Vetted Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Professionals

“Senior/Lead Frontend/Full-Stack engineer in Toronto with proven experience shipping high-stakes, real-time and regulated products across healthcare, legal/compliance, and fintech. Built a real-time compliance dashboard that survived a 400% data spike and a no-code workflow builder supporting 500+ nodes, with strong emphasis on performance engineering, type-safe architecture, and automated quality/rollout practices.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based AI assistant for sales reps to unify access to product info, pricing, and internal documents across multiple systems. Implemented ETL pipelines for normalization/chunking/embeddings, integrated the assistant into internal React/TypeScript UIs with user-specific context, and enforced security with private vector storage and permission-filtered retrieval.”

“LLM/MLOps engineer who has shipped a production RAG-based technical documentation assistant (FastAPI) cutting manual review by 45%, with deep hands-on retrieval optimization in Pinecone/LangChain (HNSW, hybrid + multi-query search, caching). Also brings healthcare domain experience—building Airflow-orchestrated EHR pipelines and delivering FDA-auditability-friendly predictive maintenance solutions using SHAP/LIME explainability surfaced in Power BI.”

“ML/LLM engineer with production experience building a compliant RAG-based virtual assistant at Intuit, optimizing embeddings and FAISS retrieval (including PCA) for low-latency, privacy-controlled search and deploying via AWS SageMaker containers. Also built scalable Airflow+MLflow pipelines using Docker and KubernetesExecutor, cutting training cycles by 37%, and partnered with civil engineers/project managers at Aegis Infra to deliver predictive maintenance for construction equipment.”

“AI Engineer Co-Op at Northeastern University who built a production Patient Persona Chat Bot to help nursing students practice clinical interactions, fine-tuning Llama 3 and integrating a LangChain + Pinecone RAG pipeline deployed on Amazon Bedrock. Emphasizes clinical accuracy and reliability with guardrails, retrieval filtering, and continuous evaluation, and also brings strong data engineering/orchestration experience (Airflow, EMR/PySpark, ADF, dbt, Databricks, Snowflake).”

“LLM/GenAI engineer who built a production AI-powered credit risk policy summarization and compliance alerting platform at HCL Tech, focused on factual accuracy and auditability for a financial client. Implemented a multi-retriever LangChain RAG architecture with citations-only prompting, fallback agents, and human-in-the-loop legal review—cutting manual review time by 35% and scaling to 12 teams.”

“LLM/agentic AI builder who led end-to-end integration of an LLM system into a business intelligence product, creating a scalable, metadata-driven RAG/agent pipeline with an orchestrator that routes queries to specialized agents (including DB-backed quantitative querying). Also built an LLM-to-SQL chatbot and partnered with non-technical stakeholders to capture domain context and improve SQL generation, using automated LLM-based testing to evaluate reliability.”

“Backend engineer with cloud-native Python/Flask experience building high-throughput financial platforms (loan origination intelligent document processing and real-time fraud detection). Has scaled microservices on AKS with event-driven Azure messaging, delivered measurable performance gains (e.g., 700ms→180ms query latency; ~40% API improvements), and implemented strong security controls (OAuth2/JWT, Azure AD RBAC, audit logging, AES-256/TLS) for sensitive regulated data.”

“Built a demo-live LangGraph/LangSmith LLM agent that translates natural language into SQL against a self-built MLB statistics database, using a vector-store knowledge base of example queries. Focused on predictable orchestration via conditional nodes, YAML-driven behaviors, and tool-gated function calling, with testing via LangSmith and Python scripts.”

Vidit Naik

Screened

Junior AI/ML & Full-Stack Engineer specializing in LLMs and RAG systems

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Forward-deployed engineer who built a production AI drone-control chatbot that lets users fly a drone via natural language while viewing a real-time feed. Implemented RAG over drone SDK documentation (vector DB + top-k retrieval) and LoRA fine-tuning, with a focus on latency, token efficiency, and cost reduction, and regularly works with non-technical clients to integrate and explain AI system architecture.”

Filmon Tesfay

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud-native FinTech and AI platforms

New York, NY8y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong production ownership: built and operated a real-time transaction monitoring/fraud-alerting system using Java Spring Boot, Kafka, Docker, and AWS with CI/CD. Demonstrates metrics-driven operations (latency, stability, consumer lag, true/false positives) and reliability patterns for integrations (idempotency, retries/backoff, DLQs, reconciliation/backfills), plus modern React/TypeScript + Node/Postgres architecture experience.”

Ramya Sree Kanijam

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in LLM, RAG, and cloud AI

Corpus Christi, TX3y exp

“Recent master’s graduate who led a team project building an LLM-based chatbot with RBAC-controlled information disclosure and a focus on reducing hallucinations. Also has hands-on embedded robotics experience (Arduino obstacle-avoiding robot using ultrasonic sensors) and practical DevOps/cloud deployment exposure with Docker, Terraform, Jenkins, and AWS (EKS/ECS/CodePipeline).”

