Vetted Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Professionals

“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.”

Ahmad Rayyan

Screened

Entry-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in Applied AI and multi-agent systems

Pakistan1y exp

“Built both traditional full-stack products and advanced LLM systems, from a React/Flask dashboard used by instructors to monitor GitHub contribution patterns to multi-agent benchmark infrastructure at Analytiverse. Particularly strong in evaluation-heavy AI engineering: designed executable verifiers, force-zero anti-reward-hacking checks, and token-optimization strategies that delivered a 40-point pass-rate lift and 90x token reduction on SwarnBench tasks.”

Gowtham Manikanta Chilukabathula

Screened

Entry-level AI and Data Analyst specializing in LLMs and analytics

Memphis, TN1y exp

“Candidate brings a blend of AI, analytics, and go-to-market support experience through an AI/data internship and graduate assistant role. They analyzed data across 50+ organizations to identify high-fit outreach segments, improving targeting efficiency by about 28%, and also built/reviewed GPT-4 and LangChain-based outbound messaging systems with strong quality controls.”

“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.”