened

Junior Machine Learning & Backend Engineer specializing in LLM systems and ML infrastructure

Boulder, CO1y exp

“Built and deployed production RAG-based document search/Q&A systems (DocChat and an internship marketing RAG), using a React + FastAPI stack on GCP with docs stored in GCP buckets and retrieval via embeddings/vector DB. Emphasizes cost/performance tradeoffs (reported ~40% cost reduction) and ships via Docker (Railway), with load/API testing using JMeter and Swagger; regularly collaborates with a CEO stakeholder to iterate and push changes to production.”

YERTAYEV ARMAN

Screened

Mid-level Robotics & Computer Vision Engineer specializing in SLAM and edge AI

Seoul, South Korea

“Robotics/SLAM-focused engineer who worked on RT-Appearance mapping using NetVLAD, replacing traditional CV feature extraction with a deep learning approach to improve loop closure in repetitive green environments. Has hands-on ROS1/ROS2 experience (including bridging), point-cloud alignment with G-ICP for sensor-parameter matching, and Gazebo+Docker simulation testing for motion planning/perception.”

Dhruv Bansal

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and distributed data pipelines

San Francisco, CA1y exp

“LLM engineer with production experience building end-to-end document processing workflows that unify layout analysis, OCR, and downstream LLM reasoning. Has implemented reliability features (retries, robust error handling, OpenTelemetry logging) and built agentic systems using LangChain/CrewAI, including a student research-paper assistant, while collaborating closely with PMs and non-technical end users to reduce technical debt and simplify architectures.”

“Analytics professional with experience spanning infrastructure, energy, and digital engagement data. They have built SQL and Python workflows to turn messy operational data into trusted reporting assets, and led a wind turbine SCADA analysis that quantified roughly $1M in cumulative performance loss and translated findings into actionable Power BI dashboards.”

“Backend-focused engineer who built Codesdev V1.0 end-to-end, a cloud-native IDE with secure Docker-based code execution across 8 languages and a custom PostgreSQL JSONB virtual file system achieving 34ms retrieval. Stands out for pragmatic early-stage decision-making, hands-on ownership from architecture through incident resolution, and a strong focus on security and low-latency backend design.”

“Robotics software engineer who built a ROS 2 Humble autonomous hospital-equipment detection/localization robot end-to-end in Gazebo (custom worlds/models, Nav2 waypoint navigation, YOLOv8n perception, TF2-based depth fusion) and solved real-time integration issues via multithreading and QoS tuning. Also implemented and tuned an MPPI controller to enable smooth reverse parking on an OpenPodCarV2 platform, including real-world reverse engineering and hardware/software debugging.”