Butchi Venkatesh Adari

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLM platforms and robotic perception

NewYork, NY4y exp

“Built and shipped a production multi-agent personal financial assistant at AlphevaAI on AWS ECS, combining FastAPI microservices, Redis/SQS orchestration, and Pinecone-based hybrid RAG (semantic + BM25) to ground financial guidance. Improved routing accuracy with an embedding-based SetFit + logistic regression intent classifier feeding an LLM router, and optimized UX with live streaming plus cost controls via model tiering and caching.”

Akshay Katageri

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in multi-agent systems and RAG

Jersey City, NJ4y exp

“Built and shipped a production LangGraph-based multi-agent LLM analytics/decision copilot that answers questions across SQL/BI systems and unstructured docs, emphasizing grounded, tool-verified outputs with citations and confidence gating. Deep hands-on experience with orchestration (LangGraph, CrewAI, OpenAI Assistants, MCP) plus real-world latency/cost optimization (vLLM batching/KV caching, speculative decoding, quantization) and rigorous eval/observability. Partnered closely with business/ops stakeholders to deliver explainable reporting automation, cutting manual reporting time by 50%+.”

Snehitha Penumaka

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in predictive modeling and cloud ML pipelines

Dallas, TX3y exp

“LLM engineer/data engineer who has deployed production RAG systems for internal-document Q&A, building end-to-end ingestion, embedding, vector search, and FastAPI serving while actively reducing hallucinations and latency through rigorous retrieval tuning and caching. Also experienced in orchestrating cloud data pipelines (Airflow, AWS Glue, Azure Data Factory) and partnering with non-technical business teams to deliver AI solutions like automated document review.”

“Founding/early engineer experience across Asante and a Series A startup (Adgency), shifting from data science/ML into owning production full-stack systems end-to-end. Built core product flows (registration, business profiles, map service), AWS-deployed gRPC microservices with CI/CD, and operated low-latency agent/video ad generation workflows with retries/fallbacks and PostHog-based observability.”

David Alvarado

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Junior Business Analyst specializing in data analytics and BI

Orlando, FL3y exp

“Analytics candidate with insurance domain experience at Chubb, combining strong SQL/Python data engineering for claims reporting with business-facing metric design in Power BI. Also built an MLB game outcome predictor that beat Vegas implied probabilities using public data, showing strong product thinking and applied modeling ability beyond standard BI work.”

“Early-career full-stack builder who created an AI interview-prep platform used by 200+ students, tested it with a 25-student study group, and earned recognition through the CUNY Startup accelerator, including prize money and local college adoption. Has also shipped compliance-sensitive AI products in healthcare marketing and operational tools like invoice approval systems, showing unusual breadth across AI, UX, and backend systems.”

“Backend-focused engineer with banking-domain deployment experience who has owned releases end-to-end, from discovery and API/database implementation through post-launch stabilization. Brings a reliability-first mindset across distributed systems, incident response, and messy real-world data handling, and has also applied that foundation to retrieval-based LLM workflows in production-oriented cloud environments.”

“Built and deployed an end-to-end fintech product, FinSight, for bank statement analysis and financial Q&A using a production-style RAG architecture. Stands out for combining FastAPI, OpenAI embeddings, FAISS, hybrid SQL/vector retrieval, and practical reliability work like chunking optimization, validation, and low-latency performance tuning.”

Chaitanya Annabathana

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI pipelines and enterprise integrations

USA5y exp

“Candidate has 4 years of experience and appears strongest in customer-facing implementation and AI-enabled workflow automation. They describe owning deployments end-to-end, putting an LLM support assistant with RAG and function calling into production, and improving support operations with a 30% reduction in resolution time and 25% gain in agent productivity.”

Naveen K

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI agents and RAG workflows

San Francisco, CA3y exp

“Candidate is highly focused on AI-native software development, using tools like GitHub Copilot and OpenAI models within structured plan-code-review-test workflows. They stand out for designing multi-agent coding systems with planner, coder, and tester roles, and for applying tech-lead style governance through constraints, quality gates, and validation-first practices.”

“Backend-focused engineer with hands-on experience deploying AI-driven document processing and RAG-based workflows using Python, LangChain, FAISS, and REST APIs. Has owned projects from requirements through post-launch monitoring, including debugging production retrieval issues and building reliable pipelines for messy PDFs/scans and compliance-oriented document analysis.”

Naveen K

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI-powered backend systems

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of a real-time analytics and alerting dashboard built with React/TypeScript, Node.js, Kafka, Redis, and PostgreSQL. Also contributed to an internal LLM-powered support automation system, focusing on backend orchestration, RAG-based reliability, and Kubernetes deployment. Stands out for combining product-minded zero-to-one execution with strong distributed systems and AI integration experience.”