Vetted Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Professionals

“ML practitioner who built a production customer risk scoring system to replace slow manual approvals, owning the full pipeline from feature engineering and XGBoost training to deploying a Dockerized FastAPI prediction service. Emphasizes reliability and business-aligned evaluation (recall/ROC-AUC, threshold tuning, drift monitoring) and is comfortable translating model decisions into stakeholder metrics like conversion rate (experience at EasyBee AI).”

Shehab mohamed mohamed

Screened

Junior AI Engineer specializing in MLOps, LLMs, and multi-agent systems

Cairo, Egypt2y exp

“ML/AI engineer focused on production-grade systems, with experience building a low-latency multi-agent 'neural concierge' booking platform used across domains like restaurants and hospitals. Also worked on a healthcare computer vision system for nystagmus/eye-movement analysis, showing a mix of scalable LLM infrastructure, MLOps, and safety-conscious medical AI experience.”

Kevin Thomas

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in AI, cloud, and backend systems

Torrance, CA1y exp

“Candidate has internship and graduate-project experience building AI agents, including a production log-analysis assistant using a lightweight agentic/RAG-style workflow with local GPT training and validation against historical logs. They also worked on Android/iOS game build and release processes in a Unity-based robot racing game environment, and highlight measurable LLM outcomes including 80% analysis accuracy, 2-5 second latency, and 50% cost reduction.”

“IBM Power/AIX engineer who has owned a large production estate (20+ Power9/Power10 frames and 400+ LPARs) with vHMC and dual-VIOS HA. Has hands-on incident recovery experience (NPIV/RMC issues, LPM restores) and PowerHA failovers, plus modern DevOps exposure using Terraform on AWS and CI/CD with GitHub Actions/Jenkins (including deploying AI/RAG and vision workloads).”

“Built and productionized LLM-powered workflows that generate contextual insights from structured financial data, including prompt/retrieval design, data standardization, and reliability controls like rate limiting and batching. Also diagnosed and fixed real-time failures in an automated order validation system using logs/metrics, staging reproduction, edge-case handling, retries, and alerting, while supporting sales/customer teams with demos, scripts, and FAQs to drive adoption.”

Haneesh Kapa

Screened

Junior AI Full-Stack Engineer specializing in LLM automations and RAG systems

Nashua, NH2y exp

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered customer support assistant using a Python/FastAPI backend with RAG (embeddings + vector search) over internal docs and product/operational data. Instrumented the system with logging/metrics and ran continuous eval loops; post-launch improvements focused on retrieval quality (chunking/ranking) and performance/cost tradeoffs (query classification, caching, validation guardrails).”

srikanth tulluru

Screened

Mid-level Product Designer & Design Technologist specializing in design systems and GenAI UX

Remote, USA3y exp

“Enterprise/industrial UX designer focused on making complex, real-time automated systems feel trustworthy and predictable. Has hands-on experience observing operators in logistics/automation environments, building shared interaction models to unify fragmented products, and collaborating tightly with engineers using component-system thinking (HTML/CSS/TypeScript) to ship resilient UIs that handle partial failures.”

“Machine learning lab assistant at Eastern Illinois University who productionized a voice-enabled conversational AI system: redesigned it with RAG, LoRA fine-tuning (including text-to-SQL), and safety guardrails, then deployed a scalable API supporting ~1,000 daily queries. Also partnered with customer-facing teams during a BlueFi internship by building demos/APIs and accelerating releases via Terraform + AWS CI/CD automation.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based internal document Q&A system using LangChain, vector search, and a dockerized FastAPI LLM service. Focused on reliability by systematically reducing hallucinations and improving retrieval through prompt grounding/abstention strategies, chunking and top-k tuning, and iterative evaluation with logged metrics and manual validation.”

“ML/NLP engineer who has built production systems end-to-end: a real-time recommendation platform (100k+ profiles) using BERTopic-style clustering and a RAG-based news summarization/recommendation stack with ChromaDB. Strong focus on scaling and reliability (GPU batching, Redis caching, Kafka ingestion, Docker/Kubernetes, Prometheus/Grafana) and on maintaining model quality over time via drift monitoring and retraining triggers.”

Venkata Bayarapuneni

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Developer specializing in JavaScript, Python, and cloud-deployed web apps

Remote, USA1y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered travel assistant (Globe Trote) that automates end-to-end trip planning using a multi-step agent pipeline with RAG, external API calls, and enforced structured JSON outputs. Focused on reliability (validation, retries, fallback prompts, logging) and reported a ~30–40% reduction in irrelevant/generic responses after adding retrieval grounding.”

“Built end-to-end product features for a Web3 monetization platform and also shipped a privacy-first mobile accessibility app, SenScribe, using on-device sound classification and LLM summarization with zero cloud dependency. Particularly interesting for roles spanning full-stack product engineering, mobile AI, and applied ML where careful debugging, stakeholder alignment, and real-world usability matter.”

