Vetted Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Professionals

Samee Rauf

Screened

Junior AI/Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in ad automation and LLM systems

Dallas, Texas3y exp

“Full-stack engineer with deep ad-tech/marketing automation experience, building production tools that reduce programmatic ad waste and improve search ads performance. Shipped and operated AWS-deployed, Dockerized systems with Postgres/Redis and strong observability (Datadog/OpenTelemetry), and delivered measurable impact (25k campaigns processed, 50k sites negated, 3–4 hours/week saved). Built scalable abstractions for multi-platform ad integrations, enabling rapid onboarding of additional clients.”

Abhinav Malkoochi

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI and automation

Dallas, TX1y exp

“Startup-focused builder who created and iterated an MVP for Enky, a two-sided marketplace connecting music artists and creators, informed by hundreds of customer interviews. Implemented CI/CD, monitoring (PostHog/Sentry), and a complex payout pipeline involving scraping social platforms and routing escrow payments via Stripe, and has a track record of quickly debugging production issues (e.g., iOS-specific OAuth cookie failures).”

“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.”

Fransiscus Prayoga

Screened

Senior Unity Developer specializing in AR/VR, MX, and game technology

Jakarta Pusat, Indonesia9y exp

“Game programmer focused on Unity/C# systems, multiplayer, and VR, with a strong emphasis on performance-conscious architecture and practical shipping constraints. Particularly interesting for teams needing someone who can bridge gameplay engineering, backend-integrated tooling, Photon multiplayer, and hardware-connected immersive experiences.”

“Built and owned a production-grade RAG/LLM support automation system on AWS using GPT-4, Pinecone, FastAPI, and Redis, taking it from initial experimentation through deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement. Their work reduced support workload and ticket volume by about 40%, improved CSAT and self-service resolution, and they also created shared Python/LLM infrastructure that accelerated other teams' delivery from weeks to days.”

“Software engineer with a pragmatic, production-oriented approach to AI-driven development, using AI to accelerate coding while keeping human oversight on correctness, architecture, and final decisions. Has hands-on experience with agent-style AI workflows and has led the design and coordination of AI-agent systems with a strong emphasis on reliability, performance, and end-to-end execution.”

“Built and shipped an end-to-end AI-powered portfolio chatbot, owning the React frontend, FastAPI backend, and FAISS-based retrieval layer. Demonstrates hands-on full-stack product thinking with attention to UI performance, TypeScript maintainability, and post-launch iteration on response relevance and speed.”

“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.”

“LLM engineer who has deployed a production RAG system (LangChain/FAISS/FastAPI) for enterprise semantic search, tackling real-world latency by LoRA/PEFT fine-tuning and grounding outputs with retrieval. Brings strong MLOps (Docker, AWS EKS, CI/CD, MLflow) plus stakeholder-facing explainability experience using SHAP to align ML-driven financial guidance with non-technical domain experts.”

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).”

Rethvick Sriram Yugendra Babu

Screened

Junior AI/ML Software Engineer specializing in Generative AI and scalable data pipelines

Tucson, AZ2y exp

“Built and operated large-scale biodiversity/ecological research platforms, integrating 50+ heterogeneous global datasets into a unified BIEN 3 schema on PostgreSQL/PostGIS and improving data consistency by 35%. Strong production engineering background (Linux monitoring, CI/CD performance gates, Docker on AWS/Azure) plus applied AI work building a Python RAG system (0.90 precision) and halving latency with Elasticsearch.”

Binaya Sharma

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack systems, big data, and applied AI

Baton Rouge, LA6y exp

“Built and deployed ForensicLLM, a local domain-specific LLaMA-3.1-8B model for digital forensic investigators using RAFT + RAG over 1000+ curated research papers, with citation-aware responses and rigorous evaluation (BERTScore/G-Eval). Deployed via vLLM and Docker and validated through a chatbot survey with 80+ participants; published at DFRWS EU 2025.”

Taruni Reddy Ampojwala

Screened

Mid-level GenAI Engineer specializing in LLM agents and RAG systems

Brooklyn, NY4y exp

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based LLM assistant that answers day-to-day operational questions from internal PDFs/SOPs, with strong emphasis on data consistency (metadata versioning, confidence thresholds, conflict handling) and low-latency retrieval at scale. Experienced designing and orchestrating multi-agent LLM workflows (retrieval/validation/generation) and pipeline orchestration for ingestion/embedding/vector-store updates, plus iterative delivery with non-technical operations/business stakeholders.”

MANOGNA VADLAMUDI

Screened

Junior AI Engineer specializing in LLM evaluation, prompt engineering, and AI orchestration

Chicago, IL1y exp

“LLM workflow builder who has deployed a personalized GPT experience (including Delphi AI-based knowledge ingestion) and built a LangChain/LangGraph job-aggregation pipeline that ingests, normalizes/dedupes, filters, then uses an LLM to rank and summarize matches. Emphasizes production reliability with structured outputs, retries/fallbacks, metric-driven evaluation, logging/prompt versioning, and A/B testing, and collaborates with non-technical stakeholders through demo-driven iteration.”

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.”

Ram Abhinav Vedant Madabushi

Screened

Junior Full-Stack/AI Engineer specializing in web platforms and LLM applications

Palo Alto, CA2y exp

“Backend engineer from FoodSupply.ai who built and evolved a scalable restaurant/supplier product and order management platform using Node.js and REST APIs. Implemented a hybrid MySQL+MongoDB data architecture, optimized performance with Redis/Prisma, and led a phased migration with feature flags and a temporary sync layer to maintain data consistency. Strong focus on production security (OAuth2, RBAC, row-level security, AWS IAM) and reliability practices (testing with Pytest, Docker/AWS pipelines).”

Mayank VYAS

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM agents, RAG retrieval, and IoT ML systems

Tempe, AZ4y exp

“Built production LLM-driven products including a job-hunt AI (job ranking + resume optimization) and an InterviewAI agentic pipeline using LangChain. Focused on practical deployment concerns like securing OpenAI usage via rate limiting and tiered quotas, and demonstrates an applied approach to choosing models, retrieval methods (RAG), and prompting strategies.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer with experience in fintech identity verification and industrial analytics, focused on turning repeated operational pain points into reusable platforms. Built real-time KYC/KYB dashboards, secure cross-platform web components, and a multi-tenant workflow engine that cut onboarding from 2 weeks to 1 day while materially improving conversion, reliability, and developer speed.”

I Anuj

Screened

Junior Backend/Infrastructure Engineer specializing in AWS distributed systems

Chennai, India2y exp

“Backend engineer with 1.7 years of experience plus prior founding experience who has already owned production systems end-to-end in an early-stage environment. Most notably, they rebuilt a failing ingestion pipeline into a stable SQS/Fargate architecture that improved success from 40% to 100%, boosted throughput 10x, and cut processing time by ~75%, while also shipping an LLM-powered fashion search workflow using Vertex AI and Elasticsearch.”

“AI/backend engineer who independently built and operated an agentic telecom analytics system end-to-end, using LangGraph and Claude to turn natural language into safe SQL in a regulated environment. He combines startup-speed execution with compliance-minded rigor, citing 95%+ NL-to-SQL accuracy, a 30-minute-to-2-minute workflow improvement, and zero-findings support across three regulatory audit cycles.”

Shuchi Shah

Screened

Senior Applied AI Engineer specializing in RAG and full-stack systems

San Jose, CA13y exp

“Backend engineer with experience building an end-to-end civic tech AI platform that ingests city council meeting videos, transcribes them with Whisper, and enables natural-language Q&A via a LangChain/FAISS RAG pipeline. Demonstrated strong systems thinking by tuning retrieval for accuracy/latency/memory (cutting response time ~3s→1s and memory ~500MB→25MB) and by safely migrating an ERP from monolith toward services using dual writes, reconciliation, and idempotency to protect financial workflows.”

“Full-stack engineer with deep startup experience building products from scratch under ambiguous requirements. Delivered a scalable, admin-configurable notification platform (Spring Boot/Java/Kafka) supporting 50+ notification types across 3 channels for 10k+ users, cutting new notification setup to ~5 minutes. Also built a Tinder-meets-LinkedIn job-swiping app (React/TS + Node/Prisma) and has hands-on AWS production ops (ECS/EKS, RDS, CloudWatch) plus multiple third-party integrations (Stripe, QuickBooks, Twilio).”

“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.”