SaiDheerajReddy Gadikota

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in agentic systems and enterprise LLM platforms

USA, USA4y exp

“Current AI engineer at a startup who has spent the last year architecting multi-agent systems for software development workflows. Stands out for combining LLM speed with engineering discipline—using tools like Pydantic, LangGraph, and LangChain to build reliable, production-ready agent workflows with validation, routing, and retry logic.”

“Builder with hands-on experience shipping full-stack products across AWS cloud infrastructure, React/TypeScript apps, SQL-backed systems, and privacy-focused AI workflows. Stands out for combining cost-aware architecture, strong debugging instincts, and product thinking—from an e-commerce platform automated with IaC to a university admin portal serving 10,000+ users and a locally run AI assistant with configurable guardrails.”

“Built a university campus assistant chatbot (BabyJ/WWJ) using RAG and agentic routing with a FastAPI + React stack and JWT auth, focusing heavily on production concerns like latency and reliability. Uses techniques like speculative prefetching, smart intent routing, and rigorous eval/testing (golden sets, regression, edge cases) while collaborating closely with campus admin/advising teams to iterate based on real user feedback.”

“Research Analyst at Syracuse who deployed an LLM-powered lab automation system allowing researchers to run QCoDeS instrument workflows via natural language, with strong safety guardrails for real instruments and multi-instrument support. Also collaborated with non-technical stakeholders at iConsult on an audio classification/recommendation pipeline, translating business goals into metrics and Tableau dashboards with model comparisons and A/B test results.”

“Built and shipped production AI features in the automotive dealership domain, including an end-to-end computer-vision damage detection system for trade-ins and a tool-calling, RAG-enabled LotSync AI Agent that answers inventory/VIN questions using strict schemas and internal APIs to avoid hallucinations. Also developed a Dagster + Oracle automated reporting pipeline as a Graduate Research Assistant, supporting 15+ university departments with normalized, reliable ETL workflows.”

“LLM/RAG engineer at Connex AI who built and deployed a production healthcare agent to extract clinical insights from medical data/notes. Strong focus on real-world reliability—hallucination mitigation (citations, schema validation, confidence thresholds, rejection logic), custom LangChain orchestration (query rewriting, fallback paths), and production evaluation/observability—while collaborating closely with clinical SMEs to ensure clinical fit and time savings.”

“Built and shipped production LLM-driven pipelines for clinical data processing, turning semi-structured inputs into validated structured outputs for downstream analytics. Emphasizes predictability and safety via strict JSON schemas, state-machine orchestration, backend-controlled tool calling, and robust fallbacks (rule-based checks/manual review) plus monitoring and offline/online evaluation loops; also has experience hardening workflows against messy ERP/finance data with idempotency and state tracking.”

Sai Vamsee Bandaru

Screened

Entry-level Data Analyst and AI Engineer specializing in machine learning and LLM systems

New York, NY1y exp

“Founding-engineer-oriented full-stack product engineer who built an AI tutor system end-to-end, spanning React UI, FastAPI backend, retrieval/LLM pipelines, and Postgres optimization. Stands out for combining product thinking with deep systems work: improving onboarding and activation, shipping quickly with beta users, and abstracting reusable retrieval infrastructure for multiple use cases.”

Abhay Bisht

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI and full-stack SaaS

Bangalore, India2y exp

“AI-first developer who reports using agents for roughly 85% of coding work, with a disciplined process centered on detailed specs, prompt design, review, and testing. Has built a personal multi-agent orchestration setup with specialized agents for testing, PR extraction, review, and synthesis, and stays current through AI engineering newsletters and a network of AI companies.”

“Backend/ML engineering candidate focused on fintech automation who architected a zero-to-one agentic/LLM-enabled system to reconcile messy financial documents and bank transactions, reporting ~40% operational efficiency gains. Experienced migrating monoliths to event-driven microservices with incremental rollout via reverse proxy, and implementing production-grade security (OAuth2/JWT, RBAC, Supabase RLS) plus resilience patterns (timeouts/retries under concurrency).”

“Internship-built full-stack systems spanning HR employee-record portals and internal data-quality dashboards (Flask + SQL + React), emphasizing data integrity and rapid MVP iteration. Also implemented Flask microservices with RabbitMQ for distributed task processing, addressing duplication/ordering issues with idempotency, durable queues, and correlation-ID logging; delivered quantified productivity gains for HR teams.”

“Python backend developer from Larix Technologies who built and scaled microservice APIs for an omnichannel messaging SaaS (WhatsApp/Instagram/Facebook) and led production performance fixes during peak traffic, cutting webhook latency ~50%. Also shipped applied AI products end-to-end: a RAG-based PDF assistant (LangChain + Mixtral via Groq + React) and a BI agent that plans/executes/verifies multi-step analytics with strong guardrails and auditability